2006 - Ben Moody destroys Evanescence plaque?

[PJ.]

So with all these Evanescence plaques surfacing on eBay recently from WindUp....I have been doing some research and I wanted to see if there were more images online of them. And to my surprise I stumbled upon this video...some of you may or may not have seen this seeing that it's really old news but being 12 in 2006, I am just seeing it. haha. did Ben and friends really throw toilet paper over Amy's house??



www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-evanescence-guitarist-destroys-fallen-platinum-award-video-available

[RapturedLight]

I've never seen this before... I can understand why he'd be upset that he wasn't in the photo on the plaque, but... Ugh. He just irks me.

[Drifter]

I've seen this. I'm not sure about the plaque, but I remember this being a hoax. I don't think they really TPed Amy's house.

[Osky]

Yeah the TPing of Amy's house was fake. I have no idea how I know. I think one of the people in the video said it wasn't her house.

I don't know about the plaque. Maybe he has more than one or something. Or maybe it was just a trinket to him. Remember, him destroying the plaque doesn't necessarily equal to him hating the band. Ben's a crazy guy so him acting like this wasn't all that out of the ordinary to me. Probably just having fun.

[PJ.]

Aug 28, 2013 20:50:04 GMT -5 Osky said:

Yeah the TPing of Amy's house was fake. I have no idea how I know. I think one of the people in the video said it wasn't her house.

I don't know about the plaque. Maybe he has more than one or something. Or maybe it was just a trinket to him. Remember, him destroying the plaque doesn't necessarily equal to him hating the band. Ben's a crazy guy so him acting like this wasn't all that out of the ordinary to me. Probably just having fun.

Yeah I doubt the Tping thing was real. I mean it seems like a reality TV program and if it really was Amy's house she would have video proof of them doing it and could sue . The whole thing is staged to me. lol. I just thought the vid was funny as i've never seen it before and due to the recent Windup plaque auctions it seems appropriate.

[Andromeda - Evanescent-Killjoy]

yeah its fake its one of the producers houses or something.. Kelly loves Amy she wanted to do a collaboration with her remember. I've seen bits of that video before and its funny how it resurfaces now and then, a year ago or so i was looking for it and i couldn't find it anywhere.

[Deleted]

I think it's pretty unprofessional and immature of Ben to smash up the plaque. Even though it doesn't mean him hating the band as Osky pointed out, it's not like the plaques are cheap. I don't think the studio would let him do it if there wasn't another copy or he didn't really smash it (hard to tell in 240p ).

[Ring]

This entire thing was explained on EvBoard already.


Double A Edit:
This was originally posted on Josh Newell's MySpace. The link on EvBoard now does not work which leads us to assume he deleted his profile. Do not go looking for this guy or cause any trouble with him. He just went with the flow so-to-speak, and did what he was told to do by writers and producers.

and now for the true story: about two years ago, a production company approached the studio with the idea of shooting a reality show based on what it's "really like" working at a studio. studio recording's not quite as cut and dry as they make it look on tv and in the videos, and it's an interesting business. people come from all over the country to LA to try to make it in the industry, in bands and as engineers, neither of which is very easy.

i agreed to participate in the taping of the footage for the show's trailer/pitch tape. initially, the show was pitched to us as being very documentary style, but it soon became obvious that they wanted to focus on the celebrities. made sense to me. people like celebrities.

well, to be honest, being at a studio isn't always all that exciting. most of the time it's just running errands or sitting in a room playing things over and over 'til you get them right. since they had a time frame to work in, they decided to stage some events, just for the sake of the trailer so they could get the footage they needed fast.

at the time, kelly clarkson was in working on some songs with ben and david, who since their departure from evanescence have been producing fairly regularly. the studio had received a platinum record for the evanescence album (most of it was recorded at our place), but neither ben nor david were in the photo on the plaque.

ben's a friend of the studio and is there a lot working on projects so he called their label and had them send out a plaque with a different photo on it. that's understandable. he put a lot of work into the album; he and david wrote it, and he's the one at the studio a lot.

when the tv guys found this out, they had us stage the whole getting the plaque in and ben and david getting pissed off bit. the next part of the little faux story line was to have ben, david, kelly clarkson, and matt zane go toilet paper "amy lee's" house. i was asked to go along so that they'd have someone from the studio in the shots too.

they rented a van, and then had us drive out to jay gordon's house. jay is the singer of orgy and another friend of the studio's. we toilet papered his house, which was really funny for me as i've now toilet papered a yard with a number of platinum-selling artists.

so no harm, no foul, as it was all faked.

