"it was chad's idea to do side projects, and when his didnt pan out he changed his mind."

Ya know what I think? This kind of feels like Vern all over again. In terms of this..."as a member of the band, he wasnt contributing. musically, he wasnt asked to contribute and he joined on understanding that...i think eventually he couldnt handle that. but he has never written a song in his life." That was said by Deron about Vern.

...and it just seems to me like, when has Chad ever contributed musically to CKY? When Deron and Jess met him he was working as a producer or an engineer or something. And Rudy + Blitz...okay, that's like all Chad has really done musically as far as I know. And the guy is 5 years older than Deron, yet you look at Deron's band history and you see This End Up who did 3 or 4 demos, then Foreign Objects into oiL into CKY...the guy never stops. But Chad? Tell me, what does Chad do??

Deron writes all of the music for CKY, always has, and I'm thinking that Chad can't handle that. Chad wants to prove that he is a legitimate musician as well (although I have ALWAYS had my doubts...way back when I used to diss Chad's abilities on the forums but so many people stood up for him and I loved CKY so you know what, I accepted his ability and his personality and he grew on me...but right at the beginning I thought Chad was EXTREMELY arrogant and you know what they say about first impressions...) Anyway, Chad is trying to prove that he can branch out and write music for himself...and failing because where are Chad's side-projects??

And so Chad gets more and more frustrated because he's unable to create, and obviously he's gonna be jealous of Deron because that man is fucking DRIVEN. And World Under Blood was just the final straw.

IT'S ONLY A THEORY but I think it makes sense.

You could say I shouldn't be blindly supporting Deron but fuck, enough people were ready to blindly support Chad the instant he talked shit on Deron. And I remember shit like ""for 12 years i have been there for derons best years and his worse years and put up with bullshit that i cant even believe sometimes - all for the sake of the band." from Jess last summer and I was NOT happy with the phrasing of that AT ALL...it's always been Deron for me. Chad loses. And I have been disappointed in Jess with the statement I just posted, and if it's true what Deron says happened the other night.

So yes. Deron for the fucking win.


ETA: Have calmed down some. More importantly, have been listening to my Deron playlist. Alright, so there is something about CKY that I know is not just Deron. Chad has some input. It does sound so fucking good. I semi-take back what I said.

BUT the situation at the moment does seem to be that Deron is willing to apologise and doesn't want to leave the band, but the other side (i.e. Chad right?) won't accept that right now. So we are waiting on Chad to back down.

And I still think Deron should carry on with CKY without him. For his own sanity and peace of mind.

And weirdly enough I haven't been at all tempted to write slash yet...