Supergroups
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Topic: Supergroups
Posted By: frenchie
Subject: Supergroups
Date 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. ------------- The Worthless Recluse 
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Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 09:25
| The mother of all Supergroups Blind Faith and her brother Cream. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 09:35
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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 |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 09:37
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ELP is some kind of supergroup that proved to be a real band. |
Posted By: aqualung28
Date 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 ------------- "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 |
Posted By: alan_pfeifer
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 10:54
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How is TMV a supergroup? The only two musicians who were really know are Cedric and Omar...
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 11:02
| You forgot Flea. Ever hear of the Red Hot Chilipeppers? |
Posted By: alan_pfeifer
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 11:05
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Hmm, guess you caught me there. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 11:10
| It's alright. I'm not really a fan of Red Hot Chilipeppers, to be honest... |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 11:20
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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. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 11:30
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I always liked UK, although Alan Holdsworth was a bit under used on the first album.
------------- '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 |
Posted By: frenchie
Date 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. ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: Gentle Ronnie
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 13:07
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GNR is decent, VR is bad. This is my opinion, of course. Also, ELP is the best supergroup of all time. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 13:09
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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 By: Guests
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 14:01
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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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Alucard wrote:
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 14:23
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bruford is a progwhore! he certainly gets around! ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 15:36
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Transatlantic |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 15:45
| Slipknot is a syupergroup , im not gay i love women anyone else |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 15:54
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  ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 17:44
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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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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 17:47
so this was all your doing after all!! ------------- 
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Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 17:47
whatever, i reli dont care and i found it fun, except for when you were insulting me for having an opinion. Even ELP would be shocked at how obsessed you are with them, everything seems to revolve around ELP for you, their asses must be sore! ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 17:55
It's ok Frenchie your gonna pay for your double barrel insult remember.
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Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 17:56
wot are u on about now? *sighs* bring on whatever you have to say ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: walrus
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 17:56
did you heard dirty mac, the traveling wilburys, derek and the dominoes.......this are supergroups too.... ------------- you and whose army? |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 17:58
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i'm off, bored of all this sh*t, i'll be back 2moro, i need sleep, just hit midnight. yawn. ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: beterdedthnred4
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 19:07
| hmmm....back to the subject of supergroups, what about Hatfield and the North sure the canterbury school was a small pond, but those were the four most important musicians of a whole sub-genre who managed to stay together for two masterpieces. |
Posted By: Ben2112
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 19:21
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One of my fave "supergroups" that I don't think anyone has mentioned yet: Platypus/The Jelly Jam Though they don't sound much alike (The Jelly Jam is just Platypus without Derek Sherinian), and Jelly Jam really isn't technically prog as we know it anyway, I really like the albums these guys have put out, notwithstanding the utterly boring Jelly Jam 2. |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 02:11
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100% agreed! I also liked Derek and the Dominoes which is a supergroup in some respect. ------------- 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 02:50
Good call! 
The whole Canterbury scene was incestuous to say the least, but when they gelled into Hatfield & The North, a true supergroup was born. Overall, though, as far as a favorite supergroup goes, I'd have to go for UK.... 
or do I mean GTR?  ------------- 
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Posted By: Radioactive Toy
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 02:54
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how about supergroup blackfield? -------------  
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Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 06:12
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Super Groups imho :
....and many more ------------- 
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 06:21
Hey, if you don't call this a "supergroup"...even if they existed only for a short time.
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Posted By: mr_freeze338
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 08:46
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Nobody mentioned the Travelling Wilburies... Slipknot shouldn`t even be mentioned in these forums. |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 08:47
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come back karny! ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: Calvo
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 10:00
| Liquid Tension Experiment, Transatlantic, OSI (Office of Strategic Influence) are my favourite |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 10:45
But not as badly as on the second and third UK albums...................... And check out what Wm. Bruford states on the liner notes of Holdsworth's Against The Clock |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 11:03
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First so-called supergroup, name derived from their album Supersessions,
was: Al Kooper (Blues Project, Blood Sweat & Tears, numerous
sessions), Mike Bloomfield (Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Electric Flag,
Dylan's original electric band), and Steve Stills (Buffalo Springfield,
CSN). 'Supergroup' meant that all the members of the band were well
known. Cream were not known as a 'supergroup', Clapton being the only obvious well known name when the band formed (ex Yardbirds -and before they had hit singles, and playing God in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers). Baker and Bruce had been the rhythm section of Graham Bond's Organ-Isation, Bruce had briefly played bass for Manfred Mann Band and Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Blind Faith was the band with which the term 'supergroup' first came to prominence in the UK music press. Baker and Clapton (ex Cream), Stevie Winwood (Spencer Davis Group , Traffic), Rick Grech (Family - when Chappo & Co were very big in the European rock scene). But I don't remember Derek & The Dominoes being called a supergroup - Clapton was attempting to submerge his personality as Derek. Duane Allman was on less than a fifth of the recordings released by D&tD - and don't forget George Harrison's Apple Jam band (on All Things Must Pass) was the Allman-less D&tD |
Posted By: Microfiction
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 00:12
Actually, on Deloused, Flea was credited as a band member, John was a guest. |
Posted By: Shane Wallace
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 02:18
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the super bands these days are no longer super ------------- To Seek the Sacred River Alph |
Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 02:23
| i saw hatfield listed, but what about natl health?????? |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 02:23
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My favorite supergroup is Transatlantic,but what about: The Tangent(Parallel or 90 Degrees,The Flower Kings,VDGG) Kino(Arena,Marillion,It Bites,Porcupine Tree) K2(Holdsworth,Ryo Okumoto,Shaun Guerin,Ken Jaquess,Doug Sanborn) haven't seen those mentioned yet -------------  |
Posted By: M. B. Zapelini
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 07:38
A CORRECTION: Tony Carey played keyboards on "Stargazer" (studio version, "Rainbow Rising") and David Stone, on "Gates of Babylon" (studio version, "Long Live Rock'n'Roll). Are you talking about live versions? I would love to hear, never found any, with the exception of a live "Stargazer" at Castle Donnington 1980 Festival album. BTW, I love Colosseum 2 and UK too. Congratulations! |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 07:44
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IMO a supergroup is defined as a group of musicians that normally play in other bands of high reputation and get together to form the supergroup as a project (but they don't abandon their regular bands for it).
