You guys are all right. I was pretty heated last night and those statements were pretty out of character for me.
The weird thing is....dude was sooooo chill!! Quiet, soft spoken. This whole thing is just crazy.
But yes, definitely agree with all of you, "stealing" his gear and fucking him up would be dumb, and pretty juvenile.
I will be meeting with the rest of the band today and we're going to figure out how we want to handle this. I would feel dumb pressing charges and shit, but then again Toodles is very right, what if he does something worse down the road and could have been stopped?
If anyone is curious, here is the bulletin from the Dying Euforia page about what happened:
from the D.E. page:
Hey everybody, just wanted to give you all an update on the events of last night.
But first off, thank you so much to all of you for your warm thoughts and concern. You guys are the best fans/friends a band could ask for.
So, we're not gonna do the typical band thing and be a vague about this. You deserve to hear what happened, so here goes:
We were all out at the Dubliner, a local St. Paul pub, ironically celebrating the addition of Joe Erickson to the band on drums. tim was not able to be there, as he was at the Dream theatre show.
Everything was going great for a few hours, then we went outside so Rayne and Joe could smoke. Joe starts getting weird towards Jeremy, saying odd shit about how even though Jeremy works out and was in the ARMY and shit, that he could still kill him. Everyone was gettin weirded out. Next thing you know Joe has a knife to Jeremys Throat and says "see, I could kill you right now if I wanted" Jeremy naturally flinched, which caused the knife to break the skin.
Jeremy then began asking Joe what the fuck was wrong with him, etc. Jared and Rayne did the same. It was a wild scene.
Somehow shit calmed down a bit and we all went back inside. Then Joe get's on the topic of band money and how the band should pay for his expenses (i.e. his drums, cymbals, sticks, etc.) and he was adamant about it. Everyone kept telling him that's not how the band works. We take our profit and put it towards merch, touring/out of town expenses, recording, etc. Joe did not like that at all and began to get heated up again. At which point Jeremy told him that "Between the knife thing and this....i think you're in the wrong band"
That ended the night at the bar. Jeremy then dropped Joe, Jared and Rayne off at the space.
Joe became irate again, and started saying 'You guys have to pick between Jared or me" and other odd things. Then Joe attacked Jared, attempted to stab him with that same knife and managed to graze the skin, drawing blood. Nothing warranting a hospital or doctor attention. Then Joe lunged forward while Ryane was wrestling with him and bit Jareds Nose. Rayne managed to wrestle Joe off of Jared and Joe walked out, but not before knocking Jeremy's entire rig over and rendering it useless. Broken tubes, input jacks, broken rack, etc.
So that is what happened. Jeremy, Jared and Rayne are all o.k.
Lesson #1........before you offer the a spot in your band to anyone........drink with them first.
He was always saying that his girlfriend didn't like him drinking.....now I can see why.
ON A SIDE NOTE:
NO SHOWS WILL BE CANCELLED, WE ARE LINING UP A FILL IN AS WE SPEAK.
and of course...............the drummer search is resurrected yet again.
Thank you
Dying Euforia and Crew.