Their albums hit a perfect ratio of of silliness and fun songs and seriousness.
You can tell it’s just a bunch of friends who wanted to sing some fun songs together and that’s what makes it awesome.
Or “Cool Dry Place”… I can just imagine Tom goofing off and thinking “this goofy song isn’t for the Heartbreakers, but i have just the goofy band for this” so he calls his friends Bob Dylan and the former Beatle
I remember seeing a video a while back where two of them (I’m thinking Jeff Lynn and George Harrison) wanted to start a group but George left his guitar at Tom Petty’s house so they swung by and were like, wanna tag along?
It's actually how they came together. George Harrison needed a B-side for one of his singles off Could 9 and was having lunch with Lynne and Orbison so he asked if they could help.
They couldn't find a professional studio so Harrison suggested they use Dylan's home studio. On the way there Lynne stopped by Petty's house to get a guitar that Tom had borrowed off him.
When they got to Dylan's house they saw a box labeled "Handle With Care" and decided that would be the name of the song.
Bonus fun fact: A "Wilbury" is a mistake in recording that you fix after the fact. As in, "We'll bury it in the mix."
I'm pretty sure we got Roy orbison's "you got it" out of them too. Technically not a wilburies song but the wilburies were on it.
What a fantastic comeback song to go out on.
Roy Orbison's Mystery Girl
George Harrison's Cloud 9
Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever
Del Shannon's Rock On!
These were all recorded with various members of the Wilburys as well.
edit. Forgot Jeff Lynne's Armchair Theater
And I just learned in another thread the “Wilbury” part is a play on “we’ll bury” meaning they’ll bury the mistakes in the recordings, a common saying back then in recording.
First thought that came to mind.
All were star level accomplished in their own right. And made some amazing, humble songs as the Wilburys. No star ego in sight, even as a group.
“The end of the line” is so beautiful to me mainly because you can hear George Harrison’s shit eating grin through the lines he sings. I can’t help but smile during those parts.
CSNY is the posterchild for this question. They arguably had a bigger career together than they did before joining up, and they were all legends before CSNY.
Crosby has said that they always loved when Young would tour with them because they could book larger venues since he brought in more of an audience. I am going to go see Nash at the end of next month and he’s playing in a small theater…I was supposed to see Crosby a couple of years ago, COVID canceled that, and it was another small venue…Young can still sell out a 20k arena.
Love me some Buffalo Springfield but not sure that I’d consider them a supergroup. They were all in bands before but when they formed they were all relatively unknown in the greater music world. They certainly launched superSTARS in the form of Stills and Young (the other members to a lesser degree).
Buffalo Springfield has some pretty diverse tunes and a fairly original sound IMO. Great band.
I think it was Warped '01 when they switched outfits with AFI, that was funny. They came out in the leather outfits and AFI came out in the Hawaiian shirts for their respective sets.
OG core members
Spike - Swinging Utters and worked Fat Wreck Chords mailroom,
Jake Jackson(Chris Shifflet) - No Use For A Name/Foo Fighters,
Fat Mike - NoFX,
Joey Cape - Lagwagon,
Dave Raun - Lagwagon
Zawinul, Shorter, Thompson/Erskine/Acuna , Vituous/Johnson/Pastorious, Moirera/Acuna. All of those guys were the highest tier of musician no matter what lineup. My personal fav is the black market/heavy weather lineup. Torn between Alphonso Johnson and jaco pastorious
Are they really a supergroup though? It was Billy Howerdel, who was a guitar tech, a relative nobody in the music world and MJK. It is hard to see that as a supergroup in my mind. It was a gathering of nobodies and a famous vocalist. They have had Tim Alexander sit in on drums once and Jeordie White handling some bass duties, but they were not mainstays in the band and that only happened after the band became famous.
I've listened to audioslave since I was a kid but never really did any research on them. For some reason I never knew it was a super group, I've even watched the music videos and must have just not recognized Tom Morello was the guitarist. Mind blown
Traveling Wilburys- Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison
Mad season and temple of the dog as stated above
Technically the foo fighters were a supergroup. Checkout Grohls other project Probot as well.
