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When did Tapper leave We Are Scientist?
Days before the tour was due to start, drummer Michael Tapper quit the band.
Do we know why he chose to leave?
CANNOTANSWER.
What did they do for a drummer, then?
Gary Powell and Adam Aaronson took over from Tapper for the remainder of the tour.
Which tour was this?
the band's follow-up to With Love and Squalor.
Is Brain Thrust Mastery an album or a single?
the band acted as their own support act, conducting "self-improvement seminars" under the name Brain Thrust Mastery.
What happened during these "self-impovement seminars"?
CANNOTANSWER.
Were all the same members of We Are Scientists members of Brain Thrust Mastery?
CANNOTANSWER.

Question: Did they have any acclaimed singles during this time?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Brain Thrust Mastery have any acclaimed singles during the self-improvement seminars?