Wikipedia band member timelines: a compendium

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Pulp

https://i.imgur.com/xvTD3VL.png

also like Tayler swift as she can relate to my cat (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 May 2025 18:32 (eleven months ago)

Fleetwood Mac

https://i.imgur.com/6TYbuTO.png

also like Tayler swift as she can relate to my cat (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 May 2025 18:32 (eleven months ago)

Yes

https://i.imgur.com/1oGXbPa.png

also like Tayler swift as she can relate to my cat (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 May 2025 18:33 (eleven months ago)

Do Hawkwind's next!

better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 May 2025 18:35 (eleven months ago)

Genesis

https://i.imgur.com/HPYfH3K.png

also like Tayler swift as she can relate to my cat (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 May 2025 18:35 (eleven months ago)

Ok, bloody hell, Hawkwind it is

https://i.imgur.com/9y1Ty6U.png

also like Tayler swift as she can relate to my cat (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 May 2025 18:38 (eleven months ago)

mike batt!

also like Tayler swift as she can relate to my cat (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 May 2025 18:38 (eleven months ago)

Rednex

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/nb75iyq69lf6s8xe5ir7juc0txrxzxz.png

Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 22 May 2025 18:53 (eleven months ago)

U2

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/cuhscpluos6dbeddty55phvnpiln582.png

Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 22 May 2025 18:56 (eleven months ago)

Belle and Sebastian

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/0vfrs2t0tlo55fh10s5xjxll83lus7r.png

jaymc, Thursday, 22 May 2025 18:57 (eleven months ago)

Eric Clapton was in Hawkwind?
In the 2010s????

I am the stranger, killing the Boer (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 22 May 2025 18:58 (eleven months ago)

Eric Clapton was in Hawkwind?
In the 2010s???

"In" the band is a ridiculous stretch, but he did join them on stage for a song in 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZExd4uYeCQ

(ps, thanks for adding the chart)

better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 May 2025 19:18 (eleven months ago)

Magma 1969–1983

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/mi3kfy2i4aiigaqev6mrbd8lckyxeh2.png

Magma 1990–present

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/l884w3bw26hu5vb8x2os9t7nqncjgmm.png

the king discovers a dead corgi in the rhododendrons (Matt #2), Thursday, 22 May 2025 19:42 (eleven months ago)

tried to do the Soft Machine one but wow is it a mess

also like Tayler swift as she can relate to my cat (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 May 2025 22:01 (eleven months ago)

doobie brothers
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/45ln4xjoof3m8vivjksy4ooe7cnj6eq.png

gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Thursday, 22 May 2025 22:06 (eleven months ago)

Nice, didn't realise Michael McDonald joined so late

also like Tayler swift as she can relate to my cat (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 May 2025 22:11 (eleven months ago)

Black Flag

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/9aa8fw2clnrv8hgd27a22kei63kjrps.png

Josefa, Thursday, 22 May 2025 22:51 (eleven months ago)

Feel like one- off guest appearances should not be included in those charts but I’m sure there was some ridiculous fight in the Talk page already and common sense lost.

I am the stranger, killing the Boer (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 22 May 2025 23:06 (eleven months ago)

The Fall

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/qu8ypzvi531mn6d2u7v27kb7aq6ytiz.png

Josefa, Thursday, 22 May 2025 23:09 (eleven months ago)

Sex Pistols

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/1ur6hhy5kylvu9rrpyjv1v9f8mu7n43.png

visiting, Thursday, 22 May 2025 23:10 (eleven months ago)

The Fall had 12 bass players; Black Flag have had 13

Josefa, Thursday, 22 May 2025 23:19 (eleven months ago)

Michael Schenker
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/792zg69n540jl409fk896g15eis5v69.png

c u (crüt), Thursday, 22 May 2025 23:45 (eleven months ago)

Bucks Fizz

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/7hf1izkxvcnxzzd9oxsvb94kwmy9grm.png

Bucks Fizz splinter group The Original Bucks Fizz/The Fizz

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/iqfulbf3hj6uafnug2fpvj77cbkuhcy.png

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Friday, 23 May 2025 09:49 (eleven months ago)

Sugababes

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/pg9qw126wmix4c9ingc2ybpvuvtghzt.png

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Friday, 23 May 2025 09:51 (eleven months ago)

can't get over how made up some of those later period Bucks Fizz members sound - Graham Crisp? Tammy Choat?

