"The touring band has almost always been different than the recording band."
According to Hey Jude the touring band has been different from the recording band 80% of their career if Brian toured about 10 years out of the 52. Not counting times when other members were not touring for various reasons.
...but for nearly half of those 52 years, there
wasn't a recording band to be different from.
Cheers,
Jon Blum
Yes, again, looking at it that way, I am wrong.