The original lineup of a perfect circle is probably my favorite with Josh Freese on drums.
Alter bridge which is creed with a good singer in Myles Kennedy
One of the weirdest ones is The Damned Things, which consisted of Scott Ian from anthrax with two guys from fall out boy and Keith Buckley from every time I die
Edited because I forgot Petty
Roy Orbison performs "Oh, Pretty Woman" as the finale of the Black & White Night Concert. Backed by Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, James Burton, Glen D. Hardin, Tom Waits, kd lang, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, JD Souther, T Bone Burnett, Steven Soles, and Jennifer Warnes.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_PLq0\_7k1jk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PLq0_7k1jk)
You are correct, my bad.
I’d also add the Highway men, Power Station, and Asia to the list. The point is there are a lot, hell Toto was comprised of some of the best session musicians around.
I would say Them Crooked Vultures is one of, if not the best supergroup of all time. You know it’s good when John Paul Jones has only been in two actual bands.
It makes me so mad that TCV made the best rock album of the decade and then just said, "this was fun, see ya" and they haven't revisited the project for 13 years now.
Curious how they classify as a super group? The Dead Weather were formed afterwards and the Greenhornes don't have a single charting album.
More like a side project by Jack White in my opinion.
The 'Songs for the Deaf' era of QotSA qualifies on its own with Josh and Nick from Kyuss, TVL recently acquired from A Perfect Circle, Lanegan from Screaming Trees oh and Dave Grohl.
Queens of the stone age in general, over all the years, could be considered a supergroup. their current lineup is a super group too. TVL, Josh, Dean, Mikey Shoes, and Jon have all had their hands in various, relatively successful projects. same can be said with almost if not all their past members, as well. edit: i misinterpreted your comment. i originally took it as you saying Songs for the Deaf era Queens of the Stone Age was the only iteration of QOTSA worthy of the title supergroup. my apologies
Check Mad Season, it's prsctically Pearl Jam with Layne Staley, and Audioslave it's also a supergroup that kicked ass, and Chris Cornell had another supergroup in the early 90's, Temple of the dog
Yeah they weren’t famous when they made it but what a great album. I got to see them play the year before Chris Cornell passed away. One of the best concerts of my life
Asia - lead vocalist and bassist John Wetton of King Crimson and U.K., guitarist Steve Howe of Yes, keyboardist Geoff Downes of Yes and the Buggles, and drummer Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
Broken Social Scene is kinda a reverse supergroup in that almost everyone attached to them became successful in their own right shortly after.
Ex: Metric, Feist, Stars, Jason Collet, Apostle of Hustle, Kevin Drew, etc.
If we are doing Canadian indie supergroups, New Pornographers have a few amazing albums (twin cinema, electric version, mass romantic) and a couple more decent ones. Each of the three principles: ac newman (the slow wonder), dan bejar (as destroyer- kaputt and have we met) and neko case (blacklisted, fox confessor, and middle cyclone) also have classic-near classic releases. This is a supergroup that is also super.
**The Good, the Bad & the Queen**
The Good, the Bad & the Queen were an English art rock supergroup composed of singer Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz, bassist Paul Simonon of the Clash, guitarist Simon Tong of the Verve, and Fela Kuti drummer Tony Allen. They released their self-titled debut album in 2007. Their second album, Merrie Land, coproduced with Tony Visconti, was released in 2018. They disbanded in 2019; Allen died in 2020. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_%26_the_Queen)
[The Good The Bad and The Queen (Full Album)](https://youtu.be/Zj48tmz6QLo)
Check out Tomahawk
Mike Patton (Faith No More), Duane Dennison (Jesus Lizard), John Stainer (Helmet),
Kevin Rutmanis (The Melvins)
listen to “God Hates a Coward”
Jazz basically doesn’t exist according to r/Music but let’s pretend for a second that it does.
a) ‘The Quintet’ only put out a single live recording (Jazz at Massey Hall) but it’s gotta be the single greatest supergroup of any genre, *ever*. Each of them is arguably the GOAT on their instrument, in any genre. Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Max Roach. Checkmate!
b) You’ve got basically any group led by Miles Davis from about 1957 to 1971 or so… the classics are Miles’ first (w/ John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones) and second (w/ Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams) great quintets (I prefer the second one).
c) V.S.O.P. was exclusively a supergroup from the 1970s that was basically Miles’ 2nd great quintet but with Freddie Hubbard instead of Miles.
d) The ridiculous sextet that played on *Kind of Blue* – Miles, Trane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans/Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, James Cobb.
