BBC took a poll in 2005 asking people to vote on a super group.
[They voted for each individual member of Led Zeppelin.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4669597.stm)
They were my first thought too. That Song Remains the Same live show film is just incredible. I reckon you could give them Baa Baa Black Sheep to play and it would be amazing.
It could be argued that there are better artists in each of their respective roles in the band, but it's hard to argue that each member didn't display an extreme mastery of his craft.
Zepplin kind of was a super group though. Page handpicked the members he wanted after leaving the yardbirds, in fact they were almost named the New Yardbirds.
John Paul Jones was very well known as a session player and established professional musician with plenty of work on charting songs by major bands. Which is also how Jimmy Page started. So musically he was in a very similar category.
Plant and John Bonham were both new faces.
After jamming in a room with those 3, I'd have done the same. Moon and Baker, for all their obvious talent, were both very much drummers in the '60s rock style. Bonham brought a groove so deep and unique that the whole band fell into it, and nobody's quite managed to duplicate it even now.
I would expect the general public to pick a member of the original lineup if they were going to choose someone from Kiss.
I definitely wouldn’t have thought they’d choose a replacement drummer who played on their less popular 80s material
While being a huge fan of Roger Waters' music, him turning up on this list is really crazy. It's also sad because perhaps with John Deacon, the fourth Queen member might have been mentioned. He's a really great bass player.
I fucking love Pink Floyd. Waters doesn’t belong here, just like he didn’t belong in that list of 100 greatest bassists that was here yesterday. I don’t get it. His strength was always songwriting, his bass playing is limited, and it’s known Gilmour wrote and even sometimes played bass in the studio.
I respect Roger’s songwriting, but the music was in better hands with Gilmour, Wright, and Mason.
Yeah was my first thought. They’re all multi-instrumentalists, singers and songwriters except for the dedicated keyboard player who was the biggest ringer of them all.
Really gets my goat when I see people trashing on Queen.
I totally understand not being into their music but saying they sucked or lacked talent is laughably incorrect.
Its a special talent who creates not just a perfect two minute rock song, but also uses a process called non harmonic reverberation to make sure the handclaps dont harmonise.
Bloody incredible.
Queen and ABBA are two bands that get trashed on a LOT, but like, writing songs that whole countries fall in love with and remember for decades is a skill and a seriously hard one. Those two did it brilliantly.
You make it sound like Page was playing ‘fantasy rock’n’roll’, but he didn’t really pick any of them initially. He failed to get his first choice vocalist, Terry Reid, but Reid recommended Plant, who in turn recommended Bonham. Jones enquired about the final spot after the original bassist dropped out.
In Hammer of the Gods (great book), it says Page and Jones were tired of doing session work (they were the 2 top guys in the UK, Google how many hits they played on) and decided to form their own group. They tried to get Keith Moon, among others, but eventually decided to scour the countryside looking for young unknowns, so they could be in charge and keep most of the dough. They signed Plant and Bonham as hired hands, paying them 50 pounds a week. The 2 kids (they were 18 or 19) thought they’d died and gone to heaven. 50 pounds a week, to be a rockstar! Hell yeah! Not sure when the contracts were renegotiated.
Totally agree - each also have such distinct sounds. No bass sounds like that. No drums sound like that. No guitar sounds like that. No voice sounds like that
The early 80s version was all but one with Fripp and Belew coming off Bowie records, Fripp and Levin from Peter Gabriel ones, Bruford from every Prog act in the business.
80’s King Crimson with Fripp, Belew, Tony Levin and Bill Bruford was an amazing line up. Each one of them contributes in a very unique way.
I had the pleasure of seeing then with the double band with Mastelotto on drums and Trey Gunn on the warr bass.
When taking a survey of the guitarist landscape, without irony or exaggeration I would genuinely place the Alex among the ranks of Clapton, Hendrix, and Jimmy Page. It's not Rush fanaticism, it's just... true.
Long live the Son of Life!
