![]() ![]() He hasn’t had years of being a robot under his belt, and he’s had to pickup harmonies written for two other performers. Once Bryan was in and rehearsing, we mutually agreed with Sam that a Bakersfield show in December would be his last. Sam stayed on for the rest of the year (we started looking for his replacement early September), but Sam said he would stay on “as long as it took”, as he didn’t want to leave us “high and dry”. I made a private post on my private Facebook account reaching out to my college chums, and Bryan responded within the first week. We never thought it would happen in a million years, but years had passed in all our lives, lots of different experiences, and the time was ripe. He made the transition as smooth as he could, having seen other people leave the band before, and caring about the fans he would be leaving behind.īunny and I knew exactly who we wanted “as a third robot” if we had “our dream team” since the beginning.heck Erin and Jon wanted him in the act too, we all did. It came as a shock for us all, as it’s not like any of us were anticipating it, but we all understood. He wanted to pursue his own personal art projects and said he didn’t want to stay in SPG for ten more years and look back with regrets of things he could have done outside of SPG. Sam eventually let us know the year he wanted to be his last year performing with us. Sam told us when he started that he wasn’t in it for the long run, but really wanted to do it and we all said we would see where it went. Sam is the longest running member consistently after The Bennetts. So when the band went through growing pains, it only made sense. He wanted to commit, always showed he did, and expressed interest. That’s due to travel itself, but also us having to pitch the act and costs to a plethora of venues and events.Īs for Sam/Hatchworth, he took over for Jon when he left. Adding him to local shows that we are able to has been fun, but unfortunately it doesn’t make sense for all of them or shows out of state where expenses get more. We had one this summer, and then two more are coming up in November and December. Mike has been on The Bennettarium Podcast recently, and we’ve invited him to three live shows this year in California. It ended up saving the band financially and made way for tons of technical improvements to the live show, which we wouldn’t have even thought of if we kept the same standard “band setup”. Everything to do with expenses and managing 8 people in a band. However, we made a decision to cull the act down. Matt did the show with us for a year, Mike had been with us pretty consistently for live shows after our first album. No real chance of podcast visit and such, it’s just not the relationship we have with Jon.īacking musicians Mike and Matt we stopped traveling with after about a year of traveling with them. We keep in contact, pleasantries and all that, keeping “up with life”. Person couldn’t commit to the schedule/didn’t want to do it full-time, and they left (Jon Sprague, The Jon). Everyone in the band mutually agreed that letting that person go was for the best and they didn’t want to stay around. Once the band picked up, formed as an official business and started becoming “a living”, the third member couldn’t commit and it dragged the rest of the band down in rehearsals, shows, and album recording. ![]() We’ve had her on an episode The Bennettarium Podcast and reminisced about her time in the group. One of them couldn’t commit since it was “just a hobby on the weekend and didn’t want to be in a “band”, so they left (Erin Burke, Upgrade), we are still friends, she left willingly on her own. ![]() We started with four people who all wanted to try their hand at street performing with a robot group. No one plans for the “third member” to be switched out. TLDR: We don’t plan for the 3rd member being switched out. I am not the best with words or typing this stuff up, but I always try my best even if it’s a tangled mess of sentences. (I am not really a mod, it's just a pleasantry from the actual mods since I am in the band I guess). and two the OP has posted questionable stuff here according to the actual mod messages I see. I probably shouldn't be replying to posts like this.įor one, it only encourages people to post more stuff like this to get responses from the band I think.which isn't healthy for me or the band. ![]()
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