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Friday, 23 May 2025 10:50 (eleven months ago)

one month passes...

Lynyrd Skynyrd

https://i.imgur.com/AXKDfhx.png

Proust Ian Rush (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 10 July 2025 10:56 (nine months ago)

i put one of these together once and it was really annoying

ufo, Thursday, 10 July 2025 11:20 (nine months ago)

Are there any that are close to symmetrical? Like a band that got faker and faker and then gradually re-accumulated its original members?

brimstead, Thursday, 10 July 2025 14:22 (nine months ago)

Black Sabbath?

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 10 July 2025 20:20 (nine months ago)

Hmm, sort of.

https://i.imgur.com/n8zmj7l.png

Proust Ian Rush (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 10 July 2025 20:53 (nine months ago)

wild to ask that four posts after soref’s

Nancy Makes Posts (sic), Thursday, 10 July 2025 21:30 (nine months ago)

hm someone needs to make a proper one for sugababes, you could miss that.

Proust Ian Rush (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 10 July 2025 21:33 (nine months ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/gxmcubkefimiaxlwoluurjt9gisdeey.png

Anyone know what song(s) are represented by the pink dots on Johnny's & Marky's timelines circa 1981 for backing vocals?

BrianB, Thursday, 10 July 2025 23:36 (nine months ago)

RIP Elvis Ramone, we hardly knew ye.

BrianB, Thursday, 10 July 2025 23:39 (nine months ago)

wild to ask that four posts after soref’s

sorry

brimstead, Friday, 11 July 2025 00:02 (nine months ago)

Gong
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/45rs1uv90pxal27rhwj6dldkiswywwr.png

c u (crüt), Friday, 11 July 2025 00:06 (nine months ago)

omg i love these. whenever a wiki has a “band members” section i get a bit excited lol.

metal has a lot of good ones
- Dokken
- LA guns
- Megadeth
- Whitesnake

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 July 2025 01:22 (nine months ago)

Bad Brains captures the "got my own thing" vs "gotta keep this thing going" struggle

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/julq8uze686op70ng4k8x42bhzx9z7d.png

Primrose Cash Po (bendy), Friday, 11 July 2025 20:31 (nine months ago)

Outlaws

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/3j5boc3q6bhxsvv9juytwjvnyw96nvb.png

Posts That Witness Madness (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 July 2025 08:25 (nine months ago)

Half the population of NZ has been in The Chills at one time or another… https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/28qk6kr3ztsz2git5m0bm3sdemm90fj.png

christopher.ivan, Thursday, 24 July 2025 11:55 (nine months ago)

Rush

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/ncq9cgbkq4gxn45jhv26be6g7w1wydp.png

Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 24 July 2025 15:42 (nine months ago)

Zappa, lol
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/fmeqh45pojcc614xdzjjv96i2qt4jgi.png

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 July 2025 16:13 (nine months ago)

Vanity Fare
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/mcmuydpivqyg6xfb7q2r19mjckzt5st.png

Only two albums, the four guys who made those two albums pushed out over the next decade, and then some other guys touring the music for forty years...

