Bands That Benefited From a New or Replacement Member
Discussion
Boo-urns said:
yellowbentines said:
Red Hot Chili Peppers each of the 3 times John Frusciante joined.
I'm going to be controversial and say the Chillis when Dave Navarro joined. 
One Hot Minute is such a great album.
sir humphrey appleby said:
I would probably say when Pete Freisen (star of Wayne’s world) replaced Tantrum on lead guitar in The Almighty. They seemed to kick on from then and went onto bigger things, having said that, still a massively underrated band in the grand scheme of things.
This is a difficult one for me, saw them with the original line up, then saw them at MK with Friesen and loved both line ups. Arguably they did better commercially with Pete but the line up with Tantrum was more raw and i'll never forget him telling some d
head in the Woughton centre that if he spat at him one more time, he was going to jump off the stage and beat the st out of him. Ricky and the other lads were pretty eager to join in. Raucous night but still one of my favourite bands.Stick Legs said:
Iron Maiden - not only when Bruce Dickinson joined but as unpopular as this is going to be, also after he left.
Maiden were in a rut.
Blaize Bailey is a good singer.
The X Factor is a great album.
Bruce leaving for a bit & returning sorted out the egos and issues & they would not gave gone on to such great success & longevity if that episode had never happened.
I agree Maiden needs Bruce and Bruce needs Maiden. That said it did give things a shake up in the 90s when he left and I really enjoyed the Blaize albums. To the point they got me back into Maiden after an hiatus with The Clansman. Maiden were in a rut.
Blaize Bailey is a good singer.
The X Factor is a great album.
Bruce leaving for a bit & returning sorted out the egos and issues & they would not gave gone on to such great success & longevity if that episode had never happened.
Maiden were putting out some amazing music before Bruce but I think they'd have stayed a certain size if they'd maintained that sound. Bruce polished them and they exploded.
AC/DC with Johnson is an interesting one as they peaked with Bon with Highway to Hell (in my eyes) and then Back in Black was their best with Johnson. Hard to know if they'd have peaked with Bon but I suspect they would.
But Brian seems a top bloke and made his place his own.
(Ritchie Blackmore's) RAINBOW with the line-up below.
(Blackmore should probably should have renamed the band 'You're Fired!', then that might have prevented Sir Alan Sugar ever using the term!).
Blackmore recruiting Cozy Powell as the new drummer, then adding Powell's then mate superb keyboardist Don Airey, and the master stroke getting Deep Purple's Roger Glover on bass and ex-Marbles' singer Graham Bonnet.
(Blackmore should probably should have renamed the band 'You're Fired!', then that might have prevented Sir Alan Sugar ever using the term!).
Blackmore recruiting Cozy Powell as the new drummer, then adding Powell's then mate superb keyboardist Don Airey, and the master stroke getting Deep Purple's Roger Glover on bass and ex-Marbles' singer Graham Bonnet.
dandarez said:
(Ritchie Blackmore's) RAINBOW with the line-up below.
(Blackmore should probably should have renamed the band 'You're Fired!', then that might have prevented Sir Alan Sugar ever using the term!).
Blackmore recruiting Cozy Powell as the new drummer, then adding Powell's then mate superb keyboardist Don Airey, and the master stroke getting Deep Purple's Roger Glover on bass and ex-Marbles' singer Graham Bonnet.
Graham Bonnet was good, but he wasn't fit to mix RJD's drinks IMO(Blackmore should probably should have renamed the band 'You're Fired!', then that might have prevented Sir Alan Sugar ever using the term!).
Blackmore recruiting Cozy Powell as the new drummer, then adding Powell's then mate superb keyboardist Don Airey, and the master stroke getting Deep Purple's Roger Glover on bass and ex-Marbles' singer Graham Bonnet.
slopes said:
This is a difficult one for me, saw them with the original line up, then saw them at MK with Friesen and loved both line ups. Arguably they did better commercially with Pete but the line up with Tantrum was more raw and i'll never forget him telling some dhead in the Woughton centre that if he spat at him one more time, he was going to jump off the stage and beat the st out of him. Ricky and the other lads were pretty eager to join in. Raucous night but still one of my favourite bands.
Are you going to the reunion gigs? I’ll be at London and can’t wait. Saw them many times with Pete, but never with Tamtrum.head in the Woughton centre that if he spat at him one more time, he was going to jump off the stage and beat the st out of him. Ricky and the other lads were pretty eager to join in. Raucous night but still one of my favourite bands.tdm34 said:
dandarez said:
(Ritchie Blackmore's) RAINBOW with the line-up below.
(Blackmore should probably should have renamed the band 'You're Fired!', then that might have prevented Sir Alan Sugar ever using the term!).
Blackmore recruiting Cozy Powell as the new drummer, then adding Powell's then mate superb keyboardist Don Airey, and the master stroke getting Deep Purple's Roger Glover on bass and ex-Marbles' singer Graham Bonnet.
Graham Bonnet was good, but he wasn't fit to mix RJD's drinks IMO(Blackmore should probably should have renamed the band 'You're Fired!', then that might have prevented Sir Alan Sugar ever using the term!).
Blackmore recruiting Cozy Powell as the new drummer, then adding Powell's then mate superb keyboardist Don Airey, and the master stroke getting Deep Purple's Roger Glover on bass and ex-Marbles' singer Graham Bonnet.
Joe Lynn Turner was an improvement over Bonnet, but still not on Dio's level.
Ronstein said:
Unless I've missed it, Denny Laine and Clint Warwick being replaced by Justin Hayward and John Lodge in The Moody Blues, basically made them a different (and much better) band.
Yep, mentioned in the OP, I agree, turned MBs fortunes around IMO, two great writers/ singers taking the band
in a new direction.
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