Guitarist Brad Avery leaves best selling band Third Day

THE GUITARIST with best selling Southern rockers Third Day, Brad Avery has decided to leave the band to pursue other projects. Third Day have no intentions of replacing Avery at this time, and have already begun touring as a quartet. The band's other original guitarist, Mark Lee, comments, "Third Day and Brad Avery have made the very difficult decision to part ways. We appreciate Brad's many contributions to the band's career to date, including his work on our forthcoming album, but the time has come for us to follow our separate paths. He has been an important part of Third Day for the last 13 years as we've travelled the world together and performed over 1,000 concerts. We will miss him as a band member but he will always remain our brother and our friend."