Kurt Travis Comments on Getting Kicked Out of Dance Gavin Dance

by Ryan Minic | Sep 7, 2010

Former Dance Gavin Dance vocalist Kurt Travis recently commented on his departure from the band and being replaced by original vocalist Jonny Craig in a recent interview posted here. Travis comments:

“I definitely was never going to quit, so yeah, I got kicked out. The band told me that they were going to break up because they weren’t happy with it, but before they did they were going do a tour with Jonny and just do ‘Downtown Battle Mountain’ songs. Things didn’t really happen the way they told me it seems. Oh well.”

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