Musical differences be damned, THIS is a good reason to split up
Bing! An email arrives!
"Efrim Menuck, of Godspeed You Black Emperor announces that the band have called it a day, citing, somewhat profoundly, "an existential freak-out" regarding the Iraq war as the main reason for their split... 'The last American tour that Godspeed did was in the run up to the current war in Iraq,' he told drownedinsound.com. 'It was very difficult for us to work out a way for us to communicate directly with the audience about what was going on. We would talk to people after the shows, or we could make announcements from the stage but so much what Godspeed was, was one-way communication.'"
Well it beats 'friction in rhythm section' or 'singer goes solo' as a reason to call it a day. Can WORD readers cite any better reasons bands have given for calling it a day?
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The black flags are at half mast and the cars are on fire...
RE: GSYBE I thought their guitar ragas and long super 8 shots of tower blocks film shows got over the futility of fighting wars for oil realy well.
Oh and The beautiful south split over "musical similarities".
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Kraftwerk
Karl Bartos and Wolfgand Flur's main reason for quitting Kraftwerk was put down to Ralf and Florian's increasing obssession with long distance cycling.
Hütter was involved in a cycling accident in 1983, during the initial period of recording of the since abandoned album Techno Pop. Only the single "Tour de France" and demos of "Techno Pop" and "Sex Object" would find their way into bootleg releases after this accident. He was in the hospital for many months, and Karl Bartos stated the first thing he said when he awoke from his coma was "Where is my bicycle?"