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Sudetenland Tales

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Blood, Sweat and Tears - Like Canned Heat, the 1960s jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat and Tears also graced the stage at the Woodstock festival, but they had already begun hemorrhaging original members before they ever set foot on that stage. In the mid-1970s, drummer Bobby Colomby became the last original band member to leave the group, and the lineup fluctuated countless times, at one point including singer Bo Bice, who came in second place to Carrie Underwood on the 2005 season of American Idol.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Lynyrd Skynyrd had lineup issues from the get go. Indeed, no two studio albums had the same lineup, but the band remained popular anyway on the strength of such hits as “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Free Bird.” In 1977, their private airplane crashed while they were on tour, killing two members, but they returned in 1991 with a revamped lineup that contained only three of the band’s original seven. Eventually, only guitarist Gary Rossington remained, but he passed away in 2023, and there is now nobody left from the band’s original lineup. Despite this, their current lineup goes back out on tour in May.

Molly Hatchet - Something about Southern Rock bands makes them different from other rock bands, and it’s not just about geography. What makes them different is the constant, revolving door lineup changes that plague these bands from the outset, and Florida’s Molly Hatchet of “Flirtin’ with Disaster” fame is no