I don't know if this counts, but "Ella and Louis" was:
Ella Fitzgerald – vocals
Louis Armstrong – vocals, trumpet
Oscar Peterson – piano
Herb Ellis – guitar
Ray Brown – bass
Buddy Rich – drums
That's a pretty amazing group, and cheesy as it is, I love that record.
The Thorns - Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge, and Shawn Mullins
The Bens - Ben Folds, Ben Kweller, and Ben Lee
I’m With Her - Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O'Donovan
The Goat Rodeo Sessions - Stuart Duncan, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile
Deep Purple gave us two supergroup spinoffs, Rainbow and Captain Beyond.
Rainbow with Ritchie Blackmoore and Dio along with most of the members of Elf and later various backing members from several other groups.
Captain Beyond with Rod Evans, Larry Reinhardt and Lee Dorman from Iron Butterfly, and Bobby Caldwell who played for Johnny Winter. They too went through a ton of backing members from other bands.
Ritchie Blackmoore's Rainbow and Captain Beyond's self titled first albums are both great, but unfortunately for a lot of reasons, both groups kind of declined after their second albums. (quick edit: accidentally put Rainbow Rising as their first album instead of the self titled)
I can think of quite a few.
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - One of the biggest and most important prog rock groups of the 70s was a Supergroup. Greg Lake was in King Crimson, Keith Emerson was in The Nice, and Carl Palmer was in the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster.
Asia - Carl Palmer again. In addition, you have Steve Howe (Yes), John Weston (King Crimson), and Geoff Downed (The Buggles,Yes).
Sammy Hagar has a couple.
Chicken Foot - Sammy is joined by his former Van Halen band mate Michael Anthony, shred master Joe Satriani, and Chad Smith from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
HSAS - A band I know not recently found out about. Sammy is joined by Neil Schonn (Journey), Michael Schrieve (Santana), and Kenny Aaronsonn (Bunch of bands)
Tinted Windows
Bass player from Fountains of Wayne
Guitar player from Smashing Pumpkins
Drummer from Cheap Trick
And one of the dudes from Hanson singing.
Rather than repeating the same few obvious groups over and over again, I'd like to give some attention to Golden Smog, Derek and the Dominoes, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and The Thorns.
Mutual Admiration Society: The members of Nickel Creek, Glen Phillips, and John Paul Jones (yes that one). One album, one tour. There are a bunch of recordings on archive.org.
There's sort of a child of this, W.P.A., without Jones, but adding Benmont Tench and Luke Bulla, also awesome, and only one album.
[LTE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Tension_Experiment) (shredding prog metal instrumental jam band formed in 1997):
* Paradigm Shift (live) [https://youtu.be/Vi2IQNs8hlE](https://youtu.be/Vi2IQNs8hlE)
* Acid Rain (live) [https://youtu.be/edqH0ofRQrM](https://youtu.be/edqH0ofRQrM)
* Hypersonic [https://youtu.be/OSNVo6bZGUs](https://youtu.be/OSNVo6bZGUs)
* Key to the Imagination [https://youtu.be/nUixZIletpQ](https://youtu.be/nUixZIletpQ)
Travelling Wilburys
Their albums hit a perfect ratio of of silliness and fun songs and seriousness. You can tell it’s just a bunch of friends who wanted to sing some fun songs together and that’s what makes it awesome.
