Tribute bands featuring original members

H20 = I Dream To Sleep and fuck knows what else
PhD = Jim Diamond + other blokes = I Won't Let You Down and fuck knows what else

Well, strictly speaking: The Headcoats and Thee Headcoatees. Although, that's not really the sort of thing you're after I guess.

I guess you could put the whole post-Garcia sea of Grateful Dead spinoffs like The Other Ones/The Dead in here, kinda. Or bands playing their old material under a different name for legal reasons (Heaven & Hell instead of Black Sabbath, The Heads instead of the Talking Heads). Maybe that's a whole other thing, though.

Velvet Revolver

OMG SOOPERGROOPZ playing songs from the members' previous bands but ostensibly are new bands releasing new albums are kind of a different deal

Saw another good one of these last night: “Lick, The Australian Lemonheads Show*” played one gig in October 1991, reformed for one gig exactly ten years later, and have played twice, unbilled, in the last couple of years as Evan Dando’s encore. Lineup is Dando with not-yet-Lemonheads-songwriter-in-1991 Tom Morgan on bass, and not-yet-in-1991/now-former-Lemonheads-bassist Nic Dalton on drums, doing a bunch of Lick songs plus Different Drum.

For the second encore he also got the two surviving members of The Eastern Dark onstage together for the first time in 23 years to do an Eastern Dark cover, but that’s a clear case of grizzled veterans getting up to guest on one song.

*Half the bands gigging in Sydney in 1990-92 were The Australian Famousoverseasband Show. There were at least three Cure ones, and my high school history teacher quit because the The Australian Doors Show he drummed in got big enough to tour Europe for 18 months.

This is of strictly regional/local interest for Clevelanders and Ohioans of the 1970s/80s, but still:

Michael Stanley Band alumnus and co-founder Jonah Koslen and friends have assembled a show called Stage Pass Now that’s an expanded, complete recreation of the MSB double-live album Stage Pass. They’re playing the two-hour show at the Winchester, Saturday, April 18 and the Tangier, Saturday the 25th.

It’s one of the Michael Stanley Band’s signature records, though its title player won’t be onstage. The Stage Pass Now lineup comprises Northeast Ohio veterans Donny Thompson (Easy Street Band), Bill March (Beau Coup and Koslen’s Heroes), Rik Williger (the Short Circuits), and Van Eidom (Kooch, ESB).

“I told Michael what I intended to do, and he liked it,” says Koslen, the lead guitarist who co-wrote and performed many classics with the bandleader from 1974 to ’77. Koslen says he didn’t ask Stanley to participate, because Stanley didn’t seem interesting in revisiting past glories. “He was more interested in (playing) his new material.”

Koslen says the two remain close friends. The guitarist performed two songs with Stanley’s Resonators at the Tangier last month. And Stanley’s label, Line Level, has issued Koslen’s last two releases.

The band will recreate the arrangements from the record, plus songs from the era. An expanded take on the acoustic segment will include four extra tunes: “Ladies’ Choice,” Blue Jean Boy,” “Gypsy Eyes,” and “Among My Friends Again.”

Culled from four October 1976 sets at the old Agora Ballroom, the disc was released by Epic, and is the group’s only gold album. “It shows how great the band was,” says Koslen. “It’s a recording that holds together as a whole piece of music. I think it could be pointed to as a milestone in Cleveland music. I’m told all the time by people that it’s their favorite live album.”

A case of the exact opposite, but during Jon Anderson's abscence because of his illness, Yes have recruited a replacement singer from a Yes tribute band.

Defend The Indefensible: The Beautiful South

The band will feature Dave Hemingway (vocals), Alison Wheeler (Vocals), David Stead (Drums), Damon Butcher (Keyboards), Gary Birtles & Tony Robinson.. . The band will introduce their new guitarist, and bass player, on stage.

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The New Cars

With Jimmy Chamberlin, Ian McCulloch, (?), Ozzy Osbourne and (?) ???

Nope, Prarie Prince (of the Tubes) on drums and Todd Rundgren on vox/guitar. Not sure who the gent on the far right leaning against Todd is. He looks a bit like Ben Stiller.

damn, King Boiled Potato beat King Boy Pato to the New Beautiful South by four months. They could have done much better on the name though, perhaps Songs For Whoever?

