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Ryan Sinn leaves the Distillers

Contributed by jimmy_the_saint. Posted by adam on Saturday, August 20, 2005 at 4:00 PM (EDT)

Following the departure of drummer Andy "Outbreak" Granelli, bassist Ryan Sinn has quit the Distillers. This past Thursday Sinn posted the announcement to the band's now-removed MySpace page. MTV News attributed the following to the posting:

I'm no longer part of the life I knew so recently. The Distillers are no more and it feels like a weight has been lifted. However, I'll never get rid of the disgust inside from it all.

Sinn joined the band when to replace Kim Chi, who left to join X frontwoman Exene Cervenka in the Original Sinners. Of the Distillers' Coral Fang lineup now only vocalist / guitarist Brody Dalle and guitarist Tony Bradley remain. The band's management insists they will continue on, commenting to NME that:

The band is not breaking up but there's been a little movement of the members (both loss and gain). Brody is working on the new album and the band still exists.

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Someone (August 20, 2005)

Uhh... first? And wow. I guess the breakup's inevitable.

CrookedSuperhero (August 20, 2005)

I smell gossip.

allison_le_gnome (August 20, 2005)

Agreed. And fuck you for changing the link in your profile. I'm keeping the Audioscrobbler one, it just redirects you to the same place anyway.

swingline (August 20, 2005)

wow. up the punx.

allison_le_gnome (August 20, 2005)

lYkE tOtAlLy. I just spent a month in teenybopper land, and I never want to come within a mile of an All-American Rejects CD again in my life.

Dante3000 (rich) (August 20, 2005)

So why'd you spend the month locked in your room? -Dante

rkl (August 20, 2005)

probably got grounded for missing curfew.

allison_le_gnome (August 20, 2005)

Well, wasn't that just the most fantastically witty thing I've ever heard in my life.

Dante3000 (rich) (August 20, 2005)

Probably but you're young. I'm sure you'll hear better by the time you grow boobs. -Dante

allison_le_gnome (August 20, 2005)

Fine. I'll take pride in my not-quite-A-cups.

Dante3000 (rich) (August 21, 2005)

Flaunt em if ya got em that's my motto. -Dante

CrookedSuperhero (August 20, 2005)

Happy?

allison_le_gnome (August 20, 2005)

Possibly.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

Time to share that new against me with the world crooky.. get peerguardian and go at it, the world at large will thank you. ps. Or get me an oink invitation. ps #2. Yes im buying that cd. No i cant wait. I already have tickets to see them in seattle/portland.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

first, good news

lightyear (August 20, 2005)

you're third

rkl (August 20, 2005)

ha, id be pretty disgusted if i were in the distillers too. guess its gonna be tina armstrong and a bunch of studio musicians now, eh?

AlmostPunkEnough (August 20, 2005)

come on man, the distellers are the fucking punx!!! don't you like music with integrity? and meaning? and a chick who has a penis?

wehavecomeforyourchildren (August 20, 2005)

fuck the distillers. brody should be banned from punk rock.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

Agreed

Someone (September 23, 2005)

no fuck you

sceneupdates (August 20, 2005)

No bassist no drummer? Hmmm The Distillers are pretty good, Brody is hot too :D

McGarnicle (August 20, 2005)

The Distillers don't matter. In fact in a couple of seconds they won't even be matter.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

I dont care. Her music career is over. She's quickly turning into the modern-day Courtney Love. Sucking the scene dry and trying to milk her life off her husband/boyfriend and her ex-husband (whos a lot cooler than Josh Hoimee) that she ditched. Her first 2 records are good like Hole's... I'd still do her though. She turns me on....

CrookedSuperhero (August 20, 2005)

I'll take Josh Homme over Tim Armstrong anyday.

AlmostPunkEnough (August 20, 2005)

I BET!!!! hhahaahahhahahahahhahahahah anyway. i would hope most chicks would pick Homme over Armstrong. they both write shitty songs, but at least Homme has some integrity. and doesn't sound like a rambling british homeless person riding the H-train.

CrookedSuperhero (August 20, 2005)

I like both QOTSA and Rancid, but as you say, i'll take the guy i don't know much about over the drunk.

allison_le_gnome (August 20, 2005)

As the single young-ish girl on basically the whole site, I can say that Homme is definitely by far less disgusting than Armstrong.

rkl (August 20, 2005)

i dunno. to me, wheres the homme v. armstrong breakdowns past bands: homme had kyuss. armstrong had op ivy. i fucking love kyuss, but operation ivy had a lot more influence, plus people actually listened to them when they were still in existence. winner: armstrong current bands: homme has queens of the stone age. armstrong has rancid/the transplants yes, blackout sucked, and the transplants are king boose. but lets go! was a damn good album. qotsa is just kyuss for pansies. winner: draw personality: homme is rumored to be a dick, and he punched blag in the face. tim armstrong once gave me $5. winner: armstrong in conclusion, josh homme, while being able to completely & utterly beat the shit out of me(because hes roid-ragin'), is a sucker mc.

rkl (August 20, 2005)

s/where/here

AlmostPunkEnough (August 20, 2005)

wow, that's a lot of thought and effort put in there. you forgot the venereal diesease breakdown though.

swingline (August 20, 2005)

the rancid 93 s/t kicks the shit out of anything ever created by josh homme.

