What's The Longest You Have Been In One Band?

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Friday Jun 16, 2006

It seems that bands and band members come and go so quickly.

What is the longest you have in one band?

What is the longest you had the same lineup of band members in a band?

I have been in many bands for long periods but here are my longest.

I was in Lickety Split for 7 years from beginning to end but the band went through a total of 12 members in that time.

My current band, The Conniptions, has been together for 5 years and with the same members for 4-1/2 years.

ToonaRockGuy · Post by **ToonaRockGuy** » Friday Jun 16, 2006

My answer is easy...the original lineup of Banditos. We were together for 4 years, with no changes. Here's the original lineup:

Billy Nusom-Bass
Darrell Ruzzi - Guitar
"Big" Jim Ricotta - Guitar/Keys
Wally Archer - Vocals
Kevin Siegel - Drums

I plan on breaking that record with Scream.

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Friday Jun 16, 2006

4 years w/ Dysfunktion.
My wasted youth. And when I say wasted......

Colton · Post by **Colton** » Friday Jun 16, 2006

two years with pnEumatic, the best two years of my life

EyesOfAnguishbassist · Post by **EyesOfAnguishbassist** » Friday Jun 16, 2006

The longest I've been in one band is 1 and a 1/2 year and still counting with Eyes of Anguish...thats doesn't seem to long but I'm only 18 so I still have a lot of time to let that get longer (hopefully) lol...

the longest we've had the same lineup was 1 year 3 months but lately we went through a few vocalist changes but I think now we have the line up we'll have for a long time to come

SpellboundByMetal · Post by **SpellboundByMetal** » Friday Jun 16, 2006

Condemned Existence probably has been going the longest out of the serious bands ive been in. Keith Rice and I started jamming and writing song over 2 years ago in MD. We were two dudes with guitars then. It took a long time to fill the band out...and a relocation to PA to find the right guys! Hopefully this lineup stays for a long time. I have way too much fun jamming with those dudes and they all are cool as shit!

I was in 'Dead To One' for about a year and a half. They were assholes though. Thank God that band didnt get anywhere, haha, i wouldve killed them shortly after.

BDR · Post by **BDR** » Friday Jun 16, 2006

bad daZe ... March 15, 2003 — present.

r:>)

ChaosRisingRice · Post by **ChaosRisingRice** » Saturday Jun 17, 2006

Two years about with Condemned Existence before we were called that. Back when we were recording songs in a PORN store and only having two guys in the band. I was thinking that when keith reyn was moving to PA that it would be the end of the band i should back out and let him go on with other people.

I am glad that i didn't and stuck with him because i wouldn't have met the talented band mates that i have now. People that not only that i can play in a band with and make music with but also hang out and be friends as well. Getting along with each other is a major thing in a band. And i think that when it is no longer fun is when everything turns sour and bands break up. I don't see anything happening like that at all.

Not to mention and not kissing ass or anything like that but

if spellbound wouldn't have moved to pa. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting

fedup
house of cain
rob the drummer
dave moses
death upon arrival
oremina
Everything happens for a reason i looked forwabandsrd to seeing more bands play and playing with many more bands

facingwest · Post by **facingwest** » Saturday Jun 17, 2006

Does playing with yourself count?

HurricaneBob · Post by **HurricaneBob** » Saturday Jun 17, 2006

Lets see if i can wipe away some cobwebs..
The Hurricanes were started by Felix in 89'. The original bass and drums were Phil K and Tom Berardinelli (RIP). I started in 90, when Felix called me and had alot of gigs lined up. Phil was still on bass. I was playing with Fatal Maim (5 years) at the time but only 1 show a month so i gladly took the gigs. We got Jeff on bass then after awhile and played 3 to 4 nights a week. Maim ended and i did some other metal bands during that time but was still playing with Felix. Jeff left to go on the road for a year or 2. I then was frustrated with music and took a job doing rubber roofing. John Mcknight took over drums with Billy Newsome on bass. Kevin played too along with Dick and others. After John left for Georgia i was sick of roofing and Felix called so i quit the job and started playing again.
Jeff came back off the road and we been playing our kickass schedule ever since. So all in all about 13 years with the Canes.

Other Hurricane notables:
Blues for Tuesday, New Sabs (City Limits) for 5 years
Peter C's Thursdays 7 years

Man, where did the time go...

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Saturday Jun 17, 2006

Let's see I've been in False Icons for like Three years now NO changes on members at this point, Fat Vinny for four years<(got the royal dildo there) was forced to leave other than before I'd change bands quickly and my reason for that was when I would join a band they gave my the old song and dance and tell me everything I wanted to hear BUT,BUT then they would turn around and prove something totally different from what they said they weren't going to do so I'd bail

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Saturday Jun 17, 2006

Decay wrote:Let's see I've been in False Icons for like Three years now NO changes on members at this point, Fat Vinny for four years<(got the royal dildo there) was forced to leave other than before I'd change bands quickly and my reason for that was when I would join a band they gave my the old song and dance and tell me everything I wanted to hear BUT,BUT then they would turn around and prove something totally different from what they said they weren't going to do so I'd bail

I've been wanting to come to see you play. What is the False Icons schedule ?