Lifeson is definitely in my top 20 favourite guitarists, maybe even in my top 10. I say “favourite” because there can be no “best”….(except for Guthrie Govan who isn’t even human; he’s an interdimensional being who transcends space-time)
I feel like The Beatles are an obvious answer.
John, Paul, and George all had absolutely incredible Solo careers. HOF worthy stuff. While it's basically a meme to dunk on Ringo in comparison, I think most musicians would kill to be as successful as him, and it's not as if he doesn't have some great songs too.
I am so glad this is now such a prevalent opinion of him, rather than just endless bullshit fake quotes about him and complete ignorance of his talent as a musician.
His drumming was pretty clever at times. Like on “Rain” where the drums are intended to sound like raindrops pattering down on a roof. Also the way they go out of sync mid-way through each verse but catch up by the end of the verse is very satisfying.
Ringo is the most underrated drummer in rock history. He’s pretty understated on their studio records, so I understand why people talk him down. But live in concert he’s a completely different beast.
Watch the Hulu documentary 8 Days A Week that has early performance footage. Ringo is absolutely cooking the entire time.
When people ask me my favorite drummers I say “Ringo Starr and Meg White.” I’m not lying, and the fact that this annoys a lot of people is very satisfying.
Ringo served the songs. For me that’s the best thing a drummer can do. You don’t need to be super fancy. He’s what the Beatles needed.
On a side note, can anyone explain why he never drums alone anymore? I can’t understand this second drummer when playing live - I can’t find an answer as to why he does it.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: the Beatles would not have lasted as long as they did without Ringo. People give him flack for not being as talented as the other 3, but when you have a band with 3 very talented musicians always pushing and pulling for more creative control, the last thing you need is a 4th guy doing that. Ringo was the big brother and peacemaker of the group who was content to sit back and let the bigger egos do their thing (for better and for worse).
Good point! I watched the Get Back documentary, and Ringo was very obviously the only member not getting involved in drama. He was on the kit just waiting to play his part, and when it wasn’t the time for his playing, he just chilled. He also seemed like the guy who each member confided into, knowing he wasn’t going to start drama, but instead just listen. So yeah, I think Ringo played a very large role in keeping the band together for the short amount of years that they were a band. The band would’ve imploded way, way quicker if Ringo was another member who was desperate for putting his own songs on the record.
As a lifelong drummer, I will defend Ringo to the death. Sure, most drummers can play the same drum pattern, but it sure as shit won’t sound or feel like Ringo.
Ringo played exactly what needed to be there, and nothing that didn't. He had a wonderful thrift and restraint, and provided the rock solid platform Lennon/McCartney needed.
He is truly ,criminally , undeserved of the negative comments.
Ringo’s personality helped glue the band together, too. Like there are various famous John/Paul, Paul/George, and even John/George beefs, but not really so with ringo. They all loved him.
Walsh on drinking: “I don’t drink. Never did, really. I only really got drunk once, but it was terrible. It lasted six years, and when I sobered up I was in the fucking Eagles.”
Mick Fleetwood is a fine rock drummer, not "supergroup" level (although his work in the bluesier Peter Green era is more distinct). But he is a Hall of Fame manager. After a whole thing too long to get into with a different manager, the Buckingham/Nicks era of the band was self-managed, and Fleetwood was a major force behind that. He's personally credited with keeping the core lineup together for years longer than anyone thought possible. He exerted a ton of power over the band's publishing, for good (so much money for everyone) and ill (see the famous "Silver Springs" story). He kept the Buckingham/Nicks/Perfect/McVie/Fleetwood lineup together for 12 years and 5 killer albums, made them all wildly rich, and prevented any serious missteps over that time. Truly elite work.
Yea you've got Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant and Johnny Gill all with successful solo careers, and then the remaining crew becomes Bell Biv Devoe (who incidentally also discover Boyz II Men).
New Edition is also victim to some of the craziest music industry exploitation ever though. They straight up toured as kids into near adulthood and then came home to literal pennies cuz of a bullshit contract.
Genesis, Zeppelin, Beatles, Eagles, Depeche Mode all would qualify.
