The founding manager of rock band Evanescence claims he was fired after reporting that Tait assaulted him. An Evanescence co-founder denies he was fired for that reason

    • protist@mander.xyz
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      4 days ago

      Reading this article, is that your takeaway from this? The band doesn’t seem to have had much at all to do with it

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      I’m not entirely sure this can be put on the band. They were young people who had no idea how to handle or even see what was going on.

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        Agreed. This is more a combination of naive people being exploited by a sexual predator, and the tragic ripple effects of that.

        But that said, I just looked up a history of Evanescence, and there appeared to be a lot of problems in their first incarnation. Some of that might be the effects of the abuse their male band members and management suffered. But there was also a lot of bad blood between Lee and Moody that seemed to predate Tait’s abuse.