[Music] Bands that were better in a reincarnation

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Following on from the Tull thread, can you think of a band you liked that 'rebooted' and became better? I'm going to suggest we stick only to bands with a catalogue of substance - that have been going 30 plus years.

I'd like to kick off with The Opposition. The Marcus Bell reboot (Love and Betrayal, Blinder) are streets ahead of the Mark Long dominated past stuff, even though I love Mark Long.

Sadly there are no Love and Betrayal or Blinder tracks on youtube. Marcus had stage fright and what looks to me like Aspergers (I exchanged a few emails) which is tragic not least because Love and Betrayal is such a stunning record. I don't know how to put music on youtube. Perhaps I should look into it.

This thread isn't going well Apologies.

Edit - I found one track from Blinder. Shocking poor upload

Here is one of their old tracks. The upgrade . . . .<sigh>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyp5sG5qpco

 

[Is it PotG?]

Bucks Fizz, when Burger Man van Day joined.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

This was worth waiting for the reboot

 

[The Clamp]

When Rollins swapped out the very good early -mid 90's line up for Rollins Band with the band Mother Superior. **** man! Those guys could play. Saw Rollins Band in a few incarnations over the years but this was the best line up. Venues like Astoria and the Academy were the perfect size too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN7oXHNV058

 

[Pavilionaire]

Hawkwind, Fleetwood Mac.

 

[clapham_gull]

Wings.

They're only the band The Beatles could have been.

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[Tyrone Biggums]

The most obvious one is for me is when The Yardbirds somewhat rebooted into Lez Zeppelin over time.

Also when Michael McDonald took over from Tom Johnston in the Doobie Brothers they changed their style and ended up bigger sales wise.

And for me when Sammy Hagar took over from DLR in Van Halen.

 

[Frankworthington]

Traffic

After they reformed after Blind Faith split up they were brilliant

 

[OzMike]

The third version of my band Hawkstone was the best version on reflection.

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

Better in a reincarnation? Jesus and Mary Chain should win this Shirley?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The Fall...sometimes. More reincarnations / reinventions than I've had hot pies. Some of them worked better than others, tho they were always interesting. As Mark E Smith once said "If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall"

 

[zefarelly]

Depends on whethere we're comparing performance or output.

Fleetwood MAc for example, V1 better than V2, Rumours aside. but not comparable really.

Love and Arthur Lee on the forever changes tour in 2002/3 was incredibly, must surely ecclipse anything they did live in period, but the song were the same.

The Stones got better post Brian Jones. The Faces were different to the small faces, but as a backing band got better.

Pretty Things, John Mayalls Bluesbreakers, Savoy Brown and the Yardbirds are all good examples of bands that morphed heavily over the years.

 

[marcos3263]

Genesis - Once Peter Gabriel left they got more poppy and commercial and made a ton of money

Marillion - Fish was there for 4 albums, Steve Hogarth has been there for 16 albums - some of their later stuff is incredible BUT everyone always remembers Fish..........

Sugarbabes...........a rolling line up but better output in later years

Take That - better once they came back as mature pop idols

McBusted - the absolute best of two bands and therefore the definite answer to the original question!!!

 

[happypig]

Sugarbabes...........a rolling line up but better output in later years

Someone once described the Sugarbabes as the Trigger's Broom of pop.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Hotlegs ——-> 10cc

 

[studio150]

Genesis - Once Peter Gabriel left they got more poppy and commercial and made a ton of money

But not better in fact without Gabriel and Hackett they were poorer.

 

[zefarelly]

The Beatles were better with Ringo than Pete Best

Peter and the test tube babies were better with Ogs than Trevor Rutherford drumming.

Dave Grohl replaced Chad Channing in Nirvana

 

[marcos3263]

But not better in fact without Gabriel and Hackett they were poorer.

note I didn't say better - I said popular.

I prefer the Gabriel stuff. Can't beat a bit of Trespass. Hence my love for Marillion which has definite early influences. listen to their epic Grendel

Now thats a song I would love see covered. Imagine Will Young banging out that 17 minute classic.......maybe not

 

[jakarta]

Hawkwind, Fleetwood Mac.

Hawkwind similar to the Fall, so many lineups, some better than others, Space Ritual era probably the best but Spirit of the Age Tour 1977 was almost as good.

Not having that about Fleetwood Mac, they might as well have been a different band when the Yanks arrived. Peter Green was irreplaceable.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Tyranosurus Rex. Ditch the bongos, change the line up, shorten the name, turns the amps up