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calimary

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23. Those who eventually assembled Crosby Stills Nash and Young.
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 04:38 PM
Aug 2014

David Crosby from the Byrds.
Steve Stills from Buffalo Springfield.
Graham Nash from the Hollies.
Neil Young also from Buffalo Springfield.

Also, well, there was Buckingham Nicks (famous in college radio at least) - the two namesakes of which went on to Fleetwood Mac. (Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks).

Jimmy Page went from the Yardbirds to Led Zepplin NightWatcher Aug 2014 #1
Yep, it counts Miles Archer Aug 2014 #2
Ringo from whatever to the Beatles? Lochloosa Aug 2014 #3
Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. Manifestor_of_Light Aug 2014 #4
Warlocks to the Grateful Dead. The whole band. Lochloosa Aug 2014 #5
Jimi leaving the Isley Brothers and then Little Richard's band to form The Jimi Hendrix Experience progressoid Aug 2014 #6
The dude from Suicidal to Metallica, but that's up for debate. RiffRandell Aug 2014 #7
Nice step for him (Rob Trujillo) OriginalGeek Aug 2014 #10
I'm sure you saw Some Kind of Monster. RiffRandell Aug 2014 #16
Hmmmm Lithos Aug 2014 #8
I like Ozzy and all OriginalGeek Aug 2014 #12
Speaking of Black Sabbath Initech Aug 2014 #20
"End of the Beginning" is right up there with the pre-Dio Ozzy hits Miles Archer Aug 2014 #31
Yes I love that album. The tour was great also. Initech Aug 2014 #32
Excellent list, Lithos! calimary Aug 2014 #24
Bernie Leadon from the not so famous Flying Burrito Brothers to Eagles. Hoyt Aug 2014 #28
Janis Joplin murielm99 Aug 2014 #9
Clapton: Yardbirds - Blues Breakers - Cream - Blind Faith Joe Shlabotnik Aug 2014 #11
Dereck and the dominoes RedstDem Aug 2014 #15
Hmmmm....well I can list a bunch of band switchers, but I don't know about a quality improvement. Coventina Aug 2014 #13
Zak Starkey RedstDem Aug 2014 #14
Ronnie Wood Zorro Aug 2014 #17
Damon Albarn leaving Blur (great) to form Gorillaz (even better.) Codeine Aug 2014 #18
I love Gorillaz but I didn't care for their last album "The Fall". Initech Aug 2014 #34
The Queensryche split Initech Aug 2014 #19
Cher Kaleva Aug 2014 #21
Gackt from Malice Mizer to being solo (I believe) sakabatou Aug 2014 #22
Those who eventually assembled Crosby Stills Nash and Young. calimary Aug 2014 #23
Just thinking of them, particularly Crosby. Hoyt Aug 2014 #29
I bought most of my albums at that time in Palo Alto... Miles Archer Aug 2014 #33
Mick Taylor from Bluesbreakers to Rolling Stones Tom Ripley Aug 2014 #25
Fred Smith from Blondie to Television Tom Ripley Aug 2014 #26
Fernando Saunders from Jan Hammer Group to Lou Reed Tom Ripley Aug 2014 #27
Jonathon Cain from The Babys to Journey wyldwolf Aug 2014 #30
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