Wolfmother Break Up

August 7, 2008

Wolfmother Break Up • But the lead singer/fro man is going to keep using the name, so PHEW. More at NME.com.

Posted at 10:22 AM
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17 Comments

What the hell??? Why is everyone breaking up these days? Wolfmother won't be the same with just one dude! Myles Heskett made it awesome! But turns out Wikipedia knew...just like BYOP, the band's biography is written in past tense and says Andrew Stockdale (fro'd man) is the only member.

Posted by: erika at 08/07/08 10:58 AM | Reply
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Self fulfilling prophecy. If there was meant to be more than one Wolfmother, then they would have been called the Wolfmothers.

Posted by: Raleighwood

at 08/07/08 11:25 AM | Reply
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This is what I get for not keeping tabs on Wolfmother's wikipedia entry ONE DAY out of the year.

Posted by: Chadams at 08/07/08 11:37 AM | Reply
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Wait a second.. There were other dudes in the band besides that cat with the afro? Huh.

Posted by: mur

at 08/07/08 11:47 AM | Reply
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how ridiculously egotistical it is when the frontman keeps the band's name aftewards...

Posted by: wolfmotherOMGzWTFwhocares at 08/07/08 12:13 PM | Reply
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who cares! BYOP's break up was a lot more shocking. i swear this was rumored to happen a few weeks ago.

Posted by: aaron at 08/07/08 12:44 PM | Reply
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Genius move, like when the guy from Days of the New did this very same thing.

Posted by: whistle at 08/07/08 3:10 PM | Reply
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Mike Patton's rant must have crawled under the skins of the other two. Didn't know he was that influential. Hey Patton, I have a few other people you should smack talk on YouTube. Start with Cornellbaland.

Posted by: Rev. AlexG

at 08/07/08 8:58 PM | Reply
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Of course it did.
Mike Patton is an ICON

Posted by: Marko in reply to Rev. AlexG's comment at 06/17/09 11:46 PM | Reply
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it's not egotistical for Stockdale to keep the Wolfmother name. They were a power trio, so he's still 33.3% of the band... and he's going to find other musicians to work with. Also, at the risk of sounding pretentious, the other two fellows were nothing outstanding (a backing band at best) anyway. He made the band everything worth remembering, and if he's still wants to continue in the same direction, why should he have to change the name of his creation?

Posted by: Ritchie Cuningham at 08/08/08 12:57 AM | Reply
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His creation??? I think you are mistaken mate...

Posted by: Jonny in reply to Ritchie Cuningham's comment at 08/28/08 11:22 PM | Reply
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The first time I saw wolfmother play was in a half-full nameless shod of a 250-person capacity punk rock closet in Atlanta. While Stockdale was fun to watch, Chris Ross blew my face off...and the one whose performance and musicianship I remember the most.

A year and an Apple commercial later, I saw them play to a capacity crowd at a theatre in Denver. Stockdale was so fucked up/exhausted/both he forgot words, couldn't find his pitch, had no energy, and his guitar was out of tune all night. But Ross (and Myles Heskett, too) were ON and brought the rock just as they had a year earlier. Stockdale squandered the opportunity to make that show live up to the claims that it was going to be Denver's "show of the year".

so, whatever. Let Stockdale and his 'fro keep the name and image. I'll look forward to the great record of music that Ross and Heskett are working on.

Posted by: disco volante at 08/08/08 3:25 PM | Reply
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BOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Cade Garrison at 08/20/08 4:07 PM | Reply
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I... Damn really I never wanted this AWESOME band to break up and I only found out TODAY D: geez I'm pathetic.

Posted by: Alice at 08/22/08 8:31 AM | Reply
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I shouldn't have said creation. But that's not the focus of what I meant. If you look at this from a commercial perspective, he IS what got that band noticed... whether he sucks live or not, without him, they wouldn't have gotten enough recognition to even get signed, let alone enough to make anybody care when they did brake it off. The truth is, people take great pleasure in discovering that the most successful artists are often jackasses. It makes us feel better about ourselves to know that people like Andrew Stockdale, Pete Townsend, and David lee Roth are all jerks in real life... but you still have to give them their due... Mozart was probably a jerk too. It doesn't mean that they weren't great musicians

Posted by: Ritchie Cuningham at 09/26/08 3:59 AM | Reply
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OK FUCKING ADMIT IT..YOU COULD FIND THE TWO SAME MUSICIANS IN MY FUCKING HOUSE BUT COME ON ANDREW S. MADE IT ALL..THE LOOK THE VOICE WITHOUT HIM THE BAND WOULD OF BEEN SHIT, SO YEA 'JOHNNY' I WOULD SAY IT WAS HIS CREATION.

Posted by: CHESCA at 05/25/09 1:24 PM | Reply
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@ disco volante..Cmon dude you're only kidding yourself. Your comments are spoken like a true tryhard musician. "Oo but the other two guys were sooo good" BULLSHIT! I could get two more from the local primary school and the band would still be the same. It IS Stockdale's band, the other two are just fill ins you dumb ass.

Posted by: SgtSAWblade at 05/25/09 10:19 PM | Reply
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