Just wondering your thoughts as to whether a band improves,deteriorates or is just the same when a key member dies, and they are replaced. Some ones that spring to mind are:

 

Brian Jones-----The Rolling Stones died in 1969 & replaced by Mick Taylor,who was then replaced by Ronnie Wood 5 years later.

 

Keith Moon---- The Who died in 1978.

 

Bon Scott----AC/DC who died in 1980 and replaced by Brian Johnson.

 

I think the stones were the same, the Who worse and AC/DC better, but thats just me. What do you think?

 

 

Any others?

 

I thought AC/DC where better with Bon ^_^

My fav Stones albums are Exile and Sticky Fingers so probably better.

The Who were definitel worse while AC/DC were probably worse.

I thought AC/DC where better with Bon ^_^

 

FULL TRUTH Josh

 

I have the entire AC/DC collection and bar Back In Black all my fave AC/DC albums are Bon Scott ones, Brian tries to be a clone of Bon too but while he is good he will never be Bon Scott standard

Personally I think Led Zeppelin had the right idea, when drummer John Bonham died in 1980 they split - leaving a back catalogue of 8 studio albums in 11 years with perhaps only the exception of The Beatles is the most impressive in terms of quality & diversity of music.

In my mind, AC/DC have just been treading water since Bon died... Sure, "Back In Black", the first album with Brian as the singer, IS a very good Rock album, but after that....? Just a steady, rather dull stream of very samey-sounding records.... AC/DC will never ever do anything like "Highway To Hell" or "Let There Be Rock" ever again....

In my mind, AC/DC have just been treading water since Bon died... Sure, "Back In Black", the first album with Brian as the singer, IS a very good Rock album, but after that....? Just a steady, rather dull stream of very samey-sounding records.... AC/DC will never ever do anything like "Highway To Hell" or "Let There Be Rock" ever again....

 

I think Johnson was the wrong guy for AC/DC really.

 

The perfect replacement for Bon Scott would have been Dean McCaffrey or whatever his name is from Nazareth or Gary Holton from Heavy Metal Kids, both sounded on their songs perfect AC/DC material

I've always wondered what happened to Richie the lead singer of Manic Street Preachers, he wasn't actually replaced, as originally they were a 4 piece band, James Dean Bradfield took over lead vocals, they had great tracks when Richie was on lead.

I've always wondered what happened to Richie the lead singer of Manic Street Preachers, he wasn't actually replaced, as originally they were a 4 piece band, James Dean Bradfield took over lead vocals, they had great tracks when Richie was on lead.

 

Richey was never the lead singer although, with Nicky Wire, wrote all the lyrics. Richey played rhythm guitar IIRC.

 

They were never as good without him.

Edited June 17, 200718 yr by grebo69

Richey 'played' rhythm guitar but it generally wasn't plugged in or was turned down (so they say).

 

But he was the image of the band and wrote the lyrics...the difference between The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go is absolutely gigantic. Bizarrely they became much more popular (mainly cos Britpop happened then) but never hit the heights of their early work...and never will again.

 

I much prefer the Stones with Brian Jones, but I appreciate some of their best loved work was with Mick Taylor.

 

Both The Who and AC/DC are worse...

Just wondering your thoughts as to whether a band improves,deteriorates or is just the same when a key member dies, and they are replaced. Some ones that spring to mind are:

 

Some people here are shocked that you ever ask that question :lol:

 

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Richey 'played' rhythm guitar but it generally wasn't plugged in or was turned down (so they say).

 

But he was the image of the band and wrote the lyrics...the difference between The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go is absolutely gigantic. Bizarrely they became much more popular (mainly cos Britpop happened then) but never hit the heights of their early work...and never will again.

 

Although five of Richie's lyrics were used on Everything Must Go.

Richey 'played' rhythm guitar but it generally wasn't plugged in or was turned down (so they say).

 

But he was the image of the band and wrote the lyrics...the difference between The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go is absolutely gigantic. Bizarrely they became much more popular (mainly cos Britpop happened then) but never hit the heights of their early work...and never will again.

 

Magazine said that they started off as a punk band on their first album (nu-punk??? indie-punk???*), obv some looked good some looked in punk style others more like Paul Merton in drag :lol:

 

*then again all off the 1977 lot might be classed like this now rather than punk-rawk :lol:

The Beatles were much better after McCartney died. William Campbell was a far superior songwriter and bassist. :cool:

Queen should have split up after Freddie passed away

 

Paul Rodgers was a legend in Free and Bad Company but Queen carrying on without Freddie totally tarnishes the Queen brand, Freddie WAS Queen so no way should they just replace him with a man with a totally different vocal range :manson:

Agreed - they should be called Brian, Roger and Pals now.

Agreed - they should be called Brian, Roger and Pals now.

 

sound like a darts team in Swindon