i don't know who this is.
-nic

that was a highly entertaining read. my favorite: Now many of you may being saying to yourselves, "but I love Jonny's voice" or "I've met him and he's nice, he can't be that bad." Well he is, and here is why.

I have no idea who these guys are but this is awesome.

Why would anyone even put up with half that shit, if it is true. It was a great read though. I had a brief experience with this type of shit from the singer of a formally good (or entertaining) Canadian punk band years ago.

I can't believe I just read all of that, but it was awesome.
"I fear I can't beleve it's you... What?"
hahahahahahahaha.
When do you get to see a band who cringes at the mention of their own lyrics? Seriously though, I wish they'd just break up.

Shitty band. Awesome story.

Well, all I got from this story is that Jonny is fucking awesome

holy rusty metal batman that was hilarious! judging from comments this seems exactly the type of band that would air out their dirty laundry on a blog post. I wonder if they would have mad the same choice looking at things backward through a picture they have taken of it in a mirror?

And if I was in this band I would also drink until I died

This band is the equivalent of the girl that keeps going back to her boyfriend no matter how many times he hits her.

Homeboys have shitty haircuts, worse fitting jeans and wear loafers, I don't think I can take anything they say seriously.

WOW! that was so awesome to read.

almost as good as watching hilary duff and lindsay lohan fight over aaron carter!

Like others have said, I have no clue who this band is, but that read was awesome.

Especially the part about posting myspace bulletins tellling people to being him pills, and the nailing underage girls.

i also love how jonny's last name is mess!

that ruled

A friend with a drug problem is such a serious bummer. You know you should stop fucking with the person, but what about those good times you played basketball together at the church and got caught stealing stickers from the post office?

That shit is rough.

Johnny was bad, even as a child everybody could tell
Everyone said if you dont get straight
Youll surely go to hell

But johnny didnt care
He was an outlaw by the time that he was
Ten years old
He didnt wanna do what he was told
Just a prankster, juvenile gangster

His teachers didnt understand
They kicked him out of school
At a tender early age
Just because he didnt want to learn things
(had other interests)
He liked to burn things

Anybody else feel cheated after reading that only to find that their singer completely sucks? (`cause really, who here has actually HEARD of these guys?)

This band is made of dumb.

This is the most punx thing I've ever heard.

"he never graduated from middle school"

hilarious.

I don't care how many drugs or how much booze this "Jonny" drank, anyone who sings like that is not punk in any shape way or form.

Fuck Jonny.

that was so funny. It sounded like one of those hilarious break up letters that kids send to each other in middle/early high school.

These guys suck, too. It's really amazing reading the replies to this shit on their myspace page. Those kids make em sound like the second fucking coming.

dude slays.

I dont think they're that bad

while the guy seems fucked up, it also seems pretty catty to post all of that online. it would have been better to just leave it at "personal differences" or something

I think I'll join this band. If I have half the fun Jonny had, it'll be worth the move across the country.

The best part is where they say the sent him "countless" $200 tickets (of some kind), which he used for drugs. Wow -really, dudes? So you sent him a $200 to come back home, he didn't come home, so you sent him a $200 ticket to get home, he didn't come home, and yet you continued to send "countless" tickets -at no point wondering if throwing away another $200 was really the best plan of action?

The point is that I know these other dudes didn't send him "countless" $200 tickets -no one is that stupid. They did however, fill their myspace blog with lies and exaggerations. Jonny may be a douche bag, but he's not as bad as they make him out to be. And personally, I'd rather be an asshole than one of the tools in the toolbox that is Dance Gavin Dance. Speaking of which, that's an awful name. I think they should maybe go with The Toolbox.

Also, I'm not so sure these other dudes graduated from middle school. That was so terribly written.

"We attempted to reason with him, but we only could say that he was done and moved his heavily drugged self to a friends hotel room."

"Unfortunately after this much abuse we were unable to continue to let Jonny continue with his usual idiotic ways,"

"Jonny plays no instrument, didn not aid in writing the music, and is much like an idiot savant."

"The fact that everything came out the way it did makes you think he must be autistic."

"He also stole a girl he was cheating on his girlfriend with computer and sold it for drug money."

this is lame band drama, not news.

10/10 for jonny.

0/10 for this 'band'.

if he's so bad, why the fuck would you persist with him for so long?

The funniest thing to be posted on this site in a long time. That made my morning.
"A former bandmate of Jonny's came to a party where Jonny was at with brass knuckles and hit Jonny in the head and stated "you've never done anything for this band". HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

the stupid thing is
they are so angry at him for doing this for so long
but they have had ages to kick him out
they are the dumb fucks who kept him in the band
if anything they should be angry at themselves

that guy sounds like an absolute cunt though

so how many days until punknews posts an obituary for this guy?

PEOPLE WE HAVE FOUND THE NEW GG ALLIN!

Seriously, that was fucking hilarious. if i was one of these dudes girlfriends i would never dump them if i knew that were coming...

.. lol.

