Billy Rymer has made his stage debut with The Dillinger Escape Plan. He played a live show with the band at The Barbary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania last Thursday, February 5. So far Billy Rymer is best known as sticksman of Long Island, New York-based progressive rock act The Rivalry.\"I don\'t want to say to much about the new guy. He is kind of this secret weapon and we are excited about the fact that he doesn\'t care about running around promoting himself. He is pretty unknown and got the gig over like thirty ridiculously sick drummers. Some of which are pretty well known.\"
Ben also wanted to set the record straight with regards to the band\'s departing drummer Gil Sharone:
\"It seems everyone is trying to play up that we can\'t keep members in this band. Gil didn\'t quit Dillinger and there is no animosity. The fact of the situation is that he both didn\'t like a lot of touring and felt guilty he had gone over a year without really giving his band [Stolen Babies] that he started with his twin brother much attention. He wanted to move forward in writing and doing selected shows with Dillinger but asked if we would be interested in getting a touring fill-in for when he couldn\'t do it. We decided to go another route and he was understanding of that.\"
