The Jimi Hendrix Experience - gone, gone and, now, gone
Posted by David Hepworth on 14 November 2008 - 1:57pm.
Over on his blog Word contributor Jonh Ingham poses the question I wish I'd thought of - now that Mitch Mitchell has died, does this make the Jimi Hendrix Experience the first all-star all-dead band?
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That'd be the comment here from Wednesday's blogfest then?
"makes me think...
...any other bands with no surviving members?"
The Ink Spots...
...must all be dead by now, surely?
If only
the Ink Spots had hair like the Experience.
Ink Spots don't count
Much as I love them, they're not what we'd call a rock band.
and they're not all dead...
Huey Long turned 104 earlier this year
Pah!
a youngster!
My apologies...
...to Mr. Long.
To be fair...
I suspect he's stopped gigging these days
Stereophonics
They all seemed to be dead from the neck up the other night on Jools Holland
The Queen is dead
without freddy..
are all the crickets
still above ground and churpping?
Some of them are...
...and that rules 'em out of this thread
Oddly enough they were only born in the late 30's so barely any older than (say) the Stones or the Beatles
They were touring
With Nanci Griffith two or three years back. They may be legends and all that but I thought they took up rather too much of her show.
Mmmm that sort of thing agrieves me...
When Van had Brian Kennedy as a backing vocalist, he'd stroll off stage (to clean out his mouth harp perhaps?) and leave BK to do a few songs. Good though he is, if I wanted to see a Brian Kennedy show, I'd have gone to one.
To be fair, if you were recalling the Blue Roses tour...
... the Crickets acted as the support band doing a 45 minute "best of" set and then joined the Blue Moon Orch for around half of Nanci's set. But then again the "Blue Roses From the Moons" album was a collaboration between Nanci and the Crickets, who played on most of the tracks on the album. besides, the opportunity to see Sonny Curtis playing guitar (particularly on tracks like "I Fought The Law...") was a privelege anyone should be happy to have witnessed!!
There's only one Top left...
Duke Fakir is checking his life insurance as we speak
Lynyrd Skynyrd?
Did any of them survive that plane crash?
Yup
All of 'em bar two (three if you include the backing singer who was killed)
Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines were killed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynyrd_skynyrd explains the full horrific story :-(
Another couple from Skynyrd
....have since died.
Allen Collins(guitar)and the bass player Leon Wilkeson.
Artemus Pyle(drums)Gary Rossington(guitar)and Billy Powell(piano)are the only ones left from the line-up I remember.
Only one T.Rex left
And giving the lie to Spinal Tap, it's the drummer.
and Beatle similarly
of course.
But surely...
...ahhh. Clever.
Ahhh...
Good point.
Makes me think, at what point does a member become 'original'? First gig with the band name? First album?
Who mentioned original, stimpy?
My "ahhh" was based on the fact that Sven's post suddenly reminded me that I could do with some new shoes...
The Ramones
The only survivors are the drummers, who were on a "revolving door", so to speak. The three consistent members have all left the building.
Johnny Burnette's rock n' roll trio's...
...train just kept a rollin straight to heaven.
Johnny Burnette (1964)
Dorsey Burnette (1979)
Paul Burlinson (2003)
Muddy Waters original Chicago Blues Band have to be included, they set the template for the rock band
Muddy, Otis Spann, Elga Edmonds, Little Walter Jacobs and Jimmy Rogers.
I know it wasn't the original....
.....Muddy Waters Band, but I saw a band earlier this year in Edinburgh billed as a Muddy Waters band(can't remember the name they went under)which featured former members of Muddys band(s).
Steady rollin' Bob Margolin(guitar)
Jerry Portnoy(harp)
David Maxwell(piano)
Calvin *Fuzz* Jones(bass)
Willie *Big Eyes* Smith(drums)
James Cotton(harp)
If it wasn't for Roger Daltrey...
Who seems to be travelling backwards in time, I would have said The Who.
Makes me think about the Traveling Wilburys End of the Line song which of course was rendered poignant by Roy Orbison's death (and Harrison's).
Shameful then that Denis Waterman apes the song wholesale for his cop show "New Tricks". Oh yes, he sings the theme tune and he writes the theme tune. It sounds the same and the lyrics are familiar too:
Denis:
"It's all right - It's OK
We're going til the end of the day"
TW:
"It's all right - everything'll work out fine
Well its all right, were going to the end of the line"
"New Tricks" actually used..
"End Of The Line" for its first seies.
So why the change?
.
Well, as is the nature with all of these things..
..they probably had to pay too much money, so they came up with a tidy rip-off.