Bands who brought in as replacements someone that members had already played with

I'm a bit confused -- wouldn't almost ALL replacement members have a previous association with the band?

Name bands don't enroll a player out of the blue, like the seasoned session musician who joins the One-ders mid-tour in THAT THING YOU DO.

 

Raspberries - Michael McBride

Formerly in Cyrus Erie with Eric and Wally.

Michael subsequently stayed on with Eric when the 'berries split.

 

Frank Zappa's Mother's of Invention: Euclid James Sherwood was in this band, having been in a previous band with Zappa called The Blackouts.

Also, for Bongo Fury, Zappa and Beefheart collaborated, having been at the same school together years earlier.

 

The Who, Kenney Jones played on the Tommy soundtrack in 1975 before joining the band after Keith Moon died.

 

Also replaced Glen Cornick with Jeffrey Hammond(-Hammond) from the same John Evan band. Plus of course added John Evan to the band for good measure!

 

New Order replaced Peter Hook with the bassist from Bad Lieutenant, a band Bernard had been in when New Order wasn’t active.

The current singer of “Black Flag” is Mike Vallely, who was in Good For You with Greg Ginn

 

Billy Sherwood joined Asia after John Wetton died and has played with Geoff Downes in Yes

 

Took me a bit but I've got one for The Fall - Kieron Melling, brought in after playing with bassist Dave Spurr in their previous band, Motherjohn.

 

Steppenwolf - Nick St. Nicholas:



Played with most of the members of Steppenwolf back when they started out as "The Sparrow". Joined Steppenwolf on bass, replacing Rushton Moreve.

 

I don’t think Metallica, for example, had any association with Jason Newstead before he joined. He was one of many they ‘interviewed’.

 

Iron Maiden Janick Gers played on Bruce's Tattoed Millionaire solo album (before joining Maiden).

 

Tim Finn joining Crowded House after being in Split Enz with his brother Neil and drummer Paul Hester.

oops. Tim didn’t replace anyone, was merely added on so maybe not in keeping with OPs thread intention.

 

Gary Moore had played with Phil Lynott in Skid Row before he later joined him in Thin Lizzy.

 

Stevie Young was a ‘known quantity’ for AC/DC

 

The Guess Who: Bill Wallace had played with Kurt Winter..

The Zombies: Jim Rodford had played with Argent and Blunstone.

 

Paul Stanley hired Eric Singer to play on his 88/89 solo tour. Eric later joined KISS.

 

Bassist Pete Quaife of The Kinks broke his leg in June 1966. The Kinks hired John Dalton as a temporary replacement until November 1966, when Quaife returned.

A few years later, in 1969, Quaife quit the band for good---and was replaced permanently by John Dalton.

 

Greg Lake left the mighty CRIMS after the first album tour in the USA (1969) to go with ELP. He is singing on this album.

Excerpt from wiki

"Ian McDonald and Michael Giles left the band following their first American tour in 1970. Around the same time Greg Lake was approached by Keith Emerson to join what would become Emerson, Lake & Palmer. With the absence of McDonald, Robert Fripp took on part of the keyboard-playing role in addition to guitar. As Lake's position in the band was unclear, then-unknown Elton John was booked to sing on the recording sessions for In the Wake of Poseidon, but Fripp had second thoughts and cancelled the booking.[1][2] Lake ultimately decided to leave, but agreed to sing on the recordings, negotiating to receive King Crimson's PA equipment as payment. He ended up singing on all but one of the album's vocal tracks. The exception was "Cadence and Cascade", which featured a guest vocal by Fripp's old schoolfriend and teenage bandmate Gordon Haskell. An early mix of the song with Lake singing a guide vocal was later unearthed and featured on the DGM site as a download.[3] Other musicians involved with the album were Michael Giles and his brother Peter Giles on drums and bass respectively, Mel Collins (formerly of the band Circus) on saxophones and flute, and Keith Tippett on piano."

In the Wake of Poseidon - Wikipedia

 

Red Hot Chili Peppers replacing John Frusciante with Josh Klinghoffer, who worked with Frusciante (and I believe with RHCP) before.

 

Allman Brothers have several examples:

Lamarr Williams brought to replace Barry Oakley used to play with Jaimoe
Warren Haynes was in Dickey Betts solo band, the same with Dan Toler before joining the regrouped allmans a decade before Haynes.
Haynes and his Allmans colleague Allen Woody created Govt Mule with former Dickey Betts solo band Drummer Matt Abts, who Haynes played with while there.

 

Blondie hired Glen Matlock who had previous played with Clem Burke in The International Swingers

 

Eric Clapton replacing Roger Hawkins on his 1983 tour with Jamie Oldaker who was his drummer in the Tulsa Band from 1974 - 1978. Oldaker stayed for the 1984 Behind the Sun album and the 1985 tour and was picked by Clapton again for the Band backing him on the 1990 - 1991 blues band shows of the 24 nights .

 

Also, Neil Young replacing Poncho with Nils Lofgren after Poncho retired, having played with Lofgren first on his After The Gold Rush album.

 

Does Procol Harum winding up with the line up of the Paramounts for Home count?

& did I read that the post Forever Changes Love was Arthur Lee bringing players he'd played with pre Love again.
Billy Preston had played with Johnny Echols previous band btw.

Everlasting First had Lee bring back a guitarist called Jimi Hendrix that he'd employed 5 years earlier.

 

Nick Cave about to do a tour in 1985 finds himself without a guitarist. winds up bringing in a guy called Rowland s Howard who Mick Harvey had spent several years in a band with. didn't give him the time to learn the material though
Cave himself had been in that previous band.