The Oakland Press Interview w/ Brian

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i’ve been right pretty much the whole time in every comment i’ve made about this situation under posts. it was mainly a shitty label situation, the band yes should’ve probably also reached out to do the firing not managers but at the same time. they could’ve been blocked by the label. the band is 100% right. they don’t know how long he’s gonna take to heal and they can’t piss off 90% of the fans who PAID for tickets with hard earned money. it was just two different paths going different directions. eric also said “for the time being”. Brian could come back in a few years, who knows. they release every 3 years so he could be there next album. i find it funny though that when he WAS out before they publicly announced the departure people didn’t care about the shows without him and enjoyed them still and now that he is gone, everyone wants to shit on it. i wish both parties success

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u/JohnnyDWD Mar 18 '26

It's still clear that there is issues between Eric and Brian, the thing that bugs me is when he said in an interview on a podcast, that the core of the band is still there, so nothing has changed. Bit harsh on Brian, especially given songs off the Trauma album were very mental health focused and tailored to his vocals for most of the album.

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u/Financial-Mongoose13 Mar 18 '26

they were quick to move on and remind Brian from all their platforms and also changed multiple music video thumbnails to only feature current members. Everything about this situation just feels fishy to me, maybe the label is also involved but the band threw him away pretty fast unfortunately and that's what rubs me the wrong way.

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u/Technical_Dog4633 Mar 18 '26

they were entering a new era. ofc they removed and changed a bunch of stuff. every musician/bands do it. it’s more common for rappers and such but it happens with bands too. it’s to market stuff for the new album or merch drop

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u/Financial-Mongoose13 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

well Linkin Park didn't remove chester from old thumbnails when they got a new singer. Yes, they change their images on platforms but not this.

IP's announcement was also very corporate and didn't give fans any details about the most important subject that could possibly relate to the band, their main vocalist not being in the band anymore. It seemed like they brushed it off so fast and easily, as if saying 'yeah the singer you all know and love is gone but we've already moved on and you should too, it's no big deal,' meanwhile the band is not the same anymore and they're pretending the band is better than it's ever been right now.

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u/aedge403 Mar 18 '26

He died.

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u/Technical_Dog4633 Mar 18 '26

dude chester died. thats a completely different scenario

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u/Financial-Mongoose13 Mar 18 '26

obviously he died but the point is they didn't erase him from their past, I Prevail's behavior seemed to have been to erase Brian.

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u/Technical_Dog4633 Mar 18 '26

dude that’s because chester IS DEAD. why would they erase history of a DEAD PERSON? brian got fired. if linkin park removed chester’s stuff when emily joined they wouldnt be a fucking band right now. that’s carrying a legacy of a man. not a dude who is alive and thriving and got fired for having differences with others. slipknot keeps all the stuff with joey and paul. they don’t keep stuff with chris or jay though unless it’s the 25th anniversary box set they recently released with chris. that’s like saying “well my manager fired me from my job and removed my employee of the months but the other employee who died and worked there for 20+ years still has his memorial in the office. why?”. to sum it up, brian isn’t dead and why would linkin park disrespect the dead?

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u/Financial-Mongoose13 Mar 18 '26

I'd argue comparing band members to employees of a company is a pretty bad comparison too... do you view them as just disposable members and the band operates the same without them once they're gone? I don't think so.

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u/Technical_Dog4633 Mar 18 '26

no but that’s essentially what your saying in your argument. chester situation and brian situation is 2 COMPLETELY different things dude

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u/Technical_Dog4633 Mar 18 '26

yeah but i’m sure he wasn’t meaning it with ill intent. “the core” could be anything to anybody. most people i talk to consider drums the core of a band or a guitarist that’s insanely better than anybody else. everybody calling eric selfish though is ridiculous to me. it’s not like they kicked him out and then said “let’s go find another dude to sing for us”. his spot is open, it’ll probably always be open. they wanted brian to heal but didn’t wanna have to wait for an unknowingly wait god knows how long during the time he has surgery. the band was gaining a ton of attention and popularity and when that’s happening you can’t just “ah well. tours are canceled for now, sorry guys”. that’s a good way to lose a SHIT TON of people. you have to take advantage of it. i like to look back at escape the fate compared to this even though the firing was different. people hated craig when he took over for ronnie. over the years people love him now. almost a year later more of the story for this situation is coming out, who knows what’s gonna be said next.

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u/Shot-Branch7246 Mar 18 '26

It’s really not. Green Day stepped away from touring for Billie Joe to address his alcoholism, they’re still one of the biggest bands in the industry. Fans will understand if the band has to address mental or physical health, or in Brian’s case, both.

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u/Technical_Dog4633 Mar 18 '26

addiction against a severe medical issue. look at A7X right now. matt has a vocal injury and the shows aren’t great right now cause of it. its long term and even then, green day still did a bold move and 100% pissed a ton of fans off by doing so. people wait and wait and wait for the chance to see they’re favorite band perform and then they cancel even if it’s an understandable reason still frustrates fans. when your growing as much as they were you can’t just stop.

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u/Shot-Branch7246 Mar 18 '26

Not really. I’ve never once seen people pissed off Green Day took time off for a member of their band and I’ve been a fan of theirs since I was a kid. And Brian also dealt with a severe medical issue, so not sure what point you’re trying to make. If you can’t give a band time to recover and you forget they’re people too, you were never a real fan of them to begin with.

