Titus Andronicus Bassist Leaves Band

New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus have announced on their website that bassist, Ian Graetzer, played his last show on New Years Eve. Ian was a founding member of Titus Andronicus along with Patrick Stickles. The entry states that Ian’s departure was a mutual one and that there is still love and respect between Ian and the band.

The simple fact is that Ian is a man of multitudinous passions, a man who is full of ideas and ambitions and who is always generating plans and schemes and million dollar ideas, a man for whom the road of life is going to be long and carefully, considerately trodden, with many rewards and adventures for the picking along the way. For the past five and a half years or so, we were blessed to have the use of this brain, to be the beneficiaries of these passions and this unstoppable iron will. Ian gave more to our organization than most any band could ask of most any man, but now the time has come for him to spread the wealth around, give some of his other interests and aspirations a chance.

The entry then goes on to mention that Titus Andronicus will be playing at a 21+ benefit show Willie Mae’s Rock Camp for Girls at the Mercury Lounge in New York City on February 10th. The rest of the entry can be read here.