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Following Greg Puciato’s explanation about rejecting offers, expressing the unlikelihood of a return to the stage with his former The Dillinger Escape Plan bandmates, band mastermind Ben Weinman responded with a contrasting perspective. In a recent Metal Injection interview, Weinman made it clear that he has not spoken to his former bandmate since the final shows in 2018. He emphasized that any potential reunion discussions with Puciato have been shut down before money was even discussed.

Weinman shared the following to Metal Injection:

“The truth is that any discussions of a reunion with Greg have been shut down before money was discussed. There have been no concrete money offers for a reunion with Greg – meaning that the conversations have never gotten to money as they’ve always been shut down immediately – that I or anyone on our team is aware of. I think there was some preliminary talks thrown around for us to do Furnace Fest, but our agent’s response was that we are not entertaining reunion offers at this time. The end. I have been approached a few times indirectly by people who had talked to Greg while he was out on the road about doing a reunion, and what was conveyed to me was that he really wanted to do it and that it should be discussed with me. My response to anyone asking was that the Dillinger Escape Plan would not be performing with Greg and that we ended that chapter of the band in the appropriate way, as everyone saw. I’d like to leave it at that. That is really all there is to it. I’m not sure what Greg’s intention for releasing this info was but hey… not my monkey, not my circus as they say. He is a very talented person and I think the people out there collaborating with him will make some awesome shit. I certainly cherish everything we did and feel extremely proud of our work together.”

Read the full interview here.