# If rock bands traded personnel

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 7, 2019, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rock-bands-traded-personnel/841384 "2019-10-07T00:47:14Z")\
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**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:** [October 12, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rock-bands-traded-personnel/841384/21 "2019-10-12T13:33:38Z")

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> [@installLSC](#):
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> You laugh, but I’ve always wondered how Rush would have sounded with a more conventional bassist or drummer. I enjoy individual Rush songs but they get tiring to listen to after a while because of all the showy playing. Having a rhythm section player who is loud but keeps more of a straight beat I think would make their sound more accessable.

That band was “Triumph”, right? 😛

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**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rock-bands-traded-personnel/841384/22 "2019-10-14T22:54:03Z")

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> [@ZonexandScout](#):
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> Not exactly an answer, but I did get to thinking about The Eagles taking on Joe Walsh. Good draft choice. I wish that some band had taken on Leslie West, as I really enjoy his playing.

Quite the contrary!

Eagles is an excellent example, since they had Bernie Leadon, Jack Tempchkin, and Randy Meisner taking turns and later stole Timothy B Schmidt from the _Coral Reefer Band_ and Joe from _The James Gang_.

For that matter, it’s interesting to see the revolving line-ups of \*Santana \*or _Deep Purple_ as various experts added their influences and then split off to form other bands and then came back.

_Deep Purple_ begat \*Rainbow \*which spun out \*Dio \*which led to…?

\*Santana \*gave a break to Schon who split and formed \*Golden Gate Rhythm Section \*which became \*Journey \*which lost Greg Rollie and pulled Jonathan Cain from _The Babys_, forcing John Waite to go solo but then they reunited with him as _Bad English_ while pulling Dean Castronovo from \*Hardline \*and later Schon and Rollie joined back with Carlos Santana to experiment with _Abraxis Pool_ and…

And \*YES \*has their own double-convoluted history of unions and reunions and so on…

In other words, it happens all the time.

–G!

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**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rock-bands-traded-personnel/841384/23 "2019-10-14T23:28:53Z")

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> [@Shoeless](#):
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> That band was “Triumph”, right? 😛

And Triumph was solid for a minute.

I’ve often thought about Paul and John trading Linda and Yoko (as performers, not lovers). I think it’d have been a wash though.

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