The Mountain Goats Bassist Peter Hughes Leaves Band After Almost 30 Years

Peter Hughes, the longtime bassist and backup vocalist in the Mountain Goats, is leaving the band. Hughes joined the Mountain Goats again in 1995 and carried out on each album besides their 1994 full-length studio debut, Zopilote Machine. “Eventually all people spots the exit that has their title on it, and for Peter Hughes, my bandmate of both twenty-eight or twenty-two years relying on whether or not you mark the 1996 tour or the 2002 one as the beginning level, the time to depart the freeway behind is now,” the Mountain Goats stated in a assertion. “He’s made the decision, and all that’s left for us is to salute his legacy.”

“Peter’s contribution to our band and to my life can’t be overstated,” the band’s assertion continues. “The time, toil, and sweat he has devoted to creating our band higher, yr in and yr out, will all the time be an indispensable a part of what ‘the Mountain Goats’ meant from 2002-2024. Peter, the love Matt, Jon, Brandon and I’ve for you is perpetually, and my private gratitude to your service to not my imaginative and prescient however what grew to become our imaginative and prescient can’t be measured. I communicate on behalf of audiences all over the world after I say thanks, and that you may be dearly missed.” Learn the complete assertion beneath.

The Mountain Goats initially had deliberate for the Bochum Riders Tour, a collection of duo exhibits by John Darnielle and Peter Hughes, to happen this October. With the information of Hughes’ departure, nevertheless, these concert events will nonetheless happen when scheduled, however as a trio that includes Darnielle, multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas, and drummer Jon Wurster as a substitute.

The ultimate album that Hughes recorded with the Mountain Goats was final yr’s Jenny From Thebes. The band not too long ago introduced a particular reissue of The Coroner’s Gambit, their lengthy out-of-print 2000 album on which he’s additionally featured.

The Mountain Goats:

There are dozens of songs about how the street is difficult, and the extra time you spend on the street, the much less they sound like cliches than like a easy and typically stark description of your life. Eventually all people spots the exit that has their title on it, and for Peter Hughes, my bandmate of both twenty-eight or twenty-two years relying on whether or not you mark the 1996 tour or the 2002 one as the beginning level, the time to depart the freeway behind is now. He’s made the decision, and all that’s left for us is to salute his legacy.

Peter’s contribution to our band and to my life can’t be overstated. The time, toil, and sweat he has devoted to creating our band higher, yr in and yr out, will all the time be an indispensable a part of what “the Mountain Goats” meant from 2002-2024. Peter, the love Matt, Jon, Brandon and I’ve for you is perpetually, and my private gratitude to your service to not my imaginative and prescient however what grew to become our imaginative and prescient can’t be measured. I communicate on behalf of audiences all over the world after I say thanks, and that you may be dearly missed. To enumerate the reminiscences we’ve made collectively would fill volumes. Your absence, it ought to go with out saying, shall be felt: Musically, personally. By us and by so many.

We want you pleasure, and that in all abundance, in all you do: lengthy could you reside and should every day convey higher pleasure than the final!

Love,

John Darnielle, Jon Wurster, and Matt Douglas