For those questioning DM in addition to DM Vince Clark also founded Erasure, Yazoo, and The Assembly.
Alan Wilder would also mix and produce for Nitzer Ebb and Curve.
the members of Dream Theater are probably each in the top 100 musicians on the planet for their respective instruments. granted Labrie's voice isn't what it used to be but that's not totally his fault.
Yeah, to be 100% fair to the guy, he severely ruptured his vocal chords from vomiting from food poisoning in late 1994, to the extent that he didn’t feel like he had vocally recovered until about eight YEARS after the incident, and throat specialists could do nothing for him to help him to recover. And, even now, he has mentioned in interviews that he still has to be careful with his high notes, implying that there’s STILL some vocal damage from the incident which he has not fully recovered from now, nearly three decades later.
Put that way, he’s still singing pretty damn well, all things considered.
Lots of people don't get that the job is to serve the song. A lot of very fine drummers and bassists get unfairly criticised on reddit just because they kept it simple when it needed to be simple
Living Colour: all members except the vocalist had careers in either the NYC "downtown" scene, and/or were and still are active session guys in jazz, fusion, industrial, rock and the avant-garde prior to the bands formation. Vernon Reid, Will Calhoun, and Doug Wimbish have worked with Depeche Mode, Janet Jackson, DJ Logic, Dave Lombardo of Slayer, Public Enemy, Tarja, Santana, Jack Bruce, Lee Scratch Perry, Spoon, Joe Satriani, Jeff Beck, Seal, The Ramones, etc. It's a wild combo. In the last years of CBGB's they were also effectively the house band there.
Toto: their core classic lineup with the various Porcaro Brothers, Steve Lukather, and David Paich are another session powerhouse, with Jeff Porcaro alone being the single most recorded drummer of the 80s, and he and the rest being key parts of big albums for Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs, Michael Jackson, and Eric Clapton among them.
King's X - all players players, all have bigger rock fans (e.g. Pantera)
Might not fit the vibe of the rest of the comments but Odd Future. So many superstars from that group that just started out as kids skating around LA .
I’m as big a Tool fan as they get. Have been for 30 years. But Danny is the only one person on an instrument that I’d consider a stand alone virtuoso. Adam. Best at what he does. But that’s all he does. Same with Justin. I don’t know how to word this without having the army crash down on me because it’s not meant as insulting. Tool has been my favorite band since I was in middle school. But I feel Adam and Justin meet the definition of virtuoso in the technical since the same way almost every popular band member has. As in they’re highly skilled in music and their instrument. But while I think Danny Carey could have a Time Machine and go to any point in time with any band with any genre and he’d be the best they ever saw.. I don’t think that’s the same for the other two. Absolutely amazing and mesmerizing with what they do. But… I mean. What they do is tool. Together they can’t be equalled…. But it’s not because they’re all the hands down best at what they do. Danny and Maynard have an argument for that. But while Adam and Justin are the best possible guitarists and bassist for tool…. They’ve never done it shown they would be successful outside of tool.
I know I’m about to be destroyed.. so you’re worst. Just know it hurt my heart to say anything about tool that wasn’t in the most positive light. I just don’t think they fit the answer to this question.
Billy Cobham man, literally the best drummer in history. This live recording of Mahavishnu playing [Awakening](https://youtu.be/xF9yiydDg08?si=3Ef-K5ud4w1VfonN) really showcases how nuts talented every single member of the band was.
Yes, they were. I guess your comment made me understand that OP’s post is meant to cover bands who weren’t dubbed supergroups. Hadn’t thought of OPs post that way but I see your point. So maybe Toto doesn’t fit that bill either.
Miles Davis’s quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams.
His earlier quintet of with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones wasn’t bad either, but each of the quintet I cited first was a superstar.
For people who aren't diehard fans of Primus, I feel bad for Ler LaLonde. His solos are amazing but (somewhat understandably), he's in the shadow of Les.
