From Freddie Mercury to Steve Perry: 6 Rock Bands Replaced Beyond Recognition

0:00It's Season 3 on We Fixed It You're Welcome, and we're still just getting started. I think we've identified very clearly that there are major issues here. The problem is the rebrand backfire, people were confused. No apologies, the door hits you on the way out, fired on the spot. Companies, culture, chaos, if it's broken, we're going to fix it. That's my fix this time around. I like that. I love that. New episodes drop weekly, wherever you get your favorite podcasts. We fixed it, you're welcome. Are you ready? It's go time. Today we're going all in on band roster chaos, as all I can say. You know, some rock linups, they're built for the long haul. But more often than not, bandmates come and go whether we like it or not. I mean, infighting, personality clashes, creative differences, cheer fatigue, even tragedies all take a toll on rock bands. On today's content, I'm giving you six band line ups that have changed. So drastically over the years, I can hardly keep up. Some of them are almost unrecognizable.

1:00And I'm talking about some of the biggest bands ever. I'm going to call this one down shift. And man, as usual, I got some stories. We're going to recap how one of the best bands of the 60s and 70s have their identity stolen from them. And how these imposters got away with it for decades until a brilliant move by the singer got it back. I'll tell you what it is. There's also a couple lead singers who stepped in to replace two of the most legendary front men ever. And after one gave a subpar performance, he told fans that he got a million negative comments on social media. He just quit the band altogether. Did he get voted out? Let's get into it. Hey, easy junkies. Professor of rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artist and the greatest songs of all time. You know, if you ever fake someone out with that fake vomit back in the day, you know, kind of you would buy it a gag store in the back of a comic book. You're going to dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia. Make sure to like, share, and comment on this video. Definitely make sure you subscribe. A lot of people are not subscribing. They think they are.

2:00I'm telling you, I'm pulling out all the stuff. So I'm doing everything in my power to keep this channel going. It's a daily bell. And sometimes it seems impossible. But your help is so appreciated to keep it going. Gotta keep the musical live. So let's talk about the greatest lineup, shakeups in history, especially with the singers. Start things off at number six. We're featuring one of my favorites, foreigner. A band that has had more members than anyone else on this list, I'm pretty sure. I think at this point, they're up to 40 different members now. Forerner, they formed in 1976. And it's initial lineup, including guitarists, Mick Jones and Ian McDonnell, bassist, egg gagliardi, keyboardist, Al Greenwood, drummer, Dennis Alia, and lead singer Lou Graham. In 1977, they dropped their self-titled debut. That one sold four million copies in the US and it featured top ten singles, classics like feels like the first time and coldest ice. Builds on the first time. Nice. You're of coldest ice.

3:00Now, the next year, foreigner released Double Vision. That hit number three on the Billboard 200 and during this initial two album run, the original six-piece lineup stayed intact. Their third album, Head Games, traded gagliardi for Rick Willis on bass. And as the 80s got gone, the changes really started to accelerate. The release of Forerner IV in 1981 gave them massive hits. There was urgent waiting for girl like you and jukebox hero. That album sold an impressive six million and it featured three new musicians, keyboardist Bob Mayo and Peter Relic, as well as Mark Rivera, who replaced Ian McDonnell on rhythm guitar. Of course, that one produced by Matt Lang. Then, two years later, Forerner released Agent Provocatour and scored their first number one single, I want to know what love is. The lineup for that one was more or less the same as Forer,

4:01with the exception of Peter Relic. In 1987, that inside information, and that gave us the top ten hits that you will. And that same year, a frontman Lou Graham dropped his first solo album, ready or not, featured as number five hit Midnight Blue, a song that Forerner actually rejected after Lou offered it to the band. And then it not only became a bigger hit than any by the band going forward, but it was the most played song in 1987 winning the BMI award, which that didn't sit well with leader Mick Jones, but he's the one that said no. So by the late 80s, Mick Jones was leaning hard into synth-driven power ballads, or even just ballads. There's a direction that Lou Graham hated he wanted to rock. That going back to inside information, and when it was time to record Mick's ballad, I don't want to live without you. Lou Graham thought the song was so wimpy, he tried to sabotage it at the recording session. And get this, he deliberately gave an uninspired vocal performance, hoping Jones would scrap it.

