Musicians who left great bands to join bigger (and sometimes better) ones

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Here's a start:

1). Ron Wood, from Faces to the Stones

2). Mick Ralphs, from Mott The Hoople to Bad Company

3). Peter Green, from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers to the Original Fleetwood Mac

Your turn...

:toast:

[Fenris]

1. Clapton, to a certain degree.

Left the Yardbirds and eventually ended up in Cream.

Jeff Tweedy left Uncle Tupelo (well, they broke up, but still) and formed the much more successful Wilco.

[Wickerman]

2. Jimmy Page

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Any band Joe Walsh joins.

[Kire]

4. Chris Cornell

didn't really leave Soundgarden, but later joined Audioslave

[kcwayne]

5. My turn

Sammy Haggar to Van Halen
Joe Walsh from James Gang to Eagles
Jeff Beck from the Yardbirds to the Jeff Beck Group

[kori]

13. No Question

Joe Walsh James Gang to Eagles. Dominate in both

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Tough call. Denny Wilson was equally impressive in his tenure

with the Moody Blues as he was when he later joined Wings.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. Same with Denny Laine.

[jpgray]

8. Andy Summers

From the New Animals to the Police, I think. Some session work may have been in the middle there.

[jpgray]

9. ACK! Didn't see the 'great bands' qualifier

The New Animals were most definitely NOT a great band.

[brentspeak]

10. Skip Spence, from Jefferson Airplane to Moby Grape

From "bigger" to "better" (IMO).

[Must_B_Free]

11. Noel Redding

from Jimi Hendrix Experience to Fat Mattress.

[Tom Kitten]

17. right!

:eyes:

[brentspeak]

12. And I almost forgot David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel

From The New Originals to Spinal Tap.

[Baja Margie]

14. Robbie Robertson

[guitar man]

15. Mickey Thomas

From Elvin Bishop's band to Jefferson Starship. Bigger, but not necessarily better IMHO.

[TrogL]

16. Emerson Lake and Palmer

Emerson - Nice
Lake - King Crimson
Palmer - Crazy World of Arthur Brown

[HEyHEY]

18. Almost all of the Yardbirds

Don't get me wrong, I love the yardbirds

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. Neil Young and Stephen Stills of the Buffalo Springfield

to Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.

[jpgray]

20. Yes, and Graham Nash from the Hollies to that group

That Dylan covers album must have pissed him off. The critics HATED it. :D

[auburngrad82]

26. And David Crosby of the Byrds

[Tom Kitten]

21. Buckingham-Nicks

from Buckingham-Nicks to Fleetwood Mac...

[AwakeAtLast]

22. Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell

From Temple of the Dog to Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. I think there were others from Temple of the Dog that ended up in Pearl Jam, too, but it is too late to look it up. I still play that CD sometimes.

[pbg]

23. Bernie Worrell

from Parliament/Funkadelic to the Talking Heads

Joe Zawinul--from Miles Davis's band to Weather Report

[Baja Margie]

24. Don't Forget.....

There she was just a walkin'
down the street singin'
Do Wa Ditty Ditty Dum Ditty Doo....




Doug Sahm, of the Sir Douglas Quintet to the fabulous, the one , the only, Texas Tornadoes - with Freddy Fender and the best of best, Flaco Jimenez !!!:crazy:

[andino]

25. How about

Jason Newsted who went from Flotsam & Jetsam to Metallica?

Also anything that Joe Walsh did....

[regularguy]

27. Paul Rogers. Free to Bad Company.

His singing is a guilty pleasure of mine...