Over the Rainbow features several ex-members of Rainbow, but none of the founders, and features Ritchie Blackmore's son on guitar!

^ high-quality example

"spurious line-ups of the real band" that induct members' offspring into the family firm could be a rich vein too

Does Genesis when Ray Wilson was in the band count? =) hee hee.

To be fair to Pato, King Boiled Potato was slightly closer to the source.

That's not source, that's butter.

slightly closer to

took the listing of members to make me notice how wonderfully redundant the concept is! seriously though, have a word with them about the name. Carry On Up The Chicken In A Basket Circuit?

Does this count? http://www.cjramone.com (on tour now)

nah, see first post for the distinction being drawn

Oh, ok. Apologies.

Current touring Yes lineup with Oliver Wakeman on keys and some Canadian guy from a Yes cover band as "Jon Anderson".

See first line of first post!

BREAKING: Nick Mason from Pink Floyd announces Syd-era Floyd tribute act Saucerful Of Secrets, also featuring Lee from the Blockheads, Gary Kemp off of them Spandaus, 1987-94 Floyd bassist (and subsequent Gilmour sideman) Guy Pratt, and the bloke who did the score for Spaced with Pratt.

"spurious line-ups of the real band" that induct members' offspring into the family firm could be a rich vein too

even better than this is Poptone, the tribute band for Bauhaus, Love & Rockets AND Tones On Tail that consists of Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins out of Bauhaus, Love & Rockets and Tones On Tail, plus Haskins' daughter.

PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT

^ that one's even better because the lineup is now mostly Monaco

it almost should be excluded since it's just "person from band tours playing their old stuff," but the aggressiveness of "we're playing this album in full," "now we're playing these two albums in full," "fuck you now we're playing all the songs from the two singles compilations of BOTH my old bands" gets him under the wire.

Updates on The South, the Beautiful South tribute band featuring the original second-position male singer, the third consecutive person to be female-voice-singer, the original keyboard player, the original sax player, and the original trumpet player:

The trumpet player has left.
The keyboard player has left.
The male singer has left.
The sax player has taken over as the singer of both male vocal parts.

Nevertheless they are still gigging as a nine-piece band, with some thrilling bookings in 2018:

Irlam Live 2018 is looking like our best every. The legendary Stranglers will headline Friday with very special guest Toyah, who rocked the Irlam Live stage last year, and the fantastic Mohawk Radio. The Saturday line-up is The 80’s vs 90’s. Go West, The South, Republic, Five Star, Jaki Graham and Katrina (ex Katrina and the Wave). Plus Twisted Soul, Kev Gurney’s Club Tropicana, Mr Wilson’s Second Liners and Amanda Heywood. An awesome mix.

NEWS FLASH!!

Our show at this years GRILLSTOCK, BRISTOL on July 1st has now been CANCELLED!

The Festival has been called off and rescheduled for 2019. Tickets refund from your ticket provider.

Sorry about this but it is out of our hands.

(in the meanwhile, the original lead singer / co-songwriter and the second person to be female co-lead singer have since formed a duo and released three albums of originals.)

Half of four-piece rap group The Pharcyde did 20th and 25th anniversary tours for their debut album Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde, as Bizarre Ride Live. They add one ring-in rapper, and for the 20th anniversary had the two original co-producers in the group too.

Heart By Heart, featuring founding Heart bassist (1973-82) Steve Fossen and drummer Michael Derosier (1975-82), playing casinos and supper clubs near you*.

Honoring the magic and power of the music of Heart, this incredible lineup considers it their responsibility to bring the songs to the stage in their original form. According to Fossen, “We don’t see it as our task to modify or update these classic tunes that Heart fans love and have listened to all these years.”

*mainly if you live in Washington, and not in a city.

In 1995, on the heels of the “Daltrey Sings Townshend” tour, Daltrey and Entwistle planned an Australian tour. Ironically, Pete Townshend told Daltrey he should bill it as “The Who,” but it was cancelled due to low ticket sales:
http://www.thewho.net/australia/images/coming.jpg

Who’s Coming, Who’s Come?

hahaha

Who Are These Guys?

