Break-ups: Worthless United (1993-2003)

us that Worthless United has broken up. Here's a message from Zak Kaplan:

After a decade of playing together, Worthless United has called it quits. Please check out our website to find out the scoop about the break up as well as to find out about our new projects including
Miss TK & The Revenge featuring members of Worthless United, Lifetime, Zero Zero, and Fortunato as well as
The Ratchets featuring members of Worthless United and Plan A Project. Thanks to all who got a chance to check us out this past year and thanks to The Bouncing Souls, Catch 22, River City Rebels, and Bigwig for taking us out this past summer and fall.

Click below for the band's full message from their website. You can also check out our review of
the I
Am Nothing EP and the band's last full length A
Nation Under.

Full message from the website:

After nearly a decade Worthless United has decided to call it quits. Yes, it has
really been that long. I first saw this band in 1995 and was immediately
attracted to their goofy songs and idiotic stage show. Through a random set of
events I became the guitarist and over time became the primary songwriter, art
director, and attempted to manage and handle the business of this band. It has
never been an easy task and over time it only became harder. I often wonder if
we didn't try hard enough. Sometime I wonder if we tried too hard. Either way,
making records and traveling the country with these guys has been an amazing and
memorable experience.

I'd like to thank all the members of Stormshadow, The Degenerics, S.O.V.,
Heidnik Stew, Fanshen, and Try Fail Try. We may have left New Brunswick with a
bad taste in our mouths but for a period of time it actually felt like we were
all a part of something important and meaningful.

Thanks to all the great bands who have taken us on tour over the past year like
The Bouncing Souls, The River City Rebels, Catch 22, and Bigwig. We were very
lucky to have good friends in good bands that were generous to lend a helping
hand and show us some really great times.

Thanks to Dumont Dan, Gentleman Jim, and K8 Hiltz for their years of continued
assistance, advice, help, love and support.

Thanks to Pete Walker and Mat Beckerman for the opportunity to make the record
I've always wanted to make. Maybe one day people will want to buy it.

Thanks to all the friends who were a part of this whole thing at one time or
another. Some are gone now and we miss them. Others still pop up every now and
again. I hope to see you all again sometime in the future.

Thanks to all the kids who came to our shows and supported us especially the
ones who really cared and made us feel like what we were doing had some kind of
value or worth to people that didn't have to like us cause they were our
friends.

And I'd like to thank Dave, Scott, and Steve for the experience. I wish things
could have turned to differently. It is what it is until it isn't.

So what now…
I imagine we will all continue to make music. I heard Steve is playing drums in
a new band and I'm sure he will write about it on our Live Journal at some
point. I have two new bands going right now. Miss TK & The Revenge (www.misstk.com)
with members of Lifetime, Zero Zero, and Fortunato. The other is The Ratchets (www.theRatchets.com)
with Dan from Plan A Project and Jed who were both out with us on our last tour
with Catch 22 and Boy's Night Out. I hope to keep this web site up and will let
you all know what Scott and Dave have going on.

As far as Worthless United we may play a few last shows though we have nothing
planned as of right now. The last show we played was in Ohio. It wouldn't really
feel right to not play a last show in our home state of New Jersey. But we will
have to wait and see what happens. We will let you all know if and when we
decide to do something. We'd like to encourage people to keep in touch with us
through the Live Journal and Guest Book and hopefully we will see you all again
in the future. Thanks.
-Zak / Worthless United