groups who no longer should be without certain living members?!

"Hello There...Virtually"

The Carter Family is one of these dynastic groups, three generations so far

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_Family

All Coppers are Bastards

... singers since the 18th century.

that is seriously impressive!

I prefer their early stuff

"This is from our new album"

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) bookmarkflaglink

Simon Jeffes' son Arthur does stuff under the name "Penguin Cafe" which I think is quite good

my mum went to see these old blokes calling themselves fairport convention the other day, I have no idea who they are since all the members I'd heard of seemed to just pass through the band at some point and/or die

OK so one founding member and a couple more 60s members, fair play they can keep the name then

When I was a kid I saw something called "Buffalo Springfield Revisited." I was wondering if they were a tribute band, but I guess they had one original BS member, Bruce Palmer.

totally counts!

the thing about this phenomenon is that if the band is purely touring, and not recording new music, often times the new incarnation of the band can recreate the sound with stunning authenticity (not like I Am Morbid, where that band's lead guitarist plays the leads much differently than Trey Azagthoth). if you forget "hey this isn't really the guys who recorded that album I loved years ago", you can have a good time.

but once an incarnation with no original members (or an original member who didn't contribute to the songwriting in a meaningful way or wasn't the face of the band) starts recording new music, it usually falls flat because they're either trying to recreate something that doesn't flow naturally from them, so it sounds phony, or they make the music they want to make and you wonder what the fuck it has to do with the band name it is attached to.

like I'm sure there aren't many fans of the Foreigner album that came out 9 years ago and featured only Mick Jones.

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

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.

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)

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.)

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

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 ...

take it to Tribute bands featuring original members

They paved the way for The Average Weight Band!

ha

Weight, Weight
I never had a chance to load you

serious tangent here ―and maybevi should take this elsrwhere― but besides like schoolboy crush, does anyone really awb seriously? i mean, in hindsight.

anyway.

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.