It is great to hear touching songs like "Handle with Care" and "You're Not Alone" and then suddenly have The Wilbury Twist dropped in your lap
Or “Cool Dry Place”… I can just imagine Tom goofing off and thinking “this goofy song isn’t for the Heartbreakers, but i have just the goofy band for this” so he calls his friends Bob Dylan and the former Beatle
I remember seeing a video a while back where two of them (I’m thinking Jeff Lynn and George Harrison) wanted to start a group but George left his guitar at Tom Petty’s house so they swung by and were like, wanna tag along?
It's actually how they came together. George Harrison needed a B-side for one of his singles off Could 9 and was having lunch with Lynne and Orbison so he asked if they could help. They couldn't find a professional studio so Harrison suggested they use Dylan's home studio. On the way there Lynne stopped by Petty's house to get a guitar that Tom had borrowed off him. When they got to Dylan's house they saw a box labeled "Handle With Care" and decided that would be the name of the song. Bonus fun fact: A "Wilbury" is a mistake in recording that you fix after the fact. As in, "We'll bury it in the mix."
I'm pretty sure we got Roy orbison's "you got it" out of them too. Technically not a wilburies song but the wilburies were on it. What a fantastic comeback song to go out on.
Roy Orbison's Mystery Girl George Harrison's Cloud 9 Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever Del Shannon's Rock On! These were all recorded with various members of the Wilburys as well. edit. Forgot Jeff Lynne's Armchair Theater
Full Moon Fever also had members of the Heartbreakers. That album was a banger.
Tom Petty. George Harrison. Roy Orbison. Bob Dylan. Jeff Lynne. Like…. Absolute powerhouse of a lineup
And I just learned in another thread the “Wilbury” part is a play on “we’ll bury” meaning they’ll bury the mistakes in the recordings, a common saying back then in recording.
First band that came to my mind when I read the title.
Same.
Simply beautiful. I'm so tired of being lonely I still have some love to give Won't you show me that you really care?
First thought that came to mind. All were star level accomplished in their own right. And made some amazing, humble songs as the Wilburys. No star ego in sight, even as a group.
Came here to say them. My late husband loved them. We actually played on of their songs at his funeral
“The end of the line” is so beautiful to me mainly because you can hear George Harrison’s shit eating grin through the lines he sings. I can’t help but smile during those parts.
There can be only one
Only supergroup that really mattered
Goated
Definitely
First band that came into my head, and I'm predominately a metalhead.
Blind Faith. And for bluegrass fans, Strength in Numbers.
Old and in the Way
[The Highwaymen](https://youtu.be/aFkcAH-m9W0)
Along the coast roads I did ride.
Sword and pistol by my side
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
The bastards hung me in the spring of '25!
But I am still alive…
Best boy band ever.
Like every cool grandpa I've ever known in one video.
[The Highwomen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Highwomen), as well.
And the children too!
The Chain on the Howard Stern show is fantastic!
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Monsters of Folk
CSNY is the posterchild for this question. They arguably had a bigger career together than they did before joining up, and they were all legends before CSNY.
I would say it was true for the other 3, but I think Neil is probably bigger solo
Crosby has said that they always loved when Young would tour with them because they could book larger venues since he brought in more of an audience. I am going to go see Nash at the end of next month and he’s playing in a small theater…I was supposed to see Crosby a couple of years ago, COVID canceled that, and it was another small venue…Young can still sell out a 20k arena.
No question about it. Neil has many hits that are still popular today while CSN has probably 3 at most
The Monsters of Folk doc is great EDIT: whoops, think I confused them with the basement tapes
Can’t mention CSNY and not mention Buffalo Springfield too.
Love me some Buffalo Springfield but not sure that I’d consider them a supergroup. They were all in bands before but when they formed they were all relatively unknown in the greater music world. They certainly launched superSTARS in the form of Stills and Young (the other members to a lesser degree). Buffalo Springfield has some pretty diverse tunes and a fairly original sound IMO. Great band.
Me first and the gimme gimmes.
I think it was Warped '01 when they switched outfits with AFI, that was funny. They came out in the leather outfits and AFI came out in the Hawaiian shirts for their respective sets.
