Tribute bands featuring original members

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