5:01But I tell you, Lou Graham, his voice is so good that even when he's not trying, or when he's trying to sabotage it, his vocals still sound great. And ultimately, his reluctant performance took, I don't want to live without you to number five of the hot 100. Next, Lou Graham released a second solo album in 1989, that featured the number six hit just between you and me. By 1990, though, he'd had enough of foreigner. So the band brought on vocalist Johnny Edwards, and in 1991, they released their seventh album, Unusual Heat. The deaf fell down to number 117 on the Billboard 200. 115 spots worsened inside information. The following year, Edwards was out, and the guys somehow pressured Graham to come back into the fold. And then in 1995, foreigner released their eighth studio album, Mr. Moonlight. For Lou, it felt like a step in the right direction, but the album fell to yield the top 40 hit at all, and it did even worse on the Billboard 200, until number 136. I got to admit, the single until the end of time is really an underrated gem from that time. And Mr. Moonlight would be Graham's last studio album with foreigner,

6:08but he would stay in the lineup until 2003, during that second run, and additional 12 musicians would play in the band. When foreigner fired back up in 2004, they brought on vocalist Chaz West before quickly pivoting to Kelly Hansen. He brighter the band from 2005 to 2025, a run nearly as long as Lou Graham's. But during that time on any given night, when Mick Jones wasn't there, the band didn't have a single original member, and he started calling them fake foreigner, but they still sold out arenas on the name and the hits alone. The new millennium would see a slew of musicians cycle through the foreigner lineup, though, including Jason Bonham on drums. The band's modern era delivered just one more studio album in 2009, can't slow down, and now they have a new singer. All right, coming in at number five, I got the guess who, and this story of this band's shifting lineup is insane.

7:08So check this out. The guests who came together out of two teenage bands from Winnipeg, Manitoba, they'll back then they were known as Chad Allen and the Reflections, and then Chad Allen and the Expressions. That early lineup consisted of guitarist Randy Beckman, drummer Gary Peterson, guitarist and vocalist Alan Kobel, aka the Chad Allen, pianist Bob Ashley and bassist Jim Cal. Then in 1965, with a British invasion on full effect, they released a cover of a shake at all over, and that one topped the Canadian charts. Shaking all over. Officials at quality records credited the single to guess who, question mark, was actually employed to make listeners think that the music was an anonymous British supergroup. But the name stuck and shake it all over, each number 22 in the US and the band tour in America. However, the pressure of touring that overwhelmed Bob Ashley and he quit the band. He was replaced by Winnipeg's Burton Cummings, who shared lead vocals with Alan at that point. In 1966, Alan left the group,

8:09and was briefly replaced by Bruce Decker, before Burton Cummings became the sole lead singer, which was a good thing. So Cummings, backman, Kell and Peterson became the group's most successful lineup. We all really know as the guest who. In 1968, though, they appeared on a CVC TV music show where it's at, and their efforts in press producer Jack Richardson so much so that he actually mortgaged his house to create a record label, and then produced the 1969 guest who album we filled soul. Now, the third single released off that album, these eyes, that topped the charts in Canada and climbed a number six on the hall in 1969. And then the band scored the number 10 US hit, Laughing in that same year, and in 1970, the guest who released the number five hit no time. And after that, American woman in the flip side no sugar tonight climbed to number one. American woman, stay away from me.

9:11But then just as a group, we're enjoying some serious success. Randy Backman quit the band, and he went on to form Backman Turnover Drive, which Bachman Turnover Drive. That's what most people call it. So with Randy Gone, Burton took control of the guest who and he recruited guitarist Greg Lesque and Kurt Winter. By the end of 1970, they had charted twice more of the singles, Hammy Down World, and share the land. However, as the 70s progressed, the band's popularity started to wane. Don McDougal replaced Lesque and Bill Wallace replaced Kale. The more band members came and went from there. And then in 1975, Burton Cummings disbanded the group, and he did a solo career as well. Then jump ahead to 1979 and Jim Kellen, Don McDougal attempted to resurrect the guest who adding vocalist Alan McDougal, also guitarist David Inglis,