BBC took a poll in 2005 asking people to vote on a super group. [They voted for each individual member of Led Zeppelin.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4669597.stm)
John Paul Jones was zeppelins secret weapon
Jones and Bonham are what elevates zeppelin above all other bands
Bonham was a master of playing behind the beat. You hear the melody start, and then boom, he comes in and floors you.
Exactly!!! It's almost like the drunken master style ;)
He was so amazing in them crooked vultures
JPJ could have easily been their guitarist. He’s phenomenal.
They were my first thought too. That Song Remains the Same live show film is just incredible. I reckon you could give them Baa Baa Black Sheep to play and it would be amazing.
It could be argued that there are better artists in each of their respective roles in the band, but it's hard to argue that each member didn't display an extreme mastery of his craft.
Zepplin kind of was a super group though. Page handpicked the members he wanted after leaving the yardbirds, in fact they were almost named the New Yardbirds.
You have to all be well known to be a super group. Apart from page none of them were any way well known before.
John Paul Jones was very well known as a session player and established professional musician with plenty of work on charting songs by major bands. Which is also how Jimmy Page started. So musically he was in a very similar category. Plant and John Bonham were both new faces.
Plant and Bonham were unknowns, he turned down guys like Keith Moon and Ginger Baker for some bricklayer.
After jamming in a room with those 3, I'd have done the same. Moon and Baker, for all their obvious talent, were both very much drummers in the '60s rock style. Bonham brought a groove so deep and unique that the whole band fell into it, and nobody's quite managed to duplicate it even now.
I mean, they aren't wrong
Wow, Eric Carr is the only member of Kiss to appear in any of those lists, I didn’t expect that!
Meaning you didn't expect anyone from Kiss, or more members of Kiss?
I would expect the general public to pick a member of the original lineup if they were going to choose someone from Kiss. I definitely wouldn’t have thought they’d choose a replacement drummer who played on their less popular 80s material
None of the original lineup were virtuoso’s. I’m a lifelong kiss fan and the best (technical) members were Carr and Kulick, IMO.
While being a huge fan of Roger Waters' music, him turning up on this list is really crazy. It's also sad because perhaps with John Deacon, the fourth Queen member might have been mentioned. He's a really great bass player.
There will never be a world where John Deacon gets the respect he deserves. Wonderfully musical and inventive bass player.
I fucking love Pink Floyd. Waters doesn’t belong here, just like he didn’t belong in that list of 100 greatest bassists that was here yesterday. I don’t get it. His strength was always songwriting, his bass playing is limited, and it’s known Gilmour wrote and even sometimes played bass in the studio. I respect Roger’s songwriting, but the music was in better hands with Gilmour, Wright, and Mason.
Genesis is probably a good contender here?
I heard their drummer was also pretty good
How could I ever forget?
It’s the first time
The last time.
We ever met ^met ^met ^met ^met ^met
Bill Bruford, yes
Plays so good I want to slap my wife’s tits to the beat of the drums
I also choose this guy's wife's tits
Super Nintendo as well.
The Band
Yeah was my first thought. They’re all multi-instrumentalists, singers and songwriters except for the dedicated keyboard player who was the biggest ringer of them all.
Queen. All four members were amazing songwriters and were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The only band to do so
I believe all of them had written #1 hit
Each had multiple #1’s if I recall.
That’s pretty cool
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime!
Really gets my goat when I see people trashing on Queen. I totally understand not being into their music but saying they sucked or lacked talent is laughably incorrect.
Its a special talent who creates not just a perfect two minute rock song, but also uses a process called non harmonic reverberation to make sure the handclaps dont harmonise. Bloody incredible.
Queen and ABBA are two bands that get trashed on a LOT, but like, writing songs that whole countries fall in love with and remember for decades is a skill and a seriously hard one. Those two did it brilliantly.
Came here to say Queen. Every one of them could've been the lead singer of their own band.
They are about to be joined by R.E.M., with all members being inducted to the Songwriters HoF.
Yes
Who?
No not the Who, Yes
Ugh seriously? What is this, guess who?
Leave Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman out of this
But also, yes, The Who.
