History Main / ThePeteBest

** And not to mention, in the original pilot of [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers MMPR]], Audri [=DuBois=] was cast as the Yellow Ranger. However, when the actual series' production got underway, [=DuBois=] was fired and replaced with Thuy Trang ([[TooCoolToLive 1973-2001]]), [[UnfortunateImplications who was Asian, nonetheless]].

* Most people know Brian Johnson is not the original singer of [[{{ACDC}} AC/DC]] but fewere know that it is NOT Bon Scott either, but Dave Evans. Similarly, JudasPriest's original singer is NOT Rob Halford but Al Atkins. There's a ton of members of Anthrax just about no one knows, for example: Joey Belladonna is the band's FOURTH singer.

* Ron Wayne co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. His 10% ownership in the company would be worth $22 billion today.....if he hadn't sold his shares back to the Steves 12 days into the partnership for $800. Oops.

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** LinkinPark's bassist for the debut album Hybrid Theory wasn't Dave "Phoenix" Farrell, who was on hiatus and rejoined them during the first tour. Only the most diehard fans could tell you that it was actually Scott Koziol and Ian Hornbeck that played bass for the first album.

* LinkinPark's bassist for the debut album Hybrid Theory wasn't Dave "Phoenix" Farrell, who was on hiatus and rejoined them during the first tour. Only the most diehard fans could tell you that it was actually Scott Koziol and Ian Hornbeck that played bass for the first album.

* Who was the original voice actor for Raoh from ''{{Fist of the North Star}}''? KenjiUtsumi? Not quite! When Raoh first appeared in Episode 32 of the anime as a nameless SinisterSilhouette, he was voiced by none other than NorioWakamoto. It wasn't until Raoh's proper first appearance in a later episode that he was voiced by Utsumi. Coincidentally, Wakamoto would later return as the voice of Shuren of the Flames, a character who gets killed off by Raoh.

* NorioWakamoto was the voice of Raoh in the ''[[FistOfTheNorthStar Hokuto no Ken]]'' TV series for exactly one episode. Said episode featured Raoh as a [[SinisterSilhouettes sinister silhouette]] making an ominous prediction about the future of his master's choice for successor. When Raoh was fully introduced later in the series, he was voiced by KenjiUtsumi, who is often regarded as the original voice of the character. Norio Wakamoto returned later to voice another character (Shuren of the Flames), who was ironically killed off by Raoh.

** It does lend a fair bit of insight into Axl's stance on the matter. In his eyes all the band members besides Izzy were hired hands in ''his'' band while from the perspective of the other members it was a five-way equal partnership until Axl started taking over.

* DestinysChild. The original members were Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland, [=LaTavia=] Robertson, and [=LeToya Luckett=]. Around 2000, the video for "Say My Name" premiered, ''without'' Robertson or Luckett. They had been replaced by Farrah Franklin(who left the group shortly afterwards) and Michelle Williams. Luckett and Robertson sued the manager and the other group members. The majority of people remember Destiny's Child as having Beyonce, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams.

* Prog-rock band {{Yes}} subverts, inverts, and generally twists this trope around in mind-warping ways. Only one member has been consistent from its founding, bassist Chris Squire; and no more than 2 consecutive albums have ever had exactly the same lineup. This resulted in several "eras" in Yes's output, each one gaining and losing fans with it's changes in style and sound; with the second keyboardist, Rick Wakeman (who replaced Tony Kaye), both credited with catapulting Yes to superstardom, and blamed for later dragging the band down with his overblown electronic noodling. After his hiatus, Wakeman returns to revive a band sliding into cult status after losing popularity to the burgeoning Grunge movement; once again replacing original keyboardist Tony Kaye. In the meantime, side project Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, and Howe was credited as a return to Yes's original and popular sound; although it remained a bit more obscure.

** The Beatles also had a minor case in Stuart Sutcliffe, the original bassist, who left the band to stay in Berlin with his girlfriend (turning them into a quartet), and died less than a year later.

* {{Nirvana}} went through a bevy of drummers before finally hitting it big with Dave Grohl behind the kit. Chad Channing, who played drums on Nirvana's first album, Bleach, is probably the most well-known of these, although the book ''Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana'' actually uses the phrase "The Pete Best of Nirvana" in reference to Aaron Burckhard, their very first drummer.

** Dennis Stratton.
** In fact, Iron Maiden had quite a few different lineups before finally getting a record deal and bringing out an album. Paul Di'Anno? He's their ''third'' singer. It does help that Maiden brought out "The Early Days" DVD, which chronicles the first eight years of their career and all the different musicians that were in the band until they settled on their most "Classic" lineup with Piece of Mind.

