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Bassists that have left great groups

#43
Hiro Yamamoto (born April 13, 1961 in Seattle, Washington) was the founding bassist of Soundgarden. He appears with the lineup of Cornell, Thayil, and drummer Scott Sundquist on the Deep Six compilation, and with the lineup of Cornell, Thayil, and drummer Matt Cameron on the EPs Screaming Life, Fopp, and Loudest Love, as well as on the albums Ultramega OK and Louder Than Love. In 1989, he left the band to finish his Master's degree in Physical Chemistry at Western Washington University. His last gig with the band was in the Melkweg in Amsterdam, after which they got into an argument and Yamamoto subsequently left. He was replaced on the bass by Jason Everman, formerly of Nirvana, for a brief period of time after which Ben Shepherd was tapped as the permanent replacement.

That is -- he left before they got big.
 
#46
Actually Jason Everman was a second guitarist for Nirvana, not the bassist. Novaselic was always their bassist. Funny thing is, he gets a guitar credit on Bleach, but his guitar tracks don't appear on any songs.

Jason Newstead was the most surprising to me though, seriously, why would you do that?:)
 
#48
Dee Dee Ramone left the Ramones. He was replaced by CJ Ramone, I think an improvement.

Not as well known, but Leftover Salmon's bassist, Tye North (a fantastic bass player, btw) left the band in 2000. I just was checking the date, and found he wasn't the original as I'd thought, that was a guy named Glenn Keefe.

Alphonso Johnson left Weather Report in the middle of the Black Market sessions and the next album, they hit mainstream fame with Heavy Weather and Birdland. I think he was replaced by some guy named Jaco or something like that. ;) (I was surprised to read recently that Alphonso apparently quit and wasn't fired to be replaced by Jaco, but it was on wikipedia, so don't know how true that is, nor how true Jaco's boasting was.)

As for McCartney, he broke the band up via press release.
 
#49
AlvarHanso said:
Alphonso Johnson left Weather Report in the middle of the Black Market sessions and the next album, they hit mainstream fame with Heavy Weather and Birdland. I think he was replaced by some guy named Jaco or something like that. ;) (I was surprised to read recently that Alphonso apparently quit and wasn't fired to be replaced by Jaco, but it was on wikipedia, so don't know how true that is, nor how true Jaco's boasting was.)
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That's correct, Johnson was not fired as Joe and Wayne were both very happy with his work. Johnson wanted to be more involved with the songwriting so he left to be in the George Duke/Billy Cobham Band with John Scofield I believe on guitar.
 
#50
Stuart Morrow left New Model Army in the peak of bands power, 'though they are still great years after.
Pete Garner left The Stone Roses before they hit huge success...
Those were the two I remembered , possibly I come up with some more later...
 
#53
Oh, the one I thought for sure would have been mentioned quickly: Leon Wilkerson quit Lynyrd Skynyrd shortly before their first album was recorded, and joined right after Ed King played the bass parts on the album. I think he's even in the group photo.
 
#59
sagerbj said:
Actually Jason Everman was a second guitarist for Nirvana, not the bassist. Novaselic was always their bassist. Funny thing is, he gets a guitar credit on Bleach, but his guitar tracks don't appear on any songs.

Jason Newstead was the most surprising to me though, seriously, why would you do that?:)
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He put up with a lot of crap for 14 years in a band where he was neither allowed much, if any, creative voice, nor allowed to have side projects.

I'd have quit, too.
 

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