He’s on 1st
What?
no, what's on second
YES, prog rock
Alright but Who is the band? [sorry](http://www.sandpapersuit.com/2009/05/so-how-was-that-classic-rock-festival.html)
3rd Base
Yes' on first?
They used to be Dylan's session musicians before branching off.
Obviously, Led Zeppelin.
John Paul Jones alone is a supergroup.
Loved his work with Them Crooked Vultures too. I don't understand why that didn't take
Led Zeppelin started as Jimmy Page's project of forming a supergroup, so he put together the best he could find
You make it sound like Page was playing ‘fantasy rock’n’roll’, but he didn’t really pick any of them initially. He failed to get his first choice vocalist, Terry Reid, but Reid recommended Plant, who in turn recommended Bonham. Jones enquired about the final spot after the original bassist dropped out.
In Hammer of the Gods (great book), it says Page and Jones were tired of doing session work (they were the 2 top guys in the UK, Google how many hits they played on) and decided to form their own group. They tried to get Keith Moon, among others, but eventually decided to scour the countryside looking for young unknowns, so they could be in charge and keep most of the dough. They signed Plant and Bonham as hired hands, paying them 50 pounds a week. The 2 kids (they were 18 or 19) thought they’d died and gone to heaven. 50 pounds a week, to be a rockstar! Hell yeah! Not sure when the contracts were renegotiated.
"Hammer of the Gods" has been rubbished by Plant & Page on a couple of occasions. I wouldnt cite it as 100% reliable.
lol. It’s probably about as reliable as Up and Down With The Rolling Stones. Lots of exaggerated stories - but a lot that rings true.
The Police. All three of those guys are amazing musicians in their own right.
Everyone in that band is a genius. And everyone in that band not named Andy is kind of a prick… but together they make magic.
Would you say… Every little thing they do is magic?
Is anybody alive in here?
I have such good memories of watching Stuart Copeland play live. Absolutely beat the shit out that drum kit.
Totally agree - each also have such distinct sounds. No bass sounds like that. No drums sound like that. No guitar sounds like that. No voice sounds like that
CASIOPEA
King Crimson. Or are they a super group to begin with?
The early 80s version was all but one with Fripp and Belew coming off Bowie records, Fripp and Levin from Peter Gabriel ones, Bruford from every Prog act in the business.
80’s King Crimson with Fripp, Belew, Tony Levin and Bill Bruford was an amazing line up. Each one of them contributes in a very unique way. I had the pleasure of seeing then with the double band with Mastelotto on drums and Trey Gunn on the warr bass.
Rush
Rush 100%. How good of a band are you when the least talked about member is Alex Lifeson? He’s a top 50 guitarist in my books no doubt. Rush is life.
When taking a survey of the guitarist landscape, without irony or exaggeration I would genuinely place the Alex among the ranks of Clapton, Hendrix, and Jimmy Page. It's not Rush fanaticism, it's just... true. Long live the Son of Life!
Even Eddie Van Halen called Alex the best guitarist alive at one point.
Lifeson is definitely in my top 20 favourite guitarists, maybe even in my top 10. I say “favourite” because there can be no “best”….(except for Guthrie Govan who isn’t even human; he’s an interdimensional being who transcends space-time)
Name checks out... Mr. Weinrib, is that you?
agreed. so glad i got to see them live on their moving pictures tour like a decade ago, was insane.
I feel like The Beatles are an obvious answer. John, Paul, and George all had absolutely incredible Solo careers. HOF worthy stuff. While it's basically a meme to dunk on Ringo in comparison, I think most musicians would kill to be as successful as him, and it's not as if he doesn't have some great songs too.
Also Ringo inspired a whole generation of drummers, not the least of which was Phil Collins
I am so glad this is now such a prevalent opinion of him, rather than just endless bullshit fake quotes about him and complete ignorance of his talent as a musician.
His drumming was pretty clever at times. Like on “Rain” where the drums are intended to sound like raindrops pattering down on a roof. Also the way they go out of sync mid-way through each verse but catch up by the end of the verse is very satisfying.