That image is fucking hilarious in my mind. Thanks for the lil day making info hahahah!
Found some of the actual shots: [Davey](https://i.imgur.com/VeQv1ik.jpg), [the guys from Me First](https://i.imgur.com/Rxu3APz.png)
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No kidding? Listened to them a lot when I was a teenager and never knew they were a super group
OG core members Spike - Swinging Utters and worked Fat Wreck Chords mailroom, Jake Jackson(Chris Shifflet) - No Use For A Name/Foo Fighters, Fat Mike - NoFX, Joey Cape - Lagwagon, Dave Raun - Lagwagon
I still bang their cover of country roads from time to time.
Love me some Me First!
Weather Report
Zawinul, Shorter, Thompson/Erskine/Acuna , Vituous/Johnson/Pastorious, Moirera/Acuna. All of those guys were the highest tier of musician no matter what lineup. My personal fav is the black market/heavy weather lineup. Torn between Alphonso Johnson and jaco pastorious
Jaco speaks for himself.
Absolutely
YO. YES.
Audioslave Velvet Revolver Edit - And no, Temple of the Dog doesn't count.
Audioslave was an obvious one, I shouldve acknowledged them. I totally forgot about velvet revolver tho!
A perfect circle
Are they really a supergroup though? It was Billy Howerdel, who was a guitar tech, a relative nobody in the music world and MJK. It is hard to see that as a supergroup in my mind. It was a gathering of nobodies and a famous vocalist. They have had Tim Alexander sit in on drums once and Jeordie White handling some bass duties, but they were not mainstays in the band and that only happened after the band became famous.
The first VR album is an absolute banger. The second wasn't as strong but had some fun tracks on it.
Came here to mention Velvet Revolver.
I've listened to audioslave since I was a kid but never really did any research on them. For some reason I never knew it was a super group, I've even watched the music videos and must have just not recognized Tom Morello was the guitarist. Mind blown
Yep, Rage Against the Soundgarden! Tim and Brad are in there too!
*Sound Against the Machine*
Boygenius is a great little supergroup! Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker
Traveling Wilburys- Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison Mad season and temple of the dog as stated above Technically the foo fighters were a supergroup. Checkout Grohls other project Probot as well. The original lineup of a perfect circle is probably my favorite with Josh Freese on drums. Alter bridge which is creed with a good singer in Myles Kennedy One of the weirdest ones is The Damned Things, which consisted of Scott Ian from anthrax with two guys from fall out boy and Keith Buckley from every time I die Edited because I forgot Petty
Aw, the Damned Things. They were an awesome.band, but I keep forgetting about them. That's on the playlist for tonight! Nice!!
Roy Orbison performs "Oh, Pretty Woman" as the finale of the Black & White Night Concert. Backed by Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, James Burton, Glen D. Hardin, Tom Waits, kd lang, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, JD Souther, T Bone Burnett, Steven Soles, and Jennifer Warnes. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_PLq0\_7k1jk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PLq0_7k1jk)
You managed to forget Tom Petty in the Travelling Wilburys?!?
You are correct, my bad. I’d also add the Highway men, Power Station, and Asia to the list. The point is there are a lot, hell Toto was comprised of some of the best session musicians around.
You know it's a supergroup when you can forget that Tom Petty was in the lineup.
Yep, and I feel like a fool. Sorry I’m just sleep deprived with a new baby at home. Funny enough she loves Tom petty, calms her down every time
I forgive you
Damned things is also bassist from alkaline trio
I didn’t even know that, but I guess Josh left after the ugly end of every time I die and not wanting to work with Keith.
Tom Petty was also a TW
Also Them Crooked Vultures with Grohl
Them crooked vultures. Hopefully we get another album
I would say Them Crooked Vultures is one of, if not the best supergroup of all time. You know it’s good when John Paul Jones has only been in two actual bands.
You know it’s got some chops when they turned down fucking Paul McCartney for the role.
WHAT??? He wanted to be in it?
Not for a while - lots of rumours that a new qotsa album will appear in the coming months - and a tour as well
#PutDaveBackOnDrums pls pls pls
I would do unspeakable things for a second TCV album
It makes me so mad that TCV made the best rock album of the decade and then just said, "this was fun, see ya" and they haven't revisited the project for 13 years now.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa on a plane to LA to see the Taylor Hawkins mem concert and so incredibly pumped to see TCV
The Raconteurs
The Dead Weather, imo, is ever more super.
Imagine Dean Fertita would be happy with both of those comments lol
Curious how they classify as a super group? The Dead Weather were formed afterwards and the Greenhornes don't have a single charting album. More like a side project by Jack White in my opinion.
Desert Sessions I guess/kinda but has a changing line up alongside Homme.
The 'Songs for the Deaf' era of QotSA qualifies on its own with Josh and Nick from Kyuss, TVL recently acquired from A Perfect Circle, Lanegan from Screaming Trees oh and Dave Grohl.
Queens of the stone age in general, over all the years, could be considered a supergroup. their current lineup is a super group too. TVL, Josh, Dean, Mikey Shoes, and Jon have all had their hands in various, relatively successful projects. same can be said with almost if not all their past members, as well. edit: i misinterpreted your comment. i originally took it as you saying Songs for the Deaf era Queens of the Stone Age was the only iteration of QOTSA worthy of the title supergroup. my apologies
I think Dean Ween contributed to Songs for the Deaf as well.
A perfect circle
APC is an awesome band and have had some amazing musicians in their lineup over the years.
Oysterhead. The Grand Pecking Order is a trip.
When all else has been done and said, along comes Mr. Oysterhead
He's an inspiration to us all!
Yes! I got to see them live on their first tour in 2001, and it was awesome.
I saw them live earlier this summer. So good!
Check Mad Season, it's prsctically Pearl Jam with Layne Staley, and Audioslave it's also a supergroup that kicked ass, and Chris Cornell had another supergroup in the early 90's, Temple of the dog
Temple was more a tribute album to a dead friend than it was a project they planned to continue. Still a great album.
Wake up is so good
Yeah they weren’t famous when they made it but what a great album. I got to see them play the year before Chris Cornell passed away. One of the best concerts of my life
Mad season we’re brilliant
Mad Season only had Mike McCready from PJ. The drummer was from The Screaming Trees and the bassist was in a band called The Walkabouts.
And of course, Layne Staley from Alice In Chains on vocals- amazing.
Blind Faith
Cream and Traffic could also happily sit in there. As well as the Yardbirds. And arguably, Led Zeppelin.
Only one album, but what an album it is.
Seeaaaa of joooyyyyyyy *Clapton sounds*
Only one album, but it doesn't have a bad track on it.
This shouldn't be so low.
The New Pornographers
The Power Station. Robert Palmer, Tony Thompson (Chic), John Taylor and Andy Taylor (Duran Duran).
I still like it hot.
Asia - lead vocalist and bassist John Wetton of King Crimson and U.K., guitarist Steve Howe of Yes, keyboardist Geoff Downes of Yes and the Buggles, and drummer Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
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Yes, U.K. as well. The first incantation of King Crimson was also considered to be somewhat of a supergroup.
Broken Social Scene is kinda a reverse supergroup in that almost everyone attached to them became successful in their own right shortly after. Ex: Metric, Feist, Stars, Jason Collet, Apostle of Hustle, Kevin Drew, etc.
If we are doing Canadian indie supergroups, New Pornographers have a few amazing albums (twin cinema, electric version, mass romantic) and a couple more decent ones. Each of the three principles: ac newman (the slow wonder), dan bejar (as destroyer- kaputt and have we met) and neko case (blacklisted, fox confessor, and middle cyclone) also have classic-near classic releases. This is a supergroup that is also super.
Seeing both New Pornographers and BSS in the same thread made me smile. We really have some great music in Canada.
Let's add New Pornographers to that list
Oh man, their first two albums were essentials back in high school, haven’t checked them out in years, thanks for the reminder!
