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We're-better-than-you sorts Kasabian have shed a member, citing "creative differences".
Guitarist and keyboard player Chris Karloff is the man shown the door. Apparently he didn't entirely see eye-to-eye with his bandmates during the recording of their much-hyped second album, presumably because he was the only member of the creatively-stunted outfit to have so far developed the ability to stand upright.
A statement on the band's site reads:
"Karloff and the band experienced certain creative and artistic differences during the writing and recording of their second album. These irreconcilable and diverging approaches resulted in the band asking Karloff to leave the group. Karloff will pursue a musical career elsewhere."
Kasabian's new album, Empire, is released on September 4.
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He was a good musician.
Diver
You never fail to make me chuckle - good stuff.
one down
3 to go
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he could really bang out those three chords. over and over.
he'll be missed.
somewhere
if only
he was called boris...
kasabian blow
they are the musical equivalent of a shit-pie being washed down with a piss and cum shandy.
i don't like them.
...
Why do bands like these bother making these kinds of statements?
"Chris wanted to make an album that sounded in some way different to the last. The rest of the band thought he was a pretentious cunt. Now he's not in the band. The End."
is it
because he wasn't fit enough?
huhhuh
"will pursue a musical career elsewhere"
huh huh, hope he has some other relevant experience then.
he will probably
get a job at music zone. does that count?
p.s. sorry if that offended anyone that works at music zone
Wait a minute . .isn't he the one who writes the songs?
He's credited as co-writing L.S.F. and Cutt Off at least.
Well I liked him
He and the bass player were the only likable members of the band. Slighty likable.
Fuck!
LIKEABLE!!
yes.
Fuck likeable.
...
This is a great loss to the world of Pro Evo.
ahh.
the rumour mill in leicester seems to show some truth for once.
you have a bad slice of pizza
and when you wake up you've grown a FUCKING CONSCIENCE!!!!
well done that man
kasabian...
a new dimension to the word cack.
it must be quite hard
to have "creative differences" when you're not at all creative
Hey cmon
Club Foot was an ok song. And "Reason is Treason" would've been good if it was about 4 minutes shorter.
There's no
would have and could have - Kasabian are distinctly average at best.
Cut your hair and get a job!
I have trouble believing
they've written the songs they play. They've been in a rehearsal and some has played something rubbish and that chap has shouted over it and other members have agreed.
They have done this again and again and again.
useless
baggy wannabe's. fucking poor live
never stopped
anyone at NME getting a job. fucking wanky hairballs. connor mcnicklefuck's breath wreaks of cat shit.
funny
there were four of them in NME last week.
Um
This is what this story is about. Kasabian had four people in the band...now they do not.
Good luck to him. I hear Sainsbury's has many promising careers for a young man like him.
Well...
Knew him through a friend (she went out with him). Was a very quiet guy, always wore a hat, and was a good guitarist. When they played before they were signed they were pretty average compared to the other bands, but at least played some ok guitar stuff, but the vocals were poor. Then when I heard they got signed, I was surprised, so many better bands were about in that local scene at the time. More surprised was I when the record came out, and the guitar was hidden under a million vocal dubs, and its a very studio overproduced album, which explains why some materiel doesn't stand up well live. Anyway, Chris, real name "Chris Pratt", could play guitar, and I guess wanted to play something rather than make a soundtrack...
I dunno, gotta take your hat off to them though, so many better bands were more commercially accessable and viable to sign than them, yet not only did they manage it, but also they have become very popular. Its hard to believe when you have seen them since day 1 as saracouse! The world is a strange place!
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