Someone (August 22, 2005)

Apparently, Homme didn't wack Blag hard enough to wipe those sub Wax Trax!/Metropolis records tendencies out of him.

the_other_scott (August 21, 2005)

i'm glad to see i'm not the only one who things qotsa are cooler than rancid, because there was a time that i was

Someone (August 20, 2005)

I'd do Brodie too. Just thought I'd comment on that. Yeah. She used to be a lot hotter tho when I saw them right after they released Sing Sing Death House. Ohhh I will remember that show...oh yes. mwahaha -phdecontrol

Someone (August 20, 2005)

it's refreshing, really, in threads like this to be reminded that a woman's place in punk rock is still on her back or her knees. kudos.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

You will die.

Someone (August 21, 2005)

happily if it would prove that those of us with vaginas are not merely objects.

Someone (August 21, 2005)

I guess I misunderstood your sarcasm....I'm am right there with you....wanting to kill those with narrow minds and pathetic commentary. xo From another with XX chromosomes.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

Nerve Agents.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

I think you meant NERVE AGENTS!

DiscoFucker (August 20, 2005)

I was one of the few people who liked Coral Fang. Whatever, The Distillers have'nt been a band since the first record. Since then, it's always just been Brody plus some other random dudes.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

What the fuck is Eric from Nerve Agents up to nowadays, anyhow?

Someone (August 20, 2005)

he's in an indie rock band in Portland. They are supposedly a LOT softer and nothing like the Nerve Agents. go figure. I'd fly to Cali to see the Nerve Agents, so maybe he should just get it over with and have them do a reunion. -phdecontrol

Someone (August 20, 2005)

being a father.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

Break up dammit! you trashy cunt, disband the group and never do anything public again!

Mr_Streetcore (August 20, 2005)

dearie me but then again the distillers haven't really been the same since casper left the band

Someone (August 20, 2005)

Casper was useless to the band

Someone (August 30, 2005)

casper is beautiful

HeyBarmold (August 20, 2005)

Ryan. Come back to Fremont and start a band. You're sisters hot, too

allison_le_gnome (August 20, 2005)

Nice job using the wrong "your."

HeyBarmold (August 20, 2005)

yep.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

Nice job on correcting someone's grammar. Stop being a dick.

allison_le_gnome (August 20, 2005)

I'm female, I don't have one. Sorry.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

Good! I hope they disband, they suck now. I'm just glad Andy Outbreak left the band. I just want a Nerve Agents reunion. That's all. Please? -phdecontrol

Someone (August 20, 2005)

this band was over when Tim Armstrong stopped writing their songs,

Someone (August 21, 2005)

Tim Armstrong can't write his way out of an AA meeting. Or a MS ward.

Big_Guy (August 21, 2005)

Oh snap!

Someone (August 23, 2005)

hahahahhahahahahahahhaaaa

Dante3000 (rich) (August 20, 2005)

I actually like the Distillers and thought Coral Fang was a pretty good album. I think it sucks that they haven't been a tight knit (or even functional) band for some time now. I still hope they put out music but I don't hold out much hope for any real resemblence of a band. -Dante p.S. According to this guy I know, who knows the old guitarist of the Distillers, Brody hung out with Courtney Love who confessed what really happened to Kurt. Wow...only five degrees hos.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

what did she say happened?

Dante3000 (rich) (August 20, 2005)

Fuck if I know. What I heard from the dude, who said he heard from the (you know the rest). Anyhow, something along the lines of this: Courtney had always said she wanted to record with Brody but almost never set anything up and flaked the few times she did. Then at one of the times they were supposed to meet at the studio Courtney shows up shit faced and crying and starts sobbing out this story about what really happened to Kurt (guess it eats at a bitch sometimes). Anyhow, she said something along the lines of they got into an arguement over something while driving back to the house. Kurt threatened to kill himself (as it appears he must have done with some frequency) and Courtney said she didn't care and hoped that he did. He got out and went into the house, Courney sat in the car. Suddenly she heard a shotgon blast and got the hell out of Dodge. Now I don't follow anything about Cobain, nor did I study his death, so this story may be full of holes the size of the one in Cobains dead skull. However, I swear to god that it is an actual story some dude told me (who follows the order listed previously). -Dante

Kenjamin (August 20, 2005)

wow!