Frederik B, Thursday, 24 July 2025 16:24 (nine months ago)

extremely non-exhaustive Current 93 timeline which doesn't feature Rose McDowall but does feature Nick Cave

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/capskj3ynqisi2dbvi68l1dqes71xxf.png

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Thursday, 24 July 2025 18:01 (nine months ago)

Chicago

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/f3hhjvgc0tr84tcfqkbyu3sg253w8jn.png

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 25 July 2025 15:34 (nine months ago)

Jefferson Starship (the Airplane years are not included and their article doesn't have a timeline graphic)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/hnmnez10cll20qi0m79zfw3o9gs8t98.png

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 25 July 2025 15:36 (nine months ago)

ZZ Top

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/0l2r7ur03aft1tiwqot9xetx7y7p4v5.png

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 25 July 2025 15:37 (nine months ago)

Earth, Wind & Fire

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/qfls67up6wbw7mb5x4gc58fqvrgzbfm.png

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 25 July 2025 15:39 (nine months ago)

The Monks

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/b3qla2p8icrw80v14jtytjfpqtgxvy8.png

Roger Johnston - drums, backing vocals (died 2004)

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 25 July 2025 15:46 (nine months ago)

one month passes...

Renaissance - 'no original members' achieved within the first two years:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/chxake5fvk3kh9owwpsxmgw5jissjr3.png

ledge, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 13:10 (seven months ago)

Grateful Dead:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/lfdegjihaa0744tl22kotovyljdfmlk.png

il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 24 September 2025 13:53 (seven months ago)

Fairport Convention
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/eka6psiso50xqstki1yufr519moeyx8.png

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 14:06 (seven months ago)

Henry Cow is a weird one, their line-up didn't stabilise around the four core members until four years into the lifespan of the band.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/r5rk7ax8btkimo8dijlnac4mzssv0od.png

bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Wednesday, 24 September 2025 14:16 (seven months ago)

Spooky Tooth
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/hrdyt4fgnampgijcn0bxi8zd6nnt1hn.png

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 14:22 (seven months ago)

(xp) That's when they decided to become a professional band, it was just a bunch of students messing about before that.

I Didn't Always Agree With What He Said But... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 September 2025 14:23 (seven months ago)

The Waterboys

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/s9xh3zq0zzbe2oft05klz2pgdgs9ftj.png

Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 14:26 (seven months ago)

I need someone to play these like they're scores.

emil.y, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 14:29 (seven months ago)

To me they look like ... DNA tests?
https://www.wikihow.com/images/thumb/9/9d/Read-Gel-Electrophoresis-Bands-Step-7.jpg/v4-460px-Read-Gel-Electrophoresis-Bands-Step-7.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 14:33 (seven months ago)

Japanese idol group Morning Musume

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/9e0c3ku4o89amuedj59ixrhwxl4yaif.png

Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 14:47 (seven months ago)

Napalm Death: no original members after ~5 years; took about ten years to settle on an enduring lineup

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/r4afg1118jbtulldi7sczarqsv8zr38.png

Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 15:02 (seven months ago)

wait is it true that Zappa didn't have a band at all from 1986 to 1990??

frogbs, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 15:04 (seven months ago)

Depends whether he toured in that era I assume.

I Didn't Always Agree With What He Said But... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 September 2025 15:12 (seven months ago)

King Crimson, featuring the tell-tale 'staircase effect' of entire line-ups quitting at once

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/3n249hxmlemh10d86re7qqf2i4sjcfo.png

In den Gärten Pharage (Matt #2), Wednesday, 24 September 2025 15:28 (seven months ago)

Herman's Hermits

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/qsqaoilbrzceqb6oulfuagbnn8lii5f.png

Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 20:12 (seven months ago)

ahh wait Zappa's graph only goes to '88, I knew he was doing Broadway the Hard Way etc. around then, guess the 2 years prior were his Synclaivier era

frogbs, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 20:29 (seven months ago)

That Herman's Hermits timeline makes it look as if stopping making records and getting rid of Peter Noone were the keys to the group's longevity.

Josefa, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 23:45 (seven months ago)

Lol exactly!

Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 23:48 (seven months ago)

Still processing the Waterboys having 27 drummers

Josefa, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 23:50 (seven months ago)

Kind of a pickup band I'd guess, Mike Scott and whoever they can rope in for a tour

In den Gärten Pharage (Matt #2), Thursday, 25 September 2025 00:30 (seven months ago)

Dexys: a lot of changes during their initial run.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/tv54mliihny5h9lsebq4mh30pb8yk3j.png

Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 25 September 2025 05:03 (seven months ago)

Simply red is like they jump a crevasse and almost all land the other side

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/364dndyl6uhuw14zxamm6pi68b7b93k.png

Mark G, Thursday, 25 September 2025 06:43 (seven months ago)

Actually, this board makes them easier to see on a mobile...

Public Image Limited

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/br5ndrqwh75y120dlh6m6hw5j6x5xgt.png

Mark G, Thursday, 25 September 2025 06:45 (seven months ago)

Solomon Ulano? (zoom in!)

I guess he was the old guy at the Riot gig at the Roxy?

Mark G, Thursday, 25 September 2025 06:51 (seven months ago)

Yes

Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 25 September 2025 06:57 (seven months ago)

Tangerine Dream:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/88de2b9rryvf2znij97rr7da1w3pvfj.png

bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Wednesday, 1 October 2025 13:16 (seven months ago)

Charlie Prince? Was that back when they were a rockabilly band?

Mark G, Wednesday, 1 October 2025 13:37 (seven months ago)

Happy Dieter, is that for the best names list or the worst names list?

Proust Ian Rush (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 October 2025 15:43 (seven months ago)

Tangerine Dream looks like Bernhard Biebl joined the band in 2007 with a couple dozen albums in the hopper that he just needed some mates to help him release

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 5 October 2025 00:47 (six months ago)

Kraftwerk:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/7kxh1d3pc393rf7zsz8ux1bgaaaigz5.png

Mark G, Monday, 6 October 2025 19:01 (six months ago)

Sparks:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/iad4dbnfih1qjplnlt7jfpvq2ysuvw0.png

Mark G, Monday, 6 October 2025 19:03 (six months ago)

MDC

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/dqlnmbrun46qu5wsfi0baamoz6rilv6.png

sleeve, Monday, 6 October 2025 19:16 (six months ago)

Love how clean that one is - no one has ever done more than one thing in that band!

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 6 October 2025 19:32 (six months ago)

Beach Boys (touring members):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/0cbr4skpbn3zaiqa6sb5kxqfpnv9yl8.png

imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 04:49 (six months ago)

nice to see Glen Cambpell, Captain & Tenille, The Flames, etc. all lending support

but weird not to see Stamos, huh...

also OG BB David Marks came back at least 2x, that's pretty great <3

imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 04:55 (six months ago)

Dragon later reciprocated by recommending Tennille to the Beach Boys when the band needed an additional keyboardist, and they hired her. She toured with them for a year, and has since been known as the Beach Boys' one and only "Beach Girl."[5]

imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 04:56 (six months ago)

Good to see Mike Kowalski getting to play in the beach boys, must be hard playing the drums when you're just a giant eyeball and mouth with arms and legs, but I guess he has a special kit.

sent a message through the Internet but it rejected (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 11:11 (six months ago)

Was Ricky Fataar not a “touring member”? Or am I missing him on the list?

Mr. T's Ballroom (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 15:19 (six months ago)

Answering myself: Nope, two down from Kowalski

Mr. T's Ballroom (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 15:20 (six months ago)

Paramore

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/c6yti1d187co3bc5h9vb7yfl28d4i54.png

Indexed, Tuesday, 7 October 2025 16:01 (six months ago)

Santana

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/ggxotn76kgzjapldppijqq7eurxthrr.png

so far so noir (Matt #2), Friday, 17 October 2025 01:53 (six months ago)

The Four Freshmen

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/9n5fmyu0q2j7y5oje17scl4gkr991fh.png

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 17 October 2025 03:12 (six months ago)

The Jazz Messengers

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/ep3clne0bcf49xj2pj573jm89jpuz6r.png

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 17 October 2025 03:20 (six months ago)

That’s a good one ^^^

This dark glowing bohemian coffeehouse (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 17 October 2025 04:11 (six months ago)

Note that the Jazz Messengers one and the Four Freshmen one break the normal format of how these things are laid out by not having members associated with the same instrument (or same singing voice) stacked together. Graphically, this allows for a more pure staircase effect.

