The most obvious one to me is The VU without Lou Reed.Bowie attended a post-Lou VU show and struck up a conversation with Doug Yule afterwards. After a few minutes Doug realized, “Hm, this guy thinks I’m Lou.”
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link
Xpost to be fair, they recorded without Alex Harvey, I think he was poorly and took a break. Rejoined them a year later.
(He's on the back of the sleeve, literally)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 22:09 (two years ago) link
Yeah, when a band's actually named after the main person and they're not in it any more it's getting kind of silly.
Continuing the Glasgow connection, what about TV series that carry on for 16 years after the death of character the series is named after?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taggart
― Alfred Ndwego of Kenya (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 22:14 (two years ago) link
supertramp without Roger Hodgson, journey without Steve Perry, styx without Dennis DeYoung, foreigner without Lou Gramm
― xzanfar, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
styx without Dennis DeYoung
I support this bc Gowan fronting Styx is awesomely hilarious and fitting.
― And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
Kansas without Kerry Livgren, which has been the case since about 1984
― ban slug pellets now (Matt #2), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 22:00 (two years ago) link
BREAKING NEWS: Several longtime band members of Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly, including co-founder Roame, have formed their own group, "The Formerly Of Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly," and will go on tour this summer with @HamiltonAnthony. 1/5 pic.twitter.com/29jX9BB5ot— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) May 8, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 May 2023 21:05 (one year ago) link
I don't know why the SAHB didn't go on as The Sensational Band
― PaulTMA, Monday, 8 May 2023 21:34 (one year ago) link
Because honestly they didn't sound very sensational on that record. And "The Band" was already taken.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 8 May 2023 23:26 (one year ago) link
The Formerly of Maze?
um could have possibly found a better name than that to convey the same thing
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 03:34 (one year ago) link
Should have called themselves the Escapees.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 03:38 (one year ago) link
"The Formerly Of Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly"! (But minus Frankie Beverly)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 03:39 (one year ago) link
If he ever comes out of retirement and guests with them they can be The Formerly Of Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly Featuring Frankie Beverly
― hellboy falling through the bar (Matt #2), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 04:14 (one year ago) link
should of changed their name to Corn
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 04:21 (one year ago) link
Gina Hartman, Fox sisters reunite as 'Everything But the Everything But the Girl Girl'.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 05:01 (one year ago) link
like can't they get in trouble for using Frankie's name even though what they mean is "we're formerly of the touring version of Maze that had Frankie Beverly in it but now he's not in our group", like...did nobody consult an entertainment lawyer
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 05:04 (one year ago) link
They are called "TMF Formerly Of Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly" ... I'm guessing autocorrect messed up the name in that tweet.
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 05:22 (one year ago) link
lol that makes a lot more sense.
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 05:29 (one year ago) link
my fav live band to go see is Oingo Boingo sans Danny Elfman. It's all the OG dudes, but for legal and booking reasons, they go by OINGO BOINGO FORMER MEMBERS and all their merch has FORMER MEMBERS as big as OINGO BOINGO. It's SO STUPID. Sickest band tho.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ZYkAAOSwLGNjECtt/s-l500.png
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 06:53 (one year ago) link
:zoviet*france: have never been as good since Robin Storey left, he was responsible for so much of the gritty ethno-ambient textures of their early work. In fact it's well documented that some of their early albums were just Storey solo.
The Bad Seeds have never been as good since Bargeld and Harvey left, obviously Cave sees Ellis as his main creative foil these days but it's not the same.
And obviously Fairport Convention have never been as good since Richard Thompson left.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 07:24 (one year ago) link
A few years ago Fairport Convention toured playing "Liege and Lief" in its entirety; none of the current line-up played on the record.
There was a Them album after Van Morrison left.