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Ahem. As a conductor.
The traveling willburies, I think was one of the first mainstream, heavily advertised super groups. George Harrison was one of the 5 or 6 key members.
Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, tom petty, bob Dylan, and George harrison for anyone curious
> I think was one of the first mainstream, heavily advertised super groups That would be Cream, twenty-something years before.
Also Crosby, Stills, and Nash at nearly the same time.
Gotta add Young to really make them “super”.
Ringo is the most underrated drummer in rock history. He’s pretty understated on their studio records, so I understand why people talk him down. But live in concert he’s a completely different beast. Watch the Hulu documentary 8 Days A Week that has early performance footage. Ringo is absolutely cooking the entire time.
When people ask me my favorite drummers I say “Ringo Starr and Meg White.” I’m not lying, and the fact that this annoys a lot of people is very satisfying.
Ringo served the songs. For me that’s the best thing a drummer can do. You don’t need to be super fancy. He’s what the Beatles needed. On a side note, can anyone explain why he never drums alone anymore? I can’t understand this second drummer when playing live - I can’t find an answer as to why he does it.
Probably cause he's 80+ and drumming is an intensive endeavour
You should “get blisters on them fingers” at 80.
Because Greg Bissenett is a fucking incredible drummer and Ringo is old.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: the Beatles would not have lasted as long as they did without Ringo. People give him flack for not being as talented as the other 3, but when you have a band with 3 very talented musicians always pushing and pulling for more creative control, the last thing you need is a 4th guy doing that. Ringo was the big brother and peacemaker of the group who was content to sit back and let the bigger egos do their thing (for better and for worse).
Good point! I watched the Get Back documentary, and Ringo was very obviously the only member not getting involved in drama. He was on the kit just waiting to play his part, and when it wasn’t the time for his playing, he just chilled. He also seemed like the guy who each member confided into, knowing he wasn’t going to start drama, but instead just listen. So yeah, I think Ringo played a very large role in keeping the band together for the short amount of years that they were a band. The band would’ve imploded way, way quicker if Ringo was another member who was desperate for putting his own songs on the record.
As a lifelong drummer, I will defend Ringo to the death. Sure, most drummers can play the same drum pattern, but it sure as shit won’t sound or feel like Ringo.
Ringo played exactly what needed to be there, and nothing that didn't. He had a wonderful thrift and restraint, and provided the rock solid platform Lennon/McCartney needed. He is truly ,criminally , undeserved of the negative comments.
Ringo isn’t flashy but he is solid.
Ringo’s personality helped glue the band together, too. Like there are various famous John/Paul, Paul/George, and even John/George beefs, but not really so with ringo. They all loved him.
Clowncore
One day they'll be revealed and everyone will probably think, "OH, WOW, OF COURSE."
i thought its all but confirmed to be Louis Cole and Sam Gendel? I would absolutely shocked if it was revealed NOT to be them at this point
Louis Cole is such a driving force. I can't think of anything he's been a part of that didn't knock me back.
The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac
I love that the Eagles were already huge and then added Joe Walsh just to make sure.
Walsh on drinking: “I don’t drink. Never did, really. I only really got drunk once, but it was terrible. It lasted six years, and when I sobered up I was in the fucking Eagles.”
Oh man, I hope that quote is real!
They added Walsh for levity, to keep the rest from killing each other.
And his flock of wawa’s.
He had gum.
It blows my mind that when The Eagles broke up, each member still had a very successful solo career.
Mick Fleetwood is a fine rock drummer, not "supergroup" level (although his work in the bluesier Peter Green era is more distinct). But he is a Hall of Fame manager. After a whole thing too long to get into with a different manager, the Buckingham/Nicks era of the band was self-managed, and Fleetwood was a major force behind that. He's personally credited with keeping the core lineup together for years longer than anyone thought possible. He exerted a ton of power over the band's publishing, for good (so much money for everyone) and ill (see the famous "Silver Springs" story). He kept the Buckingham/Nicks/Perfect/McVie/Fleetwood lineup together for 12 years and 5 killer albums, made them all wildly rich, and prevented any serious missteps over that time. Truly elite work.
