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frenchie 
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 09:22 |
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They ain't so super. but some are good. we have...
A Perfect Circle
Transatlantic
Asia
Audioslave
Rainbow?
The Masked Marauders (if they ever really existed but rumour says it was the beatles + bob dylan)
cant think of anymore. They are good but not super or as good as their original bands.
THEORY: Supergroups are not super because we get really high hopes for hearing some of our favourite band members join together to make something new, surely it must be even better, but it never is, because these band members have been taken away from their original band and sound, something we are used to and love so much, making the supergroups seem less good.
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Alucard
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 09:25 |
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The mother of all Supergroups Blind Faith and her brother Cream.
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 09:35 |
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
The Fripp/Bruford/Levin/Belew incarnation of King Crimson
Velvet Revolver (which I don't really care for... *loved Guns n' Roses but can't stand Scott Weiland*)
The Mars Volta
NOT Led Zepplin!! (One superstar and three unknowns does not constitute a supergroup)
Liquid Tension Experiment
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terramystic
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 09:37 |
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ELP is some kind of supergroup that proved to be a real band.
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aqualung28
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 10:15 |
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Fantomas is Mike Patton (it'll take a year to name all of his projects) Buzz Osborne (aka King Buzzo) of the Melvins, Dave Lombardo of Slayer and Trevor Dunn of Mr. Bungle. Now that's a super group
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"O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love
'n you should have us all
O' you should have us fall"
"Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart
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alan_pfeifer
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 10:54 |
How is TMV a supergroup? The only two musicians who were really know are Cedric and Omar...
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 11:02 |
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You forgot Flea. Ever hear of the Red Hot Chilipeppers?
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alan_pfeifer
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 11:05 |
Hmm, guess you caught me there. 
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 11:10 |
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It's alright. I'm not really a fan of Red Hot Chilipeppers, to be honest...
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richardh
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 11:20 |
I actually preferred Rainbow to Deep Purple because of Don Airey's keyboards which gave tracks like Stargazer and Gates Of Babylon a proggy feel.
Others include the explosive jazz rock combo Colosseum2 (again Don Airey involved along with Jon Hiseman and Gary Moore) and UK was a definite supergroup that made a couple of great albums.The first line up of Par Lindh Project was also a supergroup made up of some of the finest prog musicians in Sweden.Their album Gothic Impressions was excellent. I also like Liquid Tension Experiment.
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Syzygy
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 11:30 |
I always liked UK, although Alan Holdsworth was a bit under used on the first album.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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frenchie
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 12:50 |
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the mars volta are NOT a supergroup, although most members hail from other bands, john and flea are NOT and never were official members, they are clearly credited as guest musicians.
How could i forget ELP?! and Velvet Revolver. I wish Slash had started that band sooner, Guns n Roses are terrible, nothing but a big showcase, their music sucks! VR, i've only heard 2 songs but they are good! Those GNR boys are finally doing something useful, they should started ages ago b4 they got all wrinkly hehe.
As for ELP, i guess they are the most successful supergroup of all.
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Gentle Ronnie
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 13:07 |
GNR is decent, VR is bad. This is my opinion, of course.
Also, ELP is the best supergroup of all time.
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 13:09 |
Supergroups seem to be hit or miss. U.K. is by far my favorite and K2 (K squared) has not left my CD player since Monday, it's really growing on me. There are so many, but these are among the best, IMHO:
U.K.(Holdsworth, Bruford, Wetton, Jobson)
Transatlantic (Morse, Stolt, Trewavas, Portnoy)
OSI (Moore, Matheos, Malone, Portnoy)
Gordian Knot (Malone, Gunn, Snelwar, Jarzombek, Bruford, Reinert, Matheos....)
Polytown (Bozzio, Torn, Karn)
Bozzio, Levin, Stevens
Soft Works (Holdsworth, Hopper, Dean, Marshall)
Sylvian/Fripp (with Trey Gunn, Pat Mastellotto and Michael Brook)
I'm just scratching the surface, but there are some pretty good ones. Probably many more that don't offer anything new, like Kino.
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 14:01 |
 Alucard wrote:
The mother of all Supergroups Blind Faith and her brother Cream. |
ELP are the super group for me.But you know Alucard i thought of Blind faith the instant i saw this topic.Blind faith album is something else i really love this,the cover would'nt go down very well these days i suppose.
Blind faith though were not a supergroup but could have been.
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frenchie
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 14:23 |
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bruford is a progwhore! he certainly gets around!
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 15:36 |
Transatlantic
OSI
Liquid Tension Experiment (Sure, when you look at it now it's just DT, but back then...)
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 15:45 |
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Slipknot is a syupergroup , im not gay i love women anyone else
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frenchie
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 15:54 |
Breed Lover wrote:
Slipknot is a syupergroup , im not gay i love women anyone else |
NO! This is getting tiresome and repetitive. stop clogging up the sink with this filth and go browse the archives... all that great music just waiting to be found. Leave slipknot for the kerrang forum. FRENCHIE HAS SPOKEN 
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 17:44 |
frenchie wrote:
Breed Lover wrote:
Slipknot is a syupergroup , im not gay i love women anyone else |
NO!
This is getting tiresome and repetitive. stop clogging up the sink with this filth and go browse the archives... all that great music just waiting to be found.
Leave slipknot for the kerrang forum.
FRENCHIE HAS SPOKEN |
Jeasus Frenchie go steady.You see the same sh*t comes from him to you as yours does to me....Yes you guessed it.
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