― fetter, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 10:29 (one year ago) link
simon nicol played on l&l
― buzza, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 10:54 (one year ago) link
the rosie thru rising for the moon (maybe gottle o geer if that counts) fairport had no original members but when nicol came back they had that covered
― buzza, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 10:58 (one year ago) link
Kast Off Kinks is spot-on for the purposehttps://kastoffkinks.co.uk/
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 11:09 (one year ago) link
Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly was always a weird name to begin with. Also I believe he still tours with some version of Maze, does this mean there is a version out there without him that still has his name awkwardly in the band name?
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link
Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly Featuring Frankie Beverly
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:14 (one year ago) link
should have 4 Mazes in each region, Maze North, Maze South, Maze East, Maze West. a good band is hard to find.
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
https://gerryspacemakers.com/
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 06:47 (one year ago) link
I love the gratuitous interrobang in the thread title.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 12:01 (one year ago) link
Lol
― Cosmo’s Hacienda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 12:03 (one year ago) link
Wall of Voodoo post-Stan Ridgway seems very weird to me, I'm sure the other members contributed a lot but his vocals seem like such a defining part of the band. Plus apparently their drummer left at the same time.
― Cosmo’s Hacienda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 12:05 (one year ago) link
I'm reminded of the Best Show gag about the reunited Ramones (three drummers and a bassist).
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 12:43 (one year ago) link
Reminds me that La Düsseldorf literally was a band of three drummers.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 12:57 (one year ago) link
I'm pretty sure that ZZ Top is touring with lynyrd Skynyrd this summer. that is wrong on so many levels.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 13:02 (one year ago) link
Skynyrd seems to have been slowly taken over by the replacement members, like an ant being consumed by invasive fungus.
Dusty Hill's sub for the forthcoming dates is a guy called Elwood. Works for me!
― john cooper mellencamp (Matt #2), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 13:49 (one year ago) link
now that rock & roll is largely a nostalgia business, I'd expect this to become the norm over the next couple of decades, if it isn't the norm already. I mean the good news is that you'll still be able to see the stones in 2040, and they'll only play the hits.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
Elwood Francis was Billy Gibbons' guitar tech, and it was Dusty Hill's wish that ZZ continue with Elwood on bass. I feel like that's a whole different situation than Skynyrd.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 14:23 (one year ago) link
No, I generally agree. But they certainly water down their brand by touring with zombie Skynyrd.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link
So many deaths in Skynyrd. Crazy that Johnny has been the lead vocalist since 1987, way longer than Ronnie ever was. I only ever saw them once, back in the 70s, but I imagine they still put on a capable show, zombies and all.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
Are there any rock bands with no living members left?
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
oh Jimi Hendrix Experience I guess
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
I would say Viola Beach but there seem to have been some early members who'd left before the unfortunate and fatal accident.
― john cooper mellencamp (Matt #2), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 16:20 (one year ago) link
Ramones
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
Original members, yeah, but not replacement members
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link
I think we had a thread on this
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link
Cream are only a Clapton away from this
― john cooper mellencamp (Matt #2), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link
I think all the members of Buddy Holly and the Crickets are dead, but probably not all who played under the Crickets name.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
this thread title makes me think that it's suggesting the government should intervene to force these bands to accept these ex members back
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
Floyd were not w/o Syd, except Wish You Were Here, which was about and for Syd, not Waters' usual beefs.RIP Gary Rossington kept Skynyrd going as a tribute band to its former self, with at least one younger Van Zant brother filling in for Ronnie, and other classic line-up members as long as they survived the plane crash and could play, then pulling in previous members, the last of whom might have been Ricky Medlocke, singer-guitarist (also led Blackfoot, who did a cool cover of Spirit's "I Got A Line On You," but otherwise were maybe too much of a Southern Rock start-up for late 70s). Van Zant talked Medlocke into drumming for Skynyrd, because they needed a drummer and VZ liked to talk people into shit("C'mon, get back on the plane"). Have read that current LS, whoever they may consist of, were "kickass" on whatever recent country awards show (not the most recent, but pretty recent). I don't think Top would take them along if not.
