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Murph of STS9 calls it quits.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 7:09 pm
Posted on 1/14/14 at 7:09 pm
From STS9's Facebook page
In life, the only constant is change. We try to embrace this in our music and in our lives and its in this spirit that we announce STS9 and bassist David Murphy are parting ways. We are postponing our upcoming winter tour dates through February. We'll miss David and wish him the best on his journey ahead.
To our fans, we can’t thank you enough for your understanding and continuous support. We are thrilled for the future of STS9 and can’t wait to share it with you.
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you!
-Hunter, Jeffree, Phipps & Zach
In life, the only constant is change. We try to embrace this in our music and in our lives and its in this spirit that we announce STS9 and bassist David Murphy are parting ways. We are postponing our upcoming winter tour dates through February. We'll miss David and wish him the best on his journey ahead.
To our fans, we can’t thank you enough for your understanding and continuous support. We are thrilled for the future of STS9 and can’t wait to share it with you.
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you!
-Hunter, Jeffree, Phipps & Zach
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Posted on 1/14/14 at 7:11 pm to Andre
Huh, I wonder why
Drugs? Solo career? Band conflict? Tired of making boring music?
Does that mean the band is done, or they're just replacing him?
Drugs? Solo career? Band conflict? Tired of making boring music?
Does that mean the band is done, or they're just replacing him?
Posted on 1/14/14 at 7:13 pm to danman6336
I've heard rumors of joining Cherub. eww
Posted on 1/14/14 at 7:17 pm to Andre
It doesn't sound cancery
Posted on 1/14/14 at 7:19 pm to Andre
Is he still sick? Or just sick of making bass infused elevator music?
Posted on 1/14/14 at 8:48 pm to PGT Beauregard
Facebook is melting hard from this
They finally peaked
quote:
this band is the only thing i have left in the world.
They finally peaked
Posted on 1/14/14 at 8:53 pm to Andre
quote:
Facebook is melting hard from this
I'm looking at the people melting on their official FB and all I want to know is how do these people have money to go travel to see STS9 in the first place, what a bunch of delusional losers
Posted on 1/14/14 at 9:04 pm to Andre
quote:
this band is the only thing i have left in the world
Posted on 1/14/14 at 9:27 pm to Rickety Cricket
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
This post was edited on 1/14/14 at 9:29 pm
Posted on 1/14/14 at 10:36 pm to Andre
STS9 was the first band to save my life. Got caught up w/ the wrong crew towards the end of 1.0 Phish, a mess of pharmies, opiates and crack. Just impermeable darkness. Saw a Tribe show and the light came blasting through, got hooked up w/ the Moon Sockets, they handed me a yellow balloon, was working the steps shortly thereafter. STS9 became my chosen Higher Power. They're gone now, I have nothing to hold onto. I've called my sponsor but no answer. I'm not going to make it long here, temptation is digging it's claws into me, I feel it like a warm blanket. Not long for this earth I fear, we all have to go sometime.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 7:21 am to HeadyBrosevelt
the most hamboned I've ever been was at a STS9 show in Denver, in case ya'll cared.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 9:07 am to Motorboat
I was going to the show on Feb 1. Guess I need to get my money back.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 12:59 pm to Sublime
about time
Posted on 1/15/14 at 1:43 pm to buhdango
Gfy
Posted on 1/15/14 at 3:21 pm to Andre
Sooooo I guess they're not playing hangout anymore?
Posted on 1/15/14 at 4:08 pm to Andre
Copypasta
quote:
A lot of speculation going on online and that is to be expected...
Let me give it to you straight...
When the band begun they had a message and clear intentions for what they were doing beyond all the Mayan stuff. They wanted their music to be a healing vibration for a community of like minded spiritually aware music lovers to dance to and celebrate life through.
This intention carried them from playing tiny clubs, to small clubs, to mid-size clubs, to large clubs, to theaters. Their progress was gradual and their fan base grew organically through amazing live performances and high quality albums, both live and studio.
Through this progression Murph became the voice of the band onstage and was the human element of the band, that fans, who did not know the band as people, could relate to. The southern hospitality in his voice that vocalized the connection between the band and fans was resonant, in a very similar way to how Brownstein connects the crowd at a Biscuits show, albeit with an east coast slang.
Murph, more so than any member of the band, developed a taste for drugs beyond just smoking weed and with that came an inflated ego and sense of celebrity in the "scene". This was a stark incongruence to the bands original intention and vibe but with continued success it was tolerated and the band learned to evolve in the context of this paradigm.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 4:09 pm to Andre
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That being said, the fact that Murph is the least skilled musician in the band, and also the one who developed the strongest taste for partying and all that comes with it, their evolution began to stunt. Their musical ceiling was lowered and their new sound had to fit under that roof and thusly decreased its ability to be transcendent and limitless.
A clear rift was beginning to form and in 2011 when it was announced that the band would have to cancel winter tour due to Murph developing cancer in his septum it was obvious that his partying and lifestyle was far more disparate then anyone even thought. This self-induced health issue should have been the turning point for both the band and Murph as an individual but that did not turn out to be the case.
Instead the band grew further apart and with Murph being married and living in CO and the rest of the band, some married w kids, living in CA, the separation was not only just personal but geographical as well. They continued to push on but there was a growing feeling that the inevitability of his departure was a real fact that they would eventually have to face.
In the two weeks from NYE show to the announcement of the split, there was intense conversation between band members as to where the band was heading. After 15 years together that saw them go from small draw shows in GA all the way to Red Rocks, they were in need of reentering themselves into a collective agreement as to what they wanted to become. The spirit that birthed this band was barely recognizable by the band members anymore in the context of having Murph play the assumed leader role in the live setting while simultaneously holding the band back both from a musical and interpersonal standpoint.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 4:11 pm to Andre
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Murph's ego drove him to force the bands hand in making this decision by taking the stance that there could be no STS9 without him. The direction he wanted to take the music was a shadow of what the band felt they were capable of and the distance between their visions for their music and their life were too far apart for them to continue on. The rift was so deep that they could not even finish out their scheduled upcoming tour dates leaving fans upset and disillusioned with a band that they connected with on so many levels.
Murph will go on to find success, whether that is playing with Cherub on a full-time basis or not.
More importantly STS9 will undoubtedly continue on with a renewed sense of intention towards creating healing based music that evolves in a positive direction. No decision yet on what they will be doing to fill the hole on the low end but early talk has hinted that they already have someone in mind for bass as this decision was a possibility that they had foreseen happening for quite some time.
(((((vibes)))))
This post was edited on 1/15/14 at 4:13 pm
Posted on 1/15/14 at 4:14 pm to Andre
Is it just me or does STS9 have the worst fanbase of them all?
Maybe they have abandonded them by now, but I remember a group of people in Baton Rouge around the 2008 timeframe who were huge STS9 fans and coincidentally huge douche bags.
Maybe they have abandonded them by now, but I remember a group of people in Baton Rouge around the 2008 timeframe who were huge STS9 fans and coincidentally huge douche bags.
Posted on 1/15/14 at 4:30 pm to HeadyBrosevelt
I knew a couple and yes, they were douches.
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