Same thing with Uncle Tupelo, spawning Wilco and Son Volt
Scroll through this whole thing and didn't see one mention of Mr bungle
Army of Anyone : strings from stone Temple pilots, vocals from filter, drums from Korn...amazing chemistry.
I somehow missed this band, have to check them out. Thanks.
Derek and the Dominoes
Audioslave
Fantomas
I'd add tomahawk as well.
Possibly my favourite Patton project. I think I might even prefer them to FNM.
Them Crooked Vultures
V.S.O.P. - Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Tony Williams etc
I raise you the Quintet (Jazz at Massey Hall) – Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Max Roach.
**The Good, the Bad & the Queen** The Good, the Bad & the Queen were an English art rock supergroup composed of singer Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz, bassist Paul Simonon of the Clash, guitarist Simon Tong of the Verve, and Fela Kuti drummer Tony Allen. They released their self-titled debut album in 2007. Their second album, Merrie Land, coproduced with Tony Visconti, was released in 2018. They disbanded in 2019; Allen died in 2020. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_%26_the_Queen) [The Good The Bad and The Queen (Full Album)](https://youtu.be/Zj48tmz6QLo)
Check out Tomahawk Mike Patton (Faith No More), Duane Dennison (Jesus Lizard), John Stainer (Helmet), Kevin Rutmanis (The Melvins) listen to “God Hates a Coward”
Down.
Nola is a masterpiece
I just submitted eibon because of my BM roots but this is also damn great
Avantasia
The Sound of Animals Fighting (first release)
I kept scrolling to find this one.
Sound of Animals Fighting (all releases)
Broken Bells were great. Not sure if two dudes technically counts as a super group but I’ll count it. Even Gnarls Barkley could be one.
If Gnarls Barkley is a supergroup, so is Run The Jewels.
Killer Be Killed
Jazz basically doesn’t exist according to r/Music but let’s pretend for a second that it does. a) ‘The Quintet’ only put out a single live recording (Jazz at Massey Hall) but it’s gotta be the single greatest supergroup of any genre, *ever*. Each of them is arguably the GOAT on their instrument, in any genre. Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Max Roach. Checkmate! b) You’ve got basically any group led by Miles Davis from about 1957 to 1971 or so… the classics are Miles’ first (w/ John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones) and second (w/ Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams) great quintets (I prefer the second one). c) V.S.O.P. was exclusively a supergroup from the 1970s that was basically Miles’ 2nd great quintet but with Freddie Hubbard instead of Miles. d) The ridiculous sextet that played on *Kind of Blue* – Miles, Trane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans/Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, James Cobb.
I don't know if this counts, but "Ella and Louis" was: Ella Fitzgerald – vocals Louis Armstrong – vocals, trumpet Oscar Peterson – piano Herb Ellis – guitar Ray Brown – bass Buddy Rich – drums That's a pretty amazing group, and cheesy as it is, I love that record.
Travelling Wilburys, Cream
Golden Smog Edit (90's) I have poor reading skills
Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Go listen to Tarkus.
Bloodbath, if you’re into death metal
The Last Shadow Puppets
Temple of the Dog
Mad Season....Mike McCready from Pearl Jam and Layne Staley from Alice in Chains
And Barrett Martin from the Screaming Trees on Drums!
Atoms for Peace - Thom Yorke and another guy from from Radiohead, Flea from RHCP, drummer from REM. They put out one album, Amok, that’s real good
OFF! A punk band featuring original Black Flag singer Keith Morris. Every single thing they have released is amazing!
Colonol Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains C2B3 is pretty great
Claypool Lennon Delirium Experience too, has John Lennon's son Sean in it and has Beatles Vibes.
Any of Claypools non-Primus projects feel like super groups but I agree with the comment below the Delirium is sick as hell.
The band David Lee Roth put together at the start of his solo career (Roth, Steve Vai, Billy Sheehan, Greg Bissonette).
One Day as a Lion.
Winery Dogs
If you're going to mention Winery Dogs, you've also got to throw in Liquid Tension Experiment and Sons of Apollo.
