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Bands with no original members
Posted by itf on 29 July 2008 - 12:30pm.
This discussion may have been had before, but I'm wondering how many bands are out there with no original members at all but trading under the original name.
I can think of at least 2 -
The Pipettes:
Originally - Julia Becki and Rose
Then - Becki, Rose, Gwenno
Now - Gwenno, Ani, Anna
Thin Lizzy - I'm not going through all the permutations while there's wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Lizzy_band_members
How many others are there out there?
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Some might say
there is nothing original about the members of Oasis.....oh sorry I misunderstood the question
Oasis / Rain
You're actually almost there with Oasis too! Formed by "Bonehead", "Guigsy" and Tony McCarroll as The Rain, Liam G then joined and renamed them Oasis. The three that started the band are no longer in it.
Dr. Feelgood are still out there touring..
..with none of the originals. Shouldn't be allowed, I say.
One of the Two Bucks Fizzes
Should really be called Dollar as it is headed by David Van Day.
Both have at least 1 original member?
Or did David van Day do away with Mike Nolan?
Bit of both really
Wikipedia say's.....
Band dispute
Shortly after David Van Day left Bucks Fizz, he teamed up with Mike Nolan and two new female recruits to form a new version of Bucks Fizz. Confusion was averted when Nolan agreed to call his band "Bucks Fizz starring Mike Nolan"; their website said the new band was an amalgamation of Bucks Fizz and Dollar (using the slogan "Bucks Fizz plus Dollar equals Lots of Cents"). This version of the band released two singles and a compilation album which featured new vocal versions of old hits.
In 2001, Nolan left his version of Bucks Fizz but Van Day continued to tour under the moniker "Bucks Fizz". As Heidi Manton, now owner of the name "Bucks Fizz", still continued to play with Bobby G in the official version of Bucks Fizz, much confusion was caused and Bobby G brought a case in the High Court against Van Day. In 2001, a judge refused to grant a court injuction against Van Day as he been operating in "Bucks Fizz" for five years at the time.[1]
The feud and legal battle between Bobby G and David Van Day as to who owned the name "Bucks Fizz" was the subject of a BBC television documentary, Trouble at the Top [2]. The case was settled out of court in August 2002 when David Van Day agreed to call his version of the band "David Van Day's Bucks Fizz Show".[2]
There's a film in there somewhere
There already is...
... a great documenatary on this. If you ever see it trailed, watch it, you won't be disappointed.
Likewise the East 17 reunion documentary, if only to see the difference between the songwriter's wealth and the non-songwriting bandmates' poverty.
Asia
Which is why the 4 original members - Howe, Wetton, Palmer & Downes - have to tour as The Original Asia, since the name Asia was sold off to John Payne
Aren't "The Original Asia"
in danger of being sued by an entire continent? (And is that why Steely Dan used the spelling 'Aja'?)
Not quite completely different people
but Destiny's Child morphed through several line-ups with only Beyonce as a constant. Likewise The Fall. Easy to get confused, them two
The Original
T Rex were advertised as appearing in Neath Carnival two weeks ago.Not an urn in sight.
I was told by one of the organisers that the band consisted of the original roadies.
That's OK then
if they were the "original" roadies.
Is there such a thing as "tribute" roadies?
Not In The Mood
Any Glen Miller Tribute Orchestra.
Bucks Fizz
A friend of mine is a huge Bucks Fizz fan, to this day, without any sense of irony whatsoever, and is friends with Mike Nolan, who I believe lives in the same Kent coastal town. This adds nothing at all to this thread and is distinctly unimpressive in every way. It is in many ways a metaphor for life.