# Bands with members from \> 1 country? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 20, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684 "2016-01-20T16:49:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/21 "2016-01-20T20:29:51Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > I’m looking for bands with more than 1 member from more than 1 country. > > Most famous example is Fleetwood Mac - 2 Americans, 3 Brits. Must be more examples. > > (There are lots of bands who have one guy/girl from a different country than the rest of the band, not looking for those. Pretenders is 1 example) > [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > Does it have to be two or more from each country, or does having three different countries represented by at least one member count? > [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > 2 or more from each country , that is what makes it pretty rare. A lot of respondents aren’t answering the OP as intended: **2 or more members, from 2 or more countries.** ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/22 "2016-01-20T20:34:46Z")
Transatlantic fits, on a technicality. The band officially consists of two Americans, a Brit, and a Swede. But when they tour, they have a fifth guy helping out on guitar, who is also a Swede. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/23 "2016-01-20T20:36:51Z")
Buffalo Springfield was three Canadians and two Americans–or the other way around after Jim Messina replaced Bruce Palmer. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/24 "2016-01-20T20:45:01Z")
A lot of salsa bands have both native-born Americans and native-born Puerto Ricans, although of course Puerto Ricans have US citizenship. The Joe Cuba Sextet, who had a crossover hit in 1966 with “Bang Bang,” were a Latin group in this category. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/25 "2016-01-20T20:46:46Z")
Fleetwood Mac wanted to just add Buckingham but he told them that he and Nicks were a “package deal” since she was his girlfriend at the time. And when Buckingham/Nicks left in the 80s, they were replaced by 2 Americans Rick Vito and Billy Burnette ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/26 "2016-01-20T20:50:26Z")
The Police were two Englishmen and an American. The Velvet Underground had a Welshman and several Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/27 "2016-01-20T20:50:33Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Rick Vito and **Billy Burnette** I was gonna say…! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/28 "2016-01-20T20:51:54Z")
Trevor Rabin was a South African in an otherwise English Yes lineup. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/29 "2016-01-20T20:53:43Z")
The Faces briefly had a Japanese bassist, Tetsu Yamauchi. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/30 "2016-01-20T20:55:07Z")
Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow had Americans Ronnie James Dio and Joe Lynn Turner on vocals. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/31 "2016-01-20T20:57:33Z")
The British band UFO had its greatest success with German guitarist Michael Schenker. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/32 "2016-01-20T20:58:19Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow had Americans Ronnie James Dio and Joe Lynn Turner on vocals. Not at the same time though, and we still need two or more from each country. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/33 "2016-01-20T20:59:40Z")
Journey’s original drummer was a Scotsman, Aynsley Dunbar. And their longtime pianist Jonathan Cain is English. And their current singer is a Filipino. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/34 "2016-01-20T21:01:51Z")
I was right when I said it was easy to find bands with 1 person from a different country than the rest of the band. 🙂 Too bad those examples don’t fit the criteria. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/35 "2016-01-20T21:10:32Z")
It looks like Rhapsody of Fire is currently 4 Italians and 1 German, but last year’s lineup had 2 Germans. Until 2013, they also had an American. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/36 "2016-01-20T21:31:57Z")
Whitesnake has had multiple Brits and American’s in their lineup. I’m not going back trough each permutation but I’m guessing at some time they had more than 1 of each. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/37 "2016-01-20T21:46:06Z")
\*\*Pretenders \*\*= 1 US and 3 Brits **Vampire Weekend** = 1 Sri Lankan (Rostam Batmanglij) and 3 US **The Police** = 2 UK and 1 US (although Stewart Copeland mostly grew up in the Middle East since his dad was a CIA regional director) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/38 "2016-01-20T21:55:26Z")
The 80’s touring version of Genesis had three Brits (Collins, Banks, and Rutherford) and two Americans (Chester Thompson and Daryl Steurmer). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/39 "2016-01-20T21:57:52Z")
While ABBA is thought of as a Swedish group, only Agnetha, Bjorn and Benny are Swedish. Annt-Frid (or Frida) is the product of a World War 2 liason between a Norwegian woman and a German soldier. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684/40 "2016-01-20T22:08:20Z")
[The Dave Matthews Band](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews_Band) kind of qualifies. The current line-up has four mainland Americans, two foreign-born (South Africa and Germany) and a guy from the US Virgin Islands. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-members-from-1-country/743684.md?page=3)