Someone (August 21, 2005)

that's actually completely false. courtney wasn't around at the time it happened.

STF (August 20, 2005)

And yet life goes on...

Someone (August 20, 2005)

I heard Brody has MS.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

I heard Australia has MS.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

Ok that's funny...but mean. But I still hand it to ya.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

Wwwhhhhhhhooooooooorrrrrrrrreeeeeeeee.

Someone (August 20, 2005)

This is worse than 9/11.

CallingLondon (August 20, 2005)

so, what is the disgust inside a result of? i want answers/gossip.

civperc (August 20, 2005)

I hope Brody falls into a deep dark hole and never comes out.

lightyear (August 20, 2005)

Transplants have been forced to cancel their Reading and Leeds appearances and all forthcoming European dates owing to illness. The band would like to apologise to their fans, wish them all a great festival and hope to be back as soon as possible................... so which one is ill?

Sick_Nick (August 21, 2005)

Armstrong.

Someone (August 21, 2005)

Dood, it's obviously Skinhead Rob. He's the illest rapper I've ever heard. He's like Jesus, Bob Dylan and Barry White rolled into one unstoppable hip-hop machine. "We're gangsta's and thugs, yeah, some of my friends make music, some of my friends smoke drugs." - Transplantius 3:16

Someone (August 20, 2005)

Like fucking rats leaving a sinking ship. Too bad it's too late to save Andy's sullied reputation.

Someone (September 16, 2005)

Realy good site!

wallflower (August 20, 2005)

Why was their myspace removed?

Someone (August 20, 2005)

Because you touch yourself at night.

wallflower (August 20, 2005)

Damnit, no one was supposed to know about that!

Someone (August 20, 2005)

i head they broke up cause she was pregnant... got to love internet gossip... anyways, this band has always rather sucked... and that guy's statement i found rather amusing...

the_other_scott (August 21, 2005)

this guy plays in the drips

LushJ (August 21, 2005)

Huh. Bad people, she is. Hope Ryan and Andy land somewhere better.

Someone (August 21, 2005)

Ryan actually didn't quit but Brody pretty much killed the band and stole Ryan's share of his pay forcing him to file for bankruptcy with Warner coming after him for $40 000. And the rumours are true, Brody is pregnant so don't expect anything from her anytime soon.

Someone (August 21, 2005)

Brody is to punk what Courtney Love was to grunge: a no-talent hack riding her drug-addict husband's coat tails to semi-celebrity status in the music industry. As sad as I was at Kurt's death, the Transplants are obviously the bigger tragedy.

Someone (August 21, 2005)

I heard Brody is pregnant with Josh Homme's (Queens of the Stone Age) baby.

Someone (August 22, 2005)

umm...how can you "leave" a band that announced it's break up a month ago? Brody broke up the band through her lawyer no less, not even giving Ryan the respect to talk to him in person. Noting personal reasons (aka pregnancy) for ending the band.

Someone (August 23, 2005)

Wow.. . what the fuck is everyone's beef with Brody?? am i missing something. . i thought all guy worshipped her cuz shes "so hot" and punk rawk yo

Someone (August 31, 2005)

thank fuck. i think i would die if they split up...my soul will dry out...

carissimadeath (September 1, 2005)

i don't give a shit what anyone says, i'm glad they're not breaking up. they've made some good albums. christ, everyone's talking like they know Brody personally and she raped their mothers. i don't understand how she can be classified as "bad people". if you don't like her music that's one thing, but i'm pretty sure she hasn't murdered anyone. i'm glad she left tim. he's a pathetic almost 40-something who hangs out with punk rock teenagers. he hangs out with Good Charlotte for fucks sakes. people act like he's jesus or some shit.

Someone (September 6, 2005)

Brody better not return to Melbourne...she ain't welcome down here....all the shit she caused when she was in Sourpuss...using people. She can hold her fucking marriage to ginger nuts somewhere else. We don't forget. And by the way, she never knew who Discharge were when she was 16. She never knew any punk bands...she just idolised Courtney Cumbucket. She's getting everything she deserves now...that's Karma! We know how she REALLY paid to move to LA.

Someone (September 16, 2005)

Just to say hellow!

Someone (September 18, 2005)

well, hellow! been a long time...

Someone (September 25, 2005)

Ryan sinn has joined angels and airwaves tom from blink 182 new band

Someone (September 25, 2005)

hes part of angels and sirwaves now

Someone (May 16, 2006)

angels and airwaves are pretty much 6 month wonder material. they'll float around singing the same song over n then next thing u know they'll break up and work in your local supermarket. BEEP!

Eruda (July 10, 2006)

Todos van a dejar algún día a Brody, yo creo que no pueden aguantar su inmadurez musical... pero bueno ya que demonios se le hace

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