the shittier thing is that Wyman’s replacement Darryl Jones has now been in the band for 30 years on freelance fees, compared to Wood’s 14 or so on salary
― insecurity bear (sic), Wednesday, November 20, 2019 10:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
In a reverse of this, Zak Starkey has been playing with the Who since 1996, but when they offered to make him a permanent member of the band, he turned them down.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
Really this comparison conversation should be about bands whose drummer is central to the character of the band. I mean, all of them, obviously, but bands where the drummer was replaced and there was a big backlash from fans?
This happened with Slayer. Dave Lombardo was crucial to their sound - he drove the band, basically - and when they replaced him with Paul Bostaph their music got a lot more monochromatic and generic and rhythmically bland, to my ear. (It didn't help that they started experimenting with groove metal and even nu-metal sounds during that period, too.) I don't know how much of a "fan backlash" there was, but there was a noticeable difference.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
The Pretenders spring to mind. Though TBF one member was fired, another died, and then the fired member died.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, November 21, 2019 8:57 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Martin Chambers was also fired (in 1986) and rehired (around 1994).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
haha when I saw SK a couple years ago I had the same experience with “Modern Girl” - the whole crowd sang along and I was like “...I don’t even know this one?”
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
Carrie used it to title her memoir which I imagine has lent it even greater significance to fans.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
the woods was a popular album
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
It's the only S-K album I know well! It's really good. I gather the earlier albums have their proponents too
― imago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
The tour for The Woods was phenomenal.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
One of the main reason I felt content when they broke up. I think I saw three of those shows, the last from the side of the stage.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
Slayer is a good example!
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
Jimmy Chamberlin
― flappy bird, Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
My thread from whenever:
Let's List Bands That Got Worse with the Departure of a Drummer
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link