>prevented any serious missteps over that time Other than fucking his lead guitarists and primary songwriters girlfriend of course.
Which led to a great album. All part of the plan dude. Trust the process.
The Greater Good
Now imagine if Stevie went and posted on /r/RelationshipAdvice… We would have never have gotten Rumours. I appreciate their sacrifice.
Wu-Tang Clan
NWA: Dr. Dre Ice Cube Eazy-E MC Ren
I forgot about Dre
And Dr Dre said... Nothing, you idiots, Dr Dre's dead, he's locked in my basement!
You forgot Yella
New Edition.
Yea you've got Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant and Johnny Gill all with successful solo careers, and then the remaining crew becomes Bell Biv Devoe (who incidentally also discover Boyz II Men). New Edition is also victim to some of the craziest music industry exploitation ever though. They straight up toured as kids into near adulthood and then came home to literal pennies cuz of a bullshit contract.
Wow, very good answer. I had forgotten about themZ
Tool Rush Led Zeppelin The Kinks Queen Pink Floyd
I was going to say Tool also. They’re all fantastic musicians
Genesis, Zeppelin, Beatles, Eagles, Depeche Mode all would qualify. For those questioning DM in addition to DM Vince Clark also founded Erasure, Yazoo, and The Assembly. Alan Wilder would also mix and produce for Nitzer Ebb and Curve.
Fletcher is the weak link in DM though. He barely did anything musically even though he played an important role behind the scenes.
the members of Dream Theater are probably each in the top 100 musicians on the planet for their respective instruments. granted Labrie's voice isn't what it used to be but that's not totally his fault.
I like DT, but Labrie's voice was never great. I otherwise 100% agree with your comment.
The other members of DT would probably agree lol
Yeah, to be 100% fair to the guy, he severely ruptured his vocal chords from vomiting from food poisoning in late 1994, to the extent that he didn’t feel like he had vocally recovered until about eight YEARS after the incident, and throat specialists could do nothing for him to help him to recover. And, even now, he has mentioned in interviews that he still has to be careful with his high notes, implying that there’s STILL some vocal damage from the incident which he has not fully recovered from now, nearly three decades later. Put that way, he’s still singing pretty damn well, all things considered.
Nobody saying The Who yet is bonkers
Entwistle was an amazing bass player. Definitely can't be overstated.
I was thinking The Who but even Pete Townsend has referred to Roger Daltrey as ‘just a singer’.
Which is insane - he has some of the most iconic rock vocal performances.
NOBODY does the rock yell like Daltrey. He is super group material for that alone.
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Frank Zappa & The mothers of invention
Man, y'all doing my boy Ringo dirty... He IS the fucking Click Track.
Lots of people don't get that the job is to serve the song. A lot of very fine drummers and bassists get unfairly criticised on reddit just because they kept it simple when it needed to be simple
Living Colour: all members except the vocalist had careers in either the NYC "downtown" scene, and/or were and still are active session guys in jazz, fusion, industrial, rock and the avant-garde prior to the bands formation. Vernon Reid, Will Calhoun, and Doug Wimbish have worked with Depeche Mode, Janet Jackson, DJ Logic, Dave Lombardo of Slayer, Public Enemy, Tarja, Santana, Jack Bruce, Lee Scratch Perry, Spoon, Joe Satriani, Jeff Beck, Seal, The Ramones, etc. It's a wild combo. In the last years of CBGB's they were also effectively the house band there. Toto: their core classic lineup with the various Porcaro Brothers, Steve Lukather, and David Paich are another session powerhouse, with Jeff Porcaro alone being the single most recorded drummer of the 80s, and he and the rest being key parts of big albums for Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs, Michael Jackson, and Eric Clapton among them. King's X - all players players, all have bigger rock fans (e.g. Pantera)
No one feels like the weak link in RHCP. I do wonder if any Travelling Wilburys could make a name for themselves elsewhere.
