There’s new update from Slipknot camp. With the ongoing lawsuit, Chris Fehn’s attorney Joel B. Rothman told Rock Feed that Fehn was denied access to information about SLIPKNOT and its business during negotiations about the band’s upcoming sixth studio album and accompanying tour.
He said:
“First of all, the lawsuit came about because in order for Chris to continue to participate in the band and attend recording sessions for the album that the band is working on, he was presented with a very onerous take-it-or-leave-it, you’re-not-an-equal-member-of-the-band-type proposal. And I’m not gonna go into the details of it, but let me put it this way. If you had spent 20 years of your life devoted to an enterprise like SLIPKNOT, where you had given your heart, your soul, your sweat, your blood, your tears to making the band the best it could be the way that so many of its fans love, and then you were told you were a second-class citizen here, I doubt that anyone who’s listening to this would feel any differently from the way Chris felt, which was that he wasn’t being given the respect that he deserved. And in speaking with his [other] attorneys, what we saw was that Chris, from the beginning of SLIPKNOT, was treated like an equal, and it wasn’t until later, after the band had experienced success, that they began to treat Chris like less than that equal. And we looked at that, and we said, ‘Well, that doesn’t seem fair,’ based on the facts as we understood them that he began as an equal partner in the band in the beginning, and he should continue to be treated in that same fashion.”
“What appears to have been going on is that management for the band appears to have been doing two things. Number one, representing individual members of the band while representing the band as a whole where their loyalties to individual members interfere with their ability to represent the whole band, especially if members of the band aren’t being treated equally. So we noticed that going on. And we also noticed that information about the band and the band’s activities was being withheld by management from some band members, like Chris, but not from others. And as a result of that, we looked not only at whether SLIPKNOT, the group, wasn’t being fair to Chris but whether SLIPKNOT‘s business management, Rob Shore‘s company, whether they weren’t being fair to Chris.”
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