I just played a live DVD from Birth Control with the following line-up: Peter Föller; vocals, guitar (played on Rebirth, Plastic people and Backdoor possibilities), Martin Ettrich; guitar, Sascha Kühn; keyboards, Hannes Vesper; bass, Manni von Bohr; drums (played on Increase, Titanic and Count Dracula)
Besides I got a message from Amazon about a new Coloseum-album (well, relatively new) which appeared to be a line-up without Jon Hiseman, but with Chris Farlowe, Mark Clarke, Clem Clempson and 3 new members.
In a way these groups made me wonder what makes a band? There are groups that had one settled line-up, like Rush (yes, they had a different drummer on their first album), Led Zeppelin, Cream, The Beatles, Golden Earring (more or less), that stopped when one member died, or decided to break up. Then there are bands which have one, 2 or, perhaps 3 core members, like King Crimson (Robert Fripp), Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger, Keith Richard (and in the past Charlie Watts)), Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson), Kayak (Ton Scherpenzeel), Camel (Andy Latimer), Genesis (Tony Banks, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford), Eloy (Frank Borneman, though they used to have a few more or less stable line-ups for a couple of albums). Camel had in the past a more stable line-up. And then there are groups that are some kind of revolving door kind of things, like Deep Purple. Pink Floyd is a bit between things. Had a stable line-up, till Richard Wright left. (Well and of course Syd Barrett was forced to leave)
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