The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Lori Peters is no longer the drummer for Skillet. She is the reason I continued drumming through the tough first years, and remains one of my favorite drummers. She's the perfect match to the band, and her playing on Comatose was easily her best. Now I get a message from the band saying that Lori is leaving. And if that wasn't bad enough, they've hired another girl drummer ... it's like they think she's replaceable.

At least I got to see them live this year, and I got her autograph on my first drum skin. But still ... this is just heartbreaking for me.

Wait ... none of you listen to skillet, do you? Of course - modern christian music ... but if you care, their myspace is here -

http://www.myspace.com/skilletmusic

Check out "Yours To Hold" and "Rebirthing" if you want a taste of their newish album. Man ... I'm pretty broken up about this ... we'll see how I feel tomorrow.

I saw Skillet once.

Maybe they have some strange idea that they have to keep the band gender-balanced, so they had to hire another "chick drummer", according to some weird agreement.

That's what it seemed like to me. Kind of lame - they should have hired a skilled drummer, not an 18-year-old girl who just learned to play. I don't care if the new drummer's a chick, but she's got to be good.

ps - now that it's morning, this doesn't seem quite as earth-shattering as it did last night.

Coal Chamber replaced their female bass player with another female bass player. Seemed to work out well... hmm... they broke up after their next album...so maybe it DIDN'T work out so well.

Uh oh ... at least I have NO hope now. Thanks Hobs!

hey, i just joined. i was viewing your conversation and just wanted to say that i think it was a pretty good move on skillet's part to get a girl drummer when lori left. i mean c'mon you can never replace lori peters, but especialy not with a guy! and just because the new chic is 18 doesn't mean she just started playing...but it still REALLY SUX!

lori wrote:hey, i just joined. i was viewing your conversation and just wanted to say that i think it was a pretty good move on skillet's part to get a girl drummer when lori left. i mean c'mon you can never replace lori peters, but especialy not with a guy! and just because the new chic is 18 doesn't mean she just started playing...but it still REALLY SUX!

Are you Lori Peters?

THE Lori Peters? no! i just use her name alot on sites like this one. are you a panhead?[/i]

I like Skillet. But, panhead? Nope, I'm not into fanatic groupie fads.

oh,cool. i don't get to see skillet with their new drummer until july.
i hope she's good!

does anyone know why lori quit? did she get married or something? (pleaase say no.)

Not sure - the newsletter said she wanted to move on with her life. To be honest, I don't care for more details.

yeah, i got the news letter, too.

holy crap... other people listen to skillet? I thought I was all alone. Please tell me someone has an old DeGarmo & Key album laying around...

duh, other people listen to them. do u know how big they've gotten, especialy since collide?

Let's not be rude lori. I thought this thread was dead anyways.

My bad, i geuss there's not much more to say on this topic.

Now look what you did Andrew. You made Lori use a cry smiley. Do you kick puppies too?

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Now look what you did Andrew. You made Lori use a cry smiley. Do you kick puppies too?

PROBABLY! I mean, who doesn'.... I mean.. what a jerk!

<-- from me

and notice that when lori posted, she posted one of those too

*Hoblit pours water around the fire so that it doesn't spread. Because only we can prevent forum fires.

I might have kicked a puppy or two in my time. 8)

does anyone know where lori's last show was? i know it was on new years.