Successful groups that morphed into another successful group...

[Bostonian]

As the title says who are the groups that started off as one successful band and in various ways morphed into another successful band.

To kick it off I'll go with The Yardbirds morphing into Led Zeppelin.





Also The Move morphing into ELO





Have at it.

 

[SweetD]

Joy Division to New Order

on the other hand

Jefferson Airplane to Jefferson Starship

 

[DIG]

Split Enz ---> Crowded House

 

[Cleavy]

the Clash to Big Audio Dynamite II (not as successful, but people still remember Rush, and The Globe)

 

[PhatBoy]

You could make a case for Nirvana-Foo Fighters. Pat Smear was essentially the fourth member of Nirvana and one of the founding members of FF as a live act from memory.

 

[WealstoneRaider]

The Beatles > Wings

/end Fred

 

[WealstoneRaider]

Sex Pistols > P.I.L
Deep Purple > Rainbow
The Tourists > Eurythmics

 

[Papa G]

Flowers - Icehouse

 

[rank and file]

Birthday Party > Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

 

[Bostonian]

I think I should have added a caveat as in more than one member of the old band was part of the start of the second band.

 

[DroopStDanny]

Gram Parsons & Chris Hillman left The Byrds and formed Flying Burrito Brothers.

 

[Gough]

Gram Parsons & Chris Hillman left The Byrds and formed Flying Burrito Brothers.

I saw Hillman play at the Fringe a few years back, he did Christine's Tune and the place went nuts.
On topic Pete Frame's rock n roll family trees are pretty much the definitive reference for this sort of thing.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Does The Beat turning into General Public count?

 

[SnakeMan86]

Creed into Alterbridge

 

[Bostonian]

Does The Beat turning into General Public count?

Nice one, forgot about that music tree.

The Beat had two splits that lead to other hit making bands.

General Public and Fine Young Cannibals when Cox and Steele went on to form that band.

 

[Bostonian]

Operation Ivy morphed into Rancid when Armstrong and Freeman took a break and came back as the latter band.

 

[krisholio14]

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Was it Soundgarden that became Creed?

 

[Richard Cranium]

The Cockroaches --> The Wiggles

 

[dumb]

kyuss - qotsa
ratm - audioslave

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Midnight Oil -> The Break -> Midnight Oil

 

[La Dispute]

At The Drive-In >> The Mars Volta was a great transition. They would building towards it on Relationship of Command, which is the best Omar/Cedric LP, and introduced some more proggy elements. Non-Zero Possibility signalled that, and would have sat perfectly an any TMV album. Otherwise a track like Quarantined foreshadowed where they would end up, but was still rooted heavily in punk.

They became pretty bloated after De-loused in the Comatorium though. That LP in and of itself requires a bit of patience, but they went on to make some really long but not overly interesting albums. Frances the Mute was the last great thing they've put out.

 

[Mootsy]

Kyuss into Queens of the Stone Age & Mother Love Bone into Pearl Jam.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Would Machine Gun Fellatio into Sneaky Sound System count?

Likewise Karnivool? --> Birds of Tokyo?

 

[Cicatriz]

Was it Soundgarden that became Creed?

Hell no!
Rage Against the Machine into Audioslave.