There are some bands that, despite the name “band”, are the personal projects of one person.
My examples:
The Cure (it’s Smith’s band, everyone else is replaceable) Dire Straits (Even though Knopfler had a solo career, DS was his band. He wrote or co-wrote all the songs, played lead guitat and lead vocal in all the songs, no band member is credited with co-writing)
Love – Arthur Lee and backing musicians.
Creedence Clearwater Revival – John Fogerty dominates everything. The Blue Ridge Rangers – John Fogerty again.
Derek and the Dominoes
Poco was basically Richie Furay
The Mother of Invention – Frank Zappa (though his name was added later)
Megadeth- Dave Mustaine has been the only one who remained in the band for all 30 years. The Co-founder is back with them now, but Dave does all the writing, singing, and plays lead guitar.
Guided by Voices definitely fits. It’s always been Bob Pollard and whoever he feels like working with, although he’s been working with the mid 1990s “classic lineup” again for the last couple years. In addition to the dozen past members, he’s also released music under his own name and under two dozen other names as well. For the most part, this was done in an effort to get around label limitations on the number of albums he released. The music was GbV in all but name. If the members of those collaborations are included, he’s worked with several dozen individuals and released several thousand songs in the last three decades.
Jethro Tull has been through some lineup changes but were pretty stable through their great years. Martin Barre and Barrimore Barlow were a big part.
I don’t think the Cars would have done well without Benjamin Orr or Elliot Easton. Now that I think of it, the drum and keyboard styles were crucial also.
Just because one guy is a focal point doesn’t negate contributions by other members.
Yeah, I’m not really in agreement about Wilco either. Sure now they are basically Tweedy, but their best (IMO) album (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) had a lot of input from Jay Bennet and even now the other members are pretty essential.