Longest-Running Band Still With Original Members?

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And I mean a sort of well known group, i.e. don't care much if the local bluegrass group in your town has been at it since 1956. I am sadly lacking in this trivia dept. I can come up with Aerosmith (1970, right, and I am not counting that dreadful one off Rock in a Hard Place, but nonetheless they are all back together now anyway.) 34 years sounds like a long time to me. But I can't be right.

― caspar (caspar), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure we did this quite recently....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Bloody search function's going at about 2MPH.

IIRC though, we had enormous fun introducing all sorts of bizarre rules, it all got wonderfully pedantic, and I have an unpleasant supicion that U2 was the best answer anyone could come up with.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

ZZ Top boasts of being the longest running trio.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Career Bands Who've Always Had the Same Lineup

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the thread I was looking for, thanks Christoff

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing I love about ZZ Top is the tenacity of their unchangingness. When they needed horns on Deguello, they went out and learned to play them, because their policy was (and is) that if a sound is going to be made on a ZZ Top record, it's going to be made by a member of ZZ Top.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Well after reading that other thread I still Aerosmith wins. I'm not asking about if they ever broke up, that awful record w/o Perry and Whitford simply was an aberration anyway. I do think they are the oldest rock group that still has its original members, no?

― caspar (caspar), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

As noted in the linked thread, ZZ Top date back to 1967-68.

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

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