10:11and drummer Vince Masters, and the horn player David Perez. They released an album, all this for a song, and then a single sweet young thing. Both of them flopped majorly. And then as a years passed, there would be more efforts to revitalize the band. Then in 1986, Jim Kale discovered that the name of the guest who, the band name, wasn't trademarked. And he submitted applications with the US trademark office to secure the name, without talking to Burton or Randy, from what I understand, instituting his own version of the guest who Kale was then joined by original drummer Gary Peterson in the late 80s, and they launched a series of nostalgia tours or released new guest who albums. Kale and Peterson were joined by an entirely new cast of musicians from there, and then when Kale retired in 2016, Peterson was left as the only original guest who member. However, he didn't play every night, so there were guests who shows without an actual guest who band member, just like Warner. Backman and Cummings, they were both livid at this imposter band.

11:11In 2023, they filed a $20 million lawsuit claiming trademark infringement and false advertising. The suit revealed the band was using photos of Burton Cummings and Randy Backman to dupe fans into buying tickets for the shows, and they alleged that they were autographing Cummings and Backman's names on, you know, vintage albums for fans. Pretty bad. As the dispute pressed on in 2024, Burton Cummings took the nuclear option and brilliant move here. He conceded his royalties on the guests who classic tracks to block the band from playing his songs. He said Cummings about it, I'm willing to do anything to stop this fake band. They're taking my life story and pretending it's theirs. They're not the people who made these records and they shouldn't act like they did. The songs are performed by the fake guests who they'll be sued for every single occurrence. Now, not only did this penalize the band for playing hits like American women these eyes in no time, it also targeted venues to book the band. Soon after this, the fake guest who concert stopped dead in their tracks

12:11and so did the band. Later that year, Burton and Randy revealed that they had acquired control the guest who named for the first time since the good old days. And in June 2025, they announced that we're reforming the guest who for a 2026 tour called Taken At Back. And good for them. Now, let's get them in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Brilliant move by Burton Cummings there. Coming in at number four, I got Queen. And for Queen's first two decades, the band's roster stayed remarkably consistent. In 1970 and 1971, there was some turnover at the bassist position going from Mike Gross to Barry Mitchell to Doug Bogey and then of course, the band locked in on John Deacon. But that was about all. The members of Queen, of course, he had no introduction. Everybody knows him. The remaining three, four, so the classic quartet considered frontman Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, and of course drummer Roger Taylor. That lineup remained intact from 1971 to 1991 to the death of Freddie Mercury.

13:12During that 20-year span, Queen released 14 studio albums from their self-titled debut at 1991's In Uendo. Three of these achieved multi-platinum status in the US. 1975's The Night of the Opera. 1977's News of the World and 1980's The Game. Two more went platinum at The Races in Jazz. It all Queen scored nine top 20 hits in the US in nearly 40 top 20 hits in the UK. Hey, gotta get to do another one by the dash door. Still alive. So when Freddie Mercury fell to appear at events promoting that new release of In Uendo in 1991, rumors started to circulate that the frontman was seriously ill. Freddie refused to grant interviews or appear publicly, and then he divulged on November 23rd, 1991 that he had AIDS. Said Mercury, and I quote, the time has now come from my friends and fans around the world to know the truth,

14:13and I hope that everyone will join with me, my doctors, and all those worldwide in the fight against this terrible disease. Freddie Mercury died the next day of pneumonia and brought on by the illness. Taking Mercury's last words to heart, the surviving members of the band launched a 1992 Freddie Mercury tribute concert for AIDS awareness. Now, of course, raised millions to support AIDS relief and research. Now, this money also included profits from the final Queen release featuring Freddie, a 1995's made in heaven. However, John Deacon was so heartbroken by Freddie Mercury's death that he really didn't see how Queen could move forward at all. Said John, they quote, as far as we're concerned, this is it. There is no point carrying on. It's impossible to replace Freddie, which, of course, everybody agrees with. After playing live with Queen three more times, he retired from music and is fated from public view. But even without Freddie and John, Queen would continue on,

