Bands running out of original members playing LIVE at the Savannah Flower Fest

[Zzzptm]

Inspired by finding out Rudy Sarzo was in The Guess Who... this thread is for those bands that just. won't. die. 

Some may still sound good, some may need to hang it up... all of them are NOT playing the arenas they once performed before...

Here's Grand Funk doing a cruise tour...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La0MOp-pep0

 

[Axefiend]

Ahhh, you beat me to it! I was gonna call it "Bogus versions of your beloved bands" or something or other.

Most of these bogus versions are at least sanctioned by someone from the original group. What gets me about bogus Deep Purple, is that they thought they could get away with something like that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KXf9IEFuy0

...and to make it worse, the band was so shitty!!

[Axefiend]

I guess when bands turn into these mega corporations, a knife in the back is just collateral damage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1qGNbuh-eA

[Zzzptm]

Ahhh, you beat me to it! I was gonna call it "Bogus versions of your beloved bands" or something or other.

Most of these bogus versions are at least sanctioned by someone from the original group. What gets me about bogus Deep Purple, is that they thought they could get away with something like that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KXf9IEFuy0

...and to make it worse, the band was so shitty!!

That band was the same one that ripped off Steppenwolf a year before. They were planning to rip off Deep Purple in order to get enough money to pay off the Steppenwolf legal bills. Poor Rod Evans had no clue...

[Zzzptm]

Meanwhile, back at the Savannah Flower Fest main stage... The Turtles!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Jb6fgnVVc

They still got their vocalists, that's all that really matters for their songs...

[Axefiend]

That band was the same one that ripped off Steppenwolf a year before. They were planning to rip off Deep Purple in order to get enough money to pay off the Steppenwolf legal bills. Poor Rod Evans had no clue...

Poor old Rod must have really been strapped for cash to take part in that clusterfuck, No one's heard from him since!

I think bogus Steppenwolf at least started out with a few of the classic members (Goldy McJohn, Nick St. Nicholas and Kent Henry), and was basically licensed out by John Kay and Jerry Edmonton until they breached the contract somehow down the line.

A version with Frankie Banali on drums:





They actually had Steve Riley (W.A.S.P. and L.A. Guns) on drums for awhile too.

[Zzzptm]

Here's Gary Rossington's Lynyrd Skynyrd...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Uliu7CRnI

[Axefiend]

^^^ If they were to carry on without Gary, how ridiculous would that be?

Here's another example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuLDoajJ6ww

Awesome band, with an awesome cast of replacements, but is it really Moxy without Buzz?

[Zzzptm]

Rainbow's been down to one remaining member of the original lineup since 1980...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O87q6jFcmmc

[Axefiend]

^^^ Deep Purple too when you think about it in the original sense.

Also this band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-ce2YHhN3g

Maybe an added insult when they re-record their hits with the new guys?

[Zzzptm]

He siiiings like the first guy...

But the sound... something's missing overall, even though it's the same notes and everything. They're a cover band for their own tunes.

Kind of like Journey...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTfJI_vw4No

[Axefiend]

....and Quiet Riot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3v_My_3lfg

[Zzzptm]

^ That's right! Quiet Riot is a much, much different band than it used to be.

So is White Lion. Looks like just about any band that's running out of former members also has a part in their Wiki article about a legal dispute over who owns the rights to the band's name.

[Axefiend]

Looks like just about any band that's running out of former members also has a part in their Wiki article about a legal dispute over who owns the rights to the band's name.

Which brings us to Ratt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrAbG7ju41M

A band that was down to it's drummer, until the other 3 surviving members wrestled the name from him legally.

[Zzzptm]

I looked up Dokken, figuring they'd have no legal mess since Don Dokken kinda owns his own name... and then I found out that they actually called in their lawyer to play guitar. So even Dokken had to get lawyers involved because of lineup changes.