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Hello froze over for the Eagles...
Posted by nicktf on 3 August 2009 - 6:39pm.
Pink Floyd (mercifully) managed to at least hide the hatchet down the back of the settee
The Police heard the siren-call of money.
So which bands will *never* get back together, and why?* Any good reunion stories?
*First person to answer "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" will be docked a point.
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I truly believe *all* bands will eventually reunite...
if circumstances are right; ie: they're skint and there's an audience that wants to see them. The thought of a vast bundle of banknotes is enough to varnish over any number of personality issues. The only possible impediment is dead band members, and not even that need scupper a reformation if the will is strong enough.
The Smiths
Way too much bad blood. It all hangs on Mozza & he's single minded enough to prevent it forever.
I could see Morrissey saying yes to it...
just to surprise people and do the exact opposite of what people expect him to do. Maybe not yet, but someday...
I'd like to see that...
Never saw them back in the day.
In 1986 was offered two tickets to see them at...
the Kilburn National (the show that was recorded for the 'Rank' album), but I turned them down because I couldn't stand The Smiths at the time. Years later I had a complete conversion due to a woman I was in love with who was more in love with Morrissey than me, and I started to bitterly regret that decision. Oh well...
Morrissey & Marr maybe...
... in fact I'm absolutely certain that M & M will reunite in some form at some point, maybe even with Andy Rourke, but there's no way Moz would let Mike Joyce in on it, not that I could see (m)any fans staying away because Joyce was absent.
There's probably some formula for working out the likelihood of any reunion, a coefficient for the declining fortunes of the solo members calculated against status of the remaining interest in the original band...?
81-85 line ups of
The Sisters Of Mercy
although many deluded souls still imagine
I'm not one of them but I would pay to see any former incarnation play them "hits"
Cant see the Attractions
ever reforming given the animosity between Elvis Costello and Bruce Thomas now immortalised as the 'funniest fucker in the world' by 'The Singer'.
I think Elvis
not letting him join in at the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame because 'I only play with working musicians' was the final nail in that coffin. Then again , we thought that after 'The Big Wheel'.
I noted the other day that Bruce Thomas always hated 'I Want You' calling it boring and adolescent. Yet that the last song The Strractions ever played on a stage was a extra long version of the the song maybe just EC twisting the knife one last time.
Even Metallica managed to bury the hatchet with Newsted (and vice versa) for the RNRHOF and they spent part of a movie slagging him off.
a classic Blondie reunion is probably off due to legal problems, m'lud.
The sad thing is...
Bruce Thomas is a fucking brilliant bass player - up there with Macca in terms of melodic invention.
Having read Luke Haines' book
I'd say a full Auteurs reunion is unlikely!
Talking Heads
David Byrne remains friendly with Jerry Harrison but (see today's Times) really doesn't get on that well with Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth. And he's apparently turned down seriously serious quantities of cash to get back together.
Driving down the M4 to see The Police in 2007...
...seemed like a good opportunity to catch up with some back issues of The Word podcast. This very topic came up. "Well, the Police, obviously" said Ellen (or possibly, Hepworth). How we laughed. Mind you, only possible after hatchet-burying of the most subterranean kind.
They Were So Bad
in Dublin, I wish they hadn't bothered. And we paid a fortune to get in.
Not music but Bob and Terry
I imagine a lot of us on here would love to see The Likely Lads bury the hatchet. Highly unlikely given James Bolam's legendary(even i'm using it) hatred of Rodney Bewes.
Whatever did happen?
I have to admit I wasn't aware of this animosity. Found this http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/866712.what_did_happen_to_the_like... but still none the wiser, really.
Read a recent Radio Times feature about New Tricks, and Bolam came across as quite a jolly person, which seems very at odds with this situation.
Anyone cast any light on this?
The Jam
Paul Weller to reform the Jam? I don't think so.
Procul Harum
with Matthew Fisher on keyboards?
The Kinks
The original line up are all alive, but even though Ray would like to, both Dave and Pete Quaife say no. Dave is also very ill I believe so that might scupper it even if he were willing.
I also suspect that the Beatles may never re-form...
The Beatles 2.0?
Jules or Sean, Zak, Dhani and, er... well I'm certain there must be a musically talented McCartney out there somewhere!
yeah...
James, his son, plays guitar.
Cheers
Job's a good 'un!
Maybe (Just...)
that the "musically talented McCartney out there" could go by the moniker of Sir Paul....
The Police
I thought The Police reunion was done for the right reasons as far as reunions go.
Sting is minted and I haven't seen Andy or Stewart signing on recently so money was not the prime motive here.
I honestly think they just wanted to get out there and play all these great songs again.
Generally speaking I don't begrudge any band a reunion.
Bills do have to be paid.
I don't begrudge any band a reunion either...
except Limp Bizkit.