Eh, if it were Jello, I would have been incredulous simply because Jello going after any industry is probably to be expected, whether one might find that hypocr

Eh, if it were Jello, I would have been incredulous simply because Jello going after any industry is probably to be expected, whether one might find that hypocritical or not. I'd have questioned if that was really news at all. Anyway, I tend to characterize the DK break up as an irreconcilable dispute, and neither side really seemed to be in good standing, or more in the right than the other. Jello's ego was hyper-inflated, but he was clearly a serious business man, as is demonstrated by the persistence of his label. He's highly intelligent, and his real mistake was probably hubris, at the end of the day. Meanwhile, the others were also intelligent to match, but probably might have compromised the nature of the band in the long run, simply by being reasonable people with a rational outlook. DK were more about shock value (albeit high-brow shock) than they seemed to understand. The breaking point that imploded the band was Jello's insistence that H.R. Giger's Penis Landscape must be used as an album insert, and its conflict with obscenity laws, and the classification of pornography. Greed played a role, but it was more about him over-riding the votes of the other band members, and him and his ego treating them as subordinates. It was many other things besides the money.