Y&T Name New Bassist / Tour

Classic Rock Magazine reports that the band have named Brad Lang as the permanent replacement for Phil Kennemore who died in January. Lang has toured with the band for the around a year after Kennemore was diagnosed with cancer.

Says mainman Dave Meniketti: "Put simply, Phil expressed to me with no uncertainty that he wished Y&T to go on, no matter what happened to him. I understood, because we are lifetime Y&T people and lifelong musicians. This is what we know and where we have received much of our joy throughout our lives.

"I questioned any decision to continue, simply because I know how I had felt about other bands that have continued to play with only one remaining original member, and wondered if I wasn't going to be a hypocrite by holding this band to a different criteria. Well, maybe I am, but the bottom line, as many of us have come to as a life lesson, is that many times you can't truly understand a situation until you actually experience it first-hand.

"So . . . with current experiences in hand, I have made my decision to continue with Y&T. As quickly as I say this, I am also a realist, and if the fans seem to lose interest in the band, so be it, I will move on and do something else."

Y&T tour in the UK in the Autumn.

September
Thu. 29: Glasgow ABC
Fri. 30: Newcastle O2 Academy

October
Sat, 1: Nottingham Rock City
Sun. 2: Manchester Academy
Wed. 5: Cork An Cruiscin Lan
Fri. 7: Belfast Spring & Airbrake
Sat. 8: Dublin Village
Tue. 11: Wolverhampton Slade Rooms
Wed. 12: Southampton Brook
Fri. 14: London Relentless Garage
Sat. 15: Cardiff Millennium Music Hall