Tribute bands featuring original members

H20 = I Dream To Sleep and fuck knows what else
PhD = Jim Diamond + other blokes = I Won't Let You Down and fuck knows what else

Well, strictly speaking: The Headcoats and Thee Headcoatees. Although, that's not really the sort of thing you're after I guess.

I guess you could put the whole post-Garcia sea of Grateful Dead spinoffs like The Other Ones/The Dead in here, kinda. Or bands playing their old material under a different name for legal reasons (Heaven & Hell instead of Black Sabbath, The Heads instead of the Talking Heads). Maybe that's a whole other thing, though.

Velvet Revolver

OMG SOOPERGROOPZ playing songs from the members' previous bands but ostensibly are new bands releasing new albums are kind of a different deal

Saw another good one of these last night: “Lick, The Australian Lemonheads Show*” played one gig in October 1991, reformed for one gig exactly ten years later, and have played twice, unbilled, in the last couple of years as Evan Dando’s encore. Lineup is Dando with not-yet-Lemonheads-songwriter-in-1991 Tom Morgan on bass, and not-yet-in-1991/now-former-Lemonheads-bassist Nic Dalton on drums, doing a bunch of Lick songs plus Different Drum.

For the second encore he also got the two surviving members of The Eastern Dark onstage together for the first time in 23 years to do an Eastern Dark cover, but that’s a clear case of grizzled veterans getting up to guest on one song.

*Half the bands gigging in Sydney in 1990-92 were The Australian Famousoverseasband Show. There were at least three Cure ones, and my high school history teacher quit because the The Australian Doors Show he drummed in got big enough to tour Europe for 18 months.

This is of strictly regional/local interest for Clevelanders and Ohioans of the 1970s/80s, but still:

Michael Stanley Band alumnus and co-founder Jonah Koslen and friends have assembled a show called Stage Pass Now that’s an expanded, complete recreation of the MSB double-live album Stage Pass. They’re playing the two-hour show at the Winchester, Saturday, April 18 and the Tangier, Saturday the 25th.

It’s one of the Michael Stanley Band’s signature records, though its title player won’t be onstage. The Stage Pass Now lineup comprises Northeast Ohio veterans Donny Thompson (Easy Street Band), Bill March (Beau Coup and Koslen’s Heroes), Rik Williger (the Short Circuits), and Van Eidom (Kooch, ESB).

“I told Michael what I intended to do, and he liked it,” says Koslen, the lead guitarist who co-wrote and performed many classics with the bandleader from 1974 to ’77. Koslen says he didn’t ask Stanley to participate, because Stanley didn’t seem interesting in revisiting past glories. “He was more interested in (playing) his new material.”

Koslen says the two remain close friends. The guitarist performed two songs with Stanley’s Resonators at the Tangier last month. And Stanley’s label, Line Level, has issued Koslen’s last two releases.

The band will recreate the arrangements from the record, plus songs from the era. An expanded take on the acoustic segment will include four extra tunes: “Ladies’ Choice,” Blue Jean Boy,” “Gypsy Eyes,” and “Among My Friends Again.”

Culled from four October 1976 sets at the old Agora Ballroom, the disc was released by Epic, and is the group’s only gold album. “It shows how great the band was,” says Koslen. “It’s a recording that holds together as a whole piece of music. I think it could be pointed to as a milestone in Cleveland music. I’m told all the time by people that it’s their favorite live album.”

A case of the exact opposite, but during Jon Anderson's abscence because of his illness, Yes have recruited a replacement singer from a Yes tribute band.

Defend The Indefensible: The Beautiful South

The band will feature Dave Hemingway (vocals), Alison Wheeler (Vocals), David Stead (Drums), Damon Butcher (Keyboards), Gary Birtles & Tony Robinson.. . The band will introduce their new guitarist, and bass player, on stage.

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The New Cars

With Jimmy Chamberlin, Ian McCulloch, (?), Ozzy Osbourne and (?) ???

Nope, Prarie Prince (of the Tubes) on drums and Todd Rundgren on vox/guitar. Not sure who the gent on the far right leaning against Todd is. He looks a bit like Ben Stiller.

damn, King Boiled Potato beat King Boy Pato to the New Beautiful South by four months. They could have done much better on the name though, perhaps Songs For Whoever?

Over the Rainbow features several ex-members of Rainbow, but none of the founders, and features Ritchie Blackmore's son on guitar!

^ high-quality example

"spurious line-ups of the real band" that induct members' offspring into the family firm could be a rich vein too

Does Genesis when Ray Wilson was in the band count? =) hee hee.

To be fair to Pato, King Boiled Potato was slightly closer to the source.