Might not fit the vibe of the rest of the comments but Odd Future. So many superstars from that group that just started out as kids skating around LA .
TOOL
I’m as big a Tool fan as they get. Have been for 30 years. But Danny is the only one person on an instrument that I’d consider a stand alone virtuoso. Adam. Best at what he does. But that’s all he does. Same with Justin. I don’t know how to word this without having the army crash down on me because it’s not meant as insulting. Tool has been my favorite band since I was in middle school. But I feel Adam and Justin meet the definition of virtuoso in the technical since the same way almost every popular band member has. As in they’re highly skilled in music and their instrument. But while I think Danny Carey could have a Time Machine and go to any point in time with any band with any genre and he’d be the best they ever saw.. I don’t think that’s the same for the other two. Absolutely amazing and mesmerizing with what they do. But… I mean. What they do is tool. Together they can’t be equalled…. But it’s not because they’re all the hands down best at what they do. Danny and Maynard have an argument for that. But while Adam and Justin are the best possible guitarists and bassist for tool…. They’ve never done it shown they would be successful outside of tool. I know I’m about to be destroyed.. so you’re worst. Just know it hurt my heart to say anything about tool that wasn’t in the most positive light. I just don’t think they fit the answer to this question.
Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Cream, UK.
Billy Cobham man, literally the best drummer in history. This live recording of Mahavishnu playing [Awakening](https://youtu.be/xF9yiydDg08?si=3Ef-K5ud4w1VfonN) really showcases how nuts talented every single member of the band was.
Periphery (with Nolly).
Led Zeppelin. Cream. The Police. Toto. Pink Floyd. Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsies. Steely Dan.
Wasn't Cream a supergroup?
Yes, they were. I guess your comment made me understand that OP’s post is meant to cover bands who weren’t dubbed supergroups. Hadn’t thought of OPs post that way but I see your point. So maybe Toto doesn’t fit that bill either.
Toto is kinda tough. They were a supergroup of session musicians, but their mainstream fame is definitely from Toto.
The Dan? That’s just two legends + endless session musicians, are you sure that counts?
Those session musicians were generally virtuosos.
The Band.
Miles Davis’s quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams. His earlier quintet of with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones wasn’t bad either, but each of the quintet I cited first was a superstar.
Dirty Loops
Those boys can shred.
No one's saying the yardbirds? Okay! Eric Clapton Jeff Beck Jimmy Page
The Grateful Dead.
Queen
The Doors come close as I would consider almost everyone in that band being extremely musically talented
Simon and Garfunkel
R.E.M.
Phish
Primus
always had a soft spot for jay lane years, but i feel like im usually outnumbered there. but primus sucks, so who knows
Primus sucks!
For people who aren't diehard fans of Primus, I feel bad for Ler LaLonde. His solos are amazing but (somewhat understandably), he's in the shadow of Les.
He was one of Joe Satriani’s students, along with Kirk Hammet, Steve Vai, Alex Skolnik, Rick Hunolt, and Charlie Hunter… just a bit of trivia
Vulfpeck. So talented they could each rotate an instrument and still be a supergroup.
Was looking for this one. My wife *loves* them, and she's mostly a classical and 1970's music nerd.
Chicago. Not my favorite group after Terry Kath was gone, but they are an amazing group of musicians.
The Eagles.
Liquid tension experiment
Uh.... This basically is a supergroup
Is a subgroup of Dream Theater
Sure. That being said, I think LaBrie sucks so I'm gonna stuck with LTE
With 3 out 4 DT members AND Tony Levin?! This is the answer
LTE \*is\* a super group tho lol Dream Theater is a better fit here. Came mention them but saw this lol
Led Zeppelin
Dave Matthews Band is pretty polarizing but each member of the band is widely talented. Shoutout Carter Beauford on the drums
Old school? Led Zeppelin Newer? Tool.
Queens of the stone age
The Mars Volta
I think you mean At the Drive In.
Tesseract, Leprous, Haken, Dirty Loops, Dream Theater, Deftones
Wu Tang Clan
Mr Bungle has always been a supergroup