15:14in fact, in 2004, May and Taylor formed a partnership with badass vocalist Paul Rogers after a chance in counter. At a 2004 London tribute show for the Fender Stratocaster's 50th anniversary, Brian joined Paul for a performance of Freeze all right now. And, of course, there was an immediate spark. Said May, it happened almost by accident at an award show. I remember coming off stage and Paul's lady said, oh, you guys seem to really have that great chemistry. Now, all you need is a drummer. And I went, well, I think I know a drummer. Brian made contact with Roger Taylor and the three legends formed Queen plus Paul Rogers. During their five-year collaboration, the trio embarked on two massive world tours sold out everywhere. And, you know, the band played a combination of Queen's anthems. Of course, Paul Rogers' classic hits with Bad Company and Free. The partnership culminated in the 2008 release of the Cosmos Rocks, a studio album of original material. In 2009, Paul Rogers amicably part of ways

16:14to rejoin Bad Company saying at the time that it was fun and it was challenging. It's like learning a new language for me. But eventually, I got to the point where I thought, I'm not really the singer for Queen, so I've got to get back to my own music. By the way, when a Freddie Mercury's favorite singer has ever was Paul Rogers. So there's that. So must go on. So must go on. So must go on. Now, Queen's modern era. That was born from another happy accident from Brian May. And Roger Taylor prepared two perform on the American Idol Season 8 finale in 2009. It saw a video of Adam Lambert auditioning with Bohemian Rhapsody. Oh, life is just begun. Now, fans, flooded Brian May's inbox with videos of that audition. And after Lambert joined the Queen to perform we are the Champions on the show. May and Taylor realized they found the only person with enough theatrical nerve to feel Freddie's shoes without imitating, really. So in 2011,

17:14the band formed Queen plus Adam Lambert. And like their previous Paul Rogers collaboration, it was made clear that Lambert was not replacing Mercury at all. Still, the band felt that Lambert's stage presence and his staggering multi-octave range truly unlocked Queen's catalog for the first time since Freddie's passing. So over their decade plus partnership, Queen plus Adam Lambert became a global powerhouse. Their music is a celebration of Freddie Mercury's legacy with Lambert performing alongside archival footage of Freddie, really bridging the band's storied pass with this new generation. So I think it's pretty cool. We are the Champions. All right, coming in number three, I've got Journey. A band that has featured 25 different members across his 50 plus year run at averages only to roughly a new band member every two years. Now we've talked about Journey's origins a few different times before us all make it quick. The band formed in 1973 in San Francisco, California. Of course, founding members

18:14include guitarist Neil Sean, bassist Ross Valor, keyboardist Greg Rowley, drummer Prairie Prince, and George Tickner on a rhythm guitar at the time. Before releasing their first studio album in 1975, Ainsley Dunbar took over on drums. But the band needed a frontman, a robber fly swan was hired. But he was ousted pretty quickly in favor of Steve Perry. Now as the voice, he was the catalyst that the band needed to conquer arenas and ultimately the world over which they did. Steve Smith replaced Dunbar in 1978 and of course Jonathan King replaced Rowley in 1980. And Journey's Juggernaut lineup was set from there. Coming into their seventh album escape, the band already had three multi-plata albums under their belt, infinity, evolution, and departure. But escape, that took Journey into the stratosphere, with over 10 million album sold with massive hits, who's crying now open arms and don't stop believing in the name of few. I want to know who's crying out you.

19:15Yeah. Don't stop the lead out. That magical five-man roster is stayed together for just one more album. The six times platinum LP frontiers. You know, even mega fans forget that. The definitive line up a journey. They were only together for those two albums, right? Escape in frontiers. And of course they have massive hits from frontiers, with separate ways worlds apart, and faithfully. I was the star when I was the right, wherever you are. They raised our radio had a lot of this too, but the band was fracturing from there. With Steve Smith and Ross Valerigon and Steve Perry taking a more assertive role from there, and through six new musicians before Perry confessed to Neil Shaw and Jonathan Kane that he was his burnout. Said Perry and I quote, I called John and Neil together. We met in Santa

20:15Raphael. We sat on the edge of the Marina and I just told him, I can't do this anymore. I got to get out for a while. So a journey just banded in 1987, and it would be a decade before the band would regroup. So returning to their escape and frontiers roster, the big five released trial by their low 90s hit when you love a woman, hit number one on the AC charts for a long time. But plans for a supporting tour, that end of when Steve Perry discovered he had a degenerative bone condition and he needed hip replacement surgery. See Perry later announced that he was leaving journey. So the band traded one Steve for another Steve. Perry was out and singer Steve was in. Now Steve was in. Now Steve was in. Jerry front of the band in 1998. But you know, the relentless touring, the schedule, it eventually blew out his voice by 2003. The drama reached a fever pitch during a

21:15tour at Deaf Lepard when Steve by Jerry was accused of using pre-recorded vocal tracks. 2006 Steve passed the mic to short-lived frontman Jeff Scott Soto. Nilshawn was a fan of Soto's voice and so he began searching YouTube for a replacement. After two straight days of dead ends, Nilshawn found a grainy video of Arnell Panada, a homeless struggling singer from the Philippines. Arnell was covering faithfully at this video and he was building out with ease. He reached out in months later, Panada joined the band in December 2007. On February 21, 2008, Arnell Panada made his live debut in front of 20,000 screaming fans at the Vina del Mar International Song Festival in Chile. Despite being dismissed by critics as a karaoke singer of best, he proved them all wrong and he's front of the band through two decades of resurgence. Today Arnell is journey's longest

22:15running frontman by far and he's proved himself a vocal powerhouse through the years. I mean, you really can't overstate how difficult it would be to take up the mantle of Steve Perry. In my opinion, the greatest rock singer ever. And such difficult songs with journey songs. He's had his ups and downs. In fact, in September of 24th, the pressure almost got to him. Arnell Panada found himself at the center of social media firestorm. Arnell Panada found himself at the center of social media firestorm. Arnell Panada found himself at the center of social media firestorm. This was following a difficult performance of the rock and real festival in Brazil. A video from that set with Panada struggling to hit those don't stop believing high notes. I went viral. And I brought the online trolls like crazy. A Devastated by the backlash, Panada took to Facebook and he offered to step away from journey for good if critics voted him out with one

23:15million go comments on his post. Instead of Panada was given an overwhelming vote of support from the fan base and also was BAMMATES. The stays out numbered the goes by far. And Arnell is currently with him. Here's what Arnell has said about his legacy with journey. Around the world, don't stop believing. I give really huge respect to what they do and to the legacy that they have built this year. I am just trying to follow the blueprint that Mr. Perry has left behind. You know, it's a amazing, it's an incomparable blueprint. I mean, nobody can top it, nobody can touch it. I'm just so happy to be here grateful, grateful to be here enough to be able to continue the legacy. Wow. All right. It's time for the bridesmaid position. Our number two. I've got Motley Crew. Though the bands started in 1981, we're jumping ahead to the 90s after they had released five platinum and platinum plus albums and almost 20 million

24:16copies sold in the States. On October 1st, 1991, Motley Crew released the compilation decade of decadence, 81 to 91, and it sold to 1.5 million copies. Right? When Grunge was happening. However, by 1992, band tensions boiled over and frontman Vince Nill was dumped from the band in favor of John Karabi. This was a choice that irritated a lot of crew fans at the time. In a sensational twist for a band with the Motley Crews kind of ego, their replacement singer wasn't actually a fan of their music at all. In fact, during his 1992 audition, John shocked Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixbite meeting. He didn't own a single one of their records and had to ask some for copies of their album so that he could learn the lyrics to the hits. He didn't even know a lot of the songs. The band, they kind of found it hysterical, but they hired him anyway, viewing his outsider status as the shot of credibility they desperately needed to survive in the Grunge era. Tommy Lee reportedly laughed until he cried for his heavy 新聞.

25:16At his own for the similarity and why he didn't meet the crew. John Crabbit went wrong there after the highlight of his song. John Carrot came orada in one of his songs. John Carrot primero sent in a crowd saying the song was no longer appropriate in modern times. This is back in the 90s. He wanted to scrap from their set list. Now, Nikki VI, the primary lyricist and the true leader of Motley, he kind of lost it on the short time. And he reminded him that he had no power within the band to make that call. But actually Tommy Lee came to his defense and for a time, one of the crew's biggest hits was not sung in the live shows. This revised lineup with Karabi. It didn't stick very long on the opening night of their 1994 tour. The band sold just 4,000 tickets for a 15,000 seat arena. So the

26:19band was kind of forced us to play smaller arenas from there. And then after four years of being told that Vince, you know, Vince Nill is never coming back. John Karabi, he learned the brutal reality of the music business in 1997 through a silent telephone. Despite recording the bulk of the generation swine album, Karabi was kept in the dark about secret meetings between the band and Vince Nill. Once the reunion was finalized, John famously remarked that his phone went from ringing off the hook to being so silent that he had to call himself just to make sure that his answering machine was still working. Said John about it. The minute they made the announcement that Vince was back, if I wanted to have a message on my answering machine, I had to call myself. All of his lead vocals were erased from the album and he was sent packing. Can you imagine that? You record all the and they're all gone. Vince Nill returned to the band in 1997 and he's been the go-to frontman ever since. Even though recent performances have had many in the audience wondering just what the hell he was

27:21singing can't really hit those high notes anymore. So we kind of talk scenes and let's a crowd takeover. Of course we can't get done with Motley crew without talking about the case of guitarist Mick Mars, but began as a quiet retirement due to a horrifically debilitating bone disease. It exploded into a scorched earth legal war that shattered the 41-year brotherhood of Motley crew. In a sensational 2023 lawsuit, founding guitarist Mick Mars accused Nikki Six of gaslighting him by constantly insulting his memory and his guitar skills while allegedly miming his own bass parts to pre-recorded tracks. That was what Mick Mars said. Then the drama took a final crushing turn in January of 2026 when an independent arbitrator ruled that Mick Mars had actually signed away his rights to future touring revenue in a 2008 agreement that he helped draft. Now forced to recant his miming allegations under oath after his own expert witness confirmed the band actually did play live. Mick Mars was not only

28:24stripped of his stakeholder status, but ordered to pay the band roughly $244,000 in unrecouped tour advances. So sad how this ended. Alright here we are at number one and for this one we got a great one. We have a band though who lost their singer and another key member in a devastating plane crash and they kept going after though it took about a decade to come back together. Talk about Leonard Skinner and this one's going to blow your mind. Now remember solving story problems in math class as a kid? Well Skinner and Shifting lineup is kind of like that and in same math problem involving over 30 band members. See if you can follow along here. Alright so the group got started in 1964 under the name My Backyard and it was comprised of frontman Ronnie Van Sant, guitarist Gary Rosington and Alan Collins, bassist Larry Johnstrum and drummer Bob Burns. After changing their name the Leonard Skinner 1968 the first official lineup change came in 1971 when Burns and Johnstrum

29:26were replaced by Ricky Medlock on drums and bassist Greg T. Walker. But Walker would be out after a year and he was replaced by bassist Leon Wilkerson. Meanwhile Medlock became the band's third guitarist alongside Rosington and Collins. That opened things up for the return of Bob Burns who reclaimed his former spot on drums. Still with me. In 1972 Ricky Medlock left bringing the guitarist told back to two and that same year Skinner brought in their first keyboard as Billy Powell and then during the recording sessions for pronounced Leonard Skinner and Wilkerson left and was replaced by strawberry alarm clock alum Ed King the King took up the role of third guitarist when Wilkerson wanted to come back and play bass for the band so there's that. So by the time they released their first album Leonard Skinner to already feature 10 different members, seven of which were now officially in the band. The release of pronounced Leonard Skinner in August 1973 proved to be a promising start for the band. The two times platinum alum gave us legendary tracks like Tuesday's

30:29Gone and Give Me Three Steps, of course Simple Man and Freiberd. In 1974 Skinner released second helping with the same lineup intact. The album featured sweet O'Malley Bama once again sold over two million copies in the US. However, before the release of their third offering Bob Burns you call it quits again. To replace him Skinner recruited Artemis Pyle. Then two months after the release of the band's third album Nothing Fancy Ed King the man who co-wrote the immortal sweet O'Malley Bama riff quit mid-tour in 1975 after a blowout with Ronnie Van Zad. And this was over a broken guitar string. Enter guitarist Steve Gaines. But then Leonard Skinner was about to experience the biggest shake-up of their career. Just three days after releasing in their

31:32fifth album Street Survivors on October 17, 1977 the band suffered a horrible tragedy and grew from South Carolina to Louisiana. The band's charter playing was forced to attempt an emergency landing in the swamps of Mississippi. Six died in this crash including frontman Ronnie Van Zad and guitarist Steve Gaines. Now in the aftermath surviving members Gary Rosington and Alan Collins were so distraught they were so broken. They vowed never to use a Skinner name ever again. And for a decade they actually kept that promise. Skinner was officially disbanded for a time. But as the years passed they were drawn back to the band by a sense of duty to Ronnie Van Zad. Said Rosington and I quote, I didn't think I'd ever play again. I didn't really want to. But then I realized the music had to live on of the crash would have won. So Leonard Skinner reformed in 1987 for the year long tribute to her feature Ronnie's younger brother Johnny Van Zad on the mic. Johnny was terrified of stepping into his brother's shoes. He actually only agreed after receiving a sign from Ronnie in a dream that he would have.

32:34Said Johnny, I never wanted to be Ronnie. I just wanted to represent him. I told the guys if I can't do this with heart then I'm out. Now this amended lineup also included guitars Ed King and Randall Hall taking the place of Alan Collins. Actually Alan was paralyzed in 1986 from a car accident. That means this latest iteration of Leonard Skinner was down to just one original member Gary Rosington. Gary was in it for the long haul though. He stayed with the band until his death in 2023. Now since then Leonard Skinner has been made up of a completely new lineup. The next longest tenured member is actually front man Johnny Van Zad. 70's era members Artemis Pyle and Ed King left in 1991. 1996 actually. In 2001 Lee and Wilkeson died of natural causes. And then Billy Powell suffered a fatal heart attack in 2009 or the past four decades. Several other musicians have joined the fray. There have been five more drummers with Michael Cartelone from the damn Yankees currently behind the kit for the band. Peter Keys has taken over on keyboard.

33:37A bassist Robbie Harrington. He joined in 2025. Guitarist Ricky Medlock who played with Skinner in the 70's. He's been with the band since 1996. And the two other guitars carrying the torch on Mark McTecke and Damon Johnson. During Leonard Skinner's resurrected years, the spirit of Skinner has lived on through nine studio albums and a steady stream of touring. You know, I always wondered why they don't just call some of these bands, you know, without the original members that keep going, like the next generation, like foreigner, the next generation. Kind of like Star Trek, the next generation, foreigner, the next generation. I think that'd be cool. But you know, it's cool to have these bands to hear these songs to go here and play live. But I have to admit I did see foreigner back in the day and night that Mick Jones didn't perform with them. And it was like watching a tribute band. I mean, nothing against Kelly Hansen because he's an incredible vocalist. But when you're used to Lou Graham's gritty voice, nothing can replace

34:37him. I love Arnell Pineda, but he's not Steve Perry. And you can tell that. Actually, I had a friend who said, Hey, I just saw a journey of man. Close your eyes. I mean, you can hear Steve Perry exactly. And nothing against Arnell, but they just have different, different tamber to their voice timber. I always say timber. I think it's timber. But some people say tamber tomato. Anyway, I'm just saying that I can tell. My ear can tell Steve Perry that magic is not completely there. It's still fun to go and see these bands. But what do you think? Let's have a great discussion below about the replacement bands. I'm so glad the guests who called them out. Should we do another one of these? I mean, we've talked about other bands like Lou River band. It's really sad when there's no original members. And a lot of people think they're going to see the band get a member years ago. A friend of mine said, Hey, let's go see the beach voice. This is going to be legend there. And I'm like, well, Brian Wilson isn't with the beach voice. I'm sure again, a lot of people don't know that these members are gone. And so anyway, let's have a great discussion below. Share your memories, share

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