Meat Loaf’s band, the Neverland Express, has sort of become this after Meat’s death - none of the musicians who played on Bat out of Hell are still in the group, but it still tours performing Meat Loaf’s music.
Aside from Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman, though, the entire rest of the Bat Out of Hell lineup (Todd Rundgren, Kasim Sulton, Max Weinberg, Roy Bittan, Edgar Winter, and Ellen Foley) are still alive, though.
Don Preston is alive and kicking, as is Ian Underwood. Of the very first Mothers, Roy Estrada is alive in prison serving what amounts to a life sentence.
I saw Foreigner on tour twice, in 2010 and 2014; Jones played for the entirety of the first concert, but only for a few songs in the second, which is apparently about when his health issues (Parkinson’s disease, as I understand it) started to affect him.
He’s still listed as a band member on their web site – and I believe that he effectively has legal control of the band these days – but it’s clear that he’s no longer an active performer.
Is this thread about bands still in existence but with none of their original members, or about bands, whether or not they’re still around, all of whose original members have died?
I assumed the latter, since otherwise the word “living” in the thread title is redundant; and I think the majority of posters have been interpreting it that way too.
I guess there isn’t a way to define this as a “rock band” but the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (it looks like it’s a different name now) has been around since 1847.
There’s also the Blind Boys of Alabama, founded in… (checks Wikipedia) …1939. They’re a gospel group, but they’ve generated some interest in the rock world as well.
I didn’t know that. So all four (or five, I forget) of the original MOT are in fact deceased.
Of the early but not quite original Mothers, Bunk Gardner is also still kicking at 90+; I saw pictures of him performing with Don Preston 5-10 years ago and he looked 20 years younger than his age at the time.
It’s now called “The Tabernacle Choir At Temple Square.” Hadn’t known they had changed their name. Members still have to be members of the Mormon Church.