Bands formed in the 60s or later, with every single member dead

The Mamas and the Papas ...almost.

When I was a kid I went around believing Abba had all died in a plane crash for some reason, maybe a bigger boy told me. Turns out it wasn't true.

The Wailers... almost (don't die, Bunny, but that would help this thread)

Hongroe

I thought everyone in Lynyrd Skynyrd died in that plane crash, but apparently half the band survived :-(

(er, that's only :-( for the purpose of this thread, I don't know their music and I don't want to either, I think)

Actually, only three members of the band died. That's only like a fifth of the band.

ban StanM

sorry :-(

Yeah, I don't think there is any.

j.k yr unbanned but skynryd pwns

thx - will check them out

Re: thread title - Are there that many bands from before the sixties whose original members are all dead?

The starting line-up of the 1923 Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Charlie Parker Dead
Charles Mingus Dead
Bud Powell Dead
Max Roach Dead
Dizzy Gillespie Dead

So, there's another.

So who all have you googled and been proven wrong?

So far, the Kingston Trio, Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs, Badfinger, and The Bar-Kays all still have original members living.

How could Charlie Parker been a part of a band that formed in the 60s?

I was responding to Stan M's question.

Thanks for that pre-60s example! I hadn't considered jazz (or blues) bands - except, they didn't use band names, so maybe that's why I hadn't thought of them.

Except, sometimes they do! Anyway, membership tends to be more fluid in 'em, with a few notable exceptions (Art Ensemble of Chicago, Modern Jazz Quartet, blahblahblah)

So who all have you googled and been proven wrong?

Durutti Column, Sweet, Canned Heat, some Krautrock bands, all have at least one surviving original member (even if they're not part of the current band anymore, like in Sweet).

Surprised to find out that Axl Rose is still alive.

For some reason I thought the Lovin' Spoonful might be such a band, but evidently not.

I had no idea people stayed away from Skynyrd without having heard them!

I mean, who have heard of Skynyrd, but stay away without knowing their music.

I don't know, I just never checked them out - Southern Rock, I hear, so I'm thinking it probably won't be my cup of tea (although I do like some of what The Black Crowes, My Morning Jacket, Green On Red, Drive-By Truckers do), and then I see the logo with the confederate flag & I guess they're gonna be redneck racist way too southernly American & I switch off.

are you American StanM? I'm not trying to be a jerk btw, just curious.

No, Belgian.

btw Jimi Hendrix Experience is a good candidate for this "honor", 2/3 gone. This is a pretty grim thing to search about, though.

Not even one black metal band has killed each other completely :-/

oh ok StanM. I gather Skynyrd's isn't huge outside the US but damn, it's top shelf rock and surely worth exploring if you're giving e.g. Drive-By Truckers a try.

ok, I will, thanks for the encouragement (and apologies for the prejudice) !

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

So far, the Kingston Trio, Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs, Badfinger, and The Bar-Kays all still have original members living.

Badfinger is kinda iffy . . . Joey Molland joined the band after "Come and Get It" was recorded, but before it was released, so is he really an original member? Everyone else is definitely dead.

New York Dolls are getting close.

I don't want to join in the "I can't believe Stan hasn't heard Skynryd!" but I thought EVERYONE had heard Freebird.

uhhhhhh T. Rex?

Nevermind:

As of 2008, Bill Legend is the only surviving member of the 1970-1973 T. Rex lineup.

This is a good question.

Yes, Mayhem still has living original members. I believe one of them is in Burzum.

beatles

deaf leopard

Can't believe there isn't one. Here's to advances in medicine.

I keep thinking theres some supergroup from the 60's that only played once that would fit...

This means that every band ever can potentially put together a comeback tour.

Sonny Clark Trio, with Max Roach and George Duvuvier.

wings

Oscar Peterson Trio with Joe Pass and Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen - trio formed in the 70s.

2 of the 4 Tops are dead, and one is incapacitated so that pretty much counts I reckon. Also: 50% of the Shangri-Las...

And 6 out of 11 of the Skatalites, including all the key players like Don Drummond and Tommy McCook...

If I didn't say at least three members, then Tyrannosaurus Rex would count as would probably many others. But it really takes three to be a band.

Seems like we haven't found one yet. More near misses:

Johnny Echols still flying the flag for Love... oh hold on, I assume Snoopy is still alive too?

Dingers of (la) Dusseldorf dead, as is Andreas Schell, but Hans Lampe presumed still alive and kicking (it)

I keep thinking of bands of the top of my head, then realising that they are all alive.

McCoy Tyner the last one standing from the "classic" Coltrane quartet.

Louis Moholo the only surviving member of the core line-up of the Blue Notes.

Mingus' '64 band with Dolphy, Clifford Jordan, Jaki Byard, Johnny Coles and Dannie Richmond...all gone...

Seven members of Reba McEntire's backing band were killed in a plane crash in 1991.

Sadly, the London Boys don't qualify on account of being a duo.

Neither do McFadden and Whitehead then...

Are there any Cowsills left?

Wikipedia says there are three.

I guess a lot of Cambodian groups would qualify :-(

But it really takes three to be a band.

HI DERE

http://bigskymind.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/white.jpg

Also the Spinanes and Local H, so long as we're naming names.

Are White Stripes dead?

No, they just sound it.

Moholo now also sole survivor of Mike Osborne Trio. Barry Guy the only one left from the original Iskra 1903.

I Dream of Wires.

Yes, Mayhem still has living original members. I believe one of them is in Burzum.

Varg Vikernes was never an original member of Mayhem, was he? Mind you, Mayhem was started as a very local underground band and Mr. Vikernes lived more than 500 kilometres away at that point.
But I am pretty sure the rest of the guys Oystein Aarseth started Mayhem together with are still alive.

And, OK, I have seen White Stripes defined as a band, but in my book, they are a duo. Just another kind of duo than the vocal duos/synth duos you would usually think of with that kind of lineup.

you normally think of bands with nothing but drumkit and guitar as being a vocal/synth duo?

I dream of wires are very much alive.

It's sad that the closest we get to this is The Ramones, as they were more the seventies. Sad for the Ramones, that is.

As of Wednesday, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, :(

velvet underground

I may be cranking the fame-ometer down a little far here, but two thirds of the Ran-Dells have died and I can't find much about the third. Kind of :/ now as I see the main guy who made the synthesised noises only died last year, and he has a bio up saying how he didn't think his hit was much to be proud of until people started emailing him about it 35+ years later. I could've dropped him a note...

I'm not in the US but I wish I could've not heard 6000 bad covers of "Sweet Home Alabama" by similarly non-USian aging rockers in my tiny English smalltown. They like to play "Country Roads (Take Me Home)" too. Guys! You are not from the southern USA! Cut it out!

(My daydream is of assembling enough musical talent to go to the local open-mic night, rant about this for five minutes, and then bust into "Alternative Ulster")

Jeez, I should learn to read better, for a moment I thought Pancakes' post meant all/both of the Spinanes were dead (for similar skim-readers: no, just that there are only 2 of them, and they were a band).

They like to play "Country Roads (Take Me Home)" too. Guys! You are not from the southern USA! Cut it out!

Neither was John Denver, but that didn't stop him.

Temptations and 4 Tops getting close

:(

Just realized Ornette is now the only surviving member of the Free Jazz double quartet.

The Wailers since Aston Barrett died.

... classic line up that is, before Bunny and Peter Tosh left.

Thread update: classic line-ups of Motörhead and the Ramones

All the founding members of Molly Hatchet have passed

The Spinners now too, I think?