* When you think of The Oak Ridge Boys, do you picture four old-looking guys, one of whom has a BadassBeard that the guys in ZZ Top would envy? That guy, William Lee Golden, joined the group in 1964 as baritone vocalist. The most familiar lineup, which also includes tenor Joe Bonsall, lead singer Duane Allen and bass Richard Sterban, didn't come to be until the early 1970s, just before the band began having country music success (they had been a gospel group since the 1940s, and even won a Grammy in their gospel era). The original lead vocalist was Wally Fowler, who left to become a preacher; Smitty Gatlin later took over before Allen joined in 1966.

* Atari was founded in the early 70s by NolanBushnell, AlAlcorn, and a third guy who dropped out. Guess which one is no longer remembered.

* John Kiffmeyer[=/=][[StageNames Al Sobrante]] played drums on the first GreenDay album ''39/Smooth'' before being replaced by Tré Cool. The only song he ever wrote was "''I Was There''".

* GreenDay has John Kiffmeyer/Al Sobrante. He played in an album, then left for college. Tré Cool came in, and the band was on the way to stardom.

** Just to rub it in, the fates decreed that Pete should happen to run into Paul [=McCartney=]'s dad in a bar on the night the Beatles had their big television debut. Mr. [=McCartney=], totally oblivious to Best's feelings, ribbed Pete and said "Isn't that great? They're on TV!"

* Fleetwood Mac has this trope in spades. Better to read [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleetwood_Mac the entry on The Other Wiki than explain it here]].

** Similarly, Ron [=McGovney=], who was replaced by Cliff Burton

* If you ask most people to name the members of {{Deep Purple}}, they'll call Ian Gillan the singer and Roger Glover the bassist, because they filled those positions during the most popular incarnation of the band. The original lead singer was Rod Evans and the bassist was Nick Simper.

* Simon Le Bon of {{Duran Duran}} wasn't the band's first frontman. He wasn't even the second or third. The band went through numerous personnel changes between 1978 and 1980, the year the "fab five" lineup gelled. The band's first ever lineup was Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy on main vocals, Simon Colley on bass and occasional clarinet, John Taylor (as Nigel John Taylor) on lead guitar, Nick Rhodes (as Nick Bates) on keyboard, and a drum machine. Then Stephen and Simon left because they wanted to be in a more rock & roll band and was replaced with Andy Wickett and then Jeff Thomas on lead vocals, John switched over to bass after Simon left and got Alan Curtis to be on lead guitar (at which point Roger Taylor joined the band), then Jeff and Alan left, they put out an ad in the ''Melody Maker'' (a British music magazine) for a "high wire guitarist", got Andy Taylor that way, and only after that did Le Bon (a drama student) join the band. The band even recorded a demo which included an early version of "Girls on Film" in 1979 when Andy Wickett was lead vocalist.

* In {{Doctor Who}}, the titular doctor [[TheNthDoctor has been replaced with a new actor]] ten times over the course of the series. They are all fairly well-known among the fans, but every once in a while, a Doctor appears that becomes the face of the show. This used to be the Fourth Doctor, famous for being the Doctor with the most consecutive television seasons, but it could be argued that the Tenth Doctor has become this with the new series. The other Doctors, however, are mostly doomed to fade into obscurity, only resurrected for a [[TimeyWimeyBall multi-doctor crossover]] or [[FanFic fan fiction]].
** Not to shortchange the pro novels or Big Finish audio series.

** Geneviève Bujold was originally to play Captain Janeway in ''StarTrekVoyager'' but dropped out after only a few days (the reasons given differ depending on the source) and was replaced with Kate Mulgrew. Due to the actresses' requests, Janeway's first name was changed twice, from Elizabeth to Nicole and then to Kathryn.

* Brian Dunkleman was the co-host of ''AmericanIdol'' in Season 1, and chose the wrong time to play hardball in contract negotiations, considering that since the audience clearly preferred Ryan Seacrest. From that point, the show just kept getting bigger.

* ''TheSimpsons'' - the voices of Moe Szyslak and Monty Burns were originated by Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer, right? Actually both characters were first voiced by Christoper Collins, aka Chris Latta, aka [[GIJoe Cobra Commander]] and [[TransformersGeneration1 Star]][[TheStarscream scream]] - but his part as Burns was only used in one episode ("Homer's Odyssey"), and none of his voice work as Moe was heard in any finished episode (he recorded all of Moe's lines in "Some Enchanted Evening", but Hank Azaria re-recorded the lines late in production, so Chris Latta is only heard as a TV presenter in that episode).