So this thread is moving way fast. But can someone give me a description on how this is going over on the MP forums? I know when the whole thing was going down there was some serious issues over there. Are they even allowed to discuss the videos?
As mentioned, there is an official thread at MP.com that is monitored pretty closely. I haven't been following it, so I can't tell you much more than that.
I think that we're all missing the most salient point here...
Derek Roddy makes his living from SNAKES!! That pay him better than DT!!!
How does that even work? Are they trained? Or do people pay him to look at his snakes? 
Hahahaha!!
I thought that! Forgot it the second I read the rest of the thread - but yes, that's brilliant. Derek Roddy and his profitable snakes.
I wish I was as entrepreneurial as him. I can't even fathom how a snake-based business would work. Maybe he stocks them to film crews? I like the idea that people pay him to look at his snakes, though. Mainly because it's a wonderful sentence.
Snakes. Brilliant.
I think he breeds them then sells them as pets. I watched a video once where a snake breeder was showing off his snakes, and there were some he was selling for as much as a car.
That was what I figured as well. Depending on what kind he has, they can sell for a good amount of money. But as far as the actual money, it's hard to tell whether he
literally would have made less money with DT or not. He may have been exaggerating a bit, which I suspect he was. I doubt they actually got down to discussing dollars. It wouldn't surprise me if he was just guessing as to what they would have paid him and that his comment was really meant to be more along the lines of, "they wouldn't be able to pay me enough to make it worth it for me want to change what I'm currently doing." By way of example, I like my job and the environement here enough that if I were offered a job somewhere else, it would take a BIG pay increase for me to even really think seriously about it. If it were a small or moderate pay increase, the fact that it is literally more money wouldn't be enough to make it worth it for me to consider. I could be wrong, but that's my take on it. But you never know. As I've said all along, while I'm sure the members of DT make enough to be comfortable, DT simply isn't a big enough band to make any of them "rich." And even if the new drummer were brought in to make an equal salary and equal share of all other profits (which is a big "if"), he would not likely be entitled to royalties from past albums, so he would be making less than other members in that regard.
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