Kastigation's vocalist got addicted to heroin and stopped showing up to practice, and his mates responded by kicking him out of the band. Then our rhythm guitarist quit the night of a show, which we played anyway, as a trio, and that was very well received by the crowd.
We were toughing it out as a three piece for a while and started picking up looping techniques and other instruments to keep the music interesting. One mandolin, one saxophone, and one flute later, we ran into an old friend and prolific keys player at a venue that just got bought out last week. Some $20 lines were dropped, she ended up in our band two days after, and we changed our name to Dreadnought.