kmuk hat geschrieben: Ice-B hat geschrieben:Jetzt dachte ich immer, der kmuk wär sowas wie der F&J-Promoter hier an Board...und dann kriegt kein Album 10 Punkte? :huh:
LED ZEPPELIN wĂĽrden von mir 10Punkte bekommen.
Nicht aber eine sterbliche Band.
Kennt einer den genauen Hintergrund zwischen Eric Braverman und Flotsam & Jetsam ?
Braverman war ja der Manager , teilweise Textschreiber und wurde auch von der Band als der sechste Flotsam bezeichent.
Hat er die Band um Geld betrogen oder gab es da noch was anderes?.
Wenn man den Namen Braverman in Gegewart von Jason Ward, Kelly Smith erwähnt besteht Lebensgefahr!
MU: What happened with Eric Braverman? What can you tell us about that situation?
CN: Well, when you're a band of this size, the dollars that you make become important. You become mindful to correct wrongs of the past, and I think that the band felt that perhaps the percentage that the manager got wasn't -- I mean no disrespect to Eric. He does write a good amount of the lyrics and whatnot and he certainly has been there since the beginning with the band. In fact his picture was on "Cuatro". Nothing taken away from that very long and fruitful relationship, but in the end in this case we're back on a label like Metal Blade -- who, by the way, gives up enough to put out a good product and we have nothing but good words to say about our relationship with Metal Blade right now -- but when you're dealing with less than major label budgets, you don't really, I mean, you look a little bit closer at what your manager does for that percentage. And we just felt in the end that there was nothing he was doing that was beyond and above what the band members could do. And so it really just became a matter of everyone's just past 30, you know, less than mid-30s but, shit, it's time to think about how we could feel better about continuing to endeavor as musicians. And you just need to, after a while, say well, it'd be nice if we could see finally, after 8 er 7 records, just a little bit of the spoils. And Eric was getting a lot of the spoils. It was his right as the manager, but finally [we thought that] we could take a little [time] without him right now. Beyond that there was questionable moves with this or that, maybe things that we wouldn't have necessarily agreed with had we known in the beginning -- how he was appropriating some of the money and that kind of shit -- you know, everyone's heard the story before. Basically, he took a fair percentage but we just felt in the end that we could do better ourselves.
MU: What creative aspect did Eric Braverman bring to the table? How much do you think the band lost with his departure and these other line-up changes? How much of the voice that is Flotsam and Jetsam has changed?
CN: I would say absolutely zero. Because his lyrics -- really even in this record -- you know, its not that A.K. can't write lyrics, it's that Eric Braverman was the manager. A.K. might have been receptive to the idea of Eric writing lyrics with him, but it wasn't because he himself couldn't have wrote the lyrics or Jason couldn't or Ed couldn't. And on this record when we were deciding what to do with Eric Braverman, Ed stepped up and wrote a lot of the lyrics believe it or not. And I think Jason had some and Mark had some. So it was really, I guess you could say, out of laziness and out of the desire to let Eric share in the publishing. He was able to negotiate himself into the kind of situation where he strongly recommended that he be part of that writing process and he benefited from it. But it's not that we couldn't have done it without him. In all fairness to the band, it's just that all Eric really contributed was lyrical ideas, which are very obviously - lyrics are half of the song, but if Eric A.K. just sat there for two hours more a day he could have wrote 'em too. You see what I'm saying? Or Ed could've wrote 'em too. It's just that he kind of made it less work for Eric A.K., who thought that was worth cutting him in on the publishing.
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