Supergroups

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Supergroup = incredible musicians, joining together. Record sales don't enter into it.

Maybe not record sales exactly, but there does have to be some popularity attached to it as well. The general populace has to recognize at least 2 of the members for them to be considdered "super" don't you think?

Sweet Pickle Salad:

Chris Robinson (Black Crowes) - vocals
Marc Ford (Black Crowes) - lead guitar
Craig Ross (Lenny Kravitz) - guitars
Andy Sturmer(Jellyfish) - drums
Jimmy Ashurst (Ju Ju Hounds) - bass
Roger Manning (Jellyfish) - keyboards

group/sessions happened after the "Tall" sessions ended and before the "Amorica" session began, about February, 1994 in Los Angeles. Demo never officially released... but should have been!!!!!!


It can be found on the www, though.......

chewie wrote:

Sweet Pickle Salad:

Chris Robinson (Black Crowes) - vocals
Marc Ford (Black Crowes) - lead guitar
Craig Ross (Lenny Kravitz) - guitars
Andy Sturmer(Jellyfish) - drums
Jimmy Ashurst (Ju Ju Hounds) - bass
Roger Manning (Jellyfish) - keyboards

group/sessions happened after the "Tall" sessions ended and before the "Amorica" session began, about February, 1994 in Los Angeles. Demo never officially released... but should have been!!!!!!


It can be found on the www, though.......

I'm a Jellyfish fan...I'll look into this...

Bad Company

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

chewie wrote:

Sweet Pickle Salad:

Chris Robinson (Black Crowes) - vocals
Marc Ford (Black Crowes) - lead guitar
Craig Ross (Lenny Kravitz) - guitars
Andy Sturmer(Jellyfish) - drums
Jimmy Ashurst (Ju Ju Hounds) - bass
Roger Manning (Jellyfish) - keyboards

group/sessions happened after the "Tall" sessions ended and before the "Amorica" session began, about February, 1994 in Los Angeles. Demo never officially released... but should have been!!!!!!


It can be found on the www, though.......

I'm a Jellyfish fan...I'll look into this...

Same here. I gotta hear this.

Not exactly supergroups but both feature multiple big names in metal:

Avantasia
Ayreon
Probot
Northern Kings

Supergroups by the accepted definition:

Liquid Tension Experiment
Platypus
S.O.D.
Asia
Transatlantic

In Christian rock you have The Lost Dogs (imo better than either The Choir, The 77's, Daniel Amos, or Adam Again)

And of course in country you have The Highwaymen (Cash, Willie, Kristopherson, & Jennings)

For AOR fans you can include (lots of people around here would not listen to these even if you paid them):

Damn Yankees
Bad English
Place Vendome
Sunstorm
Brazen Abbot
Mr. Big
Badlands

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Place Vendome
Sunstorm
Brazen Abbot

I would say these don't count mainly because they were "put together" projects to showcase the singers involved (in the case of Place Vendome and Sunstorm) or the guitarist's songs (Brazen Abbot)...not actual bands.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

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Supergroup = incredible musicians, joining together. Record sales don't enter into it.

Maybe not record sales exactly, but there does have to be some popularity attached to it as well. The general populace has to recognize at least 2 of the members for them to be considdered "super" don't you think?

Yes I agree, The Firm had Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers, and they were considered a 'super group', Chris Slade had played Uriah Heep among others, and Tony Franklin was an unknown as far as I know, neither Slade or Franklin were household names.

Bloodbath
Hail of Bullets

I also love the album Glenn Tipton did with Cozy Powell and John Entwhistle!

Let's pretend that we assemble a supergroup of 80's titans:

Dave Mustaine, Gary Holt, Kerry King, Frank Bello & Lars.

These guys are known to metalheads...but to the general public they are nobodies, people might recognize the band names, but not the guys themselves. Their record sales really aren't that impressive put up against your standard pop artist. Taylor Swift laughs at their sales figures.

