Event class: band, joined, formed, guitarist, group, drummer, called, left, member, bassist

Events with high posterior probability

Jesse Leach	In 1999, Leach joined bassist Mike D'Antonio, guitarist Joel Stroetzel, and guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz to form Killswitch Engage.
Criss Oliva	Dan passed Zak's Wicked Witch demo directly to Criss and introduced Zak to the band and was chosen as a replacement for Jon on lead vocals and Jeff Plate was selected to replace Doc on drums, and Savatage continued, releasing Edge of Thorns in 1993.
Larry Reinhardt	Reinhardt and Iron Butterfly bassist Lee Dorman formed Captain Beyond in 1971, recruiting former Johnny Winter/Rick Derringer drummer Bobby Caldwell, along with former Deep Purple vocalist Rod Evans.
Karl Backman	He formed the punk band The Vectors in 1990, with whom he is the lead guitarist and vocalist.
Oliver Palotai	In 2005 he joined the progressive metal band Kamelot as a touring keyboard player, and was soon welcomed as a permanent member.
Kevin DuBrow	After the death of Rhoads in a plane crash in 1982, while on tour with Osbourne, DuBrow changed the name of the band back to Quiet Riot.
Jonas Hellborg	In 1988 Hellborg moved to New York and started his own band which first included keyboardist Aydin Esen and drummer Kenwood Dennard, later the Johansson Brothers, Jens on keyboards and Anders on drums.
Todd Rundgren	Although he had originally intended to concentrate on production rather than his own music, in 1970 Todd formed the' band' Runt, consisting of himself, teenagers Hunt Sales on drums, and his brother Tony Sales on bass (the Sales brothers are the sons of US comedian Soupy Sales, were in a short lived band called Tony and the Tigers and went on to play with Iggy Pop, David Bowie, and Tin Machine).
Bob Welch (musician)	In 1974, for the first time, Fleetwood Mac had only had one guitarist, Welch, who took over lead guitarist duties.
Mark Thwaite	Thwaite's first school band formed in 1980 included fellow school-mate Steve Ellett on drums (later known as Steve Danger from British metal band Wolfsbane.
Nicholas Bullen	Bullen was initially the vocalist in the group, but later began to play bass and vocals after Justin Broadrick (Godflesh and Jesu) was invited to join the group on guitar in 1985.
Jed Davis	Davis formed a new band, The Hanslick Rebellion, in 1995 with Dubovoy and bassist Mike Keaney.
Swanee (singer)	The following year, he replaced Angry Anderson as lead singer of The Party Boys, a touring band with floating membership formed in 1983 by Paul Christie of Mondo Rock.
Suze DeMarchi	Disheartened by the record company's attempt to slide her into a pop career, along with missing working with a band, she returned to Australia in mid 1989, where she and fellow Perth musicians Frank Celenza, Eddie Parise and Dave Leslie formed the band Baby Animals.
Zakk Wylde	He sent Ozzy a demo tape in 1987 and was hired to replace Jake E. Lee, who had replaced the deceased Randy Rhoads.
Joel Graham	On 16 December 2009, he was announced as the replacement for Mike Alexander, the founding Evile bassist who died whilst on tour in Sweden on 5 October 2009.
Dean Fasano	In 1980 Fasano decided to put a band together ; he brought in Richie Sambora, former Phantom's Opera bassist Alec John Such, drummer Andy Rubo of the circuit band Flossie, and Simon Gannett, keyboard player of Mirthrandir and the New Jersey club band Rivendell.
Renato Russo	This period only lasted a few months, as in 1982, he joined Marcelo Bonfá (the drummer of the band Dado e o Reino Animal), Eduardo Paraná (guitar player, known as Kadu Lambach) and Paulo Guimarães (keyboard player, known as Paulo Paulista) to form Legião Urbana.
John Connelly (musician)	He formed the band Nuclear Assault in 1983, and Danny Lilker joined him soon after.
Mark Price (musician)	Even when Julianne Regan left the band in 1993, he briefly carried on with Marty Willson-Piper and Andy Cousin to create the one-off album Seeing Stars.
Bradford Cox	Cox founded Deerhunter with bassist Paul Harper and drummer Dan Walton (who named the band) in early 2001.
Josh Newton	In August 2004, Newton was recruited to play bass for From Autumn To Ashes after original bassist Mike Pilato left.
Michael Wittig	He was a member of pop rock band Stars Go Dim, with Joey Avalos, Lester Estelle Jr. (former drummer for Pillar) and Chris Cleveland till 2012.
Kurdt Vanderhoof	By 1983, Shrapnel had renamed itself to Vanderhoof's original band name, Metal Church.
