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9/27/2021

A message from Hans and TJ

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I'd like to set the record straight on a few things.

TJ and I have never quit Hans Gruber and the Die Hards. On May 5th we were blindsided with an ultimatum from Kurt, Rosey, and Chris that we either get the covid vaccine immediately, or we were out of the band. Within minutes, the other three members locked TJ and I out of  our shared Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Bandcamp, CD Baby, email, and all spreadsheet/document accounts. We came to the unfortunate realization that the other three  were taking all of our merchandise, content, and band money.
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Even after being treated this way, TJ and I have attempted to work out an agreement so we could still release our final album we completed together in 2020. They informed us they would be re-recording over all of TJ’s vocals. At first they appeared willing to talk with me, but as soon as it became clear I was not willing to go along with cutting TJ out, my attempts to communicate have been met with complete silence for over three months. 

I've kept this private up until now in the hopes that we could talk and something could be worked out that would be fair to everyone. As of now however, they are moving forward using my name and the band TJ and I created.  Whatever else happens, I would love to see the album released with all the original members included. TJ and I put countless hours, significant money, and soul into creating it and we just want to give our fans and friends a chance to hear the album as it was originally intended. TJ and I are going to do whatever we can to make sure that happens. Regardless of how you feel about what we choose to put into our bodies, TJ and I deserve to be treated with respect for everything we put into this band the last seven years. Love or hate us, we are as much a part of this quirky little punk band as anyone, and TJ and I will continue to create music together.
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​-Hans Gruber and TJ


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Brianna Nigh link
9/27/2021 11:08:35 am

This is such BS.
You can't force someone to take a vaccine!! 🤬
B.C Binge is only 2 members. Courtnii got the vaccine & I didn't. We are still bff's & play music every week. I get tested whenever I don't feel well (only twice) each time not covid related, only allergies. So for them to technically kick y'all out is not cool. 😒

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Jad Blackmore
9/27/2021 12:03:36 pm

Glad I got to see Hans Gruber and the Die Hards at their insane best. I Always loved y’alls shows, It’s like kicking Freddie Mercury and Brian May out of Queen. Im not much of a fan of this new Safety punk trend. After all, We’re all gonna die.

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Anonymous
9/27/2021 05:13:30 pm

Hans will be the easiest to replace. He's a generic white male guitar player. They're a dime a dozen. TJ will be a bit tougher since he's a very charismatic front man. This is probably the best move for the band honestly. They wouldn't be able to tour or play any of the big festivals with anti-vax members in the band, since so many are requiring vaccines now. Plus they would have gotten "cancelled" anyway once it came out that Hans is basically a white nationalist. No one will remember this or care in a few months, and TJ and Hans will fade into obscurity.

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Alex
9/27/2021 05:40:52 pm

Trying to find out where you came up with the White Nationalist bs? All they are asking for is that the album gets released since they all have worked on it. Stupid fkin anonymous comments spewing lies.

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Anonymous
9/27/2021 05:54:46 pm

Ask him how he feels about the Proud Boys, a violent white supremacists group.

Alex
9/27/2021 06:12:26 pm

I personally don’t know anything about that (am happy to talk to him about it) but doesn’t excuse them taking the last album for themselves. They are acting like they alone did all the work for the album. It’s stealing.

Common Sense
9/28/2021 03:03:25 pm

Calling someone a White Nationalist is a straw man to excuse their fascist actions.

Imagine a vaccine so safe and effective is neither protects you from getting or spreading a virus that has a horrifying death rate of 0.002%.

Corey Robert
9/27/2021 06:43:49 pm

Imagine being a total pussy and posting a comment on a band website anonymously. Also imagine stealing a band from the two guys who created it. Maximum soy beta cuck behaviour.

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Anonymous
9/27/2021 07:08:14 pm

Imagine using the terms "Soy Boy" and "Cuck" unironically and outing yourself as an alt-right turd.

BB
9/28/2021 08:52:59 am

Yo is that you Chris? Thought you had thicker skin man!

Corey Robert
9/28/2021 09:02:11 am

hahahahaha. bro... you literally stole a band and all of its money, merch, etc. you're not fooling anyone with your anon comments on this website (the one thing you didn't manage to fucking steal). embarrassing lol. funniest part is, you probably think people are going to like this new dog shit version of the band that doesn't have the guy who wrote the songs and the killer front man. Sad.

Matt Splatt.
9/29/2021 11:42:07 am

I can’t speak for Hans but TJ has made fucked up comparisons of the vaccine to the Holocaust. You gonna defend that shit too dude

Matt Go Splatt
10/1/2021 12:55:27 pm

Hypothetically, if every person who got the vaccine dies in the next 5 years are you gonna come back to this post before you die to apologize to TJ?

Vera Icon
9/28/2021 12:52:51 am

Gotta say I was hoping that something could have been worked out but at this point FIGHT IT. You have legal grounds. They didn’t want to hear y’all out well then take it back through the law. They’ll get a big slap in the face trust me. Don’t let it slip thru your hands. See if you can do a crowd funding for a lawyer. I’ll definitely support y’all and get all of my friends too.

