Tourniquets guitar player Aaron quits the band.

From their forums (www.tourniquetdz.net)

Quote :

I am passing along the news to everyone that I have stepped down as the guitarist of Tourniquet. I am unable to continue in my role as Tourniquet's guitarist and still focus on my family the way I need to. I want to express my heartfelt thanks to Luke, Ted, Steve and all of the great fans & friends that I have shared many wonderful moments with. Thanks again for everything and God bless you all.
Aaron

I wonder what the replacement'll be for Flevo.

that sucks, I'm looking forward to their performance at Flevo, hopefully they find a good replacement

Max likes metal

that's a real pity
I've never seen them play before...

me neither,
so I hope they'll do well xD

I know I'm of unpopular opinion here...but has this band done anything of value since its debut album, "Stop the Bleeding"?

I also have to admit that I only really like Stop the Bleeding and 2 songs of Microscopic View,
(the accoustic album and vanishing lessons excluded, those ones are just fun albums)

I have 5 tourniquet albums, and I only really listen to stop the bleeding ideed,
but yeah, seeing them live will be a bit fun I guess.

Although I always thought they have a crappy attitude.
with their watches, comicbooks, coffee merchandise

and then their blog about the new album.
That one was just lame IMO

Matt wrote:

and then their blog about the new album.
That one was just lame IMO

Found this pretty funny as well...wish them much luck! ROFL


I did like the coffee however, it was good! But I'm a coffee nut!

Haha :p
I don't like coffee so yeah.
to me it's just major sellout.

Tourniquet is playing at Flevo this year???

Wow, I guess I will go take a nap when they play...

I have no interest in them, their music of the last 10 years or more has been uninspiring, and they banned me from their forum a long time ago, and when I asked them why, they didn't give me an answer or a reason.

that sucks,
I hate it when people don't answer mails.

Well, it wasn't just emails, I was actually chatting with one of the guys that run the site, solidxx or something, chatting with him on AIM, and he was just like "I don't know why you're banned, but you're still banned d00d!!1"

that's not cool o.O

Well, I'll go and have fun in the circle pit or something, that's what this is good for. I don't enjoy their music, I really don't like their singer...

Lancey wrote:

Tourniquet is playing at Flevo this year???

Wow, I guess I will go take a nap when they play...

I have no interest in them, their music of the last 10 years or more has been uninspiring, and they banned me from their forum a long time ago, and when I asked them why, they didn't give me an answer or a reason.

I'll take some rotten tomatoes with me, you can throw at them!

hahaha

Sounds like a great idea Carly. As long as I don't get thrown out of Flevo for doing that

You probably would :p
Remember when you were climbing that pole ?
and the security came ? LOL

Baha yes I remember, that was right before they opened the gates to let us in.

I will climb the pole again, and when security comes again, I will tell them I'm new, and I didn't know the rules

xD deja vu

hahaha xD when you throw tomatoes you can also say you're new and you didn't know the rules.. in America they all throw tomatoes at each other..

Ah dat meen je. :/ Shoot had er net op verhoopt. Hopelijk hebben ze idd een waardige vervanger.

This topic is English, we speak Dutch sometimes on some boards concerning dutchies only, but on international topics we speak English. Thank you!

Ok well i was confused about that. Thank you for the information.

Translation:
Oh you meen it. :/ Shoot i was just hoping on it. Hopefully they have a worthfull replacement.

we have been had:

Luke Easter wrote:

As you probably all know, Aaron posted on Friday that he had stepped down as our guitarist. He gave a reasonable explanation, and he expressed much thanks to Ted, Steve and I, as well as the lot of you. Subsequently, there was a fair degree of discussion, here and on other boards, regarding Guerra's sudden departure. Overall, folks seemed genuinely disappointed.

Not as disappointed as me.

Over at Firestream I saw something about Aaron's quitting posted by a user who goes by the name Behn:

Quote :

...this is a bad time to announce band news. Everyone is waiting for the APRIL FOOLS!

I didn't see anything like this posted here, at home on the Tourniquet Discussion Zone. Not one of you stopped to think that maybe you were being pranked. Well, you were. Happy April Fools.

Over the years we've had a few contests, but we've always announced them. This time we decided to run what I guess you'd call a "stealth contest" - a contest to see if anyone was paying attention. Behn from Firestream won, so if someone would let him know I'd appreciate it. We have a “secret” prize package waiting for him.

The long and the short of it is this: Aaron is not leaving. He remains our friend and guitarist. He will be on the next album, and he will be appearing with us at Flevo this summer.

“So, why’d you put up Aaron’s post so early,” you ask. We figured it’d give you guys time to call shenanigans, and we figured that it’d be more fun and more suprising in the end if we put it up before April 1.

April Fools!