The Imposter Trivia Quiz

Answer: Kevin Martin

STP were formed in 1989 with Scott Weiland on lead vocals and immediately hit the big time with hits such as "Plush" (1993), "Vasoline" (1994) and "Interstate Love Song" (1994) from their first two albums, "Core" (1992) and "Purple" (1994).
Problems with substance abuse dogged Weiland for years until finally in 2013, the band announced he was no longer a member and he was replaced with Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington.
In 2015, Bennington left the band amicably in order to concentrate on Linkin Park, and this was the same year that Weiland died due to an accidental overdose.
In 2017, the same year that Bennington committed suicide, STP announced former "American Idol" (2012) contestant, Jeff Gutt as their new vocalist and the following year released their first album with Gutt, "Stone Temple Pilots" (2018).
All of this leaves Kevin Martin as the imposter, as he is the long time vocalist of Seattle rock band, Candlebox.

Answer: Derek Shulman

Derek Shulman is the odd one out here, as he, along with brother Phil was the vocalist for prog band Gentle Giant, who released several successful albums in the 1970s.
When Genesis started out in 1967, their vocalist was Peter Gabriel and they released the albums "From Genesis to Revelation" (1969) and "Trespass" (1970). For the band's third album, "Nursery Cryme" (1971) they recruited drummer Phil Collins, who was also a handy vocalist as shown on the tracks "For Absent Friends" (1971) and "Harold the Barrel" (1971), the latter of which he shared vocal duties with Gabriel.
When Gabriel left the band in 1975, Collins was the obvious choice to replace him, and in 1976, the band released "A Trick of the Tail" with Collins on vocals and playing drums.
This continued for over 20 years, until 1996, when Collins announced he was leaving the band to concentrate on his solo career and the band installed Ray Wilson, formerly vocalist with Stiltskin.
Genesis released the album, "Calling All Stations" in 1997 and then called it quits, making this the only album with Wilson on vocals and in 2006 Collins rejoined the band as they undertook a tour of Europe and North America.

Answer: George Fisher

Although Black Sabbath will always be seen as Ozzy Osbourne's band, they have had quite the revolving door of vocalists, although not all have got the chance to record with them.
Ozzy was of course the original vocalist, but when, in 1977 he decided to leave the band, former Savoy Brown and Fleetwood Mac vocalist, Dave Walker was asked to join.
Unfortunately for Walker, Ozzy soon decided to rejoin and no tracks were recorded with Walker singing.
By 1979 though, Ozzy had gone again and this time, Ronnie James Dio took his place and the band recorded the very successful "Heaven and Hell" (1980) album.
Two more studio albums and a live album followed before Dio left to be replaced by former Deep Purple vocalist, Ian Gillan in 1982, with whom Sabbath released the "Born Again" (1983) album.
Gillan left after just the one album and was replaced by Ron Keel, then David Donato and Jeff Fenholt, none of which featured on a Black Sabbath release before another former Deep Purple vocalist, Glenn Hughes took his place in the band, releasing the album, "Seventh Star" (1986).
Hughes also lasted just one album and was replaced by Ray Gillen whose work performed with the band wasn't released until the reissue of "Seventh Star" in 2010.
Gillen was replaced by Tony Martin for the 1987 album, "The Eternal Idol" who remained Black Sabbath vocalist until 1992 when Dio rejoined the band for the release of "Dehumanizer" (1992). Just as quickly as he had rejoined though, Dio left again, allowing Tony Martin to step back into the role and the band released the album "Cross Purposes" (1994). Martin was also on vocal duties for the follow up, 1995s "Forbidden" before Ozzy rejoined the band and they released the chart topping album "13" (2013).
All of this means that George Fisher, better known as "Corpsegrinder" and vocalist for death metal band, Cannibal Corpse is the only one not to have been a Black Sabbath vocalist, although who knows what the future holds given the amount of vocalists Sabbath have had?

Answer: James LaBrie

James LaBrie is the imposter here, as he has been vocalist for prog rock band Dream Theater since the early 90s.
Van Halen's original vocalist was actually Eddie Van Halen but bringing David Lee Roth in to do the job allowed Eddie to concentrate on guitar and Roth was vocalist for the band between 1974 and 1985.
When he quit, the vocalist position was offered to Patty Smyth of Scandal as well as Daryl Hall but both declined and Sammy Hagar was offered and accepted the job.
Hagar would remain with the band for the next 11 years and when he left in 1996, Van Halen recruited former Extreme vocalist Gary Cherone with whom they made the "Van Halen III" (1998) album.
This was to be Cherone's only album with Van Halen and after a hiatus they reunited with Sammy Hagar in 2003, but no new album was released by the band, although three new tracks did appear on the compilation album, "The Best of Both Worlds" (2004).
Following a North American tour, Hagar once again left the band and when the band were ready to tour North America once again in 2007, the Van Halen world turned full circle as David Lee Roth rejoined the band.
With Roth back in the fold, they released the album, "A Different Kind of Truth" (2012), toured again in 2015 and ultimately, called it a day when Eddie Van Halen died from cancer in 2020.

Answer: Page Hamilton

Page Hamilton is best known as the vocalist for metal band Helmet, fondly remembered for their 1991 track, "Unsung".
The other three have all been vocalist at some point for Faith No More, with Courtney Love originally filling the role, although she didn't appear on any material released by the band.
The first vocalist to have that honour was Mosley when he appeared on the band's debut album, "We Care A Lot" (1985) as well as the follow up album, "Introduce Yourself" (1987).
When Mosley left the band he was replaced by Mike Patton, for the album, "The Real Thing" (1989), which gave the band their biggest hit with the track, "Epic" (1990).

