I listened to The Faces "A nod is ..." enjoying the music quite a lot and I realised that the Faces were a kind of super group of their days; 1/2 small faces, 1/2 Jeff Beck group. Sometimes wellknown musicians forming a band together can result in great music. So Keith Richards' theory about band formation, you know the "seeing the cracks in the assemblage of the Led Zep" isn't 100% right. Are there other examples of successful "superbands" and also less successful ones.
Rock and Roll,
Mops

Bad Company were very successfull in fact more so than Free, Mott and Crimson.

Blind Faith

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The Dirty Mac...............Still dig them

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The Traveling Wilburys.

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Cream, the original supergroup
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
West, Bruce and Laing (sold a few records anyway)
Asia (sold a ton of lousy records)

Led Zeppelin wasn't really a supergroup because Plant and Bonham were nobodies at the time they formed.

Well these "nobodies" were already in a band together called 'Band of Joy', here's Robbie & Bonzo pre-Zep...

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Now, I like Cream, but have never got the 'super-group' tag they have been labelled with. Clapton was well-known as a result of his stints with the Yardbirds and the Bluesbreakers, but Baker and Bruce were not exactly filling the pages of the teen magazines and the NME. Baker had been with the commercially unsuccessful Blues Incorporated and Bruce was Manfred Man's bassist for 5 minutes.

Souther Hillman Furay
American Flyer
GRT
KGB

Who am I forgetting....

Willie & The Poor Boys.

GTR
Power Station
Mike & the Mechanics



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them crooked vultures



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A super group is a group that contains only band members that were previous well know and had a great history in music.

As for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (a super group), they all could write, sing and play their instruments but after all they were 4 solo artist in one band, but I love them.

Cream was a Group that were super but not a Super group.

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The original Fleetwood Mac were all respected musicians.

ELP

The truly lousy Power Station.

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With Palmer yes, with Powell not so "super"

No-one's mentioned The Highwaymen. [en.wikipedia.org]

asia

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The original Fleetwood Mac were all respected musicians.

Jeremy Spencer wasn't that well known.

Great collection of artists, but how and why was Dan Aykroyd involved in this???





Also outstanding:

damn yankees

The Texas Tornadoes!

Do Velvet Revolver qualify? Even in the loosest sense.

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Well these "nobodies" were already in a band together called 'Band of Joy', here's Robbie & Bonzo pre-Zep...

yes they recorded stuff before zeppelin but plant and bonham were nobodies

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Great collection of artists, but how and why was Dan Aykroyd involved in this???

as a member of The Blues Brothers, he had something to his name that most of the rest of them never had....a number 1 album.

The Highwaymen (Cash, Jennings, Kristofferson, Nelson)

The Hindu Love Gods (Warren Zevon and 3/4 of REM (all except Stipe)

Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt made a couple of albums together

When I hear "supergoup" the first thing I think of is the Damn Yankees. Loved them!