Posted April 27, 200817 yr I was researching something for another thread and I came upon a band called "Big in Japan" from Liverpool. Anyone ever heard of them, from the late 1970s? Anyway I noticed that nearly all the band members went onto to be in other famous bands. Budgie.......Slits, Siouxsie & Banshees Ian Broudie............Lightning Seeds Bill Drummond.....KLF David Balfe.....Teardrop Explodes Holly Johnson..............Frankie goes to Hollywood By all accounts they wern't very good, hatred of the band reached such a level that a petition calling on them to split up was launched by a jealous young Julian Cope :lol:. Displayed in local shop Probe Records the petition gathered 2000 signatures including those of the band themselves. :lol: Can you think of any other bands that split, where most of the members went onto better things.
April 28, 200817 yr There was a further band called The Crucial Three who existed pre-Big in Japan. The members of this one were Julian Cope, Ian McCulloch and Pete Wylie. Cope and McCulloch went to form a series of bands together until they split for good when McCulloch left A Shallow Madness which then turned into The Teardrops.
April 28, 200817 yr steampacket .... members of this largely influencial but chartwise invisible blues combo included long john baldry, julie driscoll and rod the mod stewart.
April 28, 200817 yr Buffalo Springfield was a short-lived but influential late 1960s folk rock group that served as a springboard for the careers of Neil Young (I think you might have heard of him :lol:), Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young)), Richie Furay (Poco) and Jim Messina (Poco, then Loggins & Messina) and were most famous for the song "For What It's Worth".
April 30, 200817 yr Green River.. The prototype "Grunge" band from about '86... They did one album on Sub Pop and then split.... MARK ARM went on to form Mudhoney (in terms of actual music, they were the greatest, scuzziest Grunge band of all...) STONE GOSSARD and JEFF AMENT met up with a bloke called EDDIE VEDDER and went onto form multi-platinum, Grammy-winners Pearl Jam.... .... Whom Kurt Cobain would then dismess as "c**k rock"..... :lol: :lol:
April 30, 200817 yr Don't forget that Gossard and Ament formed the truly great (And much better than Pearl Jam) Mother Love Bone first and they only spilt because Andrew Wood, lead vocalist, OD'd on Heroin. This led to The Temple of the Dog album and then to Pearl Jam being formed. Edited April 30, 200817 yr by grebo69
May 1, 200817 yr yardbirds of course spawned clapton, page who both went on to major stardom, beck...well... im not so sure his best material wasnt in the yardbirds. the 1978 hit by renaisance 'northern lights' was sung by keith relfs (lead vocals yardbirds) sister and if my memory severs me correctly a couple of yardbirds played in renaisance.
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