Answer: Tom Keifer

Tom Keifer is best known as vocalist for Cinderella so he is the imposter here.
Sebastian Bach is undoubtedly the best known Skid Row vocalist and he replaced original vocalist Matt Fallon before the band had a record deal.
With Bach, the band released the hugely successful albums, "Skid Row" (1989) and "Slave to the Grind" (1991) as well as the not quite so successful, but still massive selling, "Subhuman Race" (1995).
Bach was ousted from the band in 1996 and the remaining member took a hiatus until 1999 when they reformed with Johnny Solinger on vocals and released the album, "Thickskin" (2003) which failed to chart.
Solinger also appeared on the 2006 album, "Revolutions per Minute", which again failed to chart and in 2015 after over 15 years as frontman, either left or was dismissed from the band, depending on whose account you read.
The band soldiered on with first Tony Harnell and then ZP Theart as vocalist but there were to be no new releases until 2022 when the album, "The Gang's All Here" (2022), featuring the vocal talents of Swedish new boy Erik Gronwall.

Answer: Myles Goodwin

Montrose took their name from their founder and guitar virtuoso, Ronnie Montrose who was previously in the Edgar Winter Group.
Sammy Hagar was the original Montrose vocalist and with him at the mic, they released the albums "Montrose" (1973) and "Paper Money" (1974).
Following Hagar's departure in 1975, the band recruited Bob James and released the albums, "Warner Bros. Presents Montrose!" (1975) and "Jump On It" (1976), neither of which built on the chart success they had achieved with Hagar.
The band split up in early 1977 and Ronnie Montrose went on to form the band Gamma before reforming Montrose for one more album in 1987 titled "Mean".
This time it was Buster Brown vocalist Johnny Edwards at the mic, who would go on to front Foreigner for their 1991 album, "Unusual Heat".
Sadly for Montrose though, "Mean" (1987) was their lowest charting album and although the band performed occasional live shows with various vocalists for several years no new material was ever issued.
Myles Goodwin on the other hand, has issued lots of new material over the years as founding member and vocalist for Canadian rockers, April Wine.

Answer: Peter Nicholls

Doug Irvine, commonly known as Rastus, was the original vocalist for prog giants Marillion and although Irvine recorded demo tapes with the band, he had left before a record deal was signed, to be replaced by Fish, real name Derek Dick.
With Fish at the helm the band conquered the album charts with their first four albums all going top ten in Germany and UK, where they also had three top ten singles.
Fish left the band in 1988 and after many interviews, Marillion found a replacement in Steve "H" Hogarth who officially joined in 1989.
With Hogarth, the band continued where they had left off and the first three albums with their new vocalist were top ten hits in UK as well as charting highly in Germany and Netherlands. Fast forward to 2022 and Marillion were still producing music with Hogarth on vocals as the album, "An Hour Before It's Dark" (2022) reached number two in the album charts of UK, Germany and Netherlands as well as being a top ten hit in many other European contries.
In 2004, the band also saw a return to the UK singles chart top ten, when "You're Gone" (2004) peaked at number seven.
Peter Nicholls meanwhile has never known commercial success on the level that Marillion have, but has since 1981 been vocalist of IQ, a band with a huge cult following who constantly put on a great live shows and issue great material.

Answer: Danny Joe Brown

The imposter here is Danny Joe Brown, best known as frontman for Molly Hatchet and the man responsible for classic Southern Rock tracks such as "Flirtin' With Disaster" (1979) and "Boogie No More" (1980).
"Rattlesnake" Rickey Medlocke is the vocalist most associated with Blackfoot and was vocalist during their golden years with albums such as "Strikes" (1979) and "Tomcattin'" (1980) and tracks such as "Train, Train" (1979) and "Spendin' Cabbage" (1980).
When Medlocke left Blackfoot in the late 1990s to join Lynyrd Skynyrd, the other members of the band soldiered on with a variety of vocalists including Jay Johnson, Philip Shouse and Sean Chambers who held the job between 2012 and 2014.
Medlocke still held the legal right to the name Blackfoot though, so this prevented the band from releasing any new material under that name until 2012 when the album "Southern Native" was released.
This album featured Medlocke as producer, engineer, guitarist, songwriter and backing vocalist, with Tim Rossi from the Jimmie Van Zant band on vocals.

Answer: Mark Farner

When your band has been around for over 50 years, a few line up changes are to be expected, but surprisingly, Uriah Heep haven't had as many vocalists as one would expect.
David Byron was the original man behind the mic, between 1969 and 1976, appearing on classic albums such as "...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble" (1970) and "Demons and Wizards" (1972) before he left the band to be replaced by John Lawton.
Lawton appeared on albums such as "Firefly" (1977) and "Innocent Victim" (1977), neither of which charted in the band's native UK and he was replaced first by John Sloman, then by Peter Goalby.
With Goalby, the band recaptured album chart success but the band's high work rate took its toll on him and he left the band in 1985, citing exhaustion.
Steff Fontaine had a brief tenure as his replacement before bring dismissed, and in 1986, Bernie Shaw took over the vocal duties where he has remained ever since.
Interesting bonus fact. In December 1987 Uriah Heep became the first ever Western rock band to play in the Soviet Union, under Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost.
Mark Farner, fine vocalist though he is has never been vocalist for Uriah Heep and is best remembered for his time with Grand Funk Railroad.