John: It's actually a bootleg of a show in Tampa on Halloween night. I made a recording off the sound-deck, and we played live and recorded the whole show. It's my own personal stuff, you know? If I didn't do it I wouldn't have it. He (John Shaffer) wouldn't let me have anything. I don't even have pictures from that era, hardly. He started a lot of false humors about me too. I don't know why he did that. I just kind of went on with my life after Iced Earth. And then I started seeing sh*t on the internet about me that is just blatant lies. I don't know why he did that.
Thrashpit.com: Would one of those rumors be related to anti-Semitic comments?
John: Anti-Semitic comments, that I stole money…it's a joke. I paid money into that band in the form of dues for like two years, like a hundred-twenty bucks, hundred-thirty bucks a month or whatever, towards the band. And from Dave Abel, you'd find out what I'm telling is true too. He just made that sh*t up.