Comments on: Perpetual Change

By: Sam Lewis

Sam Lewis — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:34:13 +0000

Not much of a BOC fan, but I’ll take your word for it!

Nothing wrong with some of the Blaze Bayley-era Maiden stuff though! Sure, it might not be as classic – but there’s plenty of tunes to be found

With Sabbath though, I’d say much of the non-Ozzy stuff is far superior to anything they produced with Ozzy. When it comes to Bill Ward, I’d say that my favourite Sabbath album is ‘The Mob Rules’

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:28:00 +0000

Best example of a new member giving a once great band who’d gone off the boil a kick up the arse (how’s that for a mixed metaphor?) was Ronnie Dio taking over from Ozzy in Black Sabbath. Unfortunately they then went and lost Bill Ward…

By: Neil Kennedy

Neil Kennedy — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:22:10 +0000

It can be viewed with either trepidation (Bruce Dickinson leaving Iron Maiden in 1993), or pure delight – such as Blaze Bayley being sacked and aforementioned Bruce returning to the Iron Maiden fold in 1999!

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:09:23 +0000

Usually the ‘bad’ lineup changes are where a band lose a songwriter and the replacement is a hired hand who doesn’t write. As an example, Blue Ã–yster Cult never really recovered from losing Albert Bouchard in the mid-1980s.

By: Sam Lewis

Sam Lewis — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:00:11 +0000

There are very few lineup changes in the history of all bands that I actively dislike really. I always feel that people seem to think new members will take away what songs already exist, which is obviously not true. I just enjoy all the new songs that new lineups bring