BTW I can see the Heart tribute band cottage industry blowing up since it looks like the Wilsons have iced the real band.

Between 1994 and 2000, Rednex had six distinct lineups, with two of the performers remaining throughout. All performing members were then fired by one of the producers, who had also been a performer in the first otherwise-recruited lineup.

A new lineup was hired, which had two more variations by 2004.

The original female singer signed a four-year deal to licence the band name in January 2005, and by mid-2006 had fired two of the three remaining male members from the seventh and eighth lineups (replacing one of them with her husband).

These two members, along with the female singer from those lineups, and another male from the seventh lineup, formed a touring "Rednex Tribute." For added authenticity, another replacement member from the eighth lineup joined in 2007.

When the licensing deal ended in January 2009, the producers fired the entire 11th lineup, and rehired four of the five members of Rednex Tribute as Rednex.

(Since January 2012, the entire Rednex workforce has been casualised, with up to 17 active and "reserve" members who can be called in for performances.)

The two singers from Propaganda, Claudia Brücken and Susanne Freytag, have a Propaganda tribute band called D:uel, named after the band's 1985 hit single Duel.

Another Propaganda tribute band, xPropaganda, features the band's two singers, Susanne Freytag and Claudia Brücken.

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/lovin-spoonful-tribute-reunion-john-sebastian-review-1203520407/

Honestly, "Nile Rodgers & Chic" is really skating trade practices.

Bunch of King Crimson alumni played in 21st Century Schizoid Band which was essentially a KC tribute band.

Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets

KC & The Schizoid Band

Pretty sure Skynyrd turned into a tribute band a long time ago---last I heard, Rossington and Medlocke were the last originals aboard (longest-lasting post-plane crash member: backing vocalist Dale Krantz-Rossington [since 1987 or thereabouts], who was v. good lead singer of Rossington-Collins Band). Medlocke mostly recorded w LS as drummer, but main thing before and after that was and is singer-guitarist (VZ talked him into being drummer, because he could, characteristically enough).
The Doors of the Twenty-First Century incl. Stewart Copeland and Ian Astbury, initially--would liked to have seen that line-up, but there were many others, up until Manzarek's death in 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzarek%E2%80%93Krieger
Mike Love's Beach Boys.

Seems like a sideman thing to to do. Zakk Wylde and other Ozzy alumni are doing the Black Sabbath tribute group Zakk Sabbath.

I think there is a Prince group alumni doing some shows and touring. I know they did that big reunion show, but I think there is at least one club touring act I think.

yeah the revolution have toured at least twice. I hear it was great, I missed it.

The show we saw a couple of years back was pretty solid -- half the songs had a featured vocalist (who wisely didn't seek to just imitate Prince), half Wendy and Lisa did the leads, and it was a treat.

Pylon Reenactment Society

(not to be confused with the Pylon Appreciation Society)

i have heard good words about the current version of molly hatchet, who afaik have no original members.

There are two other threads for this.

a band called "three friends" that played the music of gentle giant

originally called "Rentle Giant"! changed to Three Friends when a third original member joined, though he only lasted one tour.



Jim Rodford has got to hold some record for being a ringer in the most past their prime Rock acts--IIRC, he was in the Kinks, the Zombies, and Badfinger in addition to the Animals.

Zac Starkey has clocked up The Who, Spencer Davis Group, Oasis, The Lightning Seeds and The Icicle Works at past-their-primes, though the latter two were only a few years late.

and of course there's the lords of 52nd street, with core members of billy joel's 70s band: Richie Cannata, Liberty DeVitto, and Russell Javors. plus a billy joel imitator.

my brother's high school buddy jon carin has played/toured with the who, pink floyd, roger waters, psychedelic furs, kate bush, elvis costello, and bryan ferry (at the live aid concert). wrong thread, i know, but relates to the zac starkey comment.

The Lords Of 52nd Street is a GREAT one.

does creedence clearwater revisited count?

― ras trevor, Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:33 AM (eleven years ago)

Yes, btw.



jon carin

Pink Floyd, Roger Waters and solo Gilmour is a good scoop.

fun fact: before he hit the big time, jon carin was in a band called industry with mercury coronia, another jericho high school alum, who self-released a semi-famous and deadly rare prog album called Cathedral ‎– Stained Glass Stories.

but back on topic, has anyone mentioned blue coupe with the bouchard brothers from BOC plus dennis dunaway from the alice cooper band?

