This is sort of old news ( a couple weeks anyway) but I remembered it after reading all these "guitarist leaves band" threads... This was what Agent M said on their message board: The reasons why... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi kids. I understand that you all want to know why we asked Dominic to leave our band, but there really are valid reasons why we haven’t told you. First and foremost, we wanted to spare Dom from everyone knowing the exact reasons. I know that may be hard for you guys to believe, because he is only speaking from his perspective. There are three people in the band who felt like one person was making things extremely difficult. The fact of the matter is that we are the people who spent 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and probably 9 months out of the year with Dominic. You guys do not know all sides of him. If we did tell you the reasons, you probably wouldn’t want to believe that they are true, and you’d wish you had never heard these things about a guy you all know and love. We still hope to be friends with Dominic eventually, and don’t want to say negative things about a person we care about. The second reason we have not posted the whole story is that we don’t want this to turn into an online battle. Obviously, Dominic is present on the message board often. Obviously, he is really hurt right now. Typing arguments are silly, and that’s what this could potentially turn into. The rest of us don’t agree with what he’s saying about getting kicked out. I know he’s been emailing a lot of you personally, and he’s been telling you a number of reasons that are just flat out wrong. He knows exactly why he’s not in the band anymore. And the rest of us know that if we had not done what we did, the band would no longer be existing at all. Has anyone ever been in a bad relationship before, where you knew it just had to end for both people to be happy? That is exactly what our situation is here, but we felt like we had too much forward motion to end the whole thing just because one person was throwing a wrench in the gears. Many of you are saying you won’t be posting on this board any more because of this, and it hurts our feelings. What you don’t realize is that the rest of us are just as passionate about Tsunami Bomb as Dominic is, or else we would have quit a long time ago. If Dominic is the only reason you listened to our band, I guess you’ll have to wait to see what he does next. And we’ll have to hope that some people also hear drums, guitar and vocals when they listen to a Tsunami Bomb cd. Honestly, this stuff should really be discussed in person. I probably won’t be making any responses if Dominic posts to this, because I have said what I wanted to say and it’s the truth. If any of you guys have any more questions, you can come up and talk to us during the Bouncing Souls tour. We will be there for you. And you can make a new friend who plays bass. Hope to see you then, Agent M