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Greatest transfer portal pick up in rock history?

YellowSnow
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Greatest transfer portal pick up in rock history? 21 votes

Neil Young to CSN
4%
iDawg 1 vote
Neil Peart to Rush
19%
DerekJohnsonTequillaYellowSnowRTD 4 votes
Rod Stewart/Ronnie Wood to The Small Faces
0%
Mick Taylor to The Rolling Stones
14%
El_KFishpo31WoolleyDoog 3 votes
Sammy Hagar to Van Halen
0%
Brian Johnson to AC DC
19%
Fire_Marshall_Billdfleabiak1Joey 4 votes
Joe Walsh to The Eagles
14%
RaceBannonalumni94RDR 3 votes
Dave Grohl to Nirvana
19%
CFetters_Nacho_LoverwhlinderMad_Sonhuskyhooligan 4 votes
Steve Perry to Journey
0%
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
9%
PurpleJPurple_Pills 2 votes
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,987 Founders Club
    Joe Walsh to The Eagles
    Really the answer could be


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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,987 Founders Club
    Joe Walsh to The Eagles
    Great list from guys who saved bands to guys who improved them like my vote
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  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,643 Founders Club
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    Travis Barker to Blink-182
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
    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.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
    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.
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  • RTD
    RTD Member Posts: 837
    Neil Peart to Rush
    I would say when Chevy Chase left Leather Cannary is a close Portal second.
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  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,639
    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...
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
    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.
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  • RTD
    RTD Member Posts: 837
    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!
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
    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.
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  • RTD
    RTD Member Posts: 837
    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.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,456 Founders Club
    Neil Peart to Rush
    Fantastic topic
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  • Joey
    Joey Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,273 Founders Club
    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.

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
    edited January 2024
    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.

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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,987 Founders Club
    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

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  • WoolleyDoog
    WoolleyDoog Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,161 Founders Club
    Mick Taylor to The Rolling Stones

    What about Ed King in Skynyrd?

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  • Purple_Pills
    Purple_Pills Member Posts: 2,110
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

    Bruce Dickinson - Iron Maiden

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
    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.

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  • WoolleyDoog
    WoolleyDoog Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,161 Founders Club
    Mick Taylor to The Rolling Stones

    Does John Frusciante count either time?

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
    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.

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  • dflea
    dflea Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,287 Swaye's Wigwam
    Brian Johnson to AC DC

    Saved my favorite band.

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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,093
    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/1943514#Comment_1943514

    I thought you were talking about the voice of NFL Films.

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