Favorite Supergroup Album?

[WARF]

I'll start off first...

This really isn't my style... but I loved this album.



Remember the MTV Exclusive days?

In the late 80's... with Veejay's Adam Curry etc etc...

I loved MTV back then... when they actually played videos!

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[alexpgrimes]

I like the Damn Yankees but thats about it.

[WARF]

I liked the, "Don't Tread" album way better than the first one.

[alexpgrimes]

not a wilburys fan. didnt care for any of them solo or together. tom petty isnt bad though.

[FORD]

Neurotic Outsiders (1996)
Steve Jones - guitar, vocals
Duff McKagan - guitar, vocals
John Taylor - bass, vocals
Matt Sorum - drums

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[binnie]

I like both Velvet Revolver albums a lot, but I would have to say that my favourite supergroup record is Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes 'Live at the Greek'

[Panamark]

FORD, cant half tell Steve Jones is in that band !

[Panamark]

As for the Wilburys,
I liked it due to the dudes involved.
Must have been a blast for em all.
(Lot of each others heroes)

Glad the big "O" played a part.

[Mr Walker]

RULES!



I'm a chinese red-neck holdin' up a big wreck
Mama sure raised some hell...

Oh wait... you said Supergroup not Supagroup... my bad.

[ELVIS]

I sort of consider Speak Of The Devil a Supergroup album...

[ELVIS]

I like the Traveling Wilburys first album...

Did they make any others ??

I love Roy Orbison...

I have a DVD of Roy Orbison live in Australia from 1974...

It's in B&W for some reason but he sings beautifully and the band does a great job of emulating the sound of his recordings that were made nearly 20 years earlier...

[ELVIS]

It's a good find for nine dollars or less, and I see it occasionally at Best Buy and some other places...

I'm sure ebay or Amazon has it...



Click!

[FORD]

Steve Jones had another short lived supergroup around 1985 or so called Chequered Past. It also featured Tony Sales who would later be in Tin Machine (with Bowie) Nigel Harrison and Clem Burke from Blondie, and that fucking hack Michael Des Barres on vocals. Their album was great, despite Des Barres' presence, but unfortunately this was when Steve was strung out on smack, which can be clearly seen in this rare performance clip, which is probably why they didn't last long.

This is so goddamn over the top 80's. Unfortunately it's not embeddable, so you'll have to click here to see it......

YouTube - Chequered Past - Underworld - Live

[FORD]

CREEM—March 1985
Roy Trakin


New York—They've survived Sliverhead, Blondie, the Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop and Soupy Sales, but can these New Wave veterans find happiness among the heavy metal minions? Chequered Past are precisely that—five guys who've been through the proverbial and lived to tell about it. Lead singer Michael Des Barres has been the "next big thing" for over a decade, Silverhead, segueing to arena rock wit Detective and finally failing altogether as a solo artist on producer Mike Chapman's ill-fated Dreamland Records, which is where he ran into a pair of ex-Blondies in bassist Nigel Harrison and drummer Clem Burke. Throw in ex-Pistol Steve Jones and Soupy's son Tony Sales, who's played with Iggy and Todd Rundgren, on guitars and you've got a punk supergroup. Or do you?

"Our common ground is power," explains the aristocratic Londoner Des Barres. "The first songs we learned how to play were 'Vacation' by the Go-Go's and "Rock 'n' Roll by Zeppelin. This is our version of what a pure, hard rock 'n' roll band should be in an era when the American conception of rock is represented by Loverboy."

"I've always wanted to be in a rock band," chimes in Jones in his thick Cockney accent. "Trouble was, I had only been playing guitar for three months when I was in the Pistols. I s'pose that's why we sounded like we did."

Excuse me, Steve, but isn't Chequered Past just the kind of corporate rock band the Pistols used to rail against?

"N'yah, we know what's going on," he insists. "We're a street band; we're not up there on-stage with capes on, like Rick Wakeman or sumpthin'..."

Right now, Des Barres and Jones share a pad in Los Angeles and wrote most of the material on Chequered Past's self–titled debut album.

