What are some bands who fall into this example? I'm talking about bands who tried to go on without their original singer (or their most iconic singer), but then ended up collapsing shortly afterwards, or the vast majority of their fans stopped caring about them anymore.
I'll name some to start:
Foreigner
Journey
Flyleaf
Three Days Grace
Boston
Styx
The Doors
The sunshine bores the daylights out of me
INXS
Iron Maiden both represented and bucked this trend at various points in their long career.
They replaced Paul Di'Anno, the vocalist on their first two albums, with Bruce Dickinson and went on to even greater success.
When Dickinson left and was replaced by Blaze Bayley, the band fell on hard times. The chart scores for the second Bayley album, Virtual XI:
were the band's lowest to date, including the UK where it peaked at No. 16 failing to score one million worldwide sales for the first time in Iron Maiden's history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden
However, when Dickinson returned the band rebounded and embarked on another long successful phase of their career.
Queen. Or their new incarnation Queen + x where x is the singer involved.
Music still the same. Brilliant when live. But without the enigmatic Mercury, I feel they are only living off the Queen name.
The J. Geils Band
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"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself."
Luckily that was only one album.
shareThat's all it took--one album without Peter Wolf. And Wolf's solo debut, Lights Out, was pretty darn good. It even had a song called "Mars Needs Women" based on the sci-fi stinker of the same name!
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"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself."
I really like his solo albums. I saw Geils/Wolf on Letterman a few years ago and thought they were back, I've never seen them since.
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