From the band that had a major impact on my life course over the last 10 years - I was a little shocked at coming across the 'good riddance' web page and reading that of the members who were in the band when they released 'a comprehensive guide to modern rebellion,' and have rejoined to put out the most recent record and tour: only one member is in fact at the time of the web post - still a vegan... "Europe 2006 -by Russ Rankin In late February of 2006 Good Riddance embarked on a 16 day European tour. 2.24.06 Amsterdam, NL

The busy square near the club, while pretty touristy, is always fun to walk around in and theres a pretty legit coffee shop down the street called “The Coffee Company” where Steve(road manager) and I, being the only vegans on the trip, got several soy beverages. Steve is really helping out with everything and its nice to not be the only vegan on the trip. We also get to talk hockey which, if I go too long without doing, I tend to go a bit crazy." So, thats it, I guess my inspiration is gone. I guess we all just pack in the bag on veganism sooner or later right. that'shats not it for me.

Seeing that Russ is the only one I ever really looked up to and respect, and the fact that he is still vegan, means a whole lot to me. The fact that he can run literary circles around most of the shit they call 'music' these days is evidence enough for me that being vegan means you can write good lyrics. This photo is a link to peta2 : and shows dave instead of shawn as drummer guy.
http://www.peta2.com/outthere/o-grid.asp

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