Ongoing History Daily: Bands who had to change their name, part 2
Here are a few more cases of where a band had to change their original name. Ongoing History Daily: Bands who had to change their name, part 1 is here.
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Stone Temple Pilots
Ongoing History Daily: Scott Weiland’s heroin
While he was alive and a member of Stone Temple Pilots, Scott Weiland had a serious relationship with heroin. In 1997, he was out of the band while he tried to get clean.
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 950: 18 bands who successfully changed lead singers
When someone in your band decides to leave, gets fired or, heaven forbid, dies, you have a problem. It’s an issue if any member leaves, but if we’re talking about your singer, that’s
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Random music news for Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Taylor Hawkins’ body is being sent back to the US. We’re still awaiting an official cause of death. This Taylor Hawkins tribute from Wolfgang Van Halen was very touching. (Via Danny) Chris Frantz
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Random music news for Thursday, December 30, 2021
Did you know that before he became president of the US that Jimmy Carter did THIS? Wow. Marvel at that as you browse through music news for December 30, 2021. Robert DeLeo of
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Ongoing History Daily: An STP lesson to the crowd
When Scott Weiland was still fronting Stone Temple Pilots, he had no trouble getting into a fight with someone in the crowd. In the summer of 1993, STP was playing Boston when a
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Ongoing History of New Music Daily: A STP lesson in crowd control
When Scott Weiland was still fronting Stone Temple Pilots, he had no trouble getting into a fight with someone in the crowd. In the summer of 1993, STP was playing Boston when a
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Stone Temple Pilots release an expanded 25th-anniversary edition of the Purple album
I recall being rather shocked the day when Stone Temple Pilots’ Purple came into the radio station in the spring of 1994. The most-heard phrase uttered by the staff was “This is the
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 832: Groups that changed frontpersons and survived
Building and maintaining a band is a lot like building and maintain a sports team. You struggle and wheel-and-deal and trade and sometimes steal to put together just the right lineup. And it’s
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The Ongoing History of New Music encore presentation: Hidden tracks and Easter eggs
You have music you don’t know about and never asked for. And no, I’m not talking about a U2 album. It’s the stuff that’s buried in your CD collection places you would never,
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The Ongoing History of New Music encore presentation: Hard Time – Musicians Who Have Gone to Jail
The community of musicians is like any other. While most people are good, you will have your bad actors: musicians who murder, rape, rob and commit all sorts of horrible crimes. That’s the
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