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.
― @oneposter (💹) (sic), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 05:34 (three years ago) link
^that’s amazing
― it's AG in your faaaace.... (morrisp), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 06:04 (three years ago) link
As chronicled by the Mountain Goats in Abandoned Flesh:
They charted once or twiceThey were on a major labelWhen the singer went soloHe left money on the tableThe two main guys are relatedThey're at war with each otherNow there's two Genes loving JezebelOne for each brother
― peace, man, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 12:44 (three years ago) link
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.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:42 (two years ago) link
Terry Chambers now has a band called something like EX-TC
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
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.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
World Premiere | Adelaide Exclusive
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.
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Sunday, 29 May 2022 01:44 (one year ago) link
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.
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Saturday, 6 August 2022 01:34 (one year ago) link
rofl
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 6 August 2022 01:54 (one year ago) link
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.
― dow, Saturday, 6 August 2022 02:29 (one year ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Saturday, 6 August 2022 03:01 (one year ago) link
FP'ing dow again
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 19:02 (eleven months ago) link