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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven months ago)

Do Hawkwind's next!

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

Rednex

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

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

U2

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

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

Belle and Sebastian

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

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

Black Flag

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

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

The Fall

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

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

Sex Pistols

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sugababes

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

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

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

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

Black Sabbath?

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

Hmm, sort of.

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

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

wild to ask that four posts after soref’s

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

RIP Elvis Ramone, we hardly knew ye.

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

wild to ask that four posts after soref’s

sorry

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

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

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

Outlaws

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

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

Rush

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

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

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

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

Chicago

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

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

ZZ Top

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

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

Earth, Wind & Fire

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

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 25 July 2025 15:39 (five 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 (five 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 (three 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 (two 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 (one month 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 (one month ago)

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

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 October 2025 18:54 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago)

Similar to Faust?

sawdust lagoon, Friday, 31 October 2025 14:06 (one month ago)

The Sisters of Mercy

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

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 31 October 2025 15:10 (one month ago)

thats a lot of chorus pedals

bendy, Friday, 31 October 2025 15:37 (one month ago)

Lol indeed

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 31 October 2025 15:40 (one month ago)

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

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

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

Reggaeton Sax (NickB), Friday, 31 October 2025 15:52 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago)

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

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 November 2025 21:35 (one month ago)

(Megadeth)

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 November 2025 21:36 (one month ago)

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

Edward Albee Sure (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 November 2025 23:21 (one month ago)

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

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

Elvis Telecom, Monday, 3 November 2025 23:33 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago)

Slipknot's is one that I love

🖼

“Unknown Musician”

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

Lol

Kim Kimberly, Monday, 3 November 2025 23:56 (one month ago)

Happy birthday to #7, btw.

pplains, Tuesday, 4 November 2025 02:16 (one month ago)

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

pplains, Tuesday, 4 November 2025 02:17 (one month ago)

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

pplains, Tuesday, 4 November 2025 02:19 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago)

The Quarrymen

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

Lee626, Monday, 10 November 2025 11:23 (one month 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 (one month ago)

that's neat

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

Oh boy

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

Yep

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

Aborted

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

Edward Albee Sure (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 November 2025 14:54 (one month 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 (one month ago)

The Go-Go's

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

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 November 2025 04:40 (one month 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 (one month ago)

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

Edward Albee Sure (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 November 2025 14:25 (one month ago)

Suicidal Tendencies

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

Edward Albee Sure (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 November 2025 14:26 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago)

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

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 November 2025 15:55 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago)

The Macc Lads:

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

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


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