Bands that have lost key members

boo boo · 04-15-2010, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by sidewinder

King Crimson has had many lineup changes, but I feel the loss of Ian McDonald, Greg Lake, Michael Giles, Peter Giles, and John Wetton were unfortunate in one way or another.

While I miss their contributions, Fripp/Belew/Levin/Bruford is an amazing lineup and their albums are pretty underrated.

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Originally Posted by xEMGx

The Rolling Stone - Brian Jones

Oh c'mon. They had some great albums without him.

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Originally Posted by OctaneHugo

surprised there's no mention of Pink Floyd yet

Depends on what period.

If it's the loss of Barrett, that's not something I weep over, he still got to put out 2 solo albums which featured a lot of input from Waters and Gilmour so I almost consider them unofficial Floyd albums.

The departure of Barrett was vital to the band's evolution and they put out a lot of stuff that far exceeds anything they done under Barrett IMO, I'm more of a Waters and Gilmour fan personally.

The Final Cut was a disaster and it was Waters' JC complex that really wrecked the band. I still think Gilmour can write songs on his own, I like Division Bell a lot, but it's not the same without Waters.