Any that have come close?

Menudo?
Journey?

The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra

A quick web search revealed there are far more than I imagined.

Any Orchestra then really (of any substantial age).

Whats the one where they are blue, wasn't the point so that members can change with little notice?

Blue Man Group?

yeah, never remember names of bands. Youd think that one would be easy to remember....

The Cat Empire, but they still rock.

I don’t know if all are replaced but a lot. And it’s fine, they make new music which is still fun.

Journey was the one that prompted this question 😆

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Journey_band_members

Neal Schon has been around through their history no?

I think they still have one member who's been there from the beginning (Neal Schon). But they are getting really close to meeting OP's criteria.

3 doors down if they replace the lead

If we are going that route:

Royal Danish Orchestra: The orchestra traces its origins back to 1448

Queens of the Stone Age would count except for Josh Homme

Spooky Tooth’s 1970 album “The Last Puff” has no performers in common with their 1974 album “The Mirror”.

The band Foreigner’s only constant member is Mick Jones (incidentally also from Spooky Tooth), but he was absent from some modern tours.

I think Yes also had a period in which there were no commonalities with the original lineup.

Are there any original members of Ghost?

Lynyrd Skynyrd's last original member died in 2023 and they're still touring.

Iirc the nameless ghouls wear masks for this exact purpose

Balsac has been consistent. Debatable depending on your definition of original but it's been the same guy for a long time.

I'd bet a bunch of vocal groups from the early days of vinyl would fall into this group. They're probably mostly in Las Vegas and Branson these days.

As a personal memory, I played a few gigs with The Diamonds(most known for their hit 1957 record "Little Darlin'") back in the early 2000s. They were having a bit of a resurgence after a PBS series aired.
At one point the original bass singer was back, but he wasn't long for this earth and somebody else was in his place by the second tour I did.

I wanna say Lorna Shore? It's been a hot minute, but I'm pretty sure all of the original members of the band have left.

Kraftwerk has at one point or another not had each of its core members. The only original member now is Hütter, but he left the band briefly in the early 70s (when they were still doing psychedelic rock) so nobody has been in the band continuously. And even though they typically have 4 members, a total of 21 musicians has rotated through the group.

Idk if that quite counts, but it's close at least.

They did sing "wir sind die Roboter", and robots are replaceable, so I guess it's an appropriate band history. But, the output has still declined...

it’s always been the same frontman so yea

I used to play with them back in the firehouse/basement show days when they were doing songs about world of Warcraft and shit lol

I feel like it’s less of a band and more of a performance group, though

The search results are interesting, but I haven't heard of half the bands:

Bands with No Original Members

• Opeth: No original members remain, with the last, David Isberg, leaving in 1992.
• Jinjer: All founding members from their 2008 formation have left.
• Napalm Death: Formed in 1982, the band replaced its entire original lineup within the first five years.
• Molly Hatchet: None of the members from the 1978 original lineup or first album are present.
• Thin Lizzy: Still tours with no original members, including only two who played on earlier studio material.
• Blood, Sweat & Tears: Has had nearly 200 members, with all original members leaving early in their career.
• The Spinners: While they had long-term members, by 2010, the original lineup was gone.
• In Flames: No original members from their 1990 inception remain.
• Foreigner: Due to health issues, founding member Mick Jones ceased touring with them.
• Judas Priest: No original members are in the current touring lineup.
• Yes: Features no original members.

Bands with Only One Original Member Left (Often Considered "One-Member" Bands)

• AC/DC: Angus Young is the sole remaining original member, as of 2024.
• Iron Maiden: The only remaining original member is bassist Steve Harris.

Well, not completely Theseus'd, but Andrew Stockdale is the only continuous member of Wolfmother!

Hawkwind has been going so long it's basically an institution. Fuck knows how Dave Brock is still going

I don't think Chicago has anyone original left...?

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Sugababes in the UK.

At one point all the original members were replaced.

Then in 2011 the new members were replaced by the originals again.

Going off first recordings/releases, Scottish hardcore punks 'The Exploited' only remaining member is Wattie (singer). Going by initial formation and first live shows, none of the 'first' members remain.

Of the bands listed I've only ever listened to In Flames, and it makes a lot of sense. I liked Come Clarity and A Sense of Purpose, but the newer stuff is just mediocre.

With days like these, I need to start listening to them again

Gong

I like to joke that Equilibrium had more member changes than the contestant field of a casting show.

EVERY Japanese girl band... Morning Musume, AKB48, etc...

Is this AI slop? Because it's certainly wrong.

Judas Priest: No original members are in the current touring lineup.

Rob Halfords left in the late 90s but returned in the 00s and is still the frontman.

According to Wikipedia, the band formed in 69 and the earliest a current member joined was 70 (Ian Hill). Halfords didn't join until 73.

Opeth is a strange one and I don't think it really counts. The band was still forming when the current leader of the band joined. Yeah if you're super technical then the band that formed didn't include him, but it seems like the "original" group hadn't even played any showed before Akerfelt joined.

In a bio that Akerfelt wrote he says that basically the band died the day he showed up to a rehearsal and later he and the original founder "reformed" Opeth, so it's debatable if it's a ship of thesius situation or a new ship with the same name.

Little River Band

It's a tragedy really

Complicated question. They rotate OG, later members. Sometimes it's all nonOG members. I think Gwar is meant to be an ensemble performance art experience rather than, say, Foreigner.
NotCSB I played a show with Gwar in 2000. Didn't wear a costume, just lame very 90s appropriate attire. We were HAMMERED. And no one took anything seriously.

And the singer is a big douchebag.

TIL. That all happened before their first album though. Not sure I'd count that.

There is a local band called "Bläck Fööss" who were founded in 1970. They made the complete rebuild about one and a half times, and are still successful.

Yeah, same for Opeth, Mikael is Opeth for all intents and purposes, him joining a few months after the band's inception is irrelevant.

Surely The Wiggles have done it by now.

Tangerine Dream, but that's kind of their whole thing to be a ship of theseus, always changing. None of the original members are still around. The current members were all born decades after the band was started.

Biritish girlgroup the Sugababes from the 2000s were replaced one by one. And in a Thomas Hobbes Ship of Theseus expansion pack twist, the original three members got back together again.

The women that left after the first album has been back in the band for over a decade and I had no idea. That's more time than she'd left for.

In 2012, Donaghy and her former colleagues Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan confirmed their reunion.

But they only got rights to the original band name in 2019

The original trio were not able to release music under the name Sugababes as it was still owned by the management company. They instead released music under the new name Mutya Keisha Siobhan, until they secured the legal rights to the Sugababes name again in 2019.