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 09:55
Niacin is a good one Mike,I didn't even think about them. Dennis Chambers is a HUGE drum influence for me!!!!!!! ------------- |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: August 12 2005 at 20:08
| Transatlantic have to be a joke..absolutely appalling. |
Posted By: Pseud0
Date Posted: August 12 2005 at 20:37
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gordian knot = vewy vewy good
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Posted By: SonicTemple
Date Posted: August 12 2005 at 21:37
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The Tangent is an amazing super group.....the best and most successful i my opinion ------------- Fire Woman, your to blame! |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 05:41
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Matching Mole King Crimson Mach III....Wetton, Bruford and Fripp Mike and the Mechanics....well, super in theory, awful in execution! ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 17:57
| Transatlantic are a joke, i downloaded a live album, listened to it and binned it, utter drivel. King Crimson in a later form can't really be construed a super group, after all they changed personal more times than women change their knickers. The original supergroup are/were ELP. But to throw a wee name in the hat, how about Stomu Yamashta's Go. Winwood, Schulze, Al Dimeola, Michael Shreeve. |
Posted By: JedHead
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 00:43
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Um? Anyone here want to mention Ayreon or Star One?
How about we just take a look at who has been in Ayreon, shall we?
Edward Reekers (Kayak), Lenny Wolf (Kingdom Come), Robert Soeterbroek, Jan-Chris De Koeijer, Ian Parry (Vengeance), Barry Hay (Golden Earring), Jan van Feggelen, Leon Goewie, Ruud Houweling, Lucie Hillen, Mirjam van Doorn, Debby Schreuder, Robert Soeterbeek, Okkie Huysden, Cleem Determeijer, Rene Merkelenbach, Fish, Damien Wilson (Threshold), Sharon Den Adel, Anneke van Giersbergen, Edwin Balogh, Johan Edlund (Tiamat), Floor Jansen (After Forever) , Lana Lane, Mouse (Tuesday Child), Jacqueline Govaert (Krezip), Neal Morse (Spock's Beard, Transatlantic), Mark McCrite (Rocket Scientists), Russel Allen (Symphony X, Star One), Ralf Scheepers (ex-Gamma Ray, Primal Fear), Andi Deris (Helloween), Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden), Fabio Leone (Rhapsody), Timo Kotipelto (Stratovarius), Ian Parry (Vengeance, Elegy), Devon Graves (Pychotic Waltz, Deadsoul Tribe), Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad, The Devin Townsend Band), Eric Clayton (Saviour Machine), Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth, Bloodbath), Magnus Ekwall (The Quill), Heather Findlay (Mostly Autumn), Irene Jansen (Karma, Star One), James LaBrie (Dream Theater, Mullmuzzler), Marcela Bovio (Elfonia) and Mike Baker (Shadow Gallery).
Yeah, and that is just the vocalist list. ------------- The good cop and the bad cop left for the day. I'm a different kind of cop. |
Posted By: DavidInsabella
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 13:28
------------- Life seemed to him merely like a gallery of how to be. 
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Posted By: jitu
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 13:54
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what is 'SUPERGROUP' by the way? ------------- 
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Posted By: floydaholic
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 14:23
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Asia Yes ELP Cream Funk Brothers Mahavishnu Orchestra HLS Dream Theater There are tons ------------- I'll see you on the Darkside of the moon... |
Posted By: Starette
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 14:27
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A Pefect Circle= gorgeous. ------------- 50 tonne angel falls to the earth... |
Posted By: TURK182!
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 14:52
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I Totally agree with you jitu, did someone can define me what's a supergroup? Because for me it's a group who is VERY POPULAR like Rolling Stones, Beattles, Pink Floyd, etc. Am I wrong? ------------- "A Flower!!!" "If you go down to Willow farm, you look for Butterflies..." |
Posted By: pogoowner
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 15:07
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My favorites: Gordian Knot OSI Transatlantic The Jelly Jam LTE
------------- And it might as well be raining, 'cause the sunlight hurts his eyes, And his ears will never hear the children's cries |
Posted By: Publius
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 15:28
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Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains! ------------- I'm so prog, I clap in 9/8 |
Posted By: Sam Fire
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 15:44
Just a little! |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 15:59
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Liquid Tension Experiment. Downloaded one track from forum and was quite impressed. Worth exploring further? ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |