― Demonposterz (peter dee), Monday, 18 April 2005 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Telephonething, Monday, 18 April 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Are there any exceptions? There must be surely.
― moley (moley), Monday, 18 April 2005 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 18 April 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 18 April 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link
That was certainly the case with Ultravox, because not only did the singer change, the songwriting changed. (And, yeah, I'm definitely in the Foxx camp here.) I guess you could say that about Genesis, sorta.
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 18 April 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Monday, 18 April 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Monday, 18 April 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter d (peter dee), Monday, 18 April 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Don Rowlando (Sam Rowlands), Monday, 18 April 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
And then there's Echo & the Bunnymen, The Velvets & Motley Crue.. or currently INXS (could you sink any lower?)
― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Monday, 18 April 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jauntey (peter dee), Monday, 18 April 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Dave Gilmour always sang when in the `Floyd.
Iron Maiden - replacing Paul Di'anno with Bruce Dickinson -- at first I was aghast, as their respective styles are totally different, if not polar. I love them both, but at the time it seemed like a mistake.
The Stranglers - Replacing Hugh Cornwell with Paul Whateverhisname is. It hurt to see Hugh leave, and I instantly hated Paul for it, but five or six albums later, they came out with Norfolk Coast which was surprisingly good. That said, I'd rather they have Hugh back -- which will sadly never happen.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 18 April 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.realitytvworld.com/index/articles/story.php?s=3194
― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link
It seems replacing Stephen Duffy with Simon Le Bon did Duran Duran no harm.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link
If we're talking purely artistically, Buzzcocks replacing Devoto: A Bad Move
(not really.)
― Fergal (Ferg), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
PANAMA!!!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
i smell the next "defend the indefensible" thread here!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 18 April 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link
http://stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1469
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― xenografia, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 05:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 06:04 (nineteen years ago) link
I always liked the first couple of albums with Rod Evans..
― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Simon H. (Simon H.), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
http://stiltskin.free.fr/genesis.gif
― Huey (Huey), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
"Mercury Rev....?" - OTM. As much as I love Yerself and Boces, dumping Baker allowed the band to ascend to the heights of what is arguably their finest hour(s) = See You on the Other Side & Deserter's Songs. These days, though, I think they would do well to spike their dad rock with a generous slab of Baker's madcap anarchy.
― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link
I have already! And so has Naive Teen Idol!http://stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1469
-- Alfred Soto (sotoal...), April 19th, 2005. (later)
OMGWTF!
(i am also glad that i am not the only one who thought that "press" was a VERY dirty song.)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
yeah, that's what i thought too.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Didn't Medicine originally have a different vocalist?
― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Blasphemy.
Helped Hot Hot Heat along.
I swear their singer is Justin Guarini. (sp)
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago) link
This poor guy! Seems maybe a brick shy, but
John Tristao on His 21-Year Stint Subbing For John Fogerty in Creedence: ‘It Was Pure Torture’He played 1,800 gigs with Creedence Clearwater Revisited between 1995 and 2016, but backstage squabbles and critical backlash took a major toll on his body and mind
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/john-tristao-creedence-clearwater-revisited-1234592101/
― dow, Saturday, 17 September 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link
Surely he could have saved enough to leave long before the horrible end? Would still have been some horror, but better before then---
― dow, Saturday, 17 September 2022 02:33 (one year ago) link
My favourite bit is him scolding the new guitarist:
"They’ve got enough trouble doing this without you coming out and trying to play Larry Carlton while we’re trying to play Creedence. It doesn’t work.”
CCRevisited hiring a singer who can't hit the notes of the previous singer (and then refusing to change the keys they play in) smacks of Trevor Horn in Yes, who had to start every set singing at the top of his range, and continue for 2 hours.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 17 September 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
Scott Weiland was a fantastic frontman and a versatile singer. But he was a disaster. Someone already raised the question of what to do when the singer dies (or otherwise becomes . . . unavailable). I hear that STP's current lead man is pretty good, but I have zero desire to see them now. Kudos to them for soldiering on, but I doubt I'll ever buy another ticket.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 September 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
Judging by the interview (and the clip of "Up Around The Bend"), it wasn't that he couldn't hit the notes, but more that they were far more difficult to hit at the end of a set than in the middle, or at the beginning.
xp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 17 September 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
Rolling Stone also has an interview with the singer of Talk Show, who says their (pretty good) album never got a chance because the record company was waiting for the STP members of the band to reunite with Weiland.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 17 September 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
i was sort of thinking about this just yesterday, but in the context of artists who are filling the role of a titular band leader after that leader is no longer involved.
the two instances that i was thinking of were dewey redman in old and new dreams (taking the role of ornette coleman) and freddia hubbard in VSOP (taking the role of miles davis)
― budo jeru, Saturday, 17 September 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
I had a friend in college who saw Herman's Hermits, sans Herman.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 September 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
I would think in the cases of Redman and especially Hubbard, they weren't replacing in the sense of "taking the role of," in the sense of imitating or approximating, if that's what you mean: they were both known for their own sounds and records, though of course Redman played with Coleman, was compatible with him and the rest of the players who then took the name of Old and New Dreams, when OC on to Prime Time etc. And Hubbard had *some* Quintet-era Miles feel and appeal, of course, so it wasn't like they brought in Herb Alpert (although that could have worked w some Quintet material).
― dow, Saturday, 17 September 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
Ethan Iverson has a phrase I like which he uses to describe mid 70s acts like VSOP — "stadium jazz." Even though it was the same guys who played with Davis from 65-68, they weren't doing the same thing musically at all.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 17 September 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
Then Black Sabbath of course...
How dare you.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 18 September 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link
Eddie Van Halen to thread.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 18 September 2022 01:22 (one year ago) link