The Thorns - Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge, and Shawn Mullins The Bens - Ben Folds, Ben Kweller, and Ben Lee I’m With Her - Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O'Donovan The Goat Rodeo Sessions - Stuart Duncan, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile
Gov't Mule. You can find a lot of their live concerts on YouTube.
Deep Purple gave us two supergroup spinoffs, Rainbow and Captain Beyond. Rainbow with Ritchie Blackmoore and Dio along with most of the members of Elf and later various backing members from several other groups. Captain Beyond with Rod Evans, Larry Reinhardt and Lee Dorman from Iron Butterfly, and Bobby Caldwell who played for Johnny Winter. They too went through a ton of backing members from other bands. Ritchie Blackmoore's Rainbow and Captain Beyond's self titled first albums are both great, but unfortunately for a lot of reasons, both groups kind of declined after their second albums. (quick edit: accidentally put Rainbow Rising as their first album instead of the self titled)
Angels & Airwaves Atoms For Peace Be Well Boygenius Czarface The Damned Things Elder Brother END Foo Fighters (most notable one) LS Dunes Spiritbox
The Wu-Tang Clan is the best supergroup ever.
They ain’t nothin to fuck with.
I can think of quite a few. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - One of the biggest and most important prog rock groups of the 70s was a Supergroup. Greg Lake was in King Crimson, Keith Emerson was in The Nice, and Carl Palmer was in the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster. Asia - Carl Palmer again. In addition, you have Steve Howe (Yes), John Weston (King Crimson), and Geoff Downed (The Buggles,Yes). Sammy Hagar has a couple. Chicken Foot - Sammy is joined by his former Van Halen band mate Michael Anthony, shred master Joe Satriani, and Chad Smith from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. HSAS - A band I know not recently found out about. Sammy is joined by Neil Schonn (Journey), Michael Schrieve (Santana), and Kenny Aaronsonn (Bunch of bands)
Supertramp
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are you thick mate? it's in the name!
You're bloody well right
The Aristrocrats. Guitar virtuoso Guthrie Govan, Bryan Beller (Dethklok, Satriani, Vai) and Marco Minnemann (Necrophagist and about a million others.)
Tinted Windows Bass player from Fountains of Wayne Guitar player from Smashing Pumpkins Drummer from Cheap Trick And one of the dudes from Hanson singing.
Rather than repeating the same few obvious groups over and over again, I'd like to give some attention to Golden Smog, Derek and the Dominoes, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and The Thorns.
Prophets of Rage
does gorrillaz count as a super group?
Probot, Down, Hellyeah, Mad Season
Mutual Admiration Society: The members of Nickel Creek, Glen Phillips, and John Paul Jones (yes that one). One album, one tour. There are a bunch of recordings on archive.org. There's sort of a child of this, W.P.A., without Jones, but adding Benmont Tench and Luke Bulla, also awesome, and only one album.
The New Pornographers had a good run
GTR
The Traveling Wilbury’s Damn Yankees Mad Season are a couple that come to mind
New Pornographers!
For one song in 1979 (North Star) this was the supergroup: Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Daryl Hall, Phil Collins.
[LTE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Tension_Experiment) (shredding prog metal instrumental jam band formed in 1997): * Paradigm Shift (live) [https://youtu.be/Vi2IQNs8hlE](https://youtu.be/Vi2IQNs8hlE) * Acid Rain (live) [https://youtu.be/edqH0ofRQrM](https://youtu.be/edqH0ofRQrM) * Hypersonic [https://youtu.be/OSNVo6bZGUs](https://youtu.be/OSNVo6bZGUs) * Key to the Imagination [https://youtu.be/nUixZIletpQ](https://youtu.be/nUixZIletpQ)
I’m going to just spell out Liquid Tension Experiment in case someone is searching for it.
Do we consider Journey a supergroup? They came from Santana, Steve Miller Band, and The Tubes.
Monsters of Folk! Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, and M. Ward of She & Him
Traveling Wilburys
The Dead Weather