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Help me in answering some of these questions I get asked of me.

With Jeff being such a stand up guy, why did he join them after Tapegate, and why was it ok? Did he know or were things not confirmed when he was approached.

Why now to stop supporting them? Why not after Tapegate? Was it because Jeff had joined, or is it now just to many things...the final straw!

Is there a difference in trying to pull on over on the fans and treating a lead singer like shit?

Maybe at the time too, some weren't totally sure where they stood on Tapegate?

I just said that I was a huge JSS fan then and wanted to see him do well and now we just know so much more.

Why did you continue to support them after Tapegate, but now you are throwing a fit over how they let someone go, gets brought up, and didn't they doop you then. Wasn't that enough?

piecesofeight wrote:Help me in answering some of these questions I get asked of me.

With Jeff being such a stand up guy, why did he join them after Tapegate, and why was it ok? Did he know or were things not confirmed when he was approached.

Why now to stop supporting them? Why not after Tapegate? Was it because Jeff had joined, or is it now just to many things...the final straw!

Is there a difference in trying to pull on over on the fans and treating a lead singer like shit?

Maybe at the time too, some weren't totally sure where they stood on Tapegate?

I just said that I was a huge JSS fan then and wanted to see him do well and now we just know so much more.

Why did you continue to support them after Tapegate, but now you are throwing a fit over how they let someone go, gets brought up, and didn't they doop you then. Wasn't that enough?

Just about everyone blamed Augeri for tapegate and threw him under the bus.

It's obvious whose hands are all over this.

piecesofeight wrote:Help me in answering some of these questions I get asked of me.

With Jeff being such a stand up guy, why did he join them after Tapegate, and why was it ok? Did he know or were things not confirmed when he was approached.

Why now to stop supporting them? Why not after Tapegate? Was it because Jeff had joined, or is it now just to many things...the final straw!

Is there a difference in trying to pull on over on the fans and treating a lead singer like shit?

Maybe at the time too, some weren't totally sure where they stood on Tapegate?

I just said that I was a huge JSS fan then and wanted to see him do well and now we just know so much more.

Why did you continue to support them after Tapegate, but now you are throwing a fit over how they let someone go, gets brought up, and didn't they doop you then. Wasn't that enough?

Dont know what you think , but it is inconceivable for me to think of Jeff being privvy to inside information regarding Steve Augeri's particular dilemma, and all that scandal. Lets face it they're keeping incredibly quiet at the moment. And regarding SA, like I said on a thread the other day, sometimes we all do things to keep a job, to keep the boss happy, it's human nature.

The reason to stop supporting them, for people who feel the need to, is a moral and just reaction, to not one injustice ( to JSS), but also working out that within less than a year journey have put up a wall of silence regarding the departure of their frontman ( Steve Augeri being the other). This sort of makes people lose faith.

I personally do not believe their is a difference in trying to pull the wool over anyones eyes, fans, and singers alike. one singer has been let go and found out through a third party, by all accounts - which stinks! One singer has been made a scapegoat in order for the business ( cause thats what it is ) to carry on.That also stinks!

Regarding "Tapegate"! Well how do expain why people carried on supporting a band/business that are as ruthless as any businessmen out there? The only answer I can think of is blind faith, or possibly rose tinted spectacles. The way in which JSS has been dumped, has reopened many doubts and questions about SA, and now with that beautiful thing we call hindsight fans are now beginning to piece together the set of events that led also to SA's departure from the band. NOw the penny is beginning to drop, and people are beginning to see the stark reality of what is going on.

Thats my way of viewing it anyway.