[Music] Your favourite Super Group?

[Icy Gull]

Honourable mention to Cream and Blind Faith but for me the winner by a country mile is The Travelling Wilburys. Dylan, Jeff Lynne, The Big O, George Harrison and Jim Keltner are all favourites of mine and win by a country mile for me.

Thanks to @jakarta for highlighting that I forgot to mention the fantastic Tom Petty



Do more modern band members do this sort of thing? Examples?

 

[Live by the sea]

The Power Station

Robert Palmer

Tony Thompson from Chic

John Taylor & Andy Taylor from Duran Duran

 

[Poyningsgull]

ZZ Top

 

[Icy Gull]

The Power Station

Robert Palmer

Tony Thompson from Chic

John Taylor & Andy Taylor from Duran Duran


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Random fact, I went to Prep School with Michael Des Barres, he was about 3 years above me and my standout memory of him was him being a total wimp when we had some inoculations

 

[Icy Gull]

ZZ Top

Were they a Super Group? What bands were they in before?

 

[BadFish]

Honourable mention to Cream and Blind Faith but for me the winner by a country mile is The Travelling Wilburys. Dylan, Jeff Lynne, The Big O, George Harrison and Jim Keltner are all favourites of mine and win by a country mile for me.



Do more modern band members do this sort of thing? Examples?

Queen's of the Stone age are probably the most prominent at the moment.

Not heard this lot yet but they might be super.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/stories/shaun-ryder-bez-andy-bell-and-zak-starkeys-supergroup-live/&ved=2ahUKEwjgiNrw5sz_AhXM2DgGHbFiBIgQFnoECBEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3XHXHOT0c9jZAuy4k95O3Z

 

[pasty]

Black Country Communion

Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham, and Derek Sherinian.

 

[BN9 BHA]

 

[marlowe]

McBusted

 

[marlowe]

Crosby, Stills and Nash

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

 

[Icy Gull]

Crosby, Stills and Nash

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Good call

 

[jakarta]

Honourable mention to Cream and Blind Faith but for me the winner by a country mile is The Travelling Wilburys. Dylan, Jeff Lynne, The Big O, George Harrison and Jim Keltner are all favourites of mine and win by a country mile for me.



Do more modern band members do this sort of thing? Examples?

You shouldn't start a thread knowing it will then be closed straight away

A bit churlish not to mention Tom Petty?

 

[Icy Gull]

You shouldn't start a thread knowing it will then be closed straight away

A bit churlish not to mention Tom Petty?

FFS, it was a massive cock up, sorry !

 

[Mexican Seagull]

Little Village went under the radar screen but with this line up surely a super group.... Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Nick Lowe and Jim Keltner

 

[Icy Gull]

Little Village went under the radar screen but with this line up surely a super group.... Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Nick Lowe and Jim Keltner

Never heard of them, Youtube will be my friend

 

[Mexican Seagull]

Never heard of them, Youtube will be my friend

He will indeed!!

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Asia
Lead vocalist and bassist John Wetton (King Crimson and U.K.), guitarist Steve Howe (Yes), keyboardist Geoff Downes (Yes) and drummer Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer).

 

[Lurchy]

Audioslave? The self titled debut wasn’t bad

 

[Goldstone1976]

Led Zeppelin

Jimmy Page: Yardbirds, Robert Plant: Band of Joy, John Paul Jones: Deltas, John Bonham: Band of Joy.

 

[GT49er]

Crosby, Stills and Nash

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Better before Young joined in, IMHO.

The 'super group' concept wasn't a huge success really - the frst two, Blind Faith and Humble Pie, were a bit disappointing and shortlived. The Wilburys is a good shout - with Tom Petty of course, not Jim Keltner, who joined them on drums but wasn't actually a Wilbury (any more than Greg Reeves and Dallas Taylor were members of CSN&Y).
Might have to include Jefferson Starship - an amalgamation of Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Hot Tuna; and they actually produced some decent songs.
You get some pretty good super groups every year at Cropredy too - members and former members of Fairport Convention, Zeppelin, Jethro Tull and others combining together on a one-off basis - and some pretty good music comes out of that!