SamDBL wrote:the mean wrote: for the record, making sure jux went to prison for molesting >20 kids was the proudest moment of my life,
What's this about? Is this one of the guys in Fifteen? I always wondered why they tailed off into nothingness. They had quite a following for a time. We played with them, once. And Jeff Ott was a very cool guy. I wasn't much of a fan, but I did like Crimpshrine for a time when I was young.
Nah, Jux worked at Punk With Presses. From my very hazy and (most likely wrong) memory, Jux was accused of molesting a bunch of punx (boys?). Jux was apparently well liked and had band ties/bonds with "punks in scene" and therefore, when things started to come out, people were defending him. If you know anything about Jeff Ott, holding back on something is not his style, so he went full on atomic bomb on this issue and I think people felt like he was overly aggressive towards Jux. I think that Jeff had also admitted to taking advantage (sexually) women before.
I met Jux once, he flew out to Virginia to spend the weekend with my bandmates former dorm mate. This kid was sXe and kinda socially awkward and odd and I guess had befriended Jux online (this was early 90s). We (people around him) all thought it was very strange that Jux from Punks With Presses flew out to hang with this kid for the weekend. Anyhoo...
I need to google to find out more information, but if Jux was found guilty, then fuck him very hard and very long and anybody who defended him. I know you are innocent until proven guilty and all, but if all Jeff Ott did was raise (constant) awareness and it, in fact, was proven to be correct, then he should have gotten apologies, not condemnation.
I mean, Lookout Larry was also included in the allegedly taken advantage of young male punk scene kids. I mean, that basically the co-owner of Lookout Records got to know Larry after he formed a weird kind of crush/fascination with him (Larry was like 20 years older than him?).
So TLDR, fuk Jux, Ott went overboard on the issue and rubbed people the wrong way. If Jux was found guilty, fuck those people, they should apologize to Ott, not ban him.