longest lineups

For many years, I've kept an eye on the longest stable lineups of bands. These are the five longest that I've found:

#5. Rolling Stones: sixteen years. From when Ron Wood joined in '76 until Bill Wyman left in '92.

#4. Queen: 20 years. Formed in '71. Freddie Died in '91

#3. U2: 26 years. Formed in '77 (first record in '80).

#2. Rush: 28 years. From When Neil Peart joined the band in '75 to present.

#1. ZZ Top: 34 years. Formed in '69. Still going.


I imagine I've missed some, so if anyone can provide any other bands or corrections, please do so.

dream

The other night I dreamed that I sat in with Elton John's band, on bass. His regular bassist was out. I wasn't very good, but they took me anyway. I thought it was supposed to be a small show but it was at the sold-out arena. I got there late so I missed the first song. I was passable, but not great - for a while. I was playing a Rickenbacker. Between songs I went back to the guitar racks to get a different instrument but there was nothing else I could play. They were all six, eight or twelve string basses, and a few Chapman stick kinds of things. So I had to get the Rick back, but it wasn't there. The guitarist and I looked everywhere for it while Elton was doing the next song solo. It was about half an hour into the show, but Elton quit the concert because he/we sounded so bad. He was a bit frustrated, but not angry. I tried to apologize, but he didn't seem to think it was my fault.

one down, five to go

We got the bedroom finished (more or less) and Michael was able to start moving his stuff in.

I think Cyn did a lot more than I did, but I'll say "we." We finished painting on wednesday, and got the extra paint taken off of the molding on friday night. Got the carpet pulled up. Discovered the floor was in bad shape and bought an area rug. Got window shades. replaced the outlets and light switch. Put in cable and phone outlets.

That last one was the time consuming part for me - figuring out where to drill a hole up from the basement and have it come out inside the wall. Then I bought a bunch of coaxial cable and had to figure out how to put connectors on the ends.

But we're done.