Josefa, Friday, 17 October 2025 13:04 (six months ago)

Good point

This dark glowing bohemian coffeehouse (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 17 October 2025 13:20 (six months ago)

Yeah i noticed that... if the other timelines had members listed by date-of-joining they might all look like that.

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 17 October 2025 15:37 (six months ago)

INXS

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/kextou4dhpuiutvkwjk8th18a6525up.png

Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 21 October 2025 18:01 (six months ago)

Molly Hatchet - longest-serving member joined in 1987, all original members now dead

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/n3hg6wr77cc1nr9tuyoam5s715wkw2q.png

so far so noir (Matt #2), Tuesday, 21 October 2025 18:19 (six months ago)

UB40
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/q1w3gvabeuzga3yf7ztnxvrbzbw0ipb.png

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 October 2025 18:20 (six months ago)

Ah the great UB40 schism of 2008

sent a message through the Internet but it rejected (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 21 October 2025 18:25 (six months ago)

How could anyone forget the immortal Yomi Babayemi?

imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 October 2025 18:33 (six months ago)

It would be nice to see one of these for The Orb? You have Alex Paterson the whole way through but many other people bouncing in and out and then coming back after very long absences.

with hidden noise, Tuesday, 21 October 2025 18:56 (six months ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/6gla09qsiejh7796mpvk8ncsr3q400z.png

Mark G, Wednesday, 22 October 2025 00:31 (six months ago)

Village People

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/il82zjacywupkbmkex15wkx0fv27pyv.png

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 25 October 2025 15:48 (six months ago)

The Ink Spots

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/l29asq8v1w04dmd8u05qkgsr46pg9k3.png

Disputes over the rights to use the Ink Spots name began in the late 1940s, resulting in many court cases. Starting in 1954, groups calling themselves "The Ink Spots" sprang up all around the United States. Some groups contained original members Fuqua, McDonald, Bowen, or Watson, but most had no ties to the original group whatsoever. Many groups claimed to have the rights to the name, but no one did. Still, lawsuits were filed between various groups and there was great confusion as to who owned the naming rights. Some groups avoided lawsuits by naming themselves "The Fabulous Ink Spots", "The Famous Ink Spots", "The Amazing Ink Spots", "The Sensational Ink Spots", "The Dynamic Ink Spots", and more.

According to writer Marv Goldberg: "The original group was a partnership, not a corporation, and that influenced judge Isidor Wasservogel to say, in 1955, that when Hoppy Jones died in 1944, it effectively served to terminate the partnership and that no one could truthfully use the name after that."[17] From 1954 to the present, more than 100 groups have used the name "The Ink Spots".[18] In 1967 US federal judge Emmet C. Choate ruled that since so many groups had been using the name "Ink Spots" it had become "public domain" and was free for anyone to use.

frehley's kometenmelodie (Matt #2), Saturday, 25 October 2025 16:13 (six months ago)

Wow

This dark glowing bohemian coffeehouse (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 25 October 2025 16:21 (six months ago)

it is quite satisfying to just scroll down this thread and see all the colorful charts go by

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 25 October 2025 22:29 (six months ago)

Melvins, with more bassplayer crossover than I would have thought

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/ctesj6neekzt082vzlh5k9ybpskzbal.png

frehley's kometenmelodie (Matt #2), Wednesday, 29 October 2025 12:54 (six months ago)

We need the Talking Heads here, a band who's evolution is thoroughly illustrated by the visualization

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/mrhcjsz5lltoe9ygcerhp7n12zf24ba.png