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Matt Splatt
9/28/2021 12:32:28 pm

Definitely saw TJ getting kicked when he blocked me for calling him out because he was comparing the vaccine to the Holocaust. Be better TJ, I lost respect for you because of your shitty beliefs.

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Based Fan
9/28/2021 01:27:33 pm

Get the jab, pay the tab. The members that kicked you out will be dead soon from the vaccine. Nature always finds a way to correct itself.

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Dave.
9/28/2021 01:48:48 pm

How soon will I die? I got the jab a few months ago?

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Matt Splatt
9/28/2021 02:18:12 pm

Yooo. I can’t wait for my body snatcher hive mind to kick in. It’s gonna be so much fun.

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AntiVaxxers are Pussies that love cock link
9/28/2021 02:25:13 pm

TJ's always been a little bitch. Hans cant play for shit and stop jerkin everyone's nutsack your last name isnt grubber. You just wanted to bogart the name for some attention.

10 bux says TJ is short for Trump Jerker. Since all the talent was with TJ and Hans, maybe start another band that sounds less shitty and call it TJ Hans and the Cuckbuckets. get a fucking job you fuckin asspussies

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Non-binary MMA Fighter
9/28/2021 02:33:58 pm

Stunning and brave!

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Ridin' With Biden
9/28/2021 03:15:36 pm

Build Back Better.

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Kurt
9/28/2021 03:42:37 pm

Eh, there are two sides to every story, and everybody views themself as the good guy in their own.

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Fan
9/28/2021 08:56:50 pm

Did you expect to be able to play shows and your in the future while being an anti vaxxer or???

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Alex
9/29/2021 02:41:04 pm

Even if that’s the case, they could release the album since they worked hard on it together.

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Burn Fan22
9/29/2021 07:15:06 pm

Yo who's TJ?

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Burnfan22
9/29/2021 10:46:46 pm

Was he the short one?

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Lame
10/9/2021 09:21:18 am

Not getting vaccinated is a selfish thing to do. No sympathy.

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Stupid Science Believer link
10/12/2021 12:18:37 pm

Here is more of a full picture of this situation.

https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2021-10-12/austin-band-fires-singer-and-founding-guitarist-over-refusal-to-get-the-covid-19-vaccine/

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I call my penis "Chad" link
10/12/2021 09:37:24 pm

this is hilarious

on one hand, fuck the singer and guitar player for being trumptards and being selfish. The vaccine is about everyone else, you non-seatbelt using losers. TJ has no problem signing up for medical experiments to pay the rent but you wont get a vaccine to make sure the 3 people that actually like your band dont get fucked over? Get covid, you little cocksocket.

On the other hand - fuck the other 3 people for copping the name and riding the coat tails of that name. The music is shite anyway but somehow gained a following. So sack up and start a NEW band. if all the writing comes from the rhythm section (LOLZ THAT EXPLAINS IT) then it shouldn't be huge deal to start a new project and move on under your own power... right?

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The vaccine doesn't work
10/14/2021 10:23:20 pm

Didn't the three remaining retards get COVID right after they kicked the antivaxxers out? So the only people that were in the band that haven't had covid were the unvaccinated members? Hahaha imagine how stupid they must feel. They destroyed their band for a meme vaccine. What idiots.

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Captain Turbo
10/15/2021 07:11:42 pm

If that’s what you think, your post takes the idiot cake.

Delta variant can be caught by the vaccinated because of anti-vaccine rockheads giving the virus enough of a test sample to adjust. That’s just virology.

Keep your opinions to yourself until they’re grounded in logic. You’ll cover yourself in shit less.

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CNN Told Me So.
10/25/2021 01:00:22 pm

The protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that didn't protect the protected.

Please keep posting. You are a special kind of stupid.

Captain Turbo
10/15/2021 06:21:03 pm

Not the first time Trump has been a Trump apologist……

Someone has had their head up a bag-of-dicks echo chamber, and all the Alex Jones, false equivalencies and anti-intellectualism won’t wipe the shit-stain of “WAAAAAA!!!!!!” from any anti-vaxxer’s face that doesn’t spaz out at anaphylaxis.

Be better, people. Stop politicizing shit when we already have Polio vaccines and the like.

Unless you got a Kickstarter to make an autonomous anti-vax enclave, grow up and quit defending the whinging of giant children.

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Captain Turbo
10/15/2021 06:25:42 pm

Correction - not the first time Hans has expressed support for the POS known as Trunp.

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Vaxx my sac
10/25/2021 01:02:35 pm

^ Imagine being this stupid.

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I. Ronny
10/26/2021 06:39:19 am

this comment is funny because antivaxxers are extremely stupid.

pot, kettle.

T Brown
10/16/2021 03:56:48 pm

What a set of selfish pricks.

