Then came the band that everyone came to see, and for those of you who don't know, the 20th of October is Tom's birthday, so we got to hear a bit about that, and at the end of the show, during Punk Rawk Show, all the members of Ghoti Hook and HomeGrown came out with party hats, crepe paper, and silly string and just beat the crap out of Tom with them. I also got a chance to interview Tom and Yuri after the show, and they had some interesting stuff to say regarding the letter that I just posted on my page about MxPx and their relationship to Tooth and Nail. Actually, it was Tom who talked with me about it. So, here's the story I got, according to Tom. They see now that they signed a pretty dumb contract, but they were a small band, and they didn't expect to be doing this well.
Business is business, and people run their businesses in many ways.
Brandon Ebel does pretty much own MxPx. MxPx signed the contract though, and that's the way the contract went. Yeah, you might think that they're getting screwed, but Ebel can run his business any way he pleases, and the contract says that MxPx is pretty much his. You may not like the way that Ebel runs his business, but he has the rights to MxPx, and it's Ebel's business, so he really can run his business however, whether we agree with it or not. I'm not trying to promote this controversy by any means, I'm just relaying what I got from Tom about the situation.