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THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Guitarist Forced To Sit Out Last Four Shows of Band's Tour

August 8, 2006

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN guitarist Ben Weinman has been forced to sit out the last four shows of the band's current tour in order to fly home "to deal with some personal issues," according to a posting on the group's MySpace page. "Ben has played through injuries too numerous to count, and severe enough that most people wouldn't have even gotten out of bed, let alone play intense and physically demanding shows," the posting continues. "He has played through sickness and ignored family emergencies to never ever miss a show, so when he tells me that he has to go home I know that he has to go home. So just a heads up, tonight [August 7] and tomorrow night, he will not be there, but in the words of Chris Farley in 'Billy Madison', 'You can imagine what it would be like if he were.' Except Farley was talking about banging Billy Madison's hot teacher and we're talking about a dude running around onstage like a pissed off rabid chimpanzee."

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN recently released a digital-only EP, entitled "Plagiarism". The EP features "Unretrofied" (from "Miss Machine"),interpretations of NINE INCH NAILS' "Wish", MASSIVE ATTACK's "Angel", SOUNDGARDEN's "Jesus Christ Pose" and JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE's "Like I Love You", as well as previously unreleased live material. Many of these covers have been heard during the band's live sets over the past several years but remained unrecorded until this EP. "Plagiarism" is available exclusively via iTunes.

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