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Which bands have members from the same family? I guess usually they are brothers and sisters but there are also bands with parents and children or even grand-parents maybe? Do those bands have something in common? Most of the ones I can think of out of the top of my head have a distinctive and original, sometimes even unique sound. Are those bands more cohesive than the average band? I mean, does their personnel change less than usual?

Examples:

- The Jackson 5 (5 brothers)
- Beach Boys (three Wilson brothers)
- Cowboy Junkies with two brothers and one sister (Timmins family)
- Shaggs (the three Wiggin sisters)
- Kelly family (is that a band, actually?)
- Allman Brothers (two brothers)
- Jesus & Mary Chain (Reid brothers)
- Carpenters (brother and sister)
- Oasis (Gallagher brothers. Not a good example for originality)
- Sensational Alex Harvey Band (two McKenna brothers)

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Cowsills
Nelson
Tin Machine
The DiFranco Family
Hanson

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

meat puppets (two kirkwood brothers)

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Spirit

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Love & Rockets
The Carter Family
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Replacements

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

mcgarrigle sisters

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Trachenberg Slideshow Family Players
Smoosh
Kings of Leon

― jellybean (jellybean), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

The Bee Gees
Eisley

― Von, Friday, 15 April 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Kinks!

― Huk-L, Friday, 15 April 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

actually bands with sibling partnerships are too easy. It seems pretty common to ask a brother/sister to fill in the missing position in the band.

More fun are the slightly more unusual partnerships
eg Trachtenburg Slideshow Family Players (Dad, Mum and Daughter)
Mystery Jets (features a Dad and Son pairing)

― jellybean (jellybean), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Selena

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Wilkinsons, Can-Country trio of brother, sister & dad.

― Huk-L, Friday, 15 April 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

c'mon people DANIELSON FAMILE!

also Willie Nelson.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 15 April 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Wu-Tang Clan

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 15 April 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Death Angel

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

corrs

― John Cocktolstoy, Friday, 15 April 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

~~actually bands with sibling partnerships are too easy~~
The Breeders

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Dave225, who's family in Love & Rockets?

― Seb (Seb), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Blood on the Wall.

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Smoosh
Radiohead (Greenwood brothers)
Good Charlotte (the twins, forget their names)
Arcade Fire (brothers + wife of one brother)
The Coral (also brothers)
Doves (twins)
Sly and the Family Stone (Sly and Freddy)
The Darkness (the Hawkins brothers)
Electric Soft Parade (brothers)
The Coral (brothers)
The White Stripes (oh wait...)

I can't think of any more right now. Actually I can think of a whole load of boybands and girl groups with sibling members but I'm thinking they're not what you're looking for?

The other thing is that a lot of family bands are not the type to tour or put out a bunch of albums, they're more likely to stay in one area and play a very specific type of music like polka or bluegrass.

― Roz, Friday, 15 April 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Love & Rockets: Kevin and David are brothers.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Delete The Coral in my previous post. Could've sworn there were a pair of siblings in that one..

― Roz, Friday, 15 April 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

The Cagel Family, who often play the NYC subways. The dad plays bass and the rest are his kids -- and there are about 15 of them!

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

The Sproton Layer

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

The Finn Brothers, whatever...
15-60-75/ the Kidney Brothers

Aren't there a bunch of cousin band relationships we're forgetting?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

The Weirdos (Denney bros.)
The Dils, Rank & File (Kinman bros.)
Mad Society (hardcore punk w/pre-teen vocalist, parents in band)

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Fiery Furnaces
Magic Numbers (twice!)

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Yo La Tengo

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Los Lonely Boys (Brothers)
Stone Coyotes (Mom, Dad, & Son)

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Clayton Miller Blues Band (3 guys and their dad)

― Roz, Friday, 15 April 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

early Flaming Lips had Wayne Coyne's brother, Mark.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Mu (husband and wife)

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Viva Voce (also husband and wife)

― leelee, Friday, 15 April 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Low(husband and wife)
early Throwing Muses(half sisters)

― jason., Friday, 15 April 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Blonde Redhead
Middle Class
Van Halen

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

the Doobie Brothers...

OK, the Staple Singers
Reckless Kelly
Os Mutantes
Isley Brothers
Allman Brothers
Boswell Sisters

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Somehow I forgot EYEBALLSKELETON, which is amazing. Dad and his two kids.

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Weren't the Spanic Boys a father-son act?

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Pernice Brothers

― PDAS, Friday, 15 April 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I had no idea about Kevin and David. I guess we can include Bauhaus too then. (x-post)

― Seb (Seb), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

RHYTHM BROSEPHS

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Red Kross!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 15 April 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Were the Brothers Johnson really sibs?

I'd say I thought the Ramones were related until I was about... 19?

― theophilus jones (theophilus), Friday, 15 April 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

ADULT.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 15 April 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Heavenly/Talulah Gosh.

― Cathcart Chiswick, Friday, 15 April 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band (half-brothers)
Indigenous (two brothers, sister, first cousin)
The Roches (three sisters)
Cafe Tacuba and El Gran Silencio (two brothers)
The Neville Brothers (lots of them, and some nephews, too)
Throwing Muses (half-sisters)
DeBarge (I think there were two brothers and a sister)
Van Halen (!)
The Judds(!) (mother and daughter)

Marriage --
Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club(!)
Wings (!)
Fleetwood Mac (sometimes) (!)
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
Jim Kweskin Jug Band
The Mamas and the Papas
Mid-70s Grateful Dead
Continental Divide
The Creek Dippers
Quasi and White Stripes are both divorced couples

― Vornado (Vornado), Friday, 15 April 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

ooh the Nevilles reminds me:

The Meters
the JBs/Bootsy's Rubber Band (Bootsy n Catfish)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 15 April 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

The Sadies (Dallas and Travis Good)

― todd (todd), Friday, 15 April 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Early Dire Straits

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 16 April 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

Sonny & Cher
The Carter Family
Doc & Merle Watson

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 16 April 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Not the Thompson Twins though

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 16 April 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

On!Air!Library! - Super!Hot!Twins!

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Saturday, 16 April 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

Split Enz/Crowded House/Finn Brothers

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 16 April 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

Handsome Family - husband/wife/brother of one of them
Pegboy - Haggerty bros.
Embrace - McNamara bros.

Did Frank Zappa have any of his kids in his band?

― Ben Dot (1977), Saturday, 16 April 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

Orbital (Tom and Phil Hartnoll)

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Saturday, 16 April 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

the clean / the great unwashed
hood
speedboat

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 16 April 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

No one mentioned AC/DC: Angus & Malcom Young.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 16 April 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

Did Frank Zappa have any of his kids in his band?

I don't think so, but his daughter is featured on at least one track!

― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 16 April 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

of montreal has his wife in the band now
looper

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 16 April 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

ESG

The Gibson Brothers!

― JohnFoxxsJuno, Saturday, 16 April 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

The Aluminum Group (the brothers Navin)
Ornette Coleman's various lineups featuring (son) Denardo Coleman
Shirley and Dorothy Collins (sisters)

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

wrens
futureheads

― lemin (lemin), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Section 25
Jarvis's sister was in Pulp for a spell.

― D. Bachyrycz, Saturday, 16 April 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Refrigerator (two Callaci bros)
Versus (at one point, all Baluyuts except for Fontaine)

― mike a, Sunday, 17 April 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Young Marble Giants, sort of (three-piece consisting of two sibs and the bassist's girlfriend)

― mike a, Sunday, 17 April 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

The Gap Band (three Wilson brothers)
Hanson (obvious)
Cocteau Twins (Robin and Elizabeth were married)

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 17 April 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

Psychedelic Furs

― D. Bachyrycz, Sunday, 17 April 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

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