Is it the same band?
If you have a favorite band. You were one of the original fans at the release of the first album whih identified as their sound.
If the band changes a member is it still the same band or is the band now a brand?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I would guess that most of you commenting on this have never been in a band. That being said, you have no idea what it is like to to try to do what you have always wanted when circumstances change. You do the very best you can with what is available. Change is inevitable. It isn't a bad thing.
nvrnuff
Level 8
May 6, 2018
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You're right, I have never been in a band, so this is what you do. It's your work, your creativity and it does change, change is always good but some of us get stuck in the past or just want the old band back, but it's not for us to say! Either except the change, like it or not and move on
I saw Metallica in 1984 or 85 on the 'Ride The Lightening" European tour with Cliff Burton playing bass. After he passed I saw them again during the 'Damaged Justice' tour, not the same band. Different sound, I kind of lost interest in them as they sounded too commercial. Hardwired sounds like their old albums, that one I like.
MacTavish
Level 7
May 4, 2018
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you honestly think it was because Burton died?
@nvrnuff paradigm shift? The music became more mainstream, less "wild". It may have something to do with Burton dying or the label pushed them in that direction or perhaps a natural morph of their sound. Whatever happened there seems to be a vast difference pre and post Burton, it may be just a coincidence but not really important in the greater scheme of things..
Been a Springsteen fan since the third album, although now I also love the first two. I think the deaths of a couple key members of the E Street Band have had an effect. I've grown old with Bruce, so it's hard to say how much he/they have changed, since it's been an evolution.
schwinnrider
Level 6
May 3, 2018
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Sometimes you can refer to them as a cover band because most of the original members are either dead or left the band
MichelleGar1
Level 9
May 3, 2018
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keyword being "most",if only one member, does this apply?
@nvrnuff most of the time with just one original member, it doesn't sound the same, it changes the whole dynamic. Well at least to me it does, lol
@MichelleGar1 I meant if one member is replaced.
@nvrnuff some bands have changed their whole sound with just one replacement, some have stayed true to their sound, I guess it's up to the band. We as fans either take it or not
AC/DC is a really good example of this.
I never liked them as much as I did while Bon Scott was still alive.
Brian Johnson was okay, but never as good.
Now, Axl Rose is the frontman.
No, thank you. I wouldn't go see them now for free.
KKGator
Level 9
May 3, 2018
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My favorite band! However, they should have quit after Back in Black. That Fly on the Wall stuff was embarrassing. And they kept going another 30 years. Sad. Bon rules!!!
@farmboy2017 They should have quit when Bon died. Back in Black doesn't hold a candle to Highway to Hell.
For me, that would be Van Halen… Then it was Sam Halen.. Then someone else… My thought is, if the majority of the original members are still ‘there’ ..it’s them.
Varn
Level 8
May 3, 2018
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@SKETCHYZOMBIE yeah, David was candy rock aimed at 13 year old girls. Sammy was better but waaay crazy! Yikes
Varn:
@farmboy2017 @SKETCHYZOMBIE I agree completely, Roth now seems the definition of Histrionic personality.. Sammy freed Edward to get creative on the keyboard and the band grew to another level 
Varn:
@Davidthinks Drove us nuts ...but as with Aerosmith, Joe Perry always came back - and, I love Chiquita 
@Davidthinks Bands evolve, no one member is "the band"
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