Bon Scott to Brian Johnson, Best Transition Ever? (1 Viewer)

[satch]

Three's Company: Roper to Furley.

Enormous shoes to fill - and we lost Helen, too - but dude brought it with the funny clothes and wicked awesome face stretching.

Big Three's Co fan here. Always preferred Roper. Doesn't get much better than that side smirk/laugh into the camera.

 

[Bull Dozier]

AC/DC after Back in Black (yes I know that's Johnson) is mostly painful. So count me in the 'not really' category

I couldn't agree more

Back in Black is a huge part of the equation. It's the second highest-selling album of all time, the highest-selling album by a band, the best-selling hard rock album of all-time, and the best-selling album ever released by an Australian musical act. Back in Black alone makes a pretty strong argument that the Scott/Johnson transition was the best/most successful major band personell transition ever. Not even taking into account the rest of Johnson's albums, hits, soundtracks, wildly successful tours, and longevity.

Working "Other than Back in Black . . . " into this is the FFA equivalent of "If you throw out his two long TD runs, his YPC was pretty pedestrian."

They turned out a couple of bad albums in the 1980s, after Back in Black, but from Thunderstruck on they've been consistently solid IMO.

Consistently formulaic I'd agree to

Works for me. I've never considered this a criticism -- if I like their sound, why would I want a band to reinvent themselves all the time? (ZZ Top is another band I like whose songs from their two different eras all follow more or less the same formula).

With Bon it wasn't a reinvention of sound, it was diversity. They would rock your socks off on one song and go bluesy with another. Post Bon it's all the same sound. Nothing particularly wrong with that but I prefer the Bon Scott era.

 

[FlapJacks]

Darrin to Darrin on Bewitched.

Roscoe P Coltrane to Sheriff Grady Byrd for 2 episodes...not so much

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[Leroy Hoard]

Pink Floyd - Syd Barrett to David Gilmour

The Stones - Brian Jones to Mick Taylor to Ronnie Wood

A couple of good ones here.

 

[daddo39]

A few groups have done it, but as far as frontmen go ACDC is probably the best example

 

[NajehHejan]

AC/DC stinks.

i would say the best transition as noted above was Syd Barrett to Roger Waters (not really Gilmour)

Also Uncle Tupelo (Jay Farrar's departure) to Wilco

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Steve Rhodes to Jefferson Darcy

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Steve Rhodes to Jefferson Darcy

I liked the ep where Steve comes back and fights over Marcie with Jefferson. Reminds me of when Roper came back and found Mr. Furley in bed with Mrs. Roper.

 

[tom22406]

Janet Hubbert-Whitten to Daphne Maxwell Reid

 

[EYLive]

I've never heard of any of these people. But just based on the thread title I thought this was about a sex change operation. That is all.

 

[eoMMan]

I've never heard of any of these people. But just based on the thread title I thought this was about a sex change operation. That is all.

Yeah, this. These guys were "rockin" before I was born.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Bambi Woods to Stefani Morgan

 

[NajehHejan]

D'arcy Wretzky to Melissa Auf der Maur

 

[satch]

Garth Brooks to Chris Gaines.

 

[eoMMan]

Tim Tebow to Peyton Manning

 

[cstu]

AC/DC stinks.

Also Uncle Tupelo (Jay Farrar's departure) to Wilco

Wilco sucks balls.

 

[UOFI_316]

Becky Connor to Becky Connor

 

[IC FBGCav]

Farrah Fawcett to Cheryl Ladd :dropsmicandwalksoff:

 

[Parmcat]

AC/DC stinks.

i would say the best transition as noted above was Syd Barrett to Roger Waters (not really Gilmour)

Also Uncle Tupelo (Jay Farrar's departure) to Wilco

???

Barrett was the lead guitarist and singer. Waters was already in the band. Gilmour took that roll and ran with it

 

[zamboni]

AC/DC stinks.

i would say the best transition as noted above was Syd Barrett to Roger Waters (not really Gilmour)

Also Uncle Tupelo (Jay Farrar's departure) to Wilco

???Barrett was the lead guitarist and singer. Waters was already in the band. Gilmour took that roll and ran with it

I think he meant the shift in creative force.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Chastity to Chaz Bono

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

Obvious answer here is Magic to Worthy.

 

[McGarnicle]

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[DaVinci]

Pete Best to Ringo seemed to work out OK.

Paul McCartney to doppelganger Paul McCartney

 

[Galileo]

Bon Scott --> Brian Johnson --> Axl Rose

 

[[scooter]]

No way this is true unless it's just for a guest appearance.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

Paul DiAnno to Bruce Dickinson was a pretty good move for Iron Maiden. 

 

[jamny]

Paul DiAnno to Bruce Dickinson was a pretty good move for Iron Maiden. 

I saw DiAnno play with Battlezone. Horrible show, he was so hammered. Wish I could have seen him with Maiden though.

 

[AAABatteries]

No way this is true unless it's just for a guest appearance.

Heard this was happening on local  Atlanta radio earlier this week - supposedly just for like 10 dates to wrap up their current tour that they put on hold.  They were discussing GnR getting back together and how the other GnR band members can't be too happy with Axl taking time to do this - I think it's pretty cool myself.