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Jay Reatard's Band Walk Out on Tour
- Posted on Oct 7th 2009 6:23AM by Stephen Dowling
Jay Reatard's band have walked out midway through a US tour, causing their former frontman to give them a tongue-lashing via Twitter."Band quit! F--- them! They are boring rich kids who can't play for s--- anyways," the singer wrote on his Twitter feed. "Say hello to your ugly and boring wifes, opps I mean life guys, suck it." [sic]
The band's walkout means Reatard's North American tour -- as well as forthcoming visits to the UK, Ireland and Europe – are now in doubt.
Reatard later told NME, "I honestly love those guys no matter what my dumb Twitter post says. They kinda quit out of nowhere, me and the tour manager thought it was a joke!"
He also told the site he was already looking for replacement band members, saying: ""All the bulls*** aside our band is a really easy one to be in - Ride in the van listen to jams, load in gear, eat great food, drink free beer, get paid well, load out, go to the hotel, repeat."
No reason has yet been given why Reatard's band decided to walk out.
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Tom B
I'm shattered. Who's Jay Reatard, anyway?
October 08 2009 at 4:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Mike
Khloe kops Kimbo kock
October 08 2009 at 2:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
dls031568
i guess the name and face says it all......
October 08 2009 at 12:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
george9448
Reatard?If you had a name like that, wouldn't you think about changing it?I had a co-worker named Jacoff, I kid you not,but you'd have thought that he'd change his name...never did;oh, the torture he must have went through as a kid,lol.
October 08 2009 at 12:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Cameron
I noticed in his description of what the band does, he never mentioned PLAY MUSIC. LOL! I'm tired of today's excuses for musicians. I'll bet none of you can read music.
October 08 2009 at 12:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Jeff Koteff
Any 3rd grader that plays a stringed instrument in the band at school can play that shit. He'll get alot of wannabes apply and pick 2 of them. Hope they're all over 18. Jimmy Page rules w/me. Been playing at least 1 of my 3 special gits every day since 1974
October 08 2009 at 12:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
r
he should change his last name really, to something like waterhead
October 08 2009 at 11:55 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
sealtheborder
So this is what NOBODY's do for attention....aol is stupid for adding to the attention...
October 08 2009 at 11:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
chris
IF YOUR WHOLE BAND QUITS ON YOU , YOU MUST BE A REAL AHOLE! NEVER HEARD OF SUCH A THING....
October 08 2009 at 11:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Wayne
what do you want for reatards?
October 08 2009 at 11:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
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