...including the long blank tail to the "reunion"

bendy, Thursday, 30 October 2025 18:45 (six months ago)

Have we not posted Kiss?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/aq30tesd8b8yyhae341x7bmhf39c6ov.png

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 October 2025 18:54 (six months ago)

The Orb one doesn’t work without toggling Fehlmann on and off over and over (and would be more in the spirit of the thread to include Hillage, Giraudy, Pratt, live members etc)

fall of the house of urrsher (sic), Friday, 31 October 2025 07:03 (six months ago)

The Lurkers one is impossible, there were two bands going, the one with the longest timeline 'retired' and the other (with more original members) took the name.

Mark G, Friday, 31 October 2025 07:12 (six months ago)

Similar to Faust?

sawdust lagoon, Friday, 31 October 2025 14:06 (six months ago)

The Sisters of Mercy

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/b8gti05t3ybgcsal8u36rski9cuqmol.png

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 31 October 2025 15:10 (six months ago)

thats a lot of chorus pedals

bendy, Friday, 31 October 2025 15:37 (six months ago)

Lol indeed

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 31 October 2025 15:40 (six months ago)

Patricia Morrison wasn't in them very long was she?

Webinar in Wetherspoons (Tom D.), Friday, 31 October 2025 15:45 (six months ago)

i knew Jon Langford was in them briefly ...but as keyboard player? what?

Reggaeton Sax (NickB), Friday, 31 October 2025 15:52 (six months ago)

xp Just the couple of years or so that they spent making and promoting the second album.

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 31 October 2025 15:53 (six months ago)

I kinda want to do one for Caroliner but I feel like there are still some secret members who don't want to be outed.

imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 31 October 2025 21:08 (six months ago)

Slipknot's is one that I love

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/l7we027tc9jsx82ogp00iqi4xxc2znr.png

really looking forward to wearily scrolling past all your posts (Champiness), Monday, 3 November 2025 21:15 (five months ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/g5u2dqcaahk7eh3uo3ofjc9zlh1a7di.png

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 November 2025 21:35 (five months ago)

(Megadeth)

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 November 2025 21:36 (five months ago)

wtf they had session keyboard players? playing *what* exactly?

Edward Albee Sure (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 November 2025 23:21 (five months ago)

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/84h83vbbw9al5eauz763wl417epjcw0.png

Elvis Telecom, Monday, 3 November 2025 23:33 (five months ago)

Looks like Steven has officially become the Kenan Thompson of the Melvins bass players. Unpopular opinion, but he's the best they ever had

*pies flung everywhere* -- Pill's Trap Goin' Ham (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 November 2025 23:34 (five months ago)

Spiritualized is a lot less chaotic than I was thinking

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/emins89g8krnlko4da44hyyvd90153b.png

Elvis Telecom, Monday, 3 November 2025 23:35 (five months ago)

Slipknot's is one that I love

🖼

“Unknown Musician”

This dark glowing bohemian coffeehouse (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 3 November 2025 23:52 (five months ago)

Lol

Kim Kimberly, Monday, 3 November 2025 23:56 (five months ago)

Happy birthday to #7, btw.

pplains, Tuesday, 4 November 2025 02:16 (five months ago)

Poco
https://i.imgur.com/sG5UB1j.png

pplains, Tuesday, 4 November 2025 02:17 (five months ago)

Firefall
https://i.imgur.com/KcE6fSH.png

pplains, Tuesday, 4 November 2025 02:19 (five months ago)

I don’t know Firefall at all but that seems like the paradigmatic classic rock pattern - four guys in a room making the albums that will source the Greatest Hits record. Then a rapid shedding of members as the guy who’s got the trademark soldiers on, eventually reaching decades of stability with people who never were there for the glory days.

bendy, Tuesday, 4 November 2025 03:06 (five months ago)

Had no idea Firefall were ex-members of the Burritos, Byrds and Spirit. Didn't save them from being as tedious a band as there ever was.

