A classic rock band has been forced to replace its guitarist after just one concert in Upstate New York.

Asia Featuring John Payne, a spinoff of the progressive rock supergroup ASIA , announced this week that Francis Dunnery has exited the tour. Dunnery performed with John Payne’s Asia on Saturday in New Paltz, N.Y., before realizing it wasn’t a good fit.

“Sometimes on paper things seem perfect but in reality just don’t work out. On Monday I reached out to Frank and stopped the torture of being a guitarists ventriloquist,” Payne said Wednesday. “We both agreed that covering Asia’s works from 1982 to 2006 was not Frank’s wheelhouse. Dear Francis Dunnery is just that, he’s Francis Dunnery and we were trying to hammer a round peg into a square hole!”

Payne said Dunnery is a “superb” gu

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