Plastered Bastards · Post by **Plastered Bastards** » Saturday Jun 17, 2006

Played with The Insignificant for 7 years
And then Whoreacts/Inversion for 5 years.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Saturday Jun 17, 2006

Hurricane wrote:Lets see if i can wipe away some cobwebs..
The Hurricanes were started by Felix in 89'. The original bass and drums were Phil K and Tom Berardinelli (RIP). I started in 90, when Felix called me and had alot of gigs lined up. Phil was still on bass. I was playing with Fatal Maim (5 years) at the time but only 1 show a month so i gladly took the gigs. We got Jeff on bass then after awhile and played 3 to 4 nights a week. Maim ended i did some other metal bands during that time but was still playing with Felix. Jeff left to go on the road for a year or 2. I then was frustrated with music and took a job doing rubber roofing. John Mcknight took over drums with Billy Newsome on bass. Kevin played too along with Dick and others. After John left for Georgia i was sick of roofing and Felix called so i quit the job and started playing again.
Jeff came back off the road and we been playing our kickass schedule ever since. So all in all about 13 years with the Canes.

Other Hurricane notables:
Blues for Tuesday, New Sabs (City Limits) for 5 years
Peter C's Thursdays 7 years

Man, where did the time go...

That was really cool to hear the actually Hurricanes history like that, Bobby. Didn't Jason Ebersole play with the Hurricanes for a while, though?

HurricaneBob · Post by **HurricaneBob** » Saturday Jun 17, 2006

Yeah, i didnt get to play with Jason though,

I know he's on here, maybe he can fill in the blanks.

drums=life · Post by **drums=life** » Saturday Jun 17, 2006

FedUP est.2001 and still going

Dragan Kalasa · Post by **Dragan Kalasa** » Saturday Jun 17, 2006

My answer is easy too.

I was an original member of Sangraal for 7+ years, and now I'm with Condemned Existence since January, I think

. FYI - I plan on slapping the hell out of that record of mine. CE FOREVER!!!!!

VonBaas

SATAN · Post by **SATAN** » Sunday Jun 18, 2006

I was in Blackout for nine years, Way Down East for two years and I joined bad daZe in Sept of 2005.

SATAN

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Sunday Jun 18, 2006

The core members of Thin Ice were together under different names for 8 1/2 years, as a working band, although most of us played in garage bands together since 1979. Mark Morningstar and his brother Curt have been my closest friends since we were toddlers, I've known Doug Forshey since he was 10, and Scot Mark since junior high. Doug and I still play together when he's in town (like we did just yesterday).
I was in Bradley Junction and Lone Wolf (not Jeff, but the country band of the late 90's) for 3 1/2 years each, and Sidestep for a bit over a year.
Good thread. How can it possibly turn into a pissing match?

---->JMS

BDR · Post by **BDR** » Sunday Jun 18, 2006

SATAN wrote:... and I joined bad daZe in Sept of 2005.

SATAN

September of 2004, wanker. Geez, get a calendar.

I guess time flies when you're gay, gay, gay.

r:>)

SATAN · Post by **SATAN** » Sunday Jun 18, 2006

BadDazeRob wrote:
SATAN wrote:... and I joined bad daZe in Sept of 2005.

SATAN
September of 2004, wanker. Geez, get a calendar. I guess time flies when you're gay, gay, gay.

r:>)

Up yours JACKASS!!!

SATAN

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Sunday Jun 18, 2006

About 8 years with Wayne Dibble and the Purple Hell Slime (wow, that doesn't look particularly good on the ol' resume). Over 4 years with Tyrant and Adam Smash, depending on whether you count those as separate bands.

jebersole · Post by **jebersole** » Monday Jun 19, 2006

Hurricane wrote:Yeah, i didnt get to play with Jason though,
I know he's on here, maybe he can fill in the blanks.

I'm not too clear on the details, but Bobby's post helps a little...

John McKnight and I were playing with the US Hotel House Band when, as Bobby says, "Jeff left to go on the road" ... and Bobby "got frustrated with music". I think that's when we left the US House band to then play with Felix.

I was playing with the Hurricanes when my daughter was born, so that would have been around the 1996/1997 timeframe. A bit after John and I joined Felix, John was really itching to play fulltime and hit the road if necessary; something I couldn't do. I finally had to quit as I could not make a commitment to the kind of schedule John wanted to keep. I probably played with the Hurricanes for less than 2 years.

Right after me, they picked up a guy from the Bellefonte area who lasted only a few months. Billy was sometime between this guy and when John finally left for Atlanta...

Heywood · Post by **Heywood** » Monday Jun 19, 2006

YUM has been together since 1999! However, our original band BoneDigger which had all the same members but a different singer was formed in 1994 so technically 3 out of 4 of the members have been together for 12 years.

Trucula · Post by **Trucula** » Monday Jun 19, 2006

"CLASS"
Lee Worthy(guitars/vocals)
Jeff Peterson(guitars/vocals) maybe 9 months..LOL

"SIERRA BLUE" 7 years
Beth McCulley (lead vocals)first few years and a return
Karin James(lead vocals)
Bob Corson (lead) all 7 years...I kno poor me...LOL...Joking Bob!
Chuck Morrow (guitar) first few years..Passed away..R.I.P. Brother!
Mark (thinking too hard,will come to me) (guitar)..killed in auto accident just after we came in 2nd in Jimmy Dean Country Showdown
Shawn Keppler (guitar) Marks brother
Todd Burns (bass) first few years
Mark Keppler(bass)...My right hand man!!

"Denim & Diamonds" 2 years
Treasa( vocals/guitar)
(Darleen) (vocals/keys)
Eric Deemer(lead)
Rick (bass)

"Sound Of Silence" 3 years

And I dont want to count all the garage bands that never got out of the garage!!