The Dubliners are just finishing their 50th anniversary, and farewell, tour. Up until April, it had two members from the 60s lineup, but with Barney McKenna’s death the last original member passed. John Sheahan has been in the band for 48 years, though, and is retiring at the end of this tour. The remaining members will continue to tour, under their own names and “Formerly of The Dubliners”, I believe.
The Wolfe Tones have been going since 1963, and still have 2 original members - Brian Warfield and Noel Nagel, as well as Tommy Byrne, who joined a year later.
Simon Nicol and Dave Pegg are both currently performing with Fairport Convention, and both performed with the band in the 60s, but neither have been members for the full lifetime of the band.
? and the Mysterians with most of the “96 Tears” lineup were still performing up until last year. ? typically drops out for a year every now and then to return to Mars but the rest of the band plays without him during these periods as just The Mysterians.
The Dubliners are just finishing their 50th anniversary, and farewell, tour. Up until April, it had two members from the 60s lineup, but with Barney McKenna’s death the last original member passed. John Sheahan has been in the band for 48 years, though, and is retiring at the end of this tour. The remaining members will continue to tour, under their own names and “Formerly of The Dubliners”, I believe.
The Wolfe Tones have been going since 1963, and still have 2 original members - Brian Warfield and Noel Nagel, as well as Tommy Byrne, who joined a year later.
Simon Nicol and Dave Pegg are both currently performing with Fairport Convention, and both performed with the band in the 60s, but neither have been members for the full lifetime of the band.[/QUOTE
Richard Thompson, who was in the Fairport 1967-1971, will make occasional guest appearances on record and at shows. He jokes that it is like the Hotel California-you can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.
Renaissance just misses. The band toured last year and sounded great, but the lineup with Annie Haslam is from 1971.
Buffalo Springfield’s Stephen Stills, Neil Young and Ritchie Furay got together for a short tour last year.
Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton of Blind Faith get together regularly. And Cream did a series of shows not that long ago. I think Bruce Springsteen and Steve van Zandt were together before 1970.
Depends on how you define active and performing, then and now.
Jacqui McShee is still touring with Pentangle, and the group did a full reunion tour about two years ago, though the death of Bert Jansch put an end to that. It may be more accurate to call this a spin-off, since McShee formed her own version of Pentangle when the original group broke up.
I guess Sha Na Na has one member from 1968, one since 1969 and one since 1970 and they still get out and sing the joys of greaser music to those f’ing hippies.
While they’ve NOT been together since the 60s, Billy Gibbons will do a short reunion tour with I believe all three other original members of The Moving Sidewalks pretty soon. First show in NYC.
For me, the same applies to many if not most of the “groups” on the list. For example, I can’t take The Who seriously when the two most talented members are dead.
Earth Wind and Fire - How could you not include them?
They still have three of the original band members, and Philip Bailey can still sing in the falsetto range without changing the key of the song (Reasons, Jupiter, Sing a Song)…
According to Wikipedia, the Salty Peppers were founded in 1969, and became Earth, Wind & Fire in '70 or '71. So, in just under the wire, it’d appear, though only Maurice White remains in the band from that 1969 incarnation.
(Bolding mine) Funny, that’s who I thought of when I saw this thread. Richard Thompson just did a 3-night deal at The Mountain Winery here in the Bay Area. An old friend of my husband’s came out and visited us and attended the three shows. He’s been a fan of Fairport since the 60’s and still follows Richard.
How about Tangerine Dream the electronic German band founded in 1967 still active today. Famous for some high-profile movie scores, eg. Risky Business, The Keep, Near Dark. They have had many line-up changes but every one featured originator Edgar Froese.
Yeah, they’ve only toured with Young a few times in the past decade or two. I know CSN’s drummer quite well (he’s the father of one of my best friends, who has also played with them on occasion), so I occasionally get CSN updates.