Bands that have totally disappeared

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The "reunions suck" thread made me think that bands should only reunite in heavens when all band members are dead. The Beatles are half there. Which bands have attained hades? Maybe the Allman Brothers?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Mayhem for 2/3rds.

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

You'd think losing THREE members in the same plane crash would have shut down Lynyrd Skynyrd long ago, but nooooo, they have to keep playing "Free Bird" at state fairs across the country now don't they?

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Aren't most of the Temptations gone now? Or at least Kendrick and Ruffin?

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a broken record, but: The Stockholm Monsters.

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

are there any Comets left from Bill Haley & The Comets?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey John, did you catch that I ran into Shan Hira? That was unexpected?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey John, did you catch that I ran into Shan Hira? That was unexpected!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

You WHAT ???

falls on floor, requires medical attention

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Heavens, I think I posted it directly on the old SM thread! He's doing live sound for the Chameleons and Mark Burgess acknowledged him at the Long Beach show. I thought, "Wait a minute" and introduced myself after the show. Friendly guy, a touch embarrassed I think that anyone would be so interested in the band (I mentioned getting the reissues and he laughed a bit and asked, "Why did you do that?"). ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

The Farm

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

But the Monstahs aren't dead, nor the Farm! Although The Farm ought to be.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

The Ramones are 2/3 of the way there too - the drummer doesn't really matter, does he? They can just get Judas Ramone or St Francis Ramone to fill in, depending on where they are. Bit difficult if Dee Dee's in one place and Joey's in the other, though.

― Andrew Norman, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 22:11 (twenty-three years ago)

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO CELTIC FROST!?!?!

Ok, yeah yeah, but seriously. Toad the Wet Sprocket has disappeared. I thought about that like 2 weeks ago. I was at work, and for some reason I thought to myself:

"Hey I haven't thought about Toad the Wet Sprocket in like 5 years. Wait a minute, that's probably because they were really fucking weak and boring. Oh yeah."

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Thursday, 21 November 2002 02:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Are there any bands that have totally vanished? Like, say, someone wants to rerelease their records but they can't because none of the band members can be tracked down?

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Thursday, 21 November 2002 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO CELTIC FROST!?!?!

Tom Gabriel "Warrior" Fisher is now in Appolyon Sun. And from a 1999 interview:

Well then maybe you can tell me what some of the past members of Celtic Frost are doing these days?

"Sure that's easy. Martin has a music club in Zurich. It's a very successful hip club. He has also started a DVD distribution business. Steven Priestly works for Warner Brothers records. Ron Marks has a band in in Pennsylvania called "Subsonic." Kurt Victor Bryant has a record company in Florida and also still plays. Reed St. Mark also still plays but right now he's a body building trainer to movie stars in New York. So everybody is kinda in the entertainment industry one way or another and have pretty much branched out.

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 21 November 2002 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah loads, Christine. Mainly old garage-rock (US) and freakbeat/psyche bands who only released one or two singles. There are loads of Pebbles/Rubble/Nuggets bands where all the members are either unknown or their current whereabouts is unknown. Generally the records just get released anyway on the basis that it's done for the right reasons, and if anyone turns up they can slip them a quid for their trouble.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 21 November 2002 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Right, I wasn't thinking about that.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Thursday, 21 November 2002 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

If you track down the compilations of Cambodian garage bands who were recording in the '60s...it's not hard to imagine what happened to most/all of them, and while one always strives to minimize the effect that context has on listening, in this case it lends a pretty terrifying power to the songs.

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Thursday, 21 November 2002 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Hm...I understand where you're coming from, John, but it's no more (or less) distressing than contemplating what happened to anyone who did something creative or artistic -- or even just lived -- without knowing that a violent death might have been around the corner. Is Walter Benjamin's work all the more powerful because of his fate?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 November 2002 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Feeder: 1 down, 2 to go.

Where's my hammer?

― Callum (Callum), Thursday, 21 November 2002 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.whosaliveandwhosdead.com/ldcontent.htm?category=ldmusic

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Well but Ned in the case of Cambodia the senselessness of it all is mindbogglingly enormous -- the sheer scale of the horror -- the probability is high that everyone who owned an electric guitar was rounded up & killed.

No smart remarks from y'all IDM people, now :)

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh dear. ;-)

But back to seriousness -- you might well be right! And Benjamin wasn't killed for his writing (I gather) but for his religion as were too many others, but that's no less senseless. I guess if we look at any case where doing something or being someone leads to death later on, it's just an endless, grim procession...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought Benjamin commited suicide to avoid capture?? I suppose that's sort of extremely indirect murder.

Besides the Cambodian Rocks album, is there anywhere to find any info--music or text-- about what John is talking about?

― Mat Bo (Mat Bo), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Why this stuff comes to mind: a book I'm reading called "Voices from S-21," which doesn't speak directly to the music issue but makes plain the extent of Pol Pot's insanity. It's by David Chandler and is published by UC Press (Berkeley).

I wonder whether there was any kind of rock scene in pre-Taliban Afghanistan -- anybody know?

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder whether there was any kind of rock scene in pre-Taliban Afghanistan -- anybody know?

I doubt it. Over a decade of Soviet occupation, combined with a long, brutal civil war afterwards would lead me to think "No way, Jose Padilla."

― hstencil, Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Seigbran, you don't know what you're talking about.

The correct answer to WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO CELTIC FROST?!?! is such:

Tom Warrior fell from a tree in cherry orchard
Martin Ain drowned in a cold lake
Reed St. Mark went to Mega Therion
and remains there 'till this day
Tom Warrior is waiting for the emperor's return
Martin Ain's trapped in the circle of tyrants
Reed St. mark was blinded in the crypt of rays
where he remains 'till this day

Just ask Scott Ian.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:04 (twenty-three years ago)

come on people. no answer yet. you disappoint me again.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 22 November 2002 00:18 (twenty-three years ago)

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