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

yeah i'd say since they were all from multi platinum hit making backgrounds they might be the best example there is.

a slightly successful super BLUE MURDER featuring john sykes, carmine appice and tony franklin. speaking of carmine what about BBA and DBA

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The Highwaymen (Cash, Jennings, Kristofferson, Nelson)

As I said earlier...

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

To me, Humble Pie was super- but to the average folk, they may not have been heard of. Marriot- Small Faces, Frampton- Herd, Ridley- Spooky Tooth.

Then also VH1's Divas Live special in 1998:
Mariah Carey, Céline Dion, Gloria Estefan, Aretha Franklin, Carole King.

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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.

Crosby played in The Byrds.

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

yeah i'd say since they were all from multi platinum hit making backgrounds they might be the best example there is.

a slightly successful super BLUE MURDER featuring john sykes, carmine appice and tony franklin. speaking of carmine what about BBA and DBA

I have only heard of Nugent...

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To me, Humble Pie was super- but to the average folk, they may not have been heard of. Marriot- Small Faces, Frampton- Herd, Ridley- Spooky Tooth.

Depends what country. I'm sure that nearly all pop / rock fans in the UK in 1969 knew who Marriot & Frampton were.

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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.

Crosby played in The Byrds.

Nash from the Hollies and Stills and Young from Buffalo Springfield. CSNY you can without doubt consider as a Super Group.

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Do Velvet Revolver qualify? Even in the loosest sense.

Sure why not?

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

yeah i'd say since they were all from multi platinum hit making backgrounds they might be the best example there is.

a slightly successful super BLUE MURDER featuring john sykes, carmine appice and tony franklin. speaking of carmine what about BBA and DBA

I have only heard of Nugent...

tommy shaw is from STYX, a multiplatinum act in the 70's and early 80's known for their hits "lady", "best of times", "come sail away", "babe", "renegade", "mr roboto" and "show me the way". jack blades is from night ranger who were a popular band from the early-late 80's. they were best known for their songs "don't tell me you love me", "sister christian, "you can still rock in america" and "when you close your eyes".

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

yeah i'd say since they were all from multi platinum hit making backgrounds they might be the best example there is.

a slightly successful super BLUE MURDER featuring john sykes, carmine appice and tony franklin. speaking of carmine what about BBA and DBA

I have only heard of Nugent...

tommy shaw is from STYX, a multiplatinum act in the 70's and early 80's known for their hits "lady", "best of times", "come sail away", "babe", "renegade", "mr roboto" and "show me the way". jack blades is from night ranger who were a popular band from the early-late 80's. they were best known for their songs "don't tell me you love me", "sister christian, "you can still rock in america" and "when you close your eyes".

Damn Yankees were Damn good. This was thier big hit.

Bad English, Audioslave

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Bad English, Audioslave

nice. i forgot both of those were supergroups

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

Sure, Plant and Bonham were already in a band together, but that band wasn't particularly well-known in England and was unheard of in the States.

Little Village (John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, Jim Keltner ) had an amazing line up, but was not so successful. They only released one album in 1992 that peaked at 66 in the charts.

HSAS (Hagar, Schon, Aaronson, and Shrieve ) was a 1984 side project for Journey guitarist Neal Schon, with a pre-Van Halen Sammy Hagar, Santana drummer Michael Shrieve, and Kenny Aaronson. Their cover of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" was in MTV rotation for awhile.


I guess the Faces were a supergroup, but my line about them has always been that the were a "Supergroup in Reverse" when you consider that when they split Woody became a Stone, Kenney joined The Who, Mac played with the Stones, Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce, etc., and Rod continued his successful solo career.

And Ronnie Lane's outstanding solo work is like buried treasure still waiting for the world to discover.



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Bad English, Audioslave

Bad English was the loudest show I ever attended. Saw them in 1989 and my ears were ringing for the next 3 days.

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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

1. The Rolling Stones.

Keith knows that, Mick doesn't care.

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

yeah i'd say since they were all from multi platinum hit making backgrounds they might be the best example there is.

a slightly successful super BLUE MURDER featuring john sykes, carmine appice and tony franklin. speaking of carmine what about BBA and DBA

I have only heard of Nugent...

tommy shaw is from STYX, a multiplatinum act in the 70's and early 80's known for their hits "lady", "best of times", "come sail away", "babe", "renegade", "mr roboto" and "show me the way". jack blades is from night ranger who were a popular band from the early-late 80's. they were best known for their songs "don't tell me you love me", "sister christian, "you can still rock in america" and "when you close your eyes".

Totally unknown for me.

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"mr roboto"

HA HA

What a bizarre "tune"

The Master Musicians of Jajouka and Brian Jones.
Doesn't qualify in the traditional sense, but super to my ears.

...oh, and after 2 pages of posts, i'm shocked that no one has thought of, or volunteered SUPERHEAVY, given it is 3 or 5 separate threads going at last count.

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...oh, and after 2 pages of posts, i'm shocked that no one has thought of, or volunteered SUPERHEAVY, given it is 3 or 5 separate threads going at last count.

Seems like the obvious, low-hanging fruit that no one picked because it was the (unspoken ) catalyst for the topic.

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...oh, and after 2 pages of posts, i'm shocked that no one has thought of, or volunteered SUPERHEAVY, given it is 3 or 5 separate threads going at last count.

Seems like the obvious, low-hanging fruit that no one picked because it was the (unspoken ) catalyst for the topic.

Low hanging fruit that is ignored, tends to spoil.

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...oh, and after 2 pages of posts, i'm shocked that no one has thought of, or volunteered SUPERHEAVY, given it is 3 or 5 separate threads going at last count.

they weren't mentioned because they thread says successful and they haven't played a show or released an album yet

Beck, Bogert and Appice: Jeff Beck and the Vanilla Fudge rhythm section. Without a doubt, their lone studio album is the worst studio album on which Beck is a featured player. No wonder he went the instrumental route afterwards.

what about this one ?
[fistfulofmercy.com]
harper, arthur, harrison

What about super duos? - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - a rock and a country legend.

Elton John and Leon Russell.

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Beck, Bogert and Appice: Jeff Beck and the Vanilla Fudge rhythm section. Without a doubt, their lone studio album is the worst studio album on which Beck is a featured player. No wonder he went the instrumental route afterwards.

oh well i thought it was a great album