Zac Starkey has clocked up The Who, Spencer Davis Group, Oasis, The Lightning Seeds and The Icicle Works at past-their-primes, though the latter two were only a few years late.

Jim Rodford has got to hold some record for being a ringer in the most past their prime Rock acts--IIRC, he was in the Kinks, the Zombies, and Badfinger in addition to the Animals.

speaking of castoffs, the martin barre band plays almost exclusively jethro tull material.

awww:

The Kast Off Kinks formed in 1994 to keep the music playing on, and it is what the name implies - the original line-up consisted of the band that played Lola (apart from Ray and Dave) - Avory, Dalton and Gosling - together In 2009, the line-up became the band that played Come Dancing - Avory, Gibbons and Rodford (respectively the Kinks’ longest-serving drummer, keyboard player and bassist) - still with Dave Clarke covering for the Davies brothers. Jim then became very busy playing with The Zombies and Argent, so John Dalton was persuaded out of retirement and now plays very regularly with The Kast Off Kinks .

Almost every other ex-Kink has guested with The Kast Off Kinks, including Ray Davies

Zak has been in the Who for longer than their previous three drummers combined.

Call it four, what the heck; wikipedia has them meeting Moon at a gig they played with a fill-in drummer, using the kit of the original drummer they'd v rudely fired during an audition with a producer.


Also, fun fact: he was offered a full partnership in the Who back around 2000 or so, but he turned it down.

! Being in business meetings with Daltrey and Townshend together must be a HUGE ballache, then.


But it reminds me of a one-off that wasted the opportunity to have a proper band name:

In January 2012, one act dropped out of the last day of Tasmania's MONA FOMA festival, and the booker asked another one if they'd play a second set. The Dresden Do11s were both hanging around for a couple of days to see other performers play, so said yes, but: didn't want to just play a normal show again, given the audience were likely to be repeat customers.

So A. P4lmer asked the booker if he'd play bass with them, expanding the band from a duo; he agreed. She then asked if he would mind playing the entire Violent Femmes first album, for that to be the show: Brian Ritchie, the bassist of then-acrimoniously-split Violent Femmes and Tasmanian resident, said yes, and brought a vibraphone too.

The album's songs need a guitarist to be performed. Happening to go to a PJ Harvey (non-festival) show that night, P4lmer and drummer Brian Viglione went backstage afterward to say hello to one of hers, and left with Mick Harvey having agreed to listen to the Violent Femmes for the first time, to learn all their album's songs in three days on various instruments, and with John Parish signing up to chip in on electric guitar.

(What reminded me:
The Femmes then recruited Viglione as drummer the next year, having settled a five-year lawsuit between Ritchie and Gano (and already managed to drive their original drummer out of a Coachella-prompted reunion after a few shows, with a shitty contract) during the year. He quit after a couple of years, exhausted with the acrimony still existing between Ritchie and Gano to such a degree that they would not even stand in the same room as each other.)

Al Jardine’s Endless Summer w/ Matt Jardine

Al Jardine's "Endless Summer Band," featuring various touring Boys and his own sons, one of whom later joined Mike's licensed Boys, and Al's "Beach Boys Family & Friends," featuring a different assortment of sideBoys, his sons, and Brian's daughters.

Thanks to a tip from DJP on twitter:

Here is Gene Loves Jezebel's wikipedia:

https://i.imgur.com/w18mtqy.jpg

At the red arrow, it says "After the Pre-Raphaelite Brothers tour (1997), Jay Aston refused to work with his brother unless Stevenson and Rizzo were brought back."

Rizzo has previously only been mentioned at the pink asterisk, for having recorded two songs on a best-of in 1995; the band formed in 1980. The wikipedia writers never bother to give his first name, nor what instrument he plays, and yet his presence (or otherwise) has led to two entirely separate versions of Gene Loves Jezebel existing for 23 years, and suing each other in 1997, 2008 and 2018. (Each band has released studio albums under the name!)