― dow, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 17:40 (one year ago) link
Of course if you really want to get into various line-ups all at once, there's this. as I blog-mentioned a few years ago:
Richard Thompson is an ever-riveting, never-showboating featured team player ("Sloth" gets really dead-to-zombstring strange: is it about wages of sloth, of a sloth? Both?) on Fairport Convention's roiling, autumn-leaves-shanking What We Did On Our Saturday(headlined yet another Cropedy Festival), documenting a sometimes alarmingly energetic hive of all surviving Conventioneers who came to play--- which is most, incl. the entire founding line-up, I think---their 50th Anniversary Concert (taking things a little easier on Disc 2, but understandably so, given the earlier waves).
― dow, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 18:07 (one year ago) link
Yes are a good example of that on both counts, there's something weird and unnatural about the current lineup, but the band Jon Anderson's been touring with to play the classics actually does sound pretty great
― frogbs, Monday, 24 July 2023 21:12 (ten months ago) link
They could still theoretically put the Anderson-Bruford-Wakeman-Howe project back together, although it's unlikely since a) Bruford is retired, and b) the others all seem to hate each other. Maybe they should all go out with their own backing musicians playing the Yes classics? Saves them pretending it's still actually a band.
― The Fifth Roommate (Matt #2), Monday, 24 July 2023 21:24 (ten months ago) link
Has any group managed to successfully become dynastic with children of original members assuming parent duties? I feel like logistically this is more likely with duos.― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, July 18, 2023 11:55 AM (twelve minutes ago) Feel like Cheap Trick is getting there with Daxx on drums and Robin Zander's son on guitar & backing (sometimes lead) vocals― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, July 19, 2023 3:10 AM (six days ago)
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, July 18, 2023 11:55 AM (twelve minutes ago)
Feel like Cheap Trick is getting there with Daxx on drums and Robin Zander's son on guitar & backing (sometimes lead) vocals
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, July 19, 2023 3:10 AM (six days ago)
Does DJ Yella and Li'l Eazy-E currently on "the Straight Outta Compton tour" count?
If it's just kids joining alongside the parents, there's a rich vein, with a recent highlight the current lineup of Crowded House including as many of Neil Finn's offspring as it does founding members.
(and special ILM asterisk for the pre-split lineup of Supergrass containing as many of Gaz Coombes' siblings as it did non-Coombes members in toto.)
― serving bundt (sic), Monday, 24 July 2023 22:32 (ten months ago) link
Yella has done that N.W.A. Family cash-in touring nonsense for a while. Impressive that MC Ren has never been roped into it
― beamish13, Monday, 24 July 2023 22:36 (ten months ago) link
Years of touring have seen The Weight Band revive “The Woodstock Sound,” keeping the spirit of Americana/Roots Rock alive for audiences of all ages. Performing their own music, as well as classic songs from The Band, The Weight Band is led by Jim Weider, a 15-year former member of both The Band and the Levon Helm Band, whose famed Woodstock barn group originated in.
Eh ...
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 April 2024 14:31 (two months ago) link
take it to Tribute bands featuring original members
― bae (sic), Sunday, 7 April 2024 14:49 (two months ago) link
They paved the way for The Average Weight Band!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:03 (two months ago) link
ha
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:07 (two months ago) link
Weight, WeightI never had a chance to load you
― President Keyes, Sunday, 7 April 2024 17:50 (two months ago) link
serious tangent here ―and maybevi should take this elsrwhere― but besides like schoolboy crush, does anyone really awb seriously? i mean, in hindsight.
anyway.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 7 April 2024 18:03 (two months ago) link
sorry i got so flabbergasted i littered myself with typos. i think you get what i meant. mostly i hate awb. thanks for coming to my ted talk.
so yeah. the band is cool for a legacy act, but not if it's nobody from the actual band.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 7 April 2024 18:06 (two months ago) link