bands whose members' solo projects did not precipitate a break-up or split

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one of them did a solo album, quit the band less than a year later then the band split up completely the year after that!

I mean one of the criteria is the solo album member remains in the band, for a start. plus the band put out its final studio album 2 months after the solo album, and the only thing they released after that was a remix album

He recorded it about two years earlier though AIUI, in the wake of the bloopy ambient Part Man Part Machine remix he did on the Get The Girl CD. Then he stayed in the band, wrote so much of the next album that for the first time in their history he requested a tiny note saying who'd written the lyrics for how many songs, recorded and released the album, toured it around the world for a year, then - again AIUI - suddenly left because he had unexpectedly become a single or shared-custody dad and had to get a day job that enabled him to work during school hours only.

He wasn't kicked out bcz anyone was jealous of his massive success with a barely-distributed album of bloops and splashes, and he didn't make another record himself for over a decade (when he put out some moderately terrible laptop nu-metal MP3s).


think there's even more Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes, & Marty Willson-Piper solo albums out there

I figured this out btw and it's bonkers

fair enough I guess the band didn't split up directly because of his solo album (although Wikipedia says he left to focus on his solo project, but that's Wikipedia, and there is no citation), but they split up anyway so not exactly a continuing success

yeah, they split up because the remaining other singer had writer's block and threw tantrums when the drummer kept bringing in fully-written instrumentals. so they might have stuck it out if Gra hadn't irresponsibly chosen to go and feed and clothe and raise a child - and with a US label now putting loads of support behind them bcz Reznor asked, they prob would have been a continuing success - but it all worked out pretty well for the dude with writer's block in the end.

I thought it was more normal to have solo albums that don't cause a split?

doesn't the My Morning Jacket guy have a bunch of solo albums?

the Parquet Courts guys too

Animal Collective

Big Thief. (I read that sometimes Adrianne will do a solo set at a Big Thief show, and the other guys will set down their instruments and watch.)

course if it's true there was a racist showing their ass in the front row, pretty weak if nobody defended the dude from it

(xp - wtf)

Guitarist Buck Meek also released a solo album in 2018; and somehow has time to fit in a touring side thing, despite belonging to a constantly touring "main band"(!)