I mean you. Not the other band members who have chosen to protect fans, people around them, and help try to end a pandemic that likely gave you the time to make the album in question. Instead, you’d rather believe misinformation, internet trolls, and choose to put those who would want to see the album performed live, at risk. Not to mention all of the vaccines you’ve taken up until this point in your life, just because your dumbass won’t listen or try to understand scientifically verifiable evidence.

I hope you don’t catch it, you selfish pricks.

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The fans don't need protection
10/25/2021 01:03:53 pm

The fans don't need protection.

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The Real Hans Ewomanuleson link
10/25/2021 10:27:08 pm

Shut the fuck up TJ

Anonymous
10/19/2021 08:38:53 pm

Hans has bad politics towards women period.

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Remy Martin
10/25/2021 11:51:03 am

Please elaborate. Your statement is baseless and ridiculous.

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Gettit FromReddit
10/19/2021 09:56:17 pm

so i herad there was some goings on on a reddit post. anyone care to post a link to it i wanna see what fun stuff went down

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TJ Gargles with Ballsweat
10/25/2021 10:28:49 pm

i wanna see this too. allegedly there was some funny commentary about the girl

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Your friends at the Federal Government
10/27/2021 07:18:26 am

It's just for 15 short days to flatten the epidemiological curve ...
It's just social distancing ...
It's just six feet apart ...
It's just a temporary leave ...
It's just working from home ...
It's just a few layoffs ...
It's just the non-essentials ...
It's just to temporarily shut down your small business ...
It's just to close your church ...
It's just cashless payments ...
It's just to protect you ...
It's just to protect others ...
It s just an online course for one semester ...
It's just an online course for two semesters ...
It is just compulsory so that the children can return to school ...
It's just virtual graduation ...
It's just Christmas alone ...
It's just not being allowed to attend funerals...
It's just solitary birthdays ...
It's just not to be able to visit grandma in hospital care anymore ...
It's just the temporary cancellation of a flight ...
It's just having to miss a wedding ...
It's just a tissue ...
It's just a face shield ...
It's just something that only healthcare workers have to wear....
It's just one thing to cover your face ...
It's just two things to cover your face ...
It is just mandatory so that you can take the plane ...
It's just something you have to wear all the time ...
It's just a support check ...
It's just two support checks ...
It's just three support checks ...
It's just a moratorium on evictions ...
It's just another trillion of our taxes ...
It's just unemployment benefits ...
It's just so you can stay home ...
It's just an injection ...
It's just two injections ...
It's just three injections ....
It's just four injections ...
It's just completely safe ...
It's just a few side effects ...
It's just a few little reminders ...
It's just an update ...
It's just advice ...
It's just time to master the new variant ...
It's just a little card ...
It's just another lock ...
It's just a facial scan ...
It's just a curfew ...
It's just a safety measure ...
It's just a microchip ...
It's just so that everyone can prove that they have received it ...
It's just that the viral load of the unvaccinated is the same as the vaccinated ...
It's just door to door to make sure ...
It's just to apply the measures ...
It's just to separate those who chose not to have it ...
It's just to take them out of society at all ...
It's just to fight fake news ...
It's just to silence any "misinformation" ...
It's just giving up some of your freedoms so that you can have a bank account ...
It s just to give up your freedoms for more security ...
It's just so you can have a job ...
It's just so you can walk into a store ...
It's just so that we don't take your children away from you ...
It's just so that we can contact you ...
It's just so that we can follow your movements ...

It's just a gold star...
It's just a train ride...
It's just a camp....
It's just a shower....

Never forget that the State loves you and will protect you from yourself.

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The Real Hans Emwomanuelson
10/29/2021 09:47:34 pm

Shut.

The fuck up.

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dayum
12/16/2021 02:17:11 pm

dayum hans and tj were the cuties, the goods sounds, and the charm.

fuck the 3 retards get a new fuckin name. people in bell county will start a new band with the same 20 people every year

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Cunt link
3/9/2022 04:43:00 am

The same people who played bull McCabe‘s and then ended up later talking shit on a certain someone for calling a local girl cut. What’s hilarious about it is all the people who jump that guys but ended up having a whole bunch of crap happened to them later good riddance to all of you get fucked. That whole scene in Austin that plays kick butt coffee is nothing more than a bunch of shit talking assholes. You go around talking shit and then you want to get involved with punk rock saves lives. After you ruined several lives out there who were still running around damage from you guys. This band right here when the former singer was in it, they used to go around talking smack about everybody and I’m not kidding. It was so bad to wear I know somebody who was going to end up putting a bullet in the singers head and April from sniper. All of you people around I need to shut your fucking mouth or you’re gonna end up with somebody come and put a bullet in your fucking heads. I’m dead serious watch your fucking mouth all of you

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Doug
4/5/2022 11:14:29 am

Wow. Look at that. The right wing garbage espoused by Hans and TJ leads to terrorism and threats of violence. Who could have seen that coming?

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