# When established performers join an established band. Usually as a replacement **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 10, 2022, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-established-performers-join-an-established-band-usually-as-a-replacement/960796 "2022-03-10T05:19:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-established-performers-join-an-established-band-usually-as-a-replacement/960796/21 "2022-03-10T19:10:58Z")
I love that!!! What a party! Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-established-performers-join-an-established-band-usually-as-a-replacement/960796/22 "2022-03-10T20:07:29Z")
Billy Preston was never an official full-fledged member of the Rolling Stones, but he did a lot of work with the band in the early and mid-seventies, appearing on several albums. On tour in 1975-76, the band did his songs “Outta Space” and either “That’s Life” or “Nothing from Nothing.” ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-established-performers-join-an-established-band-usually-as-a-replacement/960796/23 "2022-03-10T21:42:32Z")
It took 23 entries to come up with “Ron Wood” ?!? ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-established-performers-join-an-established-band-usually-as-a-replacement/960796/24 "2022-03-10T21:44:57Z")
I ran across that last night actually. Watched a Rod Stewart video, thought the guitarist looked familar. Looked up Faces, read some Rolling Stone history…but I never ran into anything like “Stones play old Faces songs”. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-established-performers-join-an-established-band-usually-as-a-replacement/960796/25 "2022-03-10T21:47:18Z")
Oh you’re right, I missed that part of the OP. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-established-performers-join-an-established-band-usually-as-a-replacement/960796/26 "2022-03-10T21:53:27Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > It took 23 entries to come up with “Ron Wood” ?!? Ack! And his first tour with the Stones was the 1975 tour with Billy Preston, which I mentioned! ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-established-performers-join-an-established-band-usually-as-a-replacement/960796/27 "2022-03-10T22:30:54Z")
Gotta love the internet. I was able to determine that on that tour, the Stones sang one song (twice) from a Ron Wood solo album. And supposedly its the only time The Stones sang, as a band, a song from one of their core members solo work. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-established-performers-join-an-established-band-usually-as-a-replacement/960796/28 "2022-03-10T22:41:50Z")
I thought of another one (mostly because i was there for the 2017 tour): Brian May and Roger Taylor (the two remaining members of Queen who still perform) began to tour with Adam Lambert as their vocalist in 2014. During their 2017 U.S. tour, one of the songs in their setlist was “Two Fux,” one of Lambert’s solo songs. And, previously (2005-2008), May and Taylor had toured with, and recorded with, Paul Rodgers (formerly of Free and Bad Company) as their vocalist. During those tours, they performed several songs from Rodgers’ background, including “All Right Now” and “Bad Company.” ---
**Author:** ![mtnmatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@mtnmatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtnmatt)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-established-performers-join-an-established-band-usually-as-a-replacement/960796/29 "2022-03-11T00:04:21Z")
Vince Welnick of The Tubes joined the Grateful Dead as a keyboard player after Brent died (as did Bruce Hornsby) but I don’t believe the Dead ever played any of their songs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-established-performers-join-an-established-band-usually-as-a-replacement/960796.md?page=1)