Rumors have been flying around about the departure of Paz Lenchantin from
A Perfect Circle, since she's currently playing with Zwan. This situation is explained beautifully on the news section of A Perfect Circle's website:
Paz has been a vegan for many years. As many of you may know, sometimes the lack of protein in one's diet can leave them borderline anemic and, occasionally, a bit delirious. After a festival show featuring APC and the The Smashing Pumpkins, Paz, in a state of 'meat deprivation,' followed a 'bald man named Billy' onto the wrong bus and we haven't seen her since. Milk carton photos have, so far, been ineffective. Any help would be appreciated.Thusforth, there is a new bassist in APC, as rumored for a week or two now:
Jeordie White now plucks at the four-strings. If you've been coming to sites like this long enough, you probably know him better as
Twiggy Ramirez. There's our
Nothing Records 6-degrees of separation link for the day. But wait, there's more!
Continuing down
the latest news post at the official site, or if you follow
Queens of the Stone Age at all, you'll know that a guy whom the folks at
aperfectcircle.us (formerly .org(?)) refer to as Troy Van Halen is also absent from the APC line-up. Who should Billy and Maynard have found to take this place but
Danny Lohner. Now, for all those whining about Paz's departure because "she plays violin
and bass," fear no longer. Danny is a multi-instrumentalist, and A Perfect Circle has rightly been saved.
With the departure of one vegan and the addition of former members of Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson to a band already notorious for it's frontman's connection to Tool, we are looking into reports about
LA clothing shops of large orders of leather, fishnets, and make-up being ordered and billed simply to "APC." (not really)
Thanks to Danny P. first clued us into this update.