In 2001, for the Family Values tour, the band drafted Chester Bennington of nu-metal band Linkin Park in his stead.
For their fourth album, Holiday (1974), the band drafted in George Martin as producer, who helped frame their songs in clever arrangements and give them a glossy studio punch.
A late-period highlight, with the band drafting in US comedian and chat show host Jimmy Kimmel to tell the story of of the titular Joel, an anthropomorphic piece of coal excited to be picked by Santa as someone's present, only to realise he's the booby prize to teach a naughty boy a lesson.
The musical experimentation, meanwhile, is neither here nor there: you could find better moody instrumentals and shoegazey guitar tracks elsewhere, and it perhaps says more about the times than the album in question when a rock band drafting in a gospel choir (on If I Believe You) gets treated as a baffling musical left-turn from which the blown minds of listeners may never fully recover.
The band would return to Europe for the summer festival season but Kontos refused to tour and the band drafted Walter Ryan for the festival dates.
Pulp, 1995 Jarvis Cocker's band were drafted in as a last-minute replacement for The Stone Roses and forced to camp as all the local hotels were full.
All his band members were drafted to serve in the military, while he got a 4-F deferment from the military draft after falling from a bull during a rodeo in Texas.
In 1940, Freeman played with Horace Henderson's Chicago band before being drafted during World War II.
CELEBRATE Stouts 'n' Staches What: The inaugural Movember block party (real and fake 'staches welcome) promises more than the chance to ogle Fu Manchus and handlebars; DJs, a band, and discount drafts at some of Venice's legendary watering holes (Townhouse, Canal Club) are also on tap.
After the release of "Drafted," the band went on a national tour.
