Who's In the Band?

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beantownbubba
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Who's In the Band?

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An interesting if ultimately mediocre article on a topic that's been discussed here numerous times. Worth a couple of your minutes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/arts ... 5647280324
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Good read. But I wouldn't exactly call "The Hoople" "anticlimactic."

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My personal take:

Bands from the 60's and 70's who are still touring is fine, but I don't expect the majority of the original members to still want to perform. A lot of people in their 60's and 70's just want to play golf and enjoy retirement. So if some band only has 1 or 2 of the original 5 members touring, so be it.

That said, I wouldn't go see one of these bands if the original singer is no longer with the band. Why go see Journey without Steve Perry? Or Chicago without Peter Cetera? Would you go see a Led Zeppelin reunion without Robert Plant? If the bass player or drummer just joined the tour last Tuesday, I don't know that I would know or care.

Now for some fans, all they care about is hearing the songs they love, regardless of who is playing them, and that's great. It's just not for me.
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Zip City wrote:Why go see Journey without Steve Perry?
Because it'd be a better band. They'd presumably play better music without a vocalist. They did before he joined.
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I don’t mind bands continuing to perform years after the original lineup retires, passes away, etc. The rest of those guys gotta make a living somehow. I will say though that I saw Foghat back in 2009, with only their original drummer and a couple guys they had recently picked up, and it had to have been one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen.
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Zip City wrote:Now for some fans, all they care about is hearing the songs they love, regardless of who is playing them, and that's great. It's just not for me.
This.

Plus, the people I know these days who go to see acts like Styx or Journey or Foreigner aren't hardcore music fans like most of us. They couldn't tell you who the members of any of these bands ever were, they wouldn't recognize the members were they standing in front of them, they just want a living jukebox to play all the songs they've heard on the radio for decades.

Like Zip, that's not for me, but it seems to work fine for them. Clearly there are more than enough of these kinds of fans to keep all these acts cashing checks
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