"We're like the Marquis of the Yobbo," says DesBarres explaining the odd coupling. "He's a working class dog and I'm the count, but writing develops quite naturally out of our relationship."

But why should this group succeed when all their past associations have ended up in shambles?

"I've never felt more positive or strong," states the veteran glam-rocker. "I could have been just another dead glitter star. Some awful foot in Kerrang! I've always been a real fan of rock stars and here I am in a band surrounded with them. Sometimes I'm onstage and I'll feel like I'm in the fuckin' Who. It's so much more enjoyable now because the relationship between the five of us is so strong. I like to say the '60s were hashish and Hendrix, the '70s were cocaine and herpes and the '80s are Perrier and push-ups. I'm tired of the bullshit of drugs, fighting, ego, competition, envy and jealousy, all that nonsense. I'm glad just to be a member of a solid team. I used to think a P.A. was a personal assistant. I had no ide. Today, I know what a P.A. is, as well as a tip sheet and independent promotion people."

The road is still fraught with hard rock, though, and after over 10 years in this business, isn't it a grind to start all over again?

"Dues, dues, dues. It's not a privileged trip," admits Des Barres. "We've been playing shitholes with Little Steven and the Filets Of Soul. God bless him with that hanky on his head, though. It's almost fun to play the Albuquerques and the Lubbocks now, y'know. We've learned though experience we have to be aware of what's happening to us. Which doesn't mean we have to be in control of every aspect of the business. We let people do what they do best. One can be in charge of his own destiny without having to manipulate everyone around you every second of the day."

Next stop is tour opening for current chart-toppers Ratt. Once again, the big question: can this intrepid troupe of Nuevo wavo castoffs connect with the heavy metal heartlands?

"I don't know how Steve'll look in Spandex, but I have a sneaking suspicion that moist 14-year-old girls are our audience," cackles Des Barres. "And boys with big hard-ons that wanna rock are gonna love Chequered Past."

[ELVIS]

I dunno FORD...

The Chequered Past Underworld live clip didn't do much for me...

Got anything else thet might represent them a bit better ??

That clip was sloppy, boring, and the "YEAH YEAH!" was aggravating as hell...

[ELVIS]

I wuld say Whitesnake was a supergroup for a very short period when the band, or at least the recording band was Coverdale, Steve Vai, Rudy Sarzo, Tommy Aldridge and Don Airey...and maybe Adrian Vandenberg on Slip Of The Tongue...

I saw that tour and they really performed as one would expect a "supergroup" to do...

[Andy Taylor]

The Power Station.

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Some asshole took down the track Living in Fear.

[binnie]

I saw that tour and they really performed as one would expect a "supergroup" to do...

Badly?

[binnie]

Despite that fact that they soon ended up sounding like Hootie and the Blowfish, I would say that I still enjoy the first Audioslave record immensely.

Probably two or three too many tunes on there - a little self editing would have made the album as a whole far more appealing - but some outstanding material on that disc....

[chefcraig]

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[alexpgrimes]

Neurotic Outsiders (1996)
Steve Jones - guitar, vocals
Duff McKagan - guitar, vocals
John Taylor - bass, vocals
Matt Sorum - drums

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I forgot about them. I love their cd.

[FORD]

I dunno FORD...

The Chequered Past Underworld live clip didn't do much for me...

Got anything else thet might represent them a bit better ??

That clip was sloppy, boring, and the "YEAH YEAH!" was aggravating as hell...

Not a lot from them on You Tube. I did find another song from the album though.... the lyrics to this one are almost as bad as something Hagar would write, but musically, it's pretty good.

"World Gone Wild"

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[Mr. Vengeance]

Hands down.....

[Mr. Vengeance]

And how about these guys???

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[chefcraig]

FORD, have you ever heard of Detective? This was the band Des Barres was in before Chequered Past. The band also featured Tony Kaye, the original keyboard player for YES. They were signed to Swan Song, and recorded to sound as much like Zep as possible (Jimmy Page produced).

