Game Changers: Musicians Changed Bands

[michelej1]

I just excerpted #20, SnL. Here's the whole list on Yahoo Music
http://new.nz.music.yahoo.com/blogs/...s-they-joined/

Game Changers: Twenty-Five Musicians Who Changed The Bands They Joined!

Posted Fri 22 Jan 2010 10:07AM NZDT by Rob O'Connor in List Of The Day
Turned on the television and heard people talking about a political book called Game Change about the different personalities involved in the 2008 Presidential Election. Then I looked down at this list of musicians I had compiled who were singled out as being people who affected the bands they were in by joining or leaving or--in some cases--dying. I realized they could be called "Game Changers" and I felt that synergistic wave of power flow through me. Once again, I have come up with a winner! Riches await!
Seconds after the euphoria subsided, I returned to my usual panicked state that says I left someone off this list who is so painfully obvious that I will be reminded by several hundred (ok, four) readers who will call me "stupid" for not remembering their favorite musician. ANYTIME a member of a band leaves--unless it's the bass player--it matters. Sometimes, even the bass player matters. Just not very often.

Here are some of the ones that came readily to mind. I know Jay Bennett left Wilco (or was fired) and I guess that changed them, but please submit their recordings in triplicate with a detailed explanation for how the sound was changed.

Note: All THREE guitar players for the Yardbirds--Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page--changed the game for their band, which deserves its own mention up here up top away from the rest of them.

Brian Eno leads the list of producers who have shaped the artists they work for, with his protégé Daniel Lanois standing above Mitchell Froom for the second spot.

20) Lindsey Buckingham And Stevie Nicks--Fleetwood Mac: Before these two California kids joined the British blues band it was made clear: If Lindsey joins, Stevie joins, too. And with them the future of mid-to-late 1970's radio pop was born.