Coheed And Cambria May Need A New Bassist

By Mark Lorenz on July 10th, 2011

Fleeing the scene of a crime in a taxi isn’t always the best idea – unless you’re trying to make it in the news. Then it’s the BEST idea.

Coheed and Cambria are a band that exists despite the best efforts of people with taste, based off a comic book the leader singer or the guitarist wrote – singing songs about said comic book. They’re every band that ever was in a basement with an aspiration to be epic, from the My Chemical Romance school of soundwriting – only their dream came true and they’ve enjoyed a run of well-selling comic book based albums.

Only one problem – their bassist apparently likes drugs. A little too much. Who doesn’t like drugs? But one thing you shouldn’t do is hold up a Walgreens right before you have a concert in Massachussets, and then try to escape in a taxi cab that you called. That is one of the things that your father should’ve sat you down and talked you through – you don’t hold up a Walgreens before a concert just because none of your friends know any local drug dealers.

A lesson which was lost on Michael Todd, bassist for Coheed and Cambria. Who did just that in Attleboro, Maryland. Whilst claiming he had a bomb.

Rock n’ roll. If you’re a talented bassist, there’ll be an opening soon for you. Provided you can party that hard.