The guy in the Commodores...true they had a big hit with Night Shift, but they haven't been on the charts since

Phillip Bailey--EWF--looong before his voice gave out, he just sounded horrible singing Maurice White's parts in those classic songs

ANY guy who wins the coveted role of replacing Michael Hutchence in INXS, when INXS does this Rock Star reality/American Idol type show next year!!!

NO-ONE CAN EVER REPLACE MICHAEL HUTCHENCE, PERIOD!!!!!

What about the replacment in Genesis...Phil Collins for thissinger of Stiltskin..... Genesis is dead since Phil left the band.....

apollonia.

Lennon said:

Genesis went belly up when Peter Gabriel left!!

van halen replacement of david and sammy

The replacement singers in Iron maiden (for Bruce Dickinson) and in Mötley Crue (for Vince Neil) must be strong contenders.

But worst of all was when all of the original line up of Velvet Underground (except Moe Tucker, drummer) had quit, and Doug Yule!!! relased an album in the name Velvet Undergound.

meltwithu said:

Hey! He was cute!

Did JT replace anyone in Kool & the Gang? It's just that their music got really commercial when he became the lead singer.

UptownDeb said:

well they haven't had a hit since he decided he was better off solo (hey Dawnn Robinson, you listenin?)...didn't he recently come back after awhile?

UptownDeb said:

They never had a true "lead singer" before JT.
What's odd is they had crossover hits around the mid-70s before they added him.
(Funky Stuff, Jungle Boogie, Hollywood Swinging)

Their next string of diluted-funk hits didn't come until the beginning of the 80s during the JT era.
(Ladies Night, Too Hot, the dreaded Celebrate, Joanna and Cherish along with a few others).

You know I don't really blame the brothers.
This is a hard business and i'm sure they've got families to take care of.
It's just knowing that many people are unaware that they were capable of tunes like Let The Music Take Your Mind, Who's Gonna Take The Weight, Love The Life You Live, Summer Madness, etc.,

JT left in '86 and returned in '95. His return hasn't helped them chart again.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

Echo & The Bunnymen had some other guy sing lead after Ian McCulloch left the band. It just wasn't the same. Thankfully Ian and the group reunited a few years later.

10,000 Maniacs carried on with someone else after Natalie Merchant went solo. Again, it just wasn't the same.

meltwithu said:

Agreed. Phillip Bailey should NOT be singing Maurice's parts, the guitar player Sheldon Reynolds shouldn't be either.

heybaby said:

That'd be...


...Gary Cherone and you're right, bad move.


Journey's replacement of Steve Perry...


...with Steve Augeri is another.
Not only does he sound like him, he bears a strong physical resemblance to him.


And whatever you may think about Peter Cetera's latter day work with Chicago, the loss of his voice did change the sound of that group.

Outside of Ronnie James Dio, the revolving door lead singers of Black Sabbath and Deep Purple should also be added.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

Gold319 said:

Amen!!! Long live Michael Hutchence!!!

Gold319 said:

not commercially, their albums sold better.

The guy that replaced Lionel Richie in The Commodores and the guy that replaced David Lee Roth in Van Halen.

meltwithu said:

Prince fans deeming something inferior because of not being on the charts? Oy.

The Blues Brothers. Jim Belushi for John Belushi.

and I know that En Vogue was a group but when they replaced Dawn...it was over.

theAudience said:

Wasn't he the singer of Extreme??

Lennon said:

Yes.

Gold319 said:

However, I do feel that TTD/Sanada did a superb job druing the INXS Tribute Concert and his efforts can't be denied.

theAudience said:

Yes Kool & The Gang was straight instrumental funk before JT & actually I like dthe hits that they had once JT came aboard also. After JT left they got Bobby Harris from The Dazz Band but he only lasted for 1 cd, it was called Sweat.

It's probably not the worst but Sieadah Garrett (Excuse the spelling) in Brand New Heavies seemed like a mis-match.

The ironic thing about Gary Cherone was Extreme was really Van Halen influenced so you think it would be a no-brainer. But Eddie was on this control trip and HE messed that up. On VH3 Eddie also sings lead on "How Many Say I"

How many say no?

Sheldon isn't with EWF any more. I saw them last year at a Convention and they had some kareoke brother messin up, uh, singing Maurice's parts.

"Would You Mind.... Ha ha, yeah. Y'all like that?...If I touched If I kissed.... Where y'all from? In the back y'all clap your hands like this"
Greg Phillinganes was on keyboards looking bored out of his mind.

the guy that was Rob Halford's replacement in Judas' Priest

sextonseven said:

The Bunnymen without McCulloch?!?! Eeees no posseeble!!

My fave albums of theirs, incidentally, are two of the "comeback" albums, Evergreen and Flowers. But then, hey, what do I know, I loved Electrafixion's "Burned" album....

Give Gary Cherone a break. He is tremendous singer and huge VH fan. When he toured with them they played early VH stuff of Women and CHildren and Fair Warning that they would never with Sammy.

I think the songs were just not as strong on VH III.

I would agree to wrong fit, but not bad singer.

Siedayh Garret who replaced N'Dea Davenport from The Brand New Heavies. She was horrible. I never really liked her that much anyway

vainandy said:

That's the first time I've ever heard Sammy Hagar referred to as "the guy".

Gold319 said:

Terrence Trent D'Arby breifly took over the lead singer role for INXS for a few shows years ago. I haven't heard these performances, but reports of the shows said they sounded really good together.