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Barenaked Reason for Exit


03/02/2009
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(AP) Singer-guitarist Steven Page said a big reason he decided to leave the Barenaked Ladies was he felt his songwriting voice was occasionally being squeezed out as a result of being in a five-member band.

A day after he announced on the band's Web site that he was leaving the group, Page said the Barenaked Ladies has so many songwriting voices that he's looking forward to a future as a solo artist.

"Frankly, the band itself was a five-way democracy and one of the great things about it is that it's been about the five-way collaboration, but it's also one of the things that's made me decide to be a solo artist," he said Thursday.
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