This WOULD be considered a supergroup however.

Shawn D. wrote:

Let's pretend that we assemble a supergroup of 80's titans:

Dave Mustaine, Gary Holt, Kerry King, Frank Bello & Lars.

These guys are known to metalheads...but to the general public they are nobodies, people might recognize the band names, but not the guys themselves. Their record sales really aren't that impressive put up against your standard pop artist. Taylor Swift laughs at their sales figures.

This WOULD be considered a supergroup however.

And we would all make fun of Lars as the weak link in the band..........

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

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Place Vendome
Sunstorm
Brazen Abbot

I would say these don't count mainly because they were "put together" projects to showcase the singers involved (in the case of Place Vendome and Sunstorm) or the guitarist's songs (Brazen Abbot)...not actual bands.

Place Vendome and Sunstorm also feature members of PC69, that's why I included them.

Addy wrote:

Manny said:

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Traveling Wilburys was cool but that was more of fun then a serious project IMO.

I said:

Traveling Wilburys for the win

yep. I know they just wanted to jam but both of those albums are excellent. The way they harmonized together was something i wasnt sure they could accomplish when they said bob dylan and roy Orbison sang together...

exact33 wrote:

Addy wrote:

Manny said:

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Traveling Wilburys was cool but that was more of fun then a serious project IMO.

I said:

Traveling Wilburys for the win

yep. I know they just wanted to jam but both of those albums are excellent. The way they harmonized together was something i wasnt sure they could accomplish when they said bob dylan and roy Orbison sang together...

It is funny you said this, I have not listened to those Traveling Wilbury albums in 20 years, on a whim played their videos on Youtube and enjoyed the hell out of it, and agree great harmonizing

Temple of the Dog
Meathook Seed

Fat Freddy wrote:

Damn Yankees made it work...sorta... for a little while, anyway.

Both those albums are really good, though, so I'd say it worked.

Temple of Blood wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

chewie wrote:

Sweet Pickle Salad:

Chris Robinson (Black Crowes) - vocals
Marc Ford (Black Crowes) - lead guitar
Craig Ross (Lenny Kravitz) - guitars
Andy Sturmer(Jellyfish) - drums
Jimmy Ashurst (Ju Ju Hounds) - bass
Roger Manning (Jellyfish) - keyboards

group/sessions happened after the "Tall" sessions ended and before the "Amorica" session began, about February, 1994 in Los Angeles. Demo never officially released... but should have been!!!!!!


It can be found on the www, though.......

I'm a Jellyfish fan...I'll look into this...

Same here. I gotta hear this.

News to me, too. Found this link, though:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C9F2ONIM

With this note:



Sweet Pickle Salad
+ Bonus Tracks

Sweet Pickle Salad

1. One Man's Anger
2. Limits
3. Clothes and Food
4. State of the Notion

+ Bonus tracks from the Crowes:
5. The Things a Pretty Girl Will Make You Do (Lions sessions)
6. Don't Wake Me (SYMM sessions)
7. Stare It Cold (SYMM sessions)
8. Charming Mess (SYMM sessions)

haven't seen Down mentioned yet. that'd be a super group for sure. also, The Damned Things is another one.

Down is a good one...how about:

Bloodbath
OSI

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I don't consider Cream a super group because those musicians hadn't made a name on their own before they joined forces.

Eyesore wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Damn Yankees made it work...sorta... for a little while, anyway.

Both those albums are really good, though, so I'd say it worked.

me too.

exact33 wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Damn Yankees made it work...sorta... for a little while, anyway.

Both those albums are really good, though, so I'd say it worked.

me too.

ME THREE :joker:

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Platypus

The Jelly Jam too.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

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Platypus

The Jelly Jam too.

I guess we can also count Jughead (members of Dream Theater, King's X and DLR band) and Supershine (members of King's X and Trouble) too...

The more "supergroups" we name the more I think my point stands that they simply don't impress, as a rule.