TAFKAPA (Matt #2), Tuesday, 4 November 2025 03:21 (five months ago)

Same! Formed in Boulder, where some of those guys were just hanging out after their wild rides.

pplains, Tuesday, 4 November 2025 04:18 (five months ago)

Queens of the Stone Age is not as chaotic as I thought. I guess there have just been a lot of guest appearances on albums that don't count.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/qpfdulns6otwvhiuv9acs58u5gs2b7x.png

peace, man, Tuesday, 4 November 2025 11:58 (five months ago)

The Quarrymen

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/qh8q0m9af7xl7y9kxh371jsdptxzot1.png

Lee626, Monday, 10 November 2025 11:23 (five months ago)

Mud

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/ou9suqjpoimuov41br6a706ggjrkisi.png

Indicating some sort of drama around 81.

Frederik B, Wednesday, 12 November 2025 13:51 (five months ago)

that's neat

giving you schtick (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 12 November 2025 13:54 (five months ago)

Oh boy

sanjuro bloodspray (a tribute) (Matt #2), Wednesday, 12 November 2025 14:34 (five months ago)

Timelines like that are sobering, because they remind you visually that, for example, 1966 to 1996 is the same span of time as 1996 till now.

Josefa, Wednesday, 12 November 2025 14:44 (five months ago)

Yep

Remo Palmieri: The Adventure Begins (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 12 November 2025 14:49 (five months ago)

Aborted

https://i.ibb.co/gLxBFrp9/c4zeixbkhtkqaspwy8ppw2n4cz8gbvs.png

Edward Albee Sure (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 November 2025 14:54 (five months ago)

Xpost yes Margo Buchannon was lead singer, briefly. They were on "Lift off" with their new single, looking much like old Mud, except

Mark G, Wednesday, 12 November 2025 22:17 (five months ago)

The Go-Go's

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/id9hzm0kevz1cuu0aemd6b4d8ynxbls.png

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 November 2025 04:40 (five months ago)

Worth googling Firefall to get to Dallas Schoo and his remarkable career as a guitar tech.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 November 2025 13:58 (five months ago)

https://i.ibb.co/q3dxNkjX/g852sqbwr4z9uhoref22jmakct9jziv.png

Edward Albee Sure (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 November 2025 14:25 (five months ago)

Suicidal Tendencies

https://i.ibb.co/671fbHKB/d1tdfs34esupa7oxztbjl0gijdoxj9t.png

Edward Albee Sure (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 November 2025 14:26 (five months ago)

3/4 of the band was named “Mike” at one time

Remo Palmieri: The Adventure Begins (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 13 November 2025 14:32 (five months ago)

Three Dans and a Stan (TMBG)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/mugfdzr4jyd63ugr28ay6lvmehvopdh.png

sanjuro bloodspray (a tribute) (Matt #2), Thursday, 13 November 2025 14:47 (five months ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/b36hk6vv0am89ejb01ud4m5mpk7ndpk.png

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 November 2025 15:55 (five months ago)

I'd like to make one of these for my old (non-wikipedia-worthy) bands, I guess there's some handy interface with on-site...

Mark G, Thursday, 13 November 2025 19:09 (five months ago)

you can use the sandbox to make sub-pages of your user page

giving you schtick (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 November 2025 19:25 (five months ago)

Had no idea Peter Wolf ever rejoined the J. Geils Band in later years. They probably only played Boston, so word never got around.

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 13 November 2025 19:36 (five months ago)

The Macc Lads:

https://i.imgur.com/QEoPl6p.jpeg

bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Friday, 21 November 2025 10:05 (five months ago)

one month passes...

The Flying Burrito Brothers

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/0vvbhbby56wi0sg0jy595q11bt884eh.png

(Prompted by the "No original members" thread revive.)

Kim Kimberly, Monday, 22 December 2025 22:36 (four months ago)


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