Friggin’ in the Riggin’ with the Von Bondies

Marcie jumps, ship sinking faster.

Remember the days when the Von Bondies were this wonderful, multi-gendered song machine whose future was laid out like a week of perfect days that stretched across the Atlantic? Yeah, me neither. Anyway, Marcie Bolen — the lovely, fire-haired guitarist who our UK writer once accurately (and fondly) described as a white-trash Marlene Dietrich — recently walked out on her gig as first mate in the VBs. Seems not all was peachy with VB’s captain Jason Stollsteimer. Oh, tra la la.

Wait.

The Von Bondies are still afloat? We figured that leaky vessel sank months ago. But — and never underestimate Stollsteimer’s penchant for, um, discord — conflict in the VBs camp hits like a fisted rat-a-tat skull-bashing.

So who’s still standing on the Von Bondies’ deck? Who cares?

For creepy stalker-dude shits ’n’ giggles, enjoy Bolen’s grammatically soothing post that we lifted from her MySpace page detailing her VBs torpedo:

I hear that Jason is going around telling people horrible things about why I quit the band. I could go into why I quit the band it but it's a long trying story. But here is what should be cleared up.