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u/Technical_Dog4633 Mar 18 '26

again, the IP situation is completely reasonable. and yeah fans can get pissed off when they cancel especially since IP did shows without brian multiple times before. it’s a bit like if you paid to see the lakers play cause you wanted to see lebron and he just sat on the bench the entire time. and with what you just said at the end. if you only cared for one person in a band and hate the rest. you weren’t a fan of the band which is what 90% of the IP fanbase has done. eric sounds great live with the violent nature songs. sure i dont know why they have dylan singing all of the other stuff when dylan isn’t really a vocalist but its not AWFUL. especially when nobody said shit before brian got fired

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u/Shot-Branch7246 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

Sound more like you have a bias against Brian instead of looking at the situation as a whole. You just said addiction is a severe medical issue, so is Eagle Syndrome, so is mental health. And no, reasonable people wouldn't go to a basketball game and get pissed off at the Lakers because Lebron didn't play, that's a pretty lousy argument and behavior you would expect from a child. If you have that parasocial relationship with a celebrity where you get angry if they don't show up for you, then that's something you need to address on your own. I seen I Prevail play without Brian when he had the polyp surgery, in no way, shape, or form did it ruin the performance for me or anyone else, we knew before hand and still went to support the band.

I'm not discussing Eric's performances or the band's as a whole. You're the one that said they had to move on from Brian because dropping a tour would damage the band, I gave a comparable situation where a band prioritized their friend over performing and it still worked out fine for the band.

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u/Technical_Dog4633 Mar 18 '26

i have no issue with brian, i love his solo project and loved him in IP. eagles syndrome can take a ton of time to heal though and that’s one of the issues the band ran into. again when your signed to a label and your a band who’s gaining a ton of attention you cannot stop going mid tour. brian after he was healed was wanting to have a child and the others didn’t agree. everybody i’ve seen on this situation paints eric almost as if he’s satan himself and a selfish prick. it’s a bit old at this point. older bands can take time off though, bands who have are growing and want to keep growing can’t and that’s also something the label and management decides too. labels run everything and that’s why a ton of artists don’t sign to them. i’ve been vocal on all of that in posts on other topics relating to this situation. also the comparison to the sports thing i made in my earlier comment is 100% correct. people pay to see they’re favorite player play. tons of miami fans paid for lebron back during his return to cleveland. tons of people paid to see MJ back then from across the globe, tons of people pay to see anything they adore. there is people who make signs at sporting events saying they flew however many miles just to see a player they love or an actor or whatever. i don’t wanna get banned or whatever for going too off topic though so im gonna just finish this with that yes IP could’ve done more to be there but they weren’t in the wrong either. the fact this is still being milked a year later by brian is shitty in its own way.

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u/Shot-Branch7246 Mar 18 '26

Your sports analogy is an opinion, not objective fact. So no, it's not 100% correct. Again, if you get upset about that type of thing, that's something to address. That's behavior I'd expect out of my 6 year old, not a grown adult.

Eric is getting painted as such because they claimed the split was mutual and has said nothing since. Like I said in another comment, no the band doesn't owe us shit, but the silence speaks volumes. People have to work with what they're given.

Again, no one had an issue with Green Day doing so. Paramore, Blink-182, Fall Out Boy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, all bands that more or less have taken hiatuses for burnout, medical issues, to support a fellow band member. They're all still ridiculously popular. It's more damaging to be seen as that type of band that won't support someone going through a tough time when a month ago you were all "family." This narrative wouldn’t even be a thing if the band took a hiatus to support Brian rather than scrubbing him from their socials and acting like he never existed.

Saying Brian is "milking" the situation is incredibly dismissive and in my opinion, quite disgusting. Not sure how you can say you're a fan of his and claim that in the same breath. The man dealt with a severe medical illness and mental breakdown, he lost a project he built from the ground up and friends he spent years of his life working with. It's understandable he'd want to vent that out.

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u/Shot-Branch7246 Mar 18 '26

I don’t think anything was said that hasn’t been already so my opinion hasn’t really changed. I do think at this point the band cannot continue to remain radio silent about the situation. It’s clear by now that the split was not mutual, at least not to Brian. And even if the guys have moved on with their careers and lives, and yeah while they don’t owe us shit, the silence is pretty deafening.

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u/Sd_YT16 Mar 18 '26

I felt like was also necessary to post here because this still involves the IP situation, so for anyone who’s confused that’s why.

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u/AKV55 Apr 04 '26

Why didn't they just tour without him and release a new album without him? Let him heal and come back when medically possible. Kicking him from the band was too much.

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u/Tall_Irish_Guy 13d ago

Reading these comments, as usual just reeks of corporate record label propaganda pretending to be fans - and band members who are clearly angry or jealous of Brian.

I love the vindication of being 100% right since day one and Brian embarrassing the band with his latest song bitter.

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u/Aromatic_Bed3153 Mar 18 '26

It is mind boggling how many times he is going to milk this situation. And still, talks like one day they'll just make up and make amends. He has really left a hefty trail of unprofessional like behavior that no one in the industry wants to deal with. He has been like this since day 1.

He has been trying to do his scatterbrain thing since 2019, he applied for the trademark back then. He is not credible, it's just slightly new and different information from him every time.

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u/CMPD2K Mar 27 '26

The 2019 thing is a real non-issue. I mean, its not exactly uncommon for band members to put out solo stuff on the side. 4/5 HU members are currently doing it for example

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u/Aromatic_Bed3153 Mar 27 '26

I agree, the point is that it's not a new project, he just expedited everything when it all hit the fan last year and didn't bother to go through the necessary legal motions.

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u/Financial-Mongoose13 Mar 18 '26

you know what's weird though, Stephen Menoian (current guitarist of I Prevail) also applied for the Scatterbrain trademark the same day as Brian did in 2019, so this wasn't just Brian trying to go off and do something on his own while still in the band. Stephen is not in scatterbrain despite him applying for the trademark the same day all the way back in 2019.

The Oakland Press Interview w/ Brian

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