Departed Band Members
- In Spring of 2008, former Senior Discount bassist Kevin Silva quit the band onstage with the band in Providence.
- In Fall of 2011, Senior Discount issued a public statement (via YouTube) that ex-guitarist Tom Wells has been ex-communicated from the band, immediately following the announcement of his arrest. The band made the statement, "We're completing dis-associating Senior Discount from guitarist Tom Wells....he will have nothing to do with anything we do from now on. We recently learned that Tom made personal decisions and had personal issues that we had no knowledge of and absolutely no control over whatsoever. We're shocked and devastated to be put in this position."
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