the show never got picked up. and so we've had this trailer sitting around. matt zane (who you may know from the band society 1) has continued to try to get the show picked up, and my guess is that he's the one who re-edited the clip and posted it online to generate some publicity. as the clip is posted as "Kelly Clarkson Vandalizes House With Matt Zane of Society 1," and it's been re-edited to remove the bulk of the cast member introductions except for his, i'd venture my guess is probably pretty accurate.

and i guess it's gotten some publicity. it is/was a top-viewed clip on youtube, and as i said, i got an e-mail from a friend of mine saying she saw it on E!

last i heard, the production company wants to sue matt, kelly clarkson's people are pissed, as are ben and david's, and i haven't even talked to anyone from the studio about it yet.

and apparently evanescence fans are now upset at kelly clarkson for getting involved in a faux argument. then again, these kids think evanescence is good so why should one expect them to have the capacity to differentiate between reality and television?

on the plus side for me, i always thought the way the original production company edited the show made me look like a bit of a cliched "i'm from a small town and am rebelling" kind of douche bag. now with this edit, it just looks like spend my time running around the hollywood hills "vandalizing" houses with celebrities. yeah, it's a hard job, but someone's got to do it.

[Andromeda - Evanescent-Killjoy]

^the guy that wrote that sounds like an asshole .... but aren't we all

[RapturedLight]

Andromeda - Evanescent-Killjoy I know right? I'm sure it was totally necessary to add this:

then again, these kids think evanescence is good so why should one expect them to have the capacity to differentiate between reality and television?

[Andromeda - Evanescent-Killjoy]

Aug 30, 2013 14:41:39 GMT -5 RapturedLight said:

Andromeda - Evanescent-Killjoy I know right? I'm sure it was totally necessary to add this:

then again, these kids think evanescence is good so why should one expect them to have the capacity to differentiate between reality and television?

Why do people have to be immature and take sides. Real or Not its the Intentions that count and by pretending to Vandalise Amys house, even though it really wasn't her house. well Dah Ev Fans are going to be pissed what did they expect would happen if ev fans saw it. Any way Who cares its old news Its Fake People are assholes, people do stupid things... what else did we learn?

[Rarkphoenix]

Aug 30, 2013 14:41:39 GMT -5 RapturedLight said:

Andromeda - Evanescent-Killjoy I know right? I'm sure it was totally necessary to add this:

then again, these kids think evanescence is good so why should one expect them to have the capacity to differentiate between reality and television?

Meh, it's their loss if they happen to dislike Evanescence. "Good" and "bad" are subjective after all. It does amuse me that they're implying that being an Evhead automatically makes one an idiot, in my experience it's invariably the opposite - but then I am biased

I actually enjoyed this clip, a reality T.V./docudrama show based in a studio isn't a bad idea in my opinion, as long as they throw in some genuinely useful facts along the way and keep it grounded in reality then I don't see why you can't have crazy little things like Ben teepeeing Amy's house as long as it's made clear at the beginning and end of the programme that it's a drama rather than a pure documentary. It could only have been funnier if it was done now that the dust has settled a bit and they got Amy to play herself charging after them with her baseball bat, hehe.

[mydnyghtamethyst]

Aug 30, 2013 14:41:39 GMT -5 RapturedLight said:

Andromeda - Evanescent-Killjoy I know right? I'm sure it was totally necessary to add this:

then again, these kids think evanescence is good so why should one expect them to have the capacity to differentiate between reality and television?

So, did this event take place before or after TOD? Either way you would have to think, Ben was partly responsible for at least 80% of Evanescence material up to that point (Fallen, EPs, demos.) So, isn't he in turn insulting Ben when he suggests Ev fans are brainless?

Fake or not, very poor taste. Amy may have written songs, but it's her right as a artist to express he feelings. She's never pulled a stunt like this. She's left things in the past and with all due respect, Ben is the one who harps.

[AeternusAmatorius]

at the time, kelly clarkson was in working on some songs with ben and david, who since their departure from evanescence have been producing fairly regularly. the studio had received a platinum record for the evanescence album (most of it was recorded at our place), but neither ben nor david were in the photo on the plaque

Wow. That's no reason to get mad over a picture. David was NEVER picture in anything with the band (with the exception of Origin). 

he and david wrote it, and he's the one at the studio a lot.

Yeah, okay. Amy had nothing to do with writing the lyrics from 1995 to 2003. She was just hired to be a pretty face...   


The guy who write that explanation sounds really narcissistic or just very self centered.


But anyway, Ring, I hope you do not mind, but I'm going to add the explanation to your post just in case something happens to EvBoard and the explanation gets lost. You never know with stupid technology. DarkFlare89: do you have this in your documents/database for future reference in the case that it does get lost? 

[Deleted]

I just liked that that used pre-Fallen music in the trailer. So Close.