[Music] Your favourite Super Group?

[vegster]

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?

Wilbury's for me too, the huge range of talent they had will probably never be equalled.

 

[dolphins]

Added to the above excellent suggestions, I submit: Them Crooked Vultures!

 

[maffew]

Ram Trilogy

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Bad Company

 

[Robinjakarta]

Cream. Three of the greatest at what they did, and Disraeli Gears sounds as good now as it did in 1967. Agree though that the Traveling Wilburys were great.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Jumpin' Jack Flash / Young Blood - Leon Russell (George Harrison's Concert For Bangladesh) 1971
Featuring:
George Harrison, Leon Russell, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Jim Keltner, Don Preston, Klaus Voormann, Carl Radle and the band Badfinger Along with Others!

 

[Live by the sea]

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

When Palmer pulled out of the tour to record his own album ! Odd behaviour even for a Rock star .

 

[METALMICKY]

I give you Chickenfoot. They released released two studio albums, one live album, and one box set. Now defunct as Chad Smith too busy with RHCP and Satriani with his solo career

Joe Satriani
Michael Anthony
Chad Smith
Sammy Hagar

 

[Live by the sea]

Found this clip on Twitter hence the link

Queen fronted by George Michael . Probably the only other male singer who could carry a Queen song as well as Freddie .

 

[Nitram]

Cream.

This album is another claim, by Jeff Beck is a ‘reverse’ super group, featuring the relatively unknowns Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, prior to Faces incarnation.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

If some of the bands mentioned on here are "sper groups" then l'm a Dutchman.

However l now feel that l can mention the Motors, a kind of pre-punk band that only lasted for a couple of years in the late 1970's, but l loved the music that they produced.

Most of their material was written by the underrated Andy McMaster and Nick Garvey of ex Duxe Delux fame. Guitarist Bram Tchaikovsky an drummer Rick Slaughter made up the band.

 

[ozzygull]

Genesis

Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford (Mike and the Mechanics), Steve Hackett and Tony Banks.

 

[Soton Seagull]

The Raconteurs.

Last Shadow Puppets

 

[ManOfSussex]

Electronic.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

FFS, Franz Ferdinand and Sparks.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Good shout

Electronic.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Whitesnake were, at times, a kind of supergroup. Up to the early 90s most of the lengthy list of band members all had significant pedigree elsewhere.

 

[Icy Gull]

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!

You have reminded me of another - Manassas. Have to disagree re CSN and CSNY though. Dejavu is up there with my all time favourite albums. There are some brilliant tracks on CSN but quite a few are very twee imo

 

[Scappa]

Down


A Perfect Circle


Nailbomb


Mad Season

 

[Blue3]

supergroup being it’s members have all previously had success and are regarded as being superlative in their abilities and not a group of musicians who get together for a one off show be that as a tribute to an artist who has died or for the benefit of charity. Finally I think the musicians need to not rest on past greatness but to move the standards of music into new areas as such while I loved the Wilburys music it wasn’t transformative as was Led Zeppelin and to a slightly less a case Cream

With that in mind my super groups in order are

1. Led Zeppelin
2. Cream
3. The Travelling Wilburys
4. CSN
5. The Band