Doesn't mean he spoke to the lawyers before they made the initial announcement...it did all seem very rushed. They are clearly making this up as they go along.

And I'm sure Jon knows the ins and outs of the business side, but does Matt? Isn't this partly his baby? Maybe Jon thought he had it all in hand...who knows.

Either way, it just seems like a complete lack of preperation and effort.

Suuuuper good points. And I have to imagine back for XS the label was footing the bill for that stuff. With no touring on the horizon and people not buying albums, is there really a desire to spend money with no ROI. But it never should have gotten this far. That not one of Jon's yes men didn't say "yah you can't post this stuff so maybe not talk about it?" is a strange thing.

My point was Jon probably wouldn't need to speak to his lawyers to know what's what. He surely has enough knowledge to know what he can share or not. However, I don't think you launch a subscription service that you advertise under the brand you have built over decades without consulting your legal team.

You do not simply pass it out to your brother to do. We are not talking about a small business here. Whether Matt is running this or not, I do not believe Jon would pass it on and say "do whatever you want with my name". He also actively took part in the promotion of the product, so knew what was being promised. He would have/should have known instantly at that point what he can and cannot share and would have flagged it.

If you run your own business (I think you said you do), don't you know the ins and outs of what you are legally allowed to do or not? If you are launching a new service, don't you go through everything to ensure you are on a good footing before it goes live? Incompetence is the only thing that stops that process happening.

So, Jon is either stupid or incompetent if this is a question of legality. I am not so sure he is either, which is why I am more on the side he doesn't care. Maybe he knew they couldn't use specific content but told his team to slap together a product either way. The Experience certainly looks slapped together so far.

I have a whole different impression:
I don't think Jon is involved at all in what the Experience does or does not. I think it's one of those "projects" he allowed Matt to do so that his scallawag-brother has something to do and maybe earn some bucks with it. So every once in a while Matt asks Jon to get in front of a camera, read some lines or watch some old YT clips. That's why he's always that ecstatic with his "wows" and "hmms".
And right after Matt has released some of Jon's videos with new promises, Jon's legal team comes around saying "Wait Matt, you can't do it that way".

By saying that, this doesn't excuse Jon in any way. But I think he just don't cares at all about that project. It's a friendly turn to his brother, just like Backstage was more or less a friendly turn to his mother.

Whatever is causing this, we all agree it has been a mess. I wouldn't be surprised to see the JBJ Experience quietly swept under the rug.

My take on it was it was supposed to be a supplement alongside concert tickets. An annual subscription that gets allows you to by VIP seats, the trips, get advanced notice as well as some side items and weird perks. They might have thought touring would resume sooner than it did. Who cares what it comes with, people are mostly here to buy tickets early. Take away the tickets and you just have a bargain bin of why this?

So I think next year none of this is going to matter if ticket sales are in the mix. AFAIK this replaced the fan club (did it, I legit don't know?)

You mean it's something like when he had Tony shoot videos for all Bounce songs that no one cared for in the end? Once, I had even heard the rumour that Tony was to shoot a video for Just Older and it was axed by Jon 'cause it was so not to his liking.

If you run your own business you also don't rush announcements, make promises you can't follow through on and provide people that buy your product shoddy merchandise. This whole project has been a mess and I have to question how much involvement Jon has had in it. Personally, I'm not sure Jon really cares about this project at all. In my opinion someone came to him with the idea and he was like "sure, but you just deal with it". We all know that Jon is neither stupid or incompetent, and he's always been a perfectionist, which makes this even more baffeling....

Matt on the other hand....

Yup, exactly the point I was trying to make, you just did it better! :mrgreen:

New video on the Experience; I swear that I prefer to watch old pictures of Jon than watching him saying almost nothing.