Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher has revealed that the band are collecting unemployment benefits in order to pay their crew.Speaking in a new interview, Kelliher discussed the effects the coronavirus is having on the music industry and how it’s impacting the livelihoods of musicians and their teams, adding that he’s been forced to collect unemployment to help pay the band’s out-of-work crew.“There’s no money coming in,” Kelliher told the Metal Sucks Quarantinecast. “There’s no big royalty cheques that just come in every month.
And that’s the truth… because people don’t buy the music.“I mean, there’s a little bit of residuals from publishing and stuff, but it’s peanuts.
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