Question:
What bands had broken up or had 1 or more members replaced?
Kevin
2011-11-25 13:01:36 UTC
I have a research paper for class and my topic is on bands that had broken up or had a member replaced. what im mainly focusing on is the effect on sales on their albums. Right now, i can only think Journey since they had the lead sing replaced cause he cant sing the same anymore
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Christina Jennings
2011-11-25 13:18:24 UTC
Evanescence has never broken up but they replaced a few members. The lead singer is the only original member.
Elroy
2011-11-25 21:21:49 UTC
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Innumerable guitarists' replacements, on their latest album, the effect can be seen(sales have fallen down a bit)

Van Halen - David Lee Roth had left and was replaced by Sammy Hagar,sales declined greatly

Metallica - Have had 4 bassists, Hammett not original guitarist, he was hired to replace Dave Mustaine(who founded Megadeth) and then confirmed as lead guitarist

Megadeth - Only Mustaine is an original member, better check out wikipedia for the info about the members(it's really too much)

Led Zeppelin - Band broke up after drummer passed away

Queen - Band broke up after vocalist passed away
The Metalhead
2011-11-25 21:35:25 UTC
uh how about Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne? Ozzy left sabbath in 1979 (I think he got kicked out) and they hired none other than Ronnie James Dio to sing for the 1980 album: Heaven and Hell. he was an active member until 1983 when he went solo. Ozzy wanted to counter Black Sabbath's success with his own solo career Blizzard of Ozz, and Ozzy's album sales have gone up like crazy since then. On the albums Blizzard of Ozz (1980) and Diary of a Madman (1981 or 1982... cant quite remember) the guitarist was Randy Rhoads who was an incredible guitar player who wrote some of Ozzy's greatest early hits. he died unfortunately in 1982 and Ozzy has had many other guitar players, drummers, and bassists throughout the years. Ozzy still to this day has had success even though metal hasn't been one of the most popular genres of music since the 1980s. Black sabbath have never enjoyed the same amount of fame and fortune but are a great band none the less. Ozzy was their longest running vocalist and almost all their biggest songs have been with him.
Bαd Cφmpαnɥ
2011-11-25 21:06:31 UTC
AC/DC - lost their first vocalist

Nine Inch Nails - Can't tell you how many members they've gone though

Megadeth - Same as NIN

Metallica - Gone through quite a few members also

Marilyn Manson - He's replaced his drummer and guitarist a couple times already.
Vynomous Drummer
2011-11-25 21:07:14 UTC
Chimaira, sh*t, theyve gone through a lot of people

A Perfect Murder broke up, a friend of mine said The Bled is on their last tour



"The band has to be originally from the 70/80s"

well it wouldve been nice to mention that dammit
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2011-11-25 21:02:23 UTC
Blink 182
2011-11-25 21:06:47 UTC
Nightwish replaced their lead singer Tarja with Anette.
The Big Guy
2011-11-25 21:09:12 UTC
urm iron maiden, megadeth, queensryche, acdc, slayer, and pretty much every other rock or metal band. even metallica. kirk hammet wasnt the origional guitarist and cliff burton wasnt the origional bassist.
안녕하세요
2011-11-25 21:12:45 UTC
fleetwood mac. they change there music style and members since 1967
2011-11-25 21:06:45 UTC
The Fall constantly has new members.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Fall_members
DarkArtist
2011-11-25 23:02:41 UTC
I can think of three but the main one that comes to mind is Iron Maiden, They had many line up changes from the time they formed in 1975, but the most significant ones to have an impact on sales and popularity were when they started releasing albums, There 1st Album "Iron Maiden" (1980)Featured Paul Di'anno on Lead Vocals, Clive Burr on Drums, Dennis Stratton on Guitar, Dave Murray on Guitar & Steve Harris (Founder of the band) on Bass.

on their 2nd Album "Killers" (1981) Stratton was replaced by Adrian Smith.

after the release of "Killers" Di'anno left and was replaced by Bruce Dickinson who had just left "Samson" where he went by the name of Bruce Bruce, Bruce's 1st Album Appearance with Maiden was their 3rd Album "Number of the Beast" (1982), it spawned 2 singles that both got into the top 10 one of which was "Run to the Hills" and reached No2 in February 1982.

On the 4th Album "Piece of Mind" (1983) Drummer Clive Burr was replaced by Nicko McBrain.

The band kept this line-up for studio album No 4 "Powerslave" (1984), Album 5 "Somewhere in Time" (1986) and Album 7 "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" (1988), after the release of "Powerslave" in 1984 they were so popular that they embarked on the world slavery tour which took place for a year and was recorded and released as as their first double live Album "Live After Death" (1985), from this time onwards they toured after the release of every Album.

The next band change was on their 8th Studio Album "No Prayer for the Dying" (1990) where Adrian Smith was replaced by Janick Gers on Guitar, Their 9th album was "Fear of the Dark" (1992), then appeared as the headliners at Donnington Monsters of Rock August 22nd 1992, after the Fear of the Dark Tour Bruce was getting tired of the constant touring that went on for 1 to 1 and a half years at a time, he missed his family and really wanted to work on more solo stuff (he had previously released "Tattooed Millionaire") (while with Maiden)), he announced that he was leaving the band for these reasons and played his last gig with them in September 1993. He decided to get another career in case things didn't work out and so he cut his hair and took pilot training to get a pilots llicensewhich he got,

In 1995 they released studio Album 10 "The X Factor" and Album 11 "Virtual XI" (1998) which both saw Bruce replaced by former Wolfsbane Vocalist Blaze Bailey, Popularity of the band slumped with Bailey on vocals and the band had gone in a different direction dressing in Black trousers & T-Shirts after years of Bruce, Baileys style was hard to get used to, Bailey left in 1999 and later went solo, also in 1999 after successfully releasing 4 solo albums and filling venues with solo tours Bruce returned to the band along with Ex Guitarist Adrian Smith making Iron Maiden a 6 man band for the first time, they went on to release album 12 "Brave New World" (2000) Album 13 "Dance of Death" (2003), Album 14 "A Matter of Life and Death" (2006), They then went on the SSomewhereBack In Time Tour in 2007/08 which was Live After Death for the new young fans who weren't around in 1985, it was released as a CD in 2008 as "Somewhere Back In Time - Greatest Hits 1980 -1989, the tour saw Bruce fly the band to and from each gig in the bands 747 "Ed Force One" it was filmed and released as a Movie in selected Cinemas and later a DVD called "Flight 666" and the actual concert was released along side it as a double live album in 2009 their 15th Studio Album "The Final Frontier" was released in 2010 and this year they released a double greatest hits album "From Fear to Eternity - Greatest Hits 1990 - 2010) to accompanySomewhere back in Time.

They are still going from strength to strength and have plans for a 16th Studio Album.



Another band is AC/DC after lead Singer Bon Scott choked on his own vomit and died he was replaced by Brian Johnston Strangely though he sounds exactly the same and unless you did the research you wouldn'tknow which album featured which singer.
Awesome girl
2011-11-25 21:04:25 UTC
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