I generally try to stay away from gossip but i was pretty curious about all this, and after reading that i'm totally on the fence and hope nothing else comes out because we don't need to know. honestly any more closure than this just gets a bit personal, nevermore are moving on and jeff/van are moving on, they've said what they want to say and anything else would just be a bit much.
being in a band (not nearly their league but even in small stuff you deal with a lot of what i assume to be the same fucking bullshit problems haha) i can empathize a bit with all that, as money really does fuck things up. if they were getting paychecks from others in the band, even when you have a simple logical agreement that might be totally right, people aren't logical. over time things can just change and who knows what changed/if it changed, but i could see issues with all that. i also can see how the taking time off thing at that point could kinda screw them, especially if warrell was the one who all the pressure/responsibility fell on and what they were proposing would amount to backing out of a full tour, something that does NOT end up working out well for a band/label/anyone involved, and especially not the person that is viewed as the head/in charge of that situation.
it was cool that jeff acted nicely in the interview, and i think people misconstruing his comment about the nevermore replacements is odd. i don't think that was an ego thing, it seemed pretty clear to me he was simply saying that he hopes they can get some great musicians who can keep the band going full force and not end up like other bands that lose a lot of original members who contributed to the sound and end up sucking/being a joke/cover band (plus when he said they can't just jump up on stage that makes sense considering nevermore songs are fucking hard, technical, tight, and even for a great guitar player would be a challenge to just jump in and go).
either way i'm realllyy hoping this is the end of it and they don't start slinging dirt back and forth (any of the members) because that doesn't help at all. i've had more than my share of fights with band members and they feel fucking terrible, even if you hate the person/know they're wrong or don't understand/maybe you're wrong you still feel terrible and it does affect you, and having that in public would be so much worse. having people you've been around for so many years and then having something this huge happen and it being public? i feel bad for all of the guys, even if maybe some of them aren't affected (or try not to be).
