The Toasters get new drummer from Planet Smashers

Contributed by jeffrichey. Posted by Justin on Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 5:28 PM (EDT)

The Toasters have hired Planet Smashers drummer Scott Russell to fill the drums slot for their up coming Canadian tour featuring support from the Flatliners, Saint Alvia Cartel and the Peacocks. He has also been signed on for the rest of the year to cover the band's next European Tour featuring dates with Fandangle, the Hub City Stompers and the Pietasters.

You can see the Canadian dates here. The band is supporting their most recently release, One More Bullet.

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Matthew330 (September 16, 2007)

Toasters have a new line up every 2 weeks.

mynameisbud (September 16, 2007)

one of the best ska drummers , but he doesnt use his full potential in the planet smashers songs, he pulls great solos at live shows tho

Punky_Chips_Ahoy_Oi_Oi_Oi (September 16, 2007)

I thought it was an unwritten law that if you needed to hire a drummer you called up Josh.

TopFlightFuckinSecurity (September 16, 2007)

straight up

veganboyjosh (September 17, 2007)

not this josh.

ChokingVictim (September 16, 2007)

i like ska, but the toasters and planet smashers were too bands i never liked all that much

Billyseth (September 16, 2007)

two

ChokingVictim (September 16, 2007)

noted

Punky_Chips_Ahoy_Oi_Oi_Oi (September 16, 2007)

Here here! Har har!

mCLz (September 16, 2007)

he's a great fucking drummer

thomas7155 (September 16, 2007)

hey, based on my top-rated records, what else would i like?

Toxic_Toast (September 16, 2007)

nerve agents

NotPatriotic (September 16, 2007)

You may like the Observers. You can here 6 of their songs here
http://theobservers.org/?page_id=9
The streaming songs are pretty bad quality but their record "So Whats Left Now" is awesome. They broke up a few years ago but I still listen to the album about once a week.

NotPatriotic (September 16, 2007)

*hear

ffwoodycock (September 16, 2007)

anything by new mexican disaster squad

punk_rawk_show (September 17, 2007)

Well im assuming you know bands like Strung Out, A wilhelm Scream Bad Religion. Check out Down By Fire, Much The Same, The Swellers

fallingupwards84 (September 17, 2007)

Much the Same was awesome

skamanifesto (September 16, 2007)

great. that means a whole nother year without any planet smashers shows. Where have these guys been? They used to be around buffalo almost twice a year.

facetofacereunion08 (September 16, 2007)

what happened to the old drummer?

feeeding5000 (September 16, 2007)

Did I miss today's Navel Gazing? Or has it not happened yet?

manincognito (September 16, 2007)

other than josh freese, you couldn't ask for a better drummer, in my opinion..except, in this case, scott knows alot more about ska beats than josh, so i'd totally have picked him too. and since im going to the toronto date, this makes it more awesome. but i agree, with scott out of the planet smashers for the year, i guess we won't be seeing them anytime soon on the road, which sucks monkey balls. oh well, what can you do?