Jean Paul Makhlouf of Cash Cash checked in with fans on their blog at MySpace on Thursday (August 6), talking about the mysterious departure of guitarist Mike Doerr from the band and getting a bit catty (though justifiably if his explanation is true) about carrying on without him. The singer writes:

On to some other news, some of you guys are wondering where Mike went?!? Well let me fill ya in on the situation from the beginning… Back in the day me, Alex, Sam, & Anthony got this band rolling as The Consequence. Then in 2007 we got signed to Universal, changed our name, and started touring. We thought it would be a good idea to add an extra guitarist live. So we started playing with Mike a little under a year ago. He first started as just a live touring musician and then after he earned his badges we put him in the photos and made him a band member. Then, out of nowhere he just got up and left us high and dry in the middle of Warped Tour with no goodbye or anything… we thought it was a little weird, especially since there wasn’t any big fight or anything… Our assumption is that he just wasn’t really into the whole band thing anymore, was getting worn down by the road, and has some other important stuff in his life he needs to cater to. Overall he just didn’t have the passion that the rest of us have… the road isn’t for everybody… this lifestyle is very different than any other job and calls for an extra dose of passion and motivation.

Anyways, here’s my reaction to the whole thing…. so when he left, at first we all freaked out and were like “WTF” it’s in the middle of the Warped Tour and were a man down.. what to do, what to do we got a show to play?!?!” Then I sat the guys down back stage, gathered my thoughts, and was like wait a second… Mike has absolutely ZERO effect on Cash Cash!!!! I was like lets wake up guys we started this band as a 4 piece!!! Recorded our cd as a 4 piece!!! Played shows as a 4 piece!!! And will finish the band as a 4 piece!! We played the show without him and it never felt better!!

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Jean Paul Makhlouf of Cash Cash checked in with fans on the band’s blog at MySpace, talking about how things have been going on the Vans Warped Tour. Jean Paul writes:

Yooo whats poppin errrrrrrrryybody! Jean Paul on the mic. So we’re on our 5th day of Warped Tour and I wanted to jump on here and let ya’ll know how it’s been going!!! First off it’s been insaneeeeeeee hot! We’ve been baking like chocolate chip cookies everyday!!! At first the heat and sun kinda drove me crazy cause it’s like being out there all day… but after the first day I learned to put sun tan lotion on and drink plentyyyyy of water and bammm I’m back on track!! Now it’s the 4th day and I absolutely love it. It’s such a different type of show like outside blue skies, red hot sun, I’m growing to love it!! There’s just this awesome feel good vibe to playing outside in this beautiful world we live in!! Mother Nature really is amazing!! Alright I’ll cut the hippie sh** but for real… I know if I was home I’d be sitting in my room on my computer and missing out on this awesome summer! So do like we do!!! Get out in the sun whether your coming to Warped or not!! Go outside, blast some Cash Cizzle on your boombox and have a water gun fight or something!! Go to the park enjoy this last month of summer!!! :-) Alright time to go get back out there!!! Later loves mwahhhhhhhh!

Jean Paul Makhlouf of Cash Cash checked in with fans on the band’s blog at MySpace on Monday (July 6), talking about dealing with an imposter on AIM. Makhlouf tells readers:

Hey whats up guys!! So our merch guy Emilio hit me up sayin a couple of you guys were being trashed talked by some1 pretending to be me!! Thats soooo fu**ed up!! That bummed me out soo hard.. I wish I could find that kid and bash his head in Jerseyyyyyy style grrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!! haha but chances are I’ll never find the little bastard! hahah anyways just so all you guys know, it’s not me!!! My only outlets on the internet are Facebook which my name is under Jean Paul Makhlouf, MySpace which is myspace.com/jpconsequence, Twitter which is twitter.com/jpcashcash and gmail which is jeanpaulmakhlouf@gmail.com…. I never really go on AIM anymore cause I live in a van but my sn is jeanpaulmakhlouf so if you get hit up by any1 that isn’t under those accounts it’s a fake!!!! And curse him out for me!

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Jean Paul Makhlouf of Cash Cash checked in with fans on the band’s blog at MySpace on Sunday (June 14), enjoying the fact that he managed to convince a fan of the group to stop smoking if he gave her a free CD. The singer writes:

Aight so here’s what’s cookin!! I got a myspace message saying this…

“You probably won’t remember this but at the Manchester date for Cobra Starship’s tour you asked my friend Shannon if she’d stop smoking. She promised you she would and I just thought you should know that she hasn’t smoked a single cigarette since. I know a lot of people who want to thank you for encouraging her like that otherwise she wouldn’t have stopped. Thank you so much, you’ve done us such a huge favor. :)”
-Lydia

When I saw that I was soooooo stoked! I remember giving her a free cd if she promised to stop smoking… and she did!! Hahah I always hate seeing young people get sucked into smoking… I know I told this story before but now’s the perfect time to tell it again haha so last year on the Metro Station tour I ran into these 2 girls that must have been 12 or 13 after the show when we were playing acoustic outside… They came up to me to say heyy and they each had cigs in their mouth!!! At first I was like oh these girls just look a little young then they open their mouths to talk and I saw they still had braces!!!! I totally freaked out and was like girls girls!!! You know you don’t really want to be smoking!!!

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