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Founding Oxbow<\/a><\/strong> vocalist Eugene Robinson<\/strong> has split with the band due to what he’s calling “irreconcilable differences.” Robinson<\/strong> published the statement via his newsletter as captured by The PRP<\/a><\/em>. Oxbow<\/a><\/strong> has not responded to Robinson<\/strong> leaving the band yet.<\/p>\n “\u2026after 36 years of creative work I can’t think of anything more horrible than to have to face the fact that I am now like Dr Dre<\/strong>. Not in the I am a billionaire part, but in the part where he left Death Row Records. I remember him famously being called on to explain why he left and since he was dealing with Suge Knight<\/strong>, a man who if he wasn’t already in prison for killing someone might have actually killed some other one, he was\u2026 circumspect.<\/p>\n “Circumspect, though he did say some version of this: you ever go to a party, and you start to get uncomfortable, and then you get so uncomfortable that you have to leave? That’s why I left Death Row.<\/p>\n “While I don’t feel that my life is being threatened, my physical life, I do feel, under the weight of irreconcilable differences, none of them aesthetic or musical, that I now must leave Oxbow<\/a><\/strong>. Recent circumstances have caused me several dark nights of the soul and while it feels\/seems crazy to kill my involvement in that which I started, I think it necessary so that maybe a kind of healing can take place that will make Oxbow<\/a><\/strong> a comfortable place for me to be again. If not, then not.”<\/p>\n He added: “So that’s where we are, and this is where I am. For the first time in just about forever I don’t have any idea of what to do. I’ve always envisioned that by bringing Oxbow<\/a><\/strong> to the masses I was engaged in what might crazily be considered G-d’s work. Bring me your lonely, downtrodden and so on\u2026a tribe for people who have no tribes. Sure I’ve punched people in the face at our shows before but this was usually a course correction for people who thought punching me in the testicles was sexy.<\/p>\n “However, the very real prospect that we might have contributed to the misery of the world makes me sick to my stomach.”\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n