Wednesday 13	Poole's musical career began in 1992 when he played guitar in the band Mizery, which later became Psycho Opera and which featured guitarist Abby Normal, drummer Jeff Washam, bassist Michael Patrick, and lead vocalist Todd Cage.
Blake Schwarzenbach	Jawbreaker formed in 1988 after Blake Schwarzenbach and drummer Adam Pfahler responded to a flyer that bassist Chris Bauermeister posted in a New York University dorm cafeteria.
Justin Hayward	In 1966, after answering another ad in Melody Maker, this time placed by Eric Burdon of The Animals, Hayward was contacted by Mike Pinder of The Moody Blues after Burdon had passed on Hayward's letter and demo discs to Pinder.
Marco Hietala	In 1984, he and his brother, Zachary Hietala, formed heavy metal band Tarot (band) under the name Purgatory.
Alan Tarney	His first major group in Australia was James Taylor Move, a four-piece outfit regarded as one of Australia's first psychedelic rock bands ; In 1975 he was one half of Tarney/Spencer Band along with Trevor Spencer.
Kevin DuBrow	This lineup disbanded in 1980 when Rhoads went on to join Ozzy Osbourne's band, with Rhoads personally enlisting Greg Leon as his replacement.
Sid Griffin	He briefly played in the punk band Death Wish before joining Shelley Ganz to form the Unclaimed in 1979.
Steve Kilbey	He then joined' Precious Little', a rock band featuring future Church bandmate Peter Koppes on drums, followed by' Baby Grande' around 1978 while he lived in Canberra.
Steve Walwyn	On the departure of Feelgood's guitarist, Gordon Russell, in Spring 1989, Lee Brilleaux In the 1990s Walwyn formed a side project, known variously as' The GBs' or' The Steve Walwyn Band', with Craig Rhind (bass) and Chas Chaplin (drums) both former members of the DTs, and again for The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.
Keith Buckley	He is also a member of supergroup The Damned Things, founded in 2009, alongside members of Fall Out Boy and Anthrax.
Helen Rogers	After joining Brit funk band Direct Drive as lead vocalist in 1982, Rogers (along with bandmates Pete Quinton, Robert Williams, Mick Ward and Mick Hammond) entered the Black Echoes Top 20 with'' In The Middle of Spring'' and'' Pass The Paper'' respectively.
Philip Oakey	In Sheffield in 1977, Martyn Ware (a school friend of Oakey's), Ian Craig Marsh and Adi Newton had formed a band called The Future.
Peter Baumann	Then, in 1971, at age 18, he met Christopher Franke, and ended up joining Tangerine Dream in replacement of their former organist Steve Schroyder.
Matt "Skitz" Sanders	After Damaged disbanded in 2004 Sanders and Ludbrook worked with ex - Superheist guitarist, DW Norton.
Gregory Slay	In 2004 he joined a project band called Isidore formed by Jeffrey Cain (Remy Zero) and Steve Kilbey (The Church).
Amit Erez	After a year of studying, Erez returned to Israel in 2005 and upon returning was asked by Guy Ben Shetrit to join his band Eatliz as a third guitarist.
Roger Fisher (guitarist)	The band Heart started out as The Army in 1963 in Seattle, Washington, formed by bassist Steve Fossen and brothers Roger Fisher (guitar, mandolin) and Mike Fisher (drummer, guitarist, manager, producer, engineer, sound engineer, light man).
Les Claypool	In 1986, after the death of Metallica bassist Cliff Burton, school friend Kirk Hammett encouraged Claypool to audition for Metallica as Burton's successor.
Gary Holt (musician)	Following Kirk Hammett's 1983 departure from Exodus to join Metallica, Holt kept the band going and during a lot of years, he and Rick Hunolt were referred to as the Exodus''' H-Team'' guitar players.
Kelly Johnson (guitarist)	After her first encounter with Kim McAuliffe and Enid Williams in April 1978, she was immediately accepted in the ranks of the new band formed from the ashes of the group Painted Lady, which took the name of Girlschool.
Karl Backman	Backman is currently also the lead guitarist and the main songwriter in AC4, a hardcore punk band he started in 2008 with ex - Refused members Dennis Lyxzén and David Sandström.
Rose Kemp	In February 2006 Kemp joined an instrumental Post-rock band called Snakes on a Plane as their lead guitarist.
Chris Shiflett	In 2009, Shiflett played in a band called The Real McCoy, which was founded by Andy McCoy, the guitarist of the former Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks.
