Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Troy Gregory Leaves The Dirtbombs

His last show with the band will be on September 5th at the Magic Stick in Detroit.

It's the end of an era in a way. The Dirtbombs are/were notorious for their line-up changes (only Pat has been with Mick since the beginning of the band over a decade ago) but this line-up has been the longest lasting, 4 years and a couple months. It's also kind of sad because Troy is a real gem of a person, a wonderful guy to know and to speak to. To think that he won't be the guy relaxing in the corner, then screaming his head off, being the "1, 2, 3, 4, 1!" guy, being the Down-to-Earth-Badass that he is, is just a real loss. But he has a lot of plans and we'll be hearing from him again soon.

His greatest moment in the band has to be July 2005, at the infamous Knitting Factory show in New York. When Ko slashed her fingers on her broken string a couple songs into an already tense and raucous set and blood started pouring out, Troy ran to the rescue, dashing across the stage, lifting up his in-shock band-mate over his shoulder and taking her to get help before returning to the stage and improvising with Mick for the remainder of the show. That was the night it was revealed he was Batman all along.

But in terms of being caught on camera, this past April in Toronto was a definite career highlight:

Here's to you Troy.

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