That's not source, that's butter.

slightly closer to

took the listing of members to make me notice how wonderfully redundant the concept is! seriously though, have a word with them about the name. Carry On Up The Chicken In A Basket Circuit?

Does this count? http://www.cjramone.com (on tour now)

nah, see first post for the distinction being drawn

Oh, ok. Apologies.

Current touring Yes lineup with Oliver Wakeman on keys and some Canadian guy from a Yes cover band as "Jon Anderson".

See first line of first post!

BREAKING: Nick Mason from Pink Floyd announces Syd-era Floyd tribute act Saucerful Of Secrets, also featuring Lee from the Blockheads, Gary Kemp off of them Spandaus, 1987-94 Floyd bassist (and subsequent Gilmour sideman) Guy Pratt, and the bloke who did the score for Spaced with Pratt.

"spurious line-ups of the real band" that induct members' offspring into the family firm could be a rich vein too

even better than this is Poptone, the tribute band for Bauhaus, Love & Rockets AND Tones On Tail that consists of Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins out of Bauhaus, Love & Rockets and Tones On Tail, plus Haskins' daughter.

PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT

^ that one's even better because the lineup is now mostly Monaco

it almost should be excluded since it's just "person from band tours playing their old stuff," but the aggressiveness of "we're playing this album in full," "now we're playing these two albums in full," "fuck you now we're playing all the songs from the two singles compilations of BOTH my old bands" gets him under the wire.

Updates on The South, the Beautiful South tribute band featuring the original second-position male singer, the third consecutive person to be female-voice-singer, the original keyboard player, the original sax player, and the original trumpet player:

The trumpet player has left.
The keyboard player has left.
The male singer has left.
The sax player has taken over as the singer of both male vocal parts.

Nevertheless they are still gigging as a nine-piece band, with some thrilling bookings in 2018:

Irlam Live 2018 is looking like our best every. The legendary Stranglers will headline Friday with very special guest Toyah, who rocked the Irlam Live stage last year, and the fantastic Mohawk Radio. The Saturday line-up is The 80’s vs 90’s. Go West, The South, Republic, Five Star, Jaki Graham and Katrina (ex Katrina and the Wave). Plus Twisted Soul, Kev Gurney’s Club Tropicana, Mr Wilson’s Second Liners and Amanda Heywood. An awesome mix.

NEWS FLASH!!

Our show at this years GRILLSTOCK, BRISTOL on July 1st has now been CANCELLED!

The Festival has been called off and rescheduled for 2019. Tickets refund from your ticket provider.

Sorry about this but it is out of our hands.

(in the meanwhile, the original lead singer / co-songwriter and the second person to be female co-lead singer have since formed a duo and released three albums of originals.)

Half of four-piece rap group The Pharcyde did 20th and 25th anniversary tours for their debut album Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde, as Bizarre Ride Live. They add one ring-in rapper, and for the 20th anniversary had the two original co-producers in the group too.

Heart By Heart, featuring founding Heart bassist (1973-82) Steve Fossen and drummer Michael Derosier (1975-82), playing casinos and supper clubs near you*.

Honoring the magic and power of the music of Heart, this incredible lineup considers it their responsibility to bring the songs to the stage in their original form. According to Fossen, “We don’t see it as our task to modify or update these classic tunes that Heart fans love and have listened to all these years.”

*mainly if you live in Washington, and not in a city.

In 1995, on the heels of the “Daltrey Sings Townshend” tour, Daltrey and Entwistle planned an Australian tour. Ironically, Pete Townshend told Daltrey he should bill it as “The Who,” but it was cancelled due to low ticket sales:
http://www.thewho.net/australia/images/coming.jpg

Who’s Coming, Who’s Come?

hahaha

Who Are These Guys?

BTW I can see the Heart tribute band cottage industry blowing up since it looks like the Wilsons have iced the real band.

Between 1994 and 2000, Rednex had six distinct lineups, with two of the performers remaining throughout. All performing members were then fired by one of the producers, who had also been a performer in the first otherwise-recruited lineup.

A new lineup was hired, which had two more variations by 2004.

The original female singer signed a four-year deal to licence the band name in January 2005, and by mid-2006 had fired two of the three remaining male members from the seventh and eighth lineups (replacing one of them with her husband).

These two members, along with the female singer from those lineups, and another male from the seventh lineup, formed a touring "Rednex Tribute." For added authenticity, another replacement member from the eighth lineup joined in 2007.

When the licensing deal ended in January 2009, the producers fired the entire 11th lineup, and rehired four of the five members of Rednex Tribute as Rednex.

(Since January 2012, the entire Rednex workforce has been casualised, with up to 17 active and "reserve" members who can be called in for performances.)

The two singers from Propaganda, Claudia Brücken and Susanne Freytag, have a Propaganda tribute band called D:uel, named after the band's 1985 hit single Duel.