Mike Alexander (musician)	In 2000, after Matt Drake and Ben Carter formed a Metallica cover band, Alexander saw an advertisement in a local guitar store for a'' metal bassist''.
Dean Fertita	In June 2010, it was announced that Fertita would fill in on bass playing duties for Brian O'Connor, whilst the Eagles of Death Metal bass player undergoes treatment for cancer.
John Finley (musician)	In 1972, Finley joined four ex-Rhinoceros members to launch the new band Blackstone Rangers (which was later shortened to Blackstone after a dispute with a motorcycle gang of the same name).
Andrew McMahon	McMahon started his first band, Left Here, with his high school friends and future Something Corporate bandmates Kevin'' Clutch'' Page on bass and Brian Ireland on drums in 1997.
Rod Clements	Clements' main role in Lindisfarne was that of bassist until 1990, when he moved to slide guitar and mandolin ; his former role was filled thereafter by Steve Cunningham and latterly Ian Thomson.
Fabio Lione	Lione and the other members of Athena attended Axel Rudi Pell Tour 1998 with Dreamscape, another progressive metal band from Germany in December.
Ian Gillan	Gillan originally declined the position of lead singer in the band, though by 1969, after having released nine singles, none of which charted in the UK, replacing singer Rod Evans and bassist Nic Simper respectively.
Jeff Beck	In 1969, following the death of Brian Jones, Beck was approached about joining the Rolling Stones.
Tim McIlrath	In 1999 McIlrath formed the band that would become Rise Against with former 88 Fingers Louie bassist, Joe Principe, guitarist Dan Precision (A. K.
Ashin	In 1995, together with Monster and the previous drummer Qian You-Da, Ashin formed the rock band known as SoBand.
Gus Chambers	Later, he joined German power metal band Squealer and released one album under moniker Squealer A. D. in 2006.
Timothy Jordan II	In 2003, he enlisted in Snapdragon Records' punk band Welton as the band's primary guitarist.
Lou Gramm	Encouraged by his solo success, and increasingly displeased with the direction in which Jones was taking Foreigner, Gramm left the group in May 1990 to tour behind Long Hard Look, opening for Steve Miller Band, and went on to form Shadow King in late 1990 with close friend and former Black Sheep bassist Bruce Turgon.
Lisa Marx	In October 2009 she was approached by California deathcore band Winds Of Plague to fill in on keyboard for their Australian/New Zealand tour with Arch Enemy and Suffocation.
Michael McKeegan	In 1988, McKeegan (bass / vocals), along with his two brothers Ciaran (guitar) and Charlie (drum s), formed a heavy metal band, Evil Priest.
Rory Conroy	Conroy had spent many years in a Dublin based rock band called L. T. D. (Lemons Try Danger) but the band split in 2003 due to musical conflicts.
Joe Atlan	In 2010 he contacted with John Petrucci, the guitarist from the Progressive Metal band Dream Theater, to ask him to participate in the project.
Buzz Osborne	In 1998, Osborne joined a new band known as Fantômas with Faith No More vocalist Mike Patton, a band which he remains involved with to the present day.
Blake Schwarzenbach	In October 2008, Blake revealed that he recently started writing music for a then'' as-yet-unnamed group'' with drummer Aaron Cometbus (formerly of Crimpshrine) and bassist Daniela Sea, formerly of the Gr' ups and Cypher In The Snow, but best known for her recurring role on television's The L Word.
Vivian Campbell	In 1987 Campbell joined the British hard rock band Whitesnake.
Chris Eskola	During this time, Eskola would also find himself splitting his time with local blues metal pioneers, Whitey, with which Kyle Rasmussen was now playing drums, and Adam Muss from the band Muss was now spitting guitar duties with guitarist/vocalist and founder Randy Newman (former bassist of Glazed Baby) With the net buzzing over this innovative new project, FOTS decided in early 2011 that it's now time for the project to be translated for the stage.
Jon Theodore	In 2013, Theodore joined Queens of the Stone Age, replacing Joey Castillo, who left the band citing burnout from constant touring.
Jennifer Finch	Finch joined Los Angeles grunge group L7 (who were generally regarded as a heavy metal band at that point) in 1986, as bass guitar player and vocalist.
Clem Clempson	When the band split in 1975 he and Greg Ridley joined drummer Cozy Powell to form Strange Brew.
Kristell Lowagie	In 2002, Lowagie was asked by Vincent Lacrosse to join his project Skeptical Minds, an industrial electro metal music.
Kim Larsen	In 1969 he met Franz Beckerlee and Wili Jønsson, and the three founded Gasolin' which, later joined by drummer Søren Berlev, became one of the most successful Danish rock bands.