Whoever wrote this blog has no room to criticize another human being's writing skills. I hope this guy was as drugged up as the infamous Johnny because that is the only way to excuse his piss-poor writing. I suspect, my friend, that Johnny was not the only band member who never finished middle school...

that dude can be in MY band anyday. sounds like fun.

the other dudes can chomp a D.

I've never heard of this band before this morning but I don't know how you guy can critisize their innovative songwriting style. I mean first the singer goes all high and is like WAAAAAAAA and then, possibly even another singer, is all yelly-screamy? Who's done that before? Like nobody. Thats innovation, kids.

I read all of this. Why the fuck did they keep him around that long?

sounds like a good dude to be around

I have the opposite of a problem with this. Oh man. The height of hilarity.

After reading the explanation, I have so many questions. The best part seems to be that after all of this, the singer wasn't kicked out of the band. He quit. And then they just wouldn't let him back in when he changed his mind. I don't know how anyone can believe 25% of this explanation. I don't know anyone who would put up with that much shit. And if they did, then where is there self-respect? They mean to tell us that they let this go on and on just like they described and just let Jonny walk all over them? And they attack his singing, which they must have been happy with, otherwise there really is no point in giving him 78 chances. That said, I would love to be Jonny's replacement. You could be the most irresponsible selfish asshole imaginable and they would love the fact that you were an improvement on the guy who ran up $1000 of text message bills on someone else's account, stole from their merch table, and was incoherently wasted all of the time.

I heard a rumor that either Axl Rose or Scott Stapp is replacing this Jonny guy.

I have neither heard nor heard OF this band ... but that was a great statement. Some people may feel they've gone too far with airing so much dirty laundry about their now former singer -- but their fans have got to feel more respected for having them be so honest.

I'd be curious if the singer ever reponds to this. If everything that is in the blog is true, he sounds Far Gone. Being kicked out of a band is the least of his problems.

Drinking so much that his stomach collapsed, had part of his intestines removed -- oh yeah, and that this condition has only happend to approx 25 people in the U.S. due to heavy drinking? Wow.

I hope the band is able to move onward and upward ... even moreso I hope the singer is able to get himself together and healthy. I imagine when/if he does, he's going to look back at all of this with an incredibly heavy heart.

Sadly this band is very popular here in San Jose
Their shows are always huge.
Hopefully the scene/emo kids can move their bangs enough to see through bullshit like this in the future.

Entertaining reading! Kind of reminds of that junkie from Babyshambles in the UK (who's banging Kate Moss or whatever), only that dude could write music. Why didn't they get rid of homeboy a lot sooner though? Two years of that shit?

despite their stupid fucking name, this band isn't really all that bad ..

I love how Justin dubbed that as a "biography".

That was absolutely fucking hilarious. We need more band blogs like this.

who wants to go to their first show back and just chant for jonny

This totally appeals to the 15-year-old girl in me. Wonderful.

party like a rock star....TOTALLY DUDE!!

hard drugs are no good on so many levels, and believe me i speak from experience. however, they usually make for one helluva entertaining frontman. my guess is this shitty band will get some sober, artistic-type singer and proceed to fade even more into obscurity, then seek out "johnny" in an effort to get him back in the band due to their new found level of bore and suck. he'll probably be dead or in jail by then though...

Hahaha gold!!!

Go johnny go!

pretty ratshiot to air it all on the internet but having listned to 10 secinds of their music (I want that 10 seconds back) he is hardly a cray and different sounding singer...easy to replace

As for the brass knuckles part - TOP CLASS

I wish I would have listened to the music before reading that whole thing. I expected a good singer. They could easily call that kid who was kicked out of From First To Last and nobody would ever know the difference. This shit sucks.

How could this stuff all be true in the first place? Multiple $200 ticket? Letting another member quit rather than Johnny? Another band member's parents putting up with that kind of behavior?

Making up lyrics to their album based on whatever shit Johhny sputtered out in a recording session?

It sounds like someone is writing a spoof to me. If this is true, they were certainly a bit "flexible" on the facts IMO.

It sucks what happened to Johnny. I personally think that DGD was amazing with Johnny. But things happen.

Fellow Rise Records member Emarosa's lead singer Chris dropped out because he was engaged. His fiance lives in Florida while Emarosa is based in Lexington, Kentucky.

Upon the news of Johnny being kicked out of DGD, a member of Emarosa invited him to be in the band to replace Chris.

Just in case anyone is interested.

Johnny has an AMAZING voice. DGD was a really good band. The music is great. It sucks that Johnny was kicked out, cause I would love to hear him sing the old Dance Gavin Dance songs. But now he is in Emarosa, so it's all good. At least I still get to hear that amazing voice of his. He's also in the song "Pueblo Cicada" by Lower Definition. You guys should download that song, and hear him sing. I love Johnny's voice.

god your all douchebags. okay? they band is great and just because you haven't heard about them or don't like them doesn't mean post a fucking comment saying it. just keep it to your idiotic self ya douchebag.