Greatest transfer portal pick up in rock history?

YellowSnow

RaceBannon

Joe Walsh to The Eagles

Really the answer could be

RaceBannon

Joe Walsh to The Eagles

Great list from guys who saved bands to guys who improved them like my vote

PurpleJ

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

Travis Barker to Blink-182

YellowSnow

Neil Peart to Rush

RaceBannon said:

Great list from guys who saved bands to guys who improved them like my vote

Most of these fall into the "improve" bucket, with Sammy and Brian, being portal moves to save bands from implosion.

I'm a huge Joe Walsh fan, but I can't think of another guy who did more than Neil Peart to take a band to the next level.

YellowSnow

Neil Peart to Rush

RaceBannon said:

Great list from guys who saved bands to guys who improved them like my vote

Can't believe we haven't mined this topic yet @RaceBannon in the 6 years my shoppe has been in bidness.

But with all the transfer portal hawt talk, now is as good as time as any.

RTD

Neil Peart to Rush

I would say when Chevy Chase left Leather Cannary is a close Portal second.

Fishpo31

Mick Taylor to The Rolling Stones

Agree about Neil P...A great list for sure, I've gotta go with Mick Taylor because the Stones were about to go into free-fall, IMO. "No Jones No Stones" had checked out well before, and Mick was a key component to their four greatest albums. I don't think he "reinvented" the Stones, but inspired them to what could be going forward.

Also, Rod and Ronnie took the Small Faces in a different direction than Mariott...

YellowSnow

Neil Peart to Rush

Fishpo31 said:

Agree about Neil P...A great list for sure, I've gotta go with Mick Taylor because the Stones were about to go into free-fall, IMO. "No Jones No Stones" had checked out well before, and Mick was a key component to their four greatest albums. I don't think he "reinvented" the Stones, but inspired them to what could be going forward.

Also, Rod and Ronnie took the Small Faces in a different direction than Mariott...

I don't view Mick Taylor as "saving" the Stones, per se. They had already started the GOAT 4 Album run with Beggars (Ry Cooder helped that one a bit) and Mick's contributions to Let it Bleed were minimal. But what he did do was enable them to get back on the road (Brian was done as a player and had too many legal issues) and enable them to take things to their greatest ever work with Sticky Fingers and Exile.

The first album with Ronnie and Rod was still under the "Small" Faces title by the way. Imagine a world where Rod doesn't want to go solo and is content as the leader of a band called the Faces. Ties Buffalo Springfield staying together and adding Nash and Crosby in the portal as my all time favorite band that could have been.

RTD

Neil Peart to Rush

YellowSnow said:

Fishpo31 said:

Agree about Neil P...A great list for sure, I've gotta go with Mick Taylor because the Stones were about to go into free-fall, IMO. "No Jones No Stones" had checked out well before, and Mick was a key component to their four greatest albums. I don't think he "reinvented" the Stones, but inspired them to what could be going forward.

Also, Rod and Ronnie took the Small Faces in a different direction than Mariott...

I don't view Mick Taylor as "saving" the Stones, per se. They had already started the GOAT 4 Album run with Beggars (Ry Cooder helped that one a bit) and Mick's contributions to Let it Bleed were minimal. But what he did do was enable them to get back on the road (Brian was done as a player and had too many legal issues) and enable them to take things to their greatest ever work with Sticky Fingers and Exile.

The first album with Ronnie and Rod was still under the "Small" Faces title by the way. Imagine a world where Rod doesn't want to go solo and is content as the leader of a band called the Faces. Ties Buffalo Springfield staying together and adding Nash and Crosby in the portal as my all time favorite band that could have been.

Ry Cooder is massively underrated. His sessions on Begger's were spechul!

YellowSnow

Neil Peart to Rush

RTD said:

YellowSnow said:

Fishpo31 said:

Agree about Neil P...A great list for sure, I've gotta go with Mick Taylor because the Stones were about to go into free-fall, IMO. "No Jones No Stones" had checked out well before, and Mick was a key component to their four greatest albums. I don't think he "reinvented" the Stones, but inspired them to what could be going forward.

Also, Rod and Ronnie took the Small Faces in a different direction than Mariott...

I don't view Mick Taylor as "saving" the Stones, per se. They had already started the GOAT 4 Album run with Beggars (Ry Cooder helped that one a bit) and Mick's contributions to Let it Bleed were minimal. But what he did do was enable them to get back on the road (Brian was done as a player and had too many legal issues) and enable them to take things to their greatest ever work with Sticky Fingers and Exile.

The first album with Ronnie and Rod was still under the "Small" Faces title by the way. Imagine a world where Rod doesn't want to go solo and is content as the leader of a band called the Faces. Ties Buffalo Springfield staying together and adding Nash and Crosby in the portal as my all time favorite band that could have been.

Ry Cooder is massively underrated. His sessions on Begger's were spechul!

I've got 3 Ry Cooder LP's in my collection, plus the Taj Mahal stuff he played on.

Love me some Ry.

Paradise and Lunch is a GOAT album.

RTD

Neil Peart to Rush

YellowSnow said:

RTD said:

YellowSnow said:

Fishpo31 said:

Agree about Neil P...A great list for sure, I've gotta go with Mick Taylor because the Stones were about to go into free-fall, IMO. "No Jones No Stones" had checked out well before, and Mick was a key component to their four greatest albums. I don't think he "reinvented" the Stones, but inspired them to what could be going forward.

Also, Rod and Ronnie took the Small Faces in a different direction than Mariott...

I don't view Mick Taylor as "saving" the Stones, per se. They had already started the GOAT 4 Album run with Beggars (Ry Cooder helped that one a bit) and Mick's contributions to Let it Bleed were minimal. But what he did do was enable them to get back on the road (Brian was done as a player and had too many legal issues) and enable them to take things to their greatest ever work with Sticky Fingers and Exile.

The first album with Ronnie and Rod was still under the "Small" Faces title by the way. Imagine a world where Rod doesn't want to go solo and is content as the leader of a band called the Faces. Ties Buffalo Springfield staying together and adding Nash and Crosby in the portal as my all time favorite band that could have been.

Ry Cooder is massively underrated. His sessions on Begger's were spechul!

I've got 3 Ry Cooder LP's in my collection, plus the Taj Mahal stuff he played on.

Love me some Ry.

Paradise and Lunch is a GOAT album.

Lawd I’m a cigarette.

DerekJohnson

Neil Peart to Rush

Fantastic topic

Joey

Brian Johnson to AC DC

People thought AC/DC peaked with Highway to Hell and they were done for. Then they had their biggest album and one of the biggest in rock history.

YellowSnow

Neil Peart to Rush

https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/1943279#Comment_1943279

it’s a feat of transfer portal brilliance that on one has ever matched.

Different scenario than my Peart vote though.

RaceBannon

Joe Walsh to The Eagles

I wanted to hate Brian Johnson but the Young brothers really stepped it up with irresistible hooks and power chords

WoolleyDoog

Mick Taylor to The Rolling Stones

What about Ed King in Skynyrd?

Purple_Pills

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

Bruce Dickinson - Iron Maiden

YellowSnow

Neil Peart to Rush

https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/1943452#Comment_1943452

Ed was in Skynyrd though before they released their first album.

Maybe if Steve Gaines doesn’t sell the couch and they have a late 70s or early 80s album on par with Pronounced or 2nd helping.

WoolleyDoog

Mick Taylor to The Rolling Stones

Does John Frusciante count either time?

YellowSnow

Neil Peart to Rush

https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/1943514#Comment_1943514

yes, but I don’t think of this example as being as momentous as the others.