Craig Sharmat	Craig returned to Los Angeles in 1985, where he quickly landed the role of guitarist for saxman Ronnie Laws.
Suze DeMarchi	In 1993, DeMarchi met Nuno Bettencourt, guitarist at that time for hard rock band Extreme.
Mark Andes	In 1975, he was recruited by former Flying Burrito Brothers vocalist Rick Roberts and former Byrds drummer Michael Clarke to form the country-rock band Firefall.
Junior Parker	In 1951 he formed his own band, the Blue Flames, with the guitarist Pat Hare.
Pedro Yanowitz	With Melissa Auf der Maur and her boyfriend at the time, Dave Grohl, Yanowitz started the band Hand of Doom, a Black Sabbath tribute band, and recorded a live record at the Whiskey in 2002.
Jeff Pilson	After the initial breakup of Dokken, Pilson formed his own group called Flesh & Blood in 1989, taking over lead vocal and rhythm guitar duties.
Heiko Schramm	In 1990, Schramm, singer and guitarist Jens Berger and drummer Tom Wolf formed the band Need A New Drug.
Fenriz	Other musical interests of his 10 first years included rock and heavy metal groups such as The Doors, Grand Funk, Steppenwolf, The Byrds, Elvis, Kiss, AC/DC, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath Darkthrone was created as a death metal band by the name of Black Death in 1986.
Garech Browne	In 1962, after setting up Claddagh Records, he asked his friend, the famed uileann piper Paddy Moloney, to form a group for a one-off album.
Bob Stinson	Stinson formed The Replacements (formerly Dog's Breath) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1979 with drummer Chris Mars and Bob's younger half-brother Tommy, then just 12 years old ; a year later, Stinson brought in Paul Westerberg on second guitar and vocals.
Robin Zander	In 1972, Zander was offered the lead singer role in a new band called Cheap Trick by the group's drummer, Bun E. Carlos.
Steven Adler	In June 1998, Adler joined the newly reformed hard rock band BulletBoys, along with future Guns N' Roses guitarist DJ Ashba.
Bill Hudson (guitarist)	Bill Hudson, born on January 13, 1987 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is a heavy metal guitarist.
Jon Nelson (guitarist)	In 1984 Nelson left Suicidal Tendencies teaming up with drummer Amery Smith who also played on Suicidal's first record, as well as Suicidal's current guitarist Mike Clark and formed the band The Brood which later changed drummers to Sal Troy.
Trevor Taylor (singer)	In 1984, Trevor Taylor joined the new group Bad Boys Blue.
Georgina Born	In June 1976 she joined the English avant-rock group Henry Cow as bass guitarist and cellist, following the departure of founding bassist John Greaves.
Matt Jones (singer/songwriter)	In the spring of 2005, Jones formed Brothers in Arms with friend and fellow songwriter Stew Walton, whom he had met through his manager.
Tim "Ripper" Owens	and Dio Disciples Owens now fronts a new project called Charred Walls of the Damned, a band founded in 2009 by Richard Christy, radio personality on The Howard Stern Show and former drummer for Iced Earth and Death.
Ciro Pessoa	In 1981, back to Brazil, he joined Branco Mello, Marcelo Fromer, Arnaldo Antunes, Tony Bellotto, Paulo Miklos, Sérgio Britto and Nando Reis to form the Titãs do Iê-Iê (whose name would be later shortened only to'' Titãs'').
Mike Compton (musician)	In the mid-1980s, he joined the Nashville Bluegrass Band but left the band in 1988 due to a road accident where bass player Mark Hembree was injured.
Shawn Crahan	In 1993, Crahan formed a metal band known as'' The Pale Ones'' with fellow musician Paul Gray, which featured himself as the band's drummer.
Jens Becker	Just some time later he had quit Running Wild in 1991, a new speed/heavy metal band called X-Wild was formed by three ex-members of Running Wild (thus the name X (Ex) Wild), which Jens was the only bassist for under its existence.
Goldy McJohn	In 1964, he played with local band, Little John & The Friars before moving on later that year to become a member of the Mynah Birds, which also included Rick James, Bruce Palmer and (after McJohn left) Neil Young.
Pino Palladino	Also in 1991 he joined Paul Rodgers (of Free, Queen + Paul Rodgers, and Bad Company fame) to form the band The Law.
Mike Mangini	In 1994 he was asked to play with the band Extreme, replacing original drummer Paul Geary.
Joey Molland	In 1975, he joined with Jerry Shirley (formerly of Humble Pie) and formed a group called Natural Gas.
Jesse Hughes (musician)	Hughes and Homme formed Eagles of Death Metal in 1998.