The Red Hot Chili Peppers were a joke band, but ended up being a band that performed nude, wearing only socks over their junk, that's hung around now for 30 years, and had major success. Flea is arguably one of the best bassists of all time.
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Beastie Boys - gimmicky white boy rappers. They went from junk like "She's on it" to much better stuff and a 20 year career.
Kylie Minogue - Aussie soap opera star turned singer. debuted with a cheesy cover of "the Locomotion" in 1988 followed by a series of hits, including a duet with Nick Cave, and remains popular thirty years later.
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. Jpop and youtube sensation. Her crazy/silly song "Pon pon" went viral in 2011 and she remains popular in 2018. Far as Jpop Idoru go that's like the Rolling stones' endurance!
The Beatles. "Sergeant Pepper" showed us they weren't just A Pop Boy Band, and they never looked back (even when some of them got weird later).
The Rolling Stones. (I can't substantiate this, but) Their original producer allegedly called them "My little Three-Chord Shits" for years. They went from a deliberately designed Beatles knock-off to (an apparently undead) musical force of nature.
The Police -- three seasoned musicians initially masquerading as a 80s punk band.
Blur -- four talented musicians initially marketed as a 90s "Madchester" group.
Pantera (Ratt, Poison, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Motley Crue, etc) -- "glam" bands that helped redefine rock and metal
The Cure
Slipknot
The Archies
Wu-Tang Clan
The Darkness
Gorillaz
Primus
Jimi...
"In September 1963, after Cox was discharged from the Army, he and Hendrix moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and formed a band called the King Kasuals. Hendrix had watched Butch Snipes play with his teeth in Seattle and by now Alphonso 'Baby Boo' Young, the other guitarist in the band, was performing this guitar gimmick. Not to be upstaged, Hendrix learned to play with his teeth.
He later commented: "The idea of doing that came to me... in Tennessee. Down there you have to play with your teeth or else you get shot. There's a trail of broken teeth all over the stage."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix
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I give you Ken Jeong. Actor...comedian...Medical Doctor!
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This is one seriously talented individual.Ken Jeong is a Korean-American actor, comedian and physician, best known for his role as the comedic gangster Leslie Chow in 'The Hangover' film franchise.
...While working as a practicing physician, seeing patients for seven years at Kaiser Permanente, Jeong performed at Los Angeles' famed Improv and Laugh Factory comedy clubs. His side gigs gave him the experience he needed to secure higher-profile entertainment jobs, and he soon appeared on ABC’s The View and earned the title "The Funniest Doctor in America."...
https://www.biography.com/people/ken-jeong-20996403
Conga line sex kitten Charo is now one of the most respected flamenco guitarists in the world.
"How does the Green Goblin have anything to do with Herpes?" - The Dying Detective
Hillary was right!
The biggest example of this I can think of is, of course, the Monkees.
MF Doom probably
Also Digital Underground.