Since 2009, a settlement means that Jay Aston's band is Gene Loves Jezebel in the UK, but the tribute band "Michael Aston's Gene Loves Jezebel" is allowed to tour, whereas Michael Aston's band is Gene Loves Jezebel in the USA, but tribute act "Jay Aston's Gene Loves Jezebel" is allowed to tour there.

Michael Aston (who first quit the band in 1989, rejoining in 1993, before the twin brothers split again in 1997) owns genelovesjezebel.com, and has no other original members in his Jezebels. Jay Aston owns genelovesjezebel.co.uk, and has no other original members, BUT does occasionally have three members who played with the band at various points in the 1980s amongst his Jezebels, and in 2017 used them all on a record for the third time ever / first time since 1990.

^that’s amazing

As chronicled by the Mountain Goats in Abandoned Flesh:

They charted once or twice
They were on a major label
When the singer went solo
He left money on the table
The two main guys are related
They're at war with each other
Now there's two Genes loving Jezebel
One for each brother

from this thread: Once Upon a Time in L.A. 2021

The lead singer of The Stylistics left in 2000, and tours as Russell Thompkins Jr. & The New Stylistics, possibly with a 1980-85 Stylistic in his group. Two other original Stylistics continue to be in The Stylistics.

By 1975, there were three original Dramatics out of five in the Dramatics. One of them split and formed a second, competing Dramatics. The first Dramatics then became a near-tribute band called Ron Banks And The Dramatics. Circa 1979 this tribute band (with two original members) won a court case, and the alternate band (with one original member) became a tribute band called A Dramatic Experience (great name).

Also, beating Gene Loves Jezebel to the punch by two decades, since 1975 there have been two lineups of The Delfonics, led by founding-member brothers.

Terry Chambers now has a band called something like EX-TC

EX-CellenT one:

Chambers and longer-term XTC bloke Colin Moulding did one EP and some gigs as TC&I, Moulding specifically having rejected the name EXTC as too on the nose. Chambers continued playing with a couple of the backing members they'd used for their shows, considering carrying on as a gigging concern. On a social meeting, main XTC bloke and will-never-reform hermit Andy Partridge insisted that the name EXTC was too good to not use. Once Chambers had formed a full five-piece band, Partridge came to rehearsal to teach them the tricky parts from his songs.

They played one warm-up show in a local pub in Swindon last March, and cancelled their debut proper gig in Edinburgh due to the novel coronavirus two weeks later.

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Probably just a one-off for this Guitar Festival, but Derek Smalls is co-billed with Sydney rock band You Am I performing as The Majesty Of Tap, and it seems unlikely that he wouldn't play with them.

Dire Straits Legacy's lineup is:

- led by an Italian bloke who formed his first Dire Straits tribute band in 1988
- a popular Italian session keyboardist
- another keyboard player who joined Dire Straits in 1980, played on every track they ever recorded, and is in the RnR HOF as a member
- the sax player from King Crimson, who played on Dire Straits' album, EP, tour and live album from 1982-84
- an American bloke who was second guitar on Brothers In Arms and the tour thereafter, but quit performing in 1988 to spend twenty years as a marketing exec for guitar and gear companies
- a percussionist who joined Dire Straits in 1990 and has continued to tour as drummer or percussionist with Mark Knopfler since
- and Trevor Horn.

rofl

Without Ronnie Van Zant, LS were a tribute to their former self, even more than remaining Doors. who at least came up with some more original material. And that was when LS had a lot of surviving members from the last line-up to work with RVZ. They lost almost all pre-crash members--down to Gary Rossington and singer-guitarist Ricky Medlocke, who mainly played drums with them early on, like '71, '72. Some shows scheduled this year.

Trevor Horn being that dude you played with in college to call to help your cover band be able to play at the neighborhood picnic.

FP'ing dow again

With the departure of Sublime bassist Eric Wilson, the only remaining original member of Sublime tribute band Sublime With Rome is Rome Ramirez, who has announced he will disband at the end of the year, following a self-titled album and farewell tour.

this maybe sorta kinda fits the thread but i fuckin love this video of fabio lione playing rhapsody songs backed by some chilean youngsters having the time of their lives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipj98uhvmRI