It wouldn’t surprise me if that change was related to a 2018 decision by the church president, that the church and its members should no longer officially refer to themselves using the word “Mormon” (or the acronym LDS).
I had wondered if the name change was due to them allowing non-LDS people to participate. It wasn’t.
As for Foreigner’s Mick Jones, I had the biggest crush on him as a tween. I had no idea he was old enough to be my father.
The Grateful Dead haven’t performed under that name since Jerry Garcia died in 1995. Since then the surviving members have only all performed together a handful of times, though various permutations of ex-members have frequently toured together doing Dead material under various names.
Also, both drummers, Bill Kreutzman and Mickey Hart, are still alive, though admittedly Mickey wouldn’t count under a hyper-strict definition of “original”, as he was only in the band for 23 years.
At the time of his death the other two members of Rush referred to Neal Peart as “The New Guy.”
Well, Hart wasn’t there at the band’s inception. They had been going for a couple of years and already had the first album out by the time he connected up with them.
LOL that is true!
A lot of Rush fans have, over the years, wondered if Neil and John Rutsey ever met. Multiple accounts have said that they did, although they never performed together.
The most recent, and probably final, incarnation was “Dead & Company”, which was Kreutzman, Hart, and Bob Weir, along with Jeff Chimenti, Oteil Burbridge, and John Mayer.
Someday they’ll all be dead. But will anyone be grateful?
Kreutzman left DeadCo with a couple of years to go and Jay Lane joined the band.
A couple points of reference from a Garage Rock cruise I’m going on in April. The proto-punk 60s band The Sonics will be performing with only one original member (the sax player) and musicians a generation younger. Marky Ramone (not the original drummer) will be performing with three other musicians as “Marky Ramone Plays The Ramones”
I’m not sure if they count as “big” - maybe more influential than popular - but it looks like all of the original members of the MC5 are dead.
Rob Tyner - 1991
Wayne Kramer - 2024
Fred Smith - 1994
Michael Davis - 2012
Dennis Thompson - 2024
You’re supposed to kick out the jams not the bucket.
Three of the four members of the Stooges are dead; Dave Alexander (died 1975), Ron Asheton (2009), and Scott Asheton (2014). But lead singer James Osterberg aka Iggy Pop is still around at 78, despite a lifestyle that has Keith Richards saying “Damn, that guy is still alive?”
Maybe he didn’t always, but I believe Iggy actually leads a very healthy lifestyle. Isn’t he a body builder?
I saw him last June in Halle a. d. Saale, Germany, and of course he wore no shirt, moved the stage left and right all the time and took a stage dive at one time. I wanna have what he had! (or, better not)
And half of the gig were Stooges songs.
I have been patiently waiting here for some Doper to crack a joke about the Burgess Shale, but I guess it’s not gonna happen. Carry on with your discussion of the other kind of rock fossils. 
Yes, he’s reportedly given up his once extensive drug use.
I was not aware of that. I’m barely a casual Dead fan at best, but I saw the Weir/Kreutzman/Hart/Mayer/Chimenti/Burbridge lineup in 2016 and thought it was an amazing show. I had previously seen them in 2004 as “the Dead” when they still had Phil Lesh and when Warren Haynes was singing, and I found the later incarnation to be a much better show.
As it turns out, there is still one living member of the original orchestra.
And there’s this from that wiki:
“He is listed as the oldest living recorded musician.”