Another Propaganda tribute band, xPropaganda, features the band's two singers, Susanne Freytag and Claudia Brücken.

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/lovin-spoonful-tribute-reunion-john-sebastian-review-1203520407/

Honestly, "Nile Rodgers & Chic" is really skating trade practices.

Bunch of King Crimson alumni played in 21st Century Schizoid Band which was essentially a KC tribute band.

Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets

KC & The Schizoid Band

Pretty sure Skynyrd turned into a tribute band a long time ago---last I heard, Rossington and Medlocke were the last originals aboard (longest-lasting post-plane crash member: backing vocalist Dale Krantz-Rossington [since 1987 or thereabouts], who was v. good lead singer of Rossington-Collins Band). Medlocke mostly recorded w LS as drummer, but main thing before and after that was and is singer-guitarist (VZ talked him into being drummer, because he could, characteristically enough).
The Doors of the Twenty-First Century incl. Stewart Copeland and Ian Astbury, initially--would liked to have seen that line-up, but there were many others, up until Manzarek's death in 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzarek%E2%80%93Krieger
Mike Love's Beach Boys.

Seems like a sideman thing to to do. Zakk Wylde and other Ozzy alumni are doing the Black Sabbath tribute group Zakk Sabbath.

I think there is a Prince group alumni doing some shows and touring. I know they did that big reunion show, but I think there is at least one club touring act I think.

yeah the revolution have toured at least twice. I hear it was great, I missed it.

The show we saw a couple of years back was pretty solid -- half the songs had a featured vocalist (who wisely didn't seek to just imitate Prince), half Wendy and Lisa did the leads, and it was a treat.

Pylon Reenactment Society

(not to be confused with the Pylon Appreciation Society)

There's also an actual Pistols reunion happening in August, with Jones, Cook and Matlock and some bloke called Frank Carter filling in for the sadly absent Lydon.

I misread this as Frank Turner and my head temporarily exploded

^ that’s a one-off fundraiser billed as “Frank Carter and the Sex Pistols,” which imo is fair

bringing the metal versions of this because it's rampant there...

I am Morbid is the death metal version of this, basically spurned ex-Morbid Angel bandmates who missed playing MA tunes forming a band that only plays early period MA tunes. the kicker being now it has more members of the classic lineup than actual MA does now, and they actually just replaced actual Morbid Angel on the Devastation on the Nation tour (mostly cos I think the promoter figured if we didn't have MA in some form that sale would collapse or refunds requested).

Venom, Inc were one of these (when you had Abaddon and Mantas, plus ex-Venom vocalist Demolition Man in the band), but then they messed it up by recording new music together and firing Abaddon. so no longer a 'tribute act' (though at first I don't know that there were plans to record). Nocturnus AD were also an example of this, with Mike Browning forming the band to just play these songs, until they too recorded two albums, so...no longer counts.

Death to All basically the best version of this, Death songs featuring usually 40%-50% ex-members of Death, play all Death songs as a tribute to Chuck.

the next example doesn't fit neatly but is just a fun story if you don't know it. anyway, there's this gimmicky Polish black metal band called Batushka. the gimmick is their music and lyrics are influenced by the Eastern Orthodox church and they wear habits on stage and play a weird form of black metal worship music.

I find their music and live show dull and unremarkable, almost as if it was geared towards people who are too afraid to like Ghost out of fear of being labeled a poser. but that isn't the point.

the band basically came to a breaking point when their founder and brainchild Krzysztof Drabikowski either pissed people off so much that they quit, and he fired vocalist Bartek "Bartłomiej" Krysiuk (Варфоломей) via Instagram post. Days later, that post was deleted, replaced by a post saying it was Drabikowski who is fired and committing copyright infringement, because Krysiuk had gotten the band signed to Metal Blade a few years earlier without Drabikowski's involvement, and was the one who filed the copyright.

It was a bit like the situation where there were briefly two Queensryches, however that only happened for a short period of a few months while a lawsuit panned out, whereas here, for several years, two different Batushkas were performing under the same name, and it was EXTREMELY difficult to know which one you were seeing since they perform shrouded so you can't see their faces, and their setlists overlap.

The only time I saw them, it was the stolen Batushka w/ Krysiuk. and I only figured it out after the show started by looking at Setlist.fm and finding songs that only that second group wrote listed. Lots of people didn't even know they weren't seeing the original band or that there was a dispute. the ones that do usually ask "which Batushka?" when Batushka comes.

this finally ended earlier this year when Drabikowski successfully defeated Krysiuk, forcing him to change the name. now they'll KIND of be a tribute band I guess until they record another album.

also I can say with my full chest that both Batushki suck

a local festival has the Big Star Quintet which is Jody Stephens with members of Wilco, the dBs, and the Posies.

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and the bass man, he has all the right moves...

(Mike Mills of REM)

Nudedragons, a tribute band containing Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron of Soundgarden, played a debut* half-hour set this weekend with singer Shaina Shepherd.

(zealous copyright robots have zapped the audio on Duff's guest duet)

* 14 years after using the anagram for a warm-up gig for the real band's reunion at the same venue.

That was really painful

Didn't realize that Love (now Johnny Echols backed by Baby Lemonade) was still touring. Dunno how I feel about that.

LOVE with Johnny Echols sees Arthur Lee's longest serving band continue to perform the classic songs from Love's first three albums Love, Da Capo, Four Sail and of course the timeless Forever Changes.

This isn't just a nostalgia trip - their shows are drawing in an increasingly younger audience as teens and students are discovering the timeless music produced by these 60s legends performed by a band that is truly on top of its game.

Johnny Echols: “I so look forward to performing LOVE's extraordinary music to an appreciative audience. We perform much of Forever Changes, as well as favorites from our extensive catalogue… a few deep cuts as well as a few surprises!”

FWIW, I have two friends in their early seventies who have been active members of the UK Love fandom community for many years, and they still very much rate the current incarnation.

when i saw them about 20 years ago i think it was just echols and lee from the 60s lineup

When I saw them maybe that long ago it was Lee and Baby Lemonade but not Echols.

the classic songs from Love's first three albums Love, Da Capo, Four Sail and of course the timeless Forever Changes

so, their first four albums then?

That wording works — a lot of people know or have Forever Changes but don’t know how many or which albums came before it, and the title Four Sail can be confusing.

IIRC Echols joined the Lee Plus Baby Lemonade lineup less than a year before Arthur’s death

He didn't play on "Four Sail" of course.

wait the title of Four Sail is correct and the wording of the blurb isn’t

I had just woken up

BOOTLEG BLONDIE are the world’s No.1 official Debbie Harry and Blondie tribute band, established in 2001. This band are the only tribute to have performed with two original founder members of Blondie, legendary drummer Clem Burke and singer, songwriter bass player and author Gary Valentine. [...]

To celebrate 40 years since the release of Blondie’s iconic 1978 album ‘Parallel Lines’ Clem joined Bootleg Blondie on drums for not one but two UK tours in 2019 covering nearly 5,000 miles and playing to over 7,000 people!

That’s 1.4 people per mile

irl heh heh

The Saints '73-'78 is a band dedicated to performing the music made between 1973 and 1978 by singer/songwriter Chris Bailey, guitarist/songwriter Ed Kuepper, and pianist/bassist/drummer Ivor Hay. Its members are singer Mark Arm (of Mudhoney / Green River / etc), guitarist Mick Harvey (of the Bad Seeds / PJ Harvey / etc), bassist Peter Oxley (of the Sunnyboys / King St's first woodfired pizza restaurant) and guitarist Ed Kuepper & drummer Ivor Hay. They are touring the US in July, August and November of this year.

From Andrew Hickey's podcast on Status Quo:

Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon was the last album to feature Roy Lynes. He wasn’t as invested in being a star as the rest of the group, and stopping at a petrol station he met a woman who he fell in love with pretty much instantly. A week later, on the train to a gig in Aberdeen, he decided he’d had enough, got off the train in Stoke-on-Trent, and the band didn’t see him again for decades, by which time he was living in Australia, still married to the woman he’d met at the petrol station, and occasionally playing in a Status Quo tribute band.

Having started the podcast ‘Band Geek with Richie Castellano’ in 2014, the Blue Öyster Cult man played with a revolving group of his friends and special guests, collectively known as The Band Geeks. They started to build an online following and were lauded for their covers of classic rock and pop songs and to date have generated over 30 million YouTube views. But it was their versions of YES songs that caught the attention of Anderson who enthused… “The first time I heard the BAND GEEKS I truly freaked out - they sound just like the classic YES of the seventies, the YES that I know and love…”.

As a result, in 2023 Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks took to the road for the first time. The natural chemistry between Anderson and the band was palpable giving fans the full YES experience that many may not have expected to see again!

Andy Summers with Call The Police. (his own Police tribute band)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A92AhNycr5Q

Just saw a Live Nation announcement that The Coral Reefer Band (Jimmy Buffett's backing band) is heading out for a summer tour, which presents an interesting subset of this thread topic: backing bands doing tribute tours. Other examples include the TCB Band for Elvis, and the Revolution for Prince.

Dio's Disciples was made up of various ex-Dio members, hopefully not including Denzil the Dragon

Self-XP The TCB Band went so far as to tour and film a concert special wherein they provided new live backing to vintage filmed Elvis vocals.