Aug
21
2012
Dance Gavin Dance have parted ways with lead singer Jonny Craig once again. Considering the wording of their statement, which will be in the comments, it sounds like we won't be hearing another album from DGD in the future.
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Fishers, Indiana
"When Jonny rejoined Dgd, we were about to call it quits. Tired of touring and being away from home for 8 months of the year, we wanted to shake things up. We thought it'd be fun to do a dbm sequel with Jonny and go out on that. We recorded dbm2 and felt it would be a disservice to our fans not to let them hear the new record live. We did a tour and felt rejuvenated but Jonny wasn't in a good place. After trying to convince him into getting help over warped tour, we canceled a headliner in November/December 2011 and told him we wouldn't tour until he sought out real help for his addiction.
We got our good friend Matt Geise to fill in for a short run we did earlier this year while Jonny was in rehab. He was released and wanted to be out on the road immediately. We weren't sure how things would go so we only booked a small portion of the all stars tour to see if Jonny could still function as our lead singer.
After a week and a half things were not going well. Everything came to a head when Jonny was publicly scolded by the owner of sumerian records for multiple offenses. It was then that we realized that our time with Jonny had reached its end. We wish Jonny the best In his future endeavors but he will no longer be a part of DGD. We however will continue playing and writing music because it's what we love doing."
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Reno, NV
I wondered why people cared about this guy in the first place, but does anybody really still care about this crackpot? DGD is terrible and so is everything ever mentioned in the same sentence as Johnny Craig, including this comment.
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Fishers, Indiana
I know I'm in the minority on this site, I loved DGD without Jonny. It does boggle my mind as to why people still give him chances at this point.
DGD will probably continue on as Secret Band without any clean vocalists, and while I dig their guitar work forever, their screamers are so very terrible without some cleans in there to make it all acceptable.
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Salt Lake City, UT
Real music news please?
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Atascadero, CA
Yawn. Next news from him will be he is dead from an overdose. I would however watch him on that rehab show.
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Edmonton, AB
I absolutely loveDGD with Kurt Travis and hate them with Jonny Craig - too bad they can't go back
Fishers, Indiana
Finally, someone else who gets it.
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San Borja, Lima, Perú
Count me in, happiness is their best effort in my opinion. Probably their best phase too, no Jon Mess, no Craig, excellent musicianship.