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How many can you name?

There must be quite a few.
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Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
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Eagles, Pink Floyd, Van Halen, without thinking hard......
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Guns n' Roses lost the "guns" founder before they even got famous.
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STP (fired Scott three times!)
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Beatles - Pete Best
Pink Floyd - Syd Barrett

There's gotta be one from my lifetime, but for the life of me I can't think of any, lol!
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Metallica canned Ron McGovney and Dave Mustaine.
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Sabbath - Bill Ward
Maiden - Paul Di'Anno
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I guess it's Ozzy that got fired - I think Bill Ward had been at one point or another, but my old brain isn't quite sure... :)
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The Rolling Stones
Allman Bros
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GRIMESPACE wrote:I guess it's Ozzy that got fired - I think Bill Ward had been at one point or another, but my old brain isn't quite sure... :)


I think Tony Iommi is the only one to NOT get fired from Sabbath. I know he's the only one to be on all their recordings.
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The lead singer of Days of the New fired all the talent from the band and went on to suck cock for quarters in back alleys.

Or something.

I know he fired the whole band like his hilarious vocal style was the reason for the band's success.
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Diddlybo wrote:
GRIMESPACE wrote:I guess it's Ozzy that got fired - I think Bill Ward had been at one point or another, but my old brain isn't quite sure... :)


I think Tony Iommi is the only one to NOT get fired from Sabbath. I know he's the only one to be on all their recordings.



Lol I never really thought about that before; it's kind of hilarious :D
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Didn't the stones ax their piano player because the label didn't think he fit the rock and roll profile they were after?


oh yeah, let's not forget Bon Jovi.....
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southtexslinger wrote:Didn't the stones ax their piano player because the label didn't think he fit the rock and roll profile they were after?


Yeah, that was Ian Stewart. The Stones fired Brian Jones, who was their original band leader. That would be a pisser, wouldn't it? You start a band and the other guys decide to fire you. :lol:

I remember watching one of the dozens of Stones documentaries and Keith was asked how they went about firing Brian. "We just told him, Hey Cock, you're fired." Cold blooded.
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Diddlybo wrote:
southtexslinger wrote:Didn't the stones ax their piano player because the label didn't think he fit the rock and roll profile they were after?


Yeah, that was Ian Stewart. The Stones fired Brian Jones, who was their original band leader. That would be a pisser, wouldn't it? You start a band and the other guys decide to fire you. :lol:

I remember watching one of the dozens of Stones documentaries and Keith was asked how they went about firing Brian. "We just told him, Hey Cock, you're fired." Cold blooded.


Hey, he couldn't hang with the heroin like they could. If he could've hung with them, he wouldn't have gotten the axe. :cop:
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I guess it's Ozzy that got fired - I think Bill Ward had been at one point or another, but my old brain isn't quite sure... :)
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ovid9 wrote:The lead singer of Days of the New fired all the talent from the band and went on to suck cock for quarters in back alleys.

Or something.

I know he fired the whole band like his hilarious vocal style was the reason for the band's success.


Oh man, Travis Meeks. I remember reading some interviews with him where he came off sooooooo full of himself. I credit them with being probably the first of the 90s bands to make a (short-lived) career off of robbing Alice in Chains dry. Not the last by a long shot, but probably the first.
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GRIMESPACE wrote:Maiden - Paul Di'Anno



not a founding member
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GRIMESPACE wrote:I guess it's Ozzy that got fired - I think Bill Ward had been at one point or another, but my old brain isn't quite sure... :)



bill quit, twice
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wrongnote85 wrote:
GRIMESPACE wrote:Maiden - Paul Di'Anno



not a founding member


Yeah, isn't Steve Harris the only true original member that was left even by the time of the first album?
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ShaneV wrote:
wrongnote85 wrote:
GRIMESPACE wrote:Maiden - Paul Di'Anno



not a founding member


Yeah, isn't Steve Harris the only true original member that was left even by the time of the first album?



dave murry was there at the beginning, left, and had come back

so, sorta
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wrongnote85 wrote:
ShaneV wrote:
wrongnote85 wrote:
GRIMESPACE wrote:Maiden - Paul Di'Anno



not a founding member


Yeah, isn't Steve Harris the only true original member that was left even by the time of the first album?



dave murry was there at the beginning, left, and had come back

so, sorta

Yeah. It was all down to a singer they used to have that had a reputation for tearing apart every band he was in. He kept firing people in the band until there was only him and Steve left, then eventually left himself. Dave Murray was fired because this singer didn't like Dave's girlfriend.
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