Biggest mistake a band ever made

[Wilmingtonian]

OP might as well have put The Police on that list, too. But, like most of the other "mistakes," they hated each other, too. Guys who make a stack of money sometimes decide they don't want to continue looking at people they hate just to make more stacks of money.

 

[cableguy]

Not a band, but a player.

Jason Everman was involved with Nirvana, Soundgarden, and I think even Pearl Jam. Talk about coming close to grasping superstardom on several occasions and not achieving it.

To be fair the guy's in the Special Forces now. Army Ranger I believe. I read a great acticle about him where he said he had depression issues that basically turned him into an ass to be around on long road touring trips. But still, that would be a tough one to swallow....

 

[fhm555]

Never famous but I was in a band with a drummer who for no reason at about six months in made it his mission to ride my butt. Not about the music, but about everything else. We worked all we wanted and things were really fun, then this guy decides it's his mission in life to hack me off to the point of punching him out. I rolled with it for several months and it began to spread to the rest of the band. He would call them and try to get them on his side. None of them chose sides but band business began to suffer so i found another job and split. A few weeks after i quit i ran into one of the guitar players and the drummer had just switched his saddle to the front man after i left. Some people simply make it impossible to get along.

 

[Gluvhand]

I'm that one wierd dude who prefered Sabbath with Dio and Ozzy solo........

Well, then there are two of us.

 

[Stumbo]

Discussion: Why bands most don't last...(long post)

 

[leegreenman]

Dio era Sabbath is pretty awesome. It was also commercially successful.

 

[blue4]

Biggest musician mistake? Billy Squier deciding to shoot a dance video.


Biggest one ever.

David Coverdale firing everyone who made Whitesnake awesome and replacing them with professional replacement players. And he turned Neil Murray boring.

 

[tangentmusic]

When RUSH discontinued working with Terry Brown as producer.

 

[steamthief]

Dee Dee Ramone leaving to embark on a career as a rapper. Heroin is a terrible drug...

 

[southpaw723]

"Beatles breaking up was idiotic"
It was necessary, not everything is about making money.

 

[madbass6]

I always wonder how some bands (and people in them) make the decisions they do.
A few examples would be personnel changes, musical direction changes, changes in producer, recording engineers, their overall band "look" and stuff like that.

-Why did Mick Taylor leave the Rolling Stones? ....he never did anything of note since and Ronnie Wood stepped in and has had a great career as the other guitar player.

-Black Sabbath fired Ozzy and then Ozzy went and kicked their ass for a decade or two before reconciliation measures brought them back together.

-Kiss took off their makeup, the only thing the band ever had going for them.

-Alice Cooper dumped his band and his records just turned into mush.

-Any band that ever stopped using Bob Ezrin, Mutt Lange, Rick Rubin or Butch Vig payed the price.

-The Beatles breaking up was idiotic.

-Guns and Roses breaking up was bad for everyone but Slash.

-Pink Floyd breaking up was dumb.


So, what are the biggest mistakes other bands have made..???

Who's to say it was mistakes , they must of had reasons ! or maybe it was just meant to be.

 

[rodv66]

Ok, this is old-school. Jon Bon Jovi never acknowledging Hugh McDonald as his bassist. Hugh has played on pretty much every Bon Jovi album since "Runaway" in 1982. But because he was a decade older than Jon; he used Alec John Such for a decade (arguably more for his hairline than bass skills). As a full time time bassist on Bon Jovi's touring band since 1995, he's still never included in band pictures.
Mistake like this post? Nah. Insulting to bass players. Uhuh.
Ouch.

But Alec John Such was a bass icon. How could one disparage a player who will go down as one of the most influential bassists of the last 30 years? I mean it's Alec, the gods of bass cried the day he left Bon Jovi

 

[rodv66]

OK here's mine,

Jerry Only singing for the Misfits and turning them into a three piece.

Celtic Frost turning glam for the "Cold Lake" record.

GnR taking a decade to make Chinese Democracy

John Corabi replacing Vince Neil in Motley Crue.

Blaze Bailey joining Iron Maiden

"Cut the Crap" by the Clash

David Lee Roth releasing a country version of VH music

Van Halen III

Geddy Lee using a Steinberg bass

 

[blue4]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry that Bon Jovi is now old school. I guess it's been 30 plus years now.

 

[BigBigGuy44]

Brittany Spears should have posed for Playboy while the going was good.

 

[cheechi]

-Why did Mick Taylor leave the Rolling Stones?
Mick questions it publicly also. I suspect drugs and/or women were involved.

-Black Sabbath fired Ozzy and then Ozzy went and kicked their ass for a decade or two
Ozzy's solo career was unquestionably more critically and deservedly well respected than the last era he was with Sabbath, but franly Sabbath III was their last really good album anyway.

-Kiss took off their makeup, the only thing the band ever had going for them.
Dynasty.
The solo albums.
The movie.
Psycho Circus the game.
The unmasked bit was at most a minor misstep in their long journey.

-Alice Cooper dumped his band and his records just turned into mush.
Suggesting the band was fired sounds a bit mis-remembering to me.

-Any band that ever stopped using Bob Ezrin, Mutt Lange, Rick Rubin or Butch Vig payed the price.
Can't argue there.

-The Beatles breaking up was idiotic.
The solo albums prove this was more or less a necessary step in each of their musical career.

-Guns and Roses breaking up was bad for everyone but Slash.
You ever tried to work with Axl Rose? He's a stickler for deadlines. Slash went through what 3 bands and 8 albums while Axl was finishing that album?

-Pink Floyd breaking up was dumb.
Which time? I kid. Less complicated than The Beatles but the irony of their success coming from multi-platinum glorified temper tantrums, they were basically breaking up for about a decade before it actually happened. Waters reflects a lot of McCartney in the last part of each of their respective bands' time before breakup.

 

[58kites]

It's personal taste, I'm just not a fan of Dio's singing, could never stomach any record he was on.
I have a hard time listening to a number of metal guys doing the opera singer thing.

It took me four decades to "re-appreciate" Black Sabbath.
I was 12 when they made their first album and I moved on after their third album, about 5 years ago I started listening to their records again.

I believe Alice Cooper/Vincent Furnier did dump his band, please fill me in if I am mistaken.
There were alcohol problems with Glen Buxton but I believe Vincent just did not call the remaining members of the band to make Welcome to My Nightmare.
Instead, he hired a bunch of studio musicians and made albums that sounded like a lounge singer and some studio musicians.
So far from what the Alice Cooper Band had been, and it happened the minute he dumped them.
The contrast from Billion Dollar Babies to Welcome To My Nightmare is pretty dramatic.

 

[Felken]

Lars Ulrich.

 

[Felken]

I'm surprised no one mentioned Dream Theater and Portnoy yet...

 

[Felken]

Nickelback still playing.

Have you not heard their most recent single?????? 10/10