Lieven you forgot.
Syd Barret being replaced in Pink Floyd by David Gilmour. No more did people see a drug fuelled guitarist/singer on stage from this band. I dont know who would be best, two different guys, two very different personallities. Both gave so much to the band in differnt ways. Their first two albums seem to be from different bands. But I think if Syd stayed with them, they would never have had the success they did. Especially with wish you were here or the wall. without syd not being around these albums would never have been written.
Rainbow I believe had a few singers too. I really did not like one of them but I am not too sure which one. I have forgotten their names.
Sex pistols replaced Glen for Syd. Syd was much more popular and even still today Glen gets told he cannot replace Syd, even though it was Syd that replaced him to start with and Glen can also play the bass guitar whereas Syd couldnt. Crazy fans!!!!!!
Iron Maiden: Whats his name? lol, paul De who? the one everyone forgets but he thrives on his glory days of being Iron maiden's original singer. Bruce Dickenson was bar far the best replacement they could ever have hoped for. In the 90's Brucey left them and he got replced by some other guy that I did not like, soon they all came to their senses and got Brucey boy back and made a superb album.
Guns'n; roses.....Just brought out a new album after working on it for an estimated 15-17 years.....just not the same without Izzy, Slash and Duff. All guns and roses are now is Axle Rose and his backing band. But the album is good but not guns 'n' roses as I knew them from the 80's
Small faces/ rod stewart and the faces:
After Steve marriot left the band to persue a new band project ( Humble pie) the small faces got together with Rod, this made Rod very very big indeed, he surpassed the fame that the small faces got. Without them he would have been nothing, they gave the music the sound. Ronnie Lane was a superb songwriter, very underestimated in my opinion. So if Steve did not break away then there would maybe be no Rod Stewart, or perhaps there would be, who knows? sliding doors?
And last there is The Jam, Now known as " from the jam" only Paul Weller missing but he is replaced by Russel Hastings on vocals and guitar and now also have David Moore palying keyboard. To me the Jam without Paul Weller is not the same BUT, these four guys have brought back the magic music and they do it just as good as Paul Weller did it, only difference really is Paul wrote the majority of songs. But dont worry, they are writting their own stuff now and can perform with the same magic as they did years ago. Russel also sings just like Paul. He greaw up a very big jam fan so he was already heavily infuenced by them, this leads him to singing pauls song the way Paul sang them , sort of initaing a bit, but dam ngood stuff as far as I am concerned.
Ken