re: What popular bands still tour with little or no original members?

Posted by Kafka

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Posted on 4/28/24 at 3:36 pm to Kafka

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Burton Cummings has cranked up the volume in his ongoing and long-standing dispute with some former bandmates over the licensing of songs made famous by the Guess Who. Cummings, the former frontman of the legendary rock band originally formed in Winnipeg in 1965, spoke at length about the feud with the current incarnation of the Guess Who, or as he calls it, "the fake band," in a Thursday interview with CBC Manitoba's Up To Speed. "I want people to realize that Randy Bachman, Kurt Winter, Bill Wallace, all the people that wrote the songs … we're the ones that made the records. I don't want the history of the band to be tied up with these fakes," he told host Faith Fundal. "The cover band has used my songs and Randy's songs over the years to draw people to their fake shows. It's not the band on the records that is showing up to the gigs and this is what we're going to stop." Cummings recently terminated agreements with performing-rights organizations for every Guess Who song he wrote and published, which means fans of hits like American Woman or These Eyes can't hear them played live in concert unless he allows it to happen.

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Posted by prplhze2000

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Posted on 4/28/24 at 5:38 pm to Bjorn Cyborg

King Crimson

Fripp is the only constant.

Posted by Lithium

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Posted on 4/29/24 at 6:27 am to Pisco

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Lynyrd Skynyrd is the answer.

Lynyrd Skynyrd if you look at their orginal work is one of the greatest bands of alltime and then they became one of the best cover bands of all time

Posted by Master of Sinanju

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Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:28 pm to Bjorn Cyborg

Tom Scholz is all that's left of Boston.

Posted by GeauxtigersMs36

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Posted on 4/29/24 at 4:04 pm to Kafka

Was Chris ethridge with the Bryds then?

Posted by Kafka

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Posted on 4/29/24 at 4:45 pm to GeauxtigersMs36

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Around that same time "The Byrds" played Meridian MS. I think this was the touring group operated by drummer Michael Clarke, which the other original members sued over.
Was Chris ethridge with the Bryds then?

CE was never actually a member of The Byrds, just ISB & Burritos.

And yes, it did occur to me that Clarke's Byrds might have played Meridian bc that was CE's hometown. But I have no way of knowing for sure.

Parsons allegedly campaigned to dump CE from tFBB bc he was "white trash".

After all, Gram was a Hahvahd man...

Posted by Cdawg

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Posted on 4/29/24 at 5:14 pm to Kafka

Climax Blues Band

Posted by bleeng

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Posted on 4/29/24 at 10:46 pm to prplhze2000

Fripp is the only constant. Robert Fripp is King Crimson. No one else records or tours under that name unless Fripp is leading the band.

Posted by Pisco

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Posted on 4/30/24 at 4:52 pm to Bjorn Cyborg

Megadeth and Saliva.

Posted by Palomitz

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Posted on 5/1/24 at 8:14 pm to TejasHorn

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Chicago is pretty much a different band than the 70s except for a horn player or two.

Yep, the band started around 1968 so you have an idea how old the original members are. I know 2 or 3 original members retired. I heard that Robert Lamm said that he does not have the energy anymore.