Bands in which all of the main members are dead

Rhythm guitarist Niki Sullivan just died a couple months ago, but Jerry Allison and Joe Maudlin are still around

Majority are dead: Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'classic line-up' (4 out of 7)
Half-dead: The Beatles, Badfinger (both quartets)
Many alumnae who are dead: The Byrds, The Grateful Dead

The band Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, according to the liner notes of the CD of their first album, has one dead and one psychiatrically hospitalized member, out of a total of 3.

*badum crash*

Dead Byrds: Gene Clark, Michael Clarke, Gram Parsons, Clarence White.

The Who--Ox, Moon.

Miles Davis alum who're dead: Himself, Tony Williams, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Sonny Sharrock.

Coltrane's '60s group dead: Trane, Jones, Jimmy Garrison.

Chic: Edwards, Tony Thompson.

Beach Boys: Dennis, Carl, Brian...

Kind of Blue band -- R.I.P.
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Paul Chambers
Cannonball Adderley
Bill Evans
Wynton Kelly
Jimmy Cobb

Jazz was hard living.

I believe all the original members of Chase died in their own plane crash, though.

And the original Temptations are, I believe, 4/5 gone.

Johnny Ramone Has Cancer
Guitarist was diagnosed four years ago

Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone is in a Los Angeles hospital battling prostate cancer, according to his longtime bandmate, drummer Marky Ramone. "Johnny's been a champ in confronting this, but at this point I think the chances are slim," says Marky, who joined the Ramones in 1977 when Tommy Ramone left the band.

"John never smoked cigarettes, he wasn't a heavy drinker and he was always into his health," Marky continues. "It just proves when cancer seeks a body to penetrate, it doesn't matter how healthy you are or how unhealthy you are. It just seeps in and there's nothing you can do."

The fifty-five-year-old guitarist, born John Cummings, first learned of his condition four years ago and has undergone extensive chemotherapy.

"I've been getting so much email from people and from papers and magazines wanting to know what was up I had to take it upon myself to say something, because eventually John won't be in any condition to say or do anything," Marky says. "He went through many chemotherapy treatments. Some of it worked better than others. At this point [the cancer] has started to go into other areas of the body."

Widely acknowledged as the world's first punk band, the Ramones have lost two members in the last three years, with singer Joey Ramone's death in 2001 of lymphatic cancer and bassist Dee Dee Ramone's death from a drug overdose the following year.

Johnny Ramone retired from music following the Ramones' final tour in 1996, and, after more than two decades spent on the road, the Ramones leader felt little temptation to continue playing.

"I was ninety-nine percent sure I was not going to come back and play," Johnny told Rolling Stone in 2001. "I was always open, but I didn't want to go back on tour under any circumstances. If they could have come up with an offer that I couldn't refuse for one week of jobs, somewhere in the world, I would have thought about it."

Despite a poor prognosis, Johnny remains upbeat. "He seemed in good spirits the last time I saw him," says Marky. "He was talking about the positive things the Ramones accomplished: getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame [in 2002], how our music is being accepted at this point. It put a smile on his face. Knowing John, he'll fight this horrible disease to the end. Everybody is wishing the best and hoping the best. We'll stand by him."

Four Bar-Kays died in '67: Jimmy King, Ronnie Caldwell, Carl Cunningham, Phalon Jones. Ben Cauley and James Alexander went on to make "Too Hot to Stop," "Freakshow on the Dancefloor," and many others with the '70s BKs.

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kick.

i also feel like there's a version of this thread that's more extensive

All of the Hendrix Experience now.

the Band: three down, two to go
― de, Monday, June 14, 2004 7:46 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

... well NOW...

The Ink Spots
The Flamingos
The Dorsey Brothers
The Silhouettes
Modern Jazz Quartet
The Duke Ellington Band
The Dave Brubeck Quartet, kinda (Eugene Wright is still alive, but he wasn't the original bassist, Bob Bates was)

Bands formed in the 60s or later, with every single member dead

not a single person gave a satisfactory answer to that question

(except I guess the Jimmie Hendrixks Experience)

Bee Gees are almost there.

The Platters

Nope, original member Gaynel Hodge is still alive.

The Duke Ellington Band

Nope, Clark Terry is still around.

The Andrews Sisters

The London Boys

Maybe someone has already linked to this on another thread, I don't know: a tumblr where they take album covers and remove the dead people:

http://liveiseedeadpeoples.tumblr.com/archive

Sort of spooky.

http://liveiseedeadpeoples.tumblr.com/image/9333663778

The "Morrison Hotel" one needs more work now.

can't look at that tumblr here at work, but the pics for the band's second alb wld be esp. spooky 'adusted' in that fashion

http://jennyartichoke.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/landy1.jpg

wd look like a scene from "Psychomania" (bikes out of shot, obv)

Old and New Dreams (Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell)

In fact, I'm surprised to realize that just about all of Ornette's early collaborators have died. Bobby Bradford is still around I guess, and of course Denardo. Ornette turned 85 last month.

Pre-internet some kid in school told me ABBA all died in a plane crash and I believed it well into my teens.

Not the thread you want to be updating, but should add the Band here.

Sadly all four original Ramones are gone as well

Little Feat

Allman bros

This is a pretty easy question to answer

Better question might be what is the most-recently formed band in which all members are deceased?

It is now. It wasn't then.

Honourable mention of Viola Beach, obv.

xpost well there you go

Bill Payne & very bad man Roy Estrada still survive from the first lineup of Little Feat

This is a pretty easy question to answer

...if you just name bands with living members

IIRC, all the key Left Banke guys are dead, which is kinda surprising since they were all teens when the band was big.

If "band" doesn't necessitate instruments, I'm sure there are numerous doo-wop groups where all members (say, whoever was in the group when they released their signature song--most had only one) are gone.

jaimoe lives.

Not the thread you want to be updating, but should add the Band here.

This is a pretty easy question to answer

since this definitely isn't you getting drunk and finding any active thread to go on and call the posters cunts and losers for having a conversation where they interact with other people - go ahead, get started!