Brady Ebert, former guitarist of Turnstile and the S.E.T., has now been kicked out of another band following this month's news that he was charged with attempted murder of Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates' father.
Ebert co-founded the hardcore project Experience with Bobby Faithful and Ben Rogers earlier this year, and they're set to release their debut EP Stay Present this June. "What happened involving Brady is serious and deeply upsetting," wrote the band on Instagram last week. "Our hearts are with everyone affected. We don’t take any of this lightly. At the same time, we’ve made the decision to continue moving forward with our release."
Faithful and Rogers elabored more on that statement yesterday, confirming that Ebert was no longer a member of Experience, but because Ebert is currently in police custody, they hadn't been able to get in touch with him before breaking the news to listeners. The new statement reads:
We want to follow up on our last post because we know it left some questions.
There’s a difference between acknowledging what Brady meant to us and excusing what happened. What he did is fucked up. Plain and simple.This situation has been heavy and hard to process. We’ve been struggling to even find the words for it. We spent months building this record together, putting everything into it, and then one decision changed everything.
Brady is no longer a member of this band.
We also want to be clear that we didn’t want to make any public statement about that without him knowing first. Right now, he isn’t allowed visitors or phone calls, so we haven’t been able to have that conversation.
At the center of all of this are real people dealing with real trauma, especially the Yates family. That’s what matters most.
Our connection with Brady was rooted in trying to support growth and mental health, which makes this even harder to sit with.
We’re still processing all of this. We’re trying to move forward in a way that’s honest and doesn’t pretend any of this is okay.
— Experience
Ebert co-founded Turnstile with Yates, his childhood friend, in 2010. In 2022, Turnstile suddenly announced they were parting ways with Ebert, notably excluding any details about the circumstances surrounding his departure. In January of this year, Ebert debuted his new band the S.E.T., but by February, he was kicked out of that band for making inflammatory comments about his former Turnstile bandmates, including claims that they didn't care about social issues and had misused charity funds.
Things came to a head a few days ago when news broke that Ebert had allegedly struck Yates' 79-year-old father with his car. Afterwards, Turnstile issued a statement clarifying that Ebert's removal from the band was due to "a consistent pattern of harmful behavior" that has evidently continued in the years since, even as Turnstile attempted to file a type of restraining order against him.
As for Ebert, he reportedly told a court commissioner that he hit Yates' father in "pure self-defense" because he was being "straight-up attacked," although police say the elder Yates was found with "trauma to his lower extremities" after the incident.