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[FORD]

Believe it or not, I actually have "It Takes One to Know One" on vinyl somewhere. I actually picked it up at Goodwill for like a buck or something in the mid 80's. I'd heard Chequered Past and Des Barres stint with the Power Station, and figured Zeppelin wouldn't have signed them to Swan Song if they were too terrible. Though I thought they were more a poor man's Stones or Faces than they were Zeppelin imitators. "Help Me Up" might as well be titled "Stay With Me (part II)"

[FORD]

And how about these guys???

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Well, technically the thread was about supergroup albums and the Dirty Mac only managed one song (No, I'm not counting that noise with Yoko screaming over it). They were one Hell of a band for about 5 minutes though.

[chefcraig]

Believe it or not, I actually have "It Takes One to Know One" on vinyl somewhere. I actually picked it up at Goodwill for like a buck or something in the mid 80's. I'd heard Chequered Past and Des Barres...

Yep, I bought both albums, plus I had a white label of the radio station-only live album, as well. They weren't awful, yet you are correct they were nothing special. Des Barres' earlier group Silverhead were pretty much the same thing, as The Replacements once sang: "Playin' make-up, wearing guitar".

[78/84 guy]

Damn Yankee's were great live !! Seen them like 7 time's. I could do without the more ballad like stuff. At least Ted didn't let them sing about losing pussy on them !! Rock City, Coming Of Age & Bad Reputation were cool tune's. How bout Chicken Little ??!! Is that their name ?? The Firm were good. Have a great live cd of them. The song's are much better live.

[chefcraig]

...The Firm were good. Have a great live cd of them. The song's are much better live.

The Firm were terrific live. I saw them on the tour for the second album Mean Business, sometime in 1985. It's a shame this energy didn't transfer all that well to the studio recordings, which sound flat by way of comparison.

[kwame k]

You picked a couple of the ones I would of posted, Craig. You could add the Yardbirds and the Faces in here, too but it's backwards. The bands they were in were before they went and made it big in other bands or solo. The Jeff Beck Group is another one.

[Terry]

Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio

Black Sabbath with Ian Gillan

[FORD]

You picked a couple of the ones I would of posted, Craig. You could add the Yardbirds and the Faces in here, too but it's backwards. The bands they were in were before they went and made it big in other bands or solo. The Jeff Beck Group is another one.

The Faces were a supergroup of sorts though. Two guys from the Jeff Beck Group, and three guys from the original Small Faces.

Rod and Woody were each in other bands before the Jeff Beck Group, for that matter, though they weren't exactly household names. Rod was an early member of two bands you may have heard of, but before they hit the big time. He was the original lead singer for "The Ray Davies Quartet" which became The Kinks after Rod left. Later he was in a band called "Shotgun Express" which evolved into the original Fleetwood Mac.

And Woody's main claim to fame before the Jeff Beck Group was a band called "The Birds" (not to be confused with "The Byrds"). The band actually appeared in a horrible movie called "The Deadly Bees"

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[Andy Taylor]

If former members of a single group or artist's band counts then Missing Persons would be my fave.

YouTube - missing persons NOW IS THE TIME (FOR LOVE)


YouTube - missing persons dale bozzio THE CLOSER THAT YOU GET

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[sadaist]

I would say Whitesnake was a supergroup for a very short period when the band, or at least the recording band was Coverdale, Steve Vai, Rudy Sarzo, Tommy Aldridge and Don Airey...and maybe Adrian Vandenberg on Slip Of The Tongue...

I saw that tour and they really performed as one would expect a "supergroup" to do...

Nice one. That's what I was thinking of too. I saw them open for Motley Crue way back when.

[GreenBayLA]

Hello? DLR, Vai, Sheehan and the drummer!

[binnie]

Mad Season

Temple Of The Dog

How did these not jump into my head when I read the thread title? Both of those records are far more than the sum of their parts.

[Panamark]

Thanks FORD for the Steve Jones stuff, huge fan...

This one's from left field, but I always thought
Fleetwood Mac were a supergroup....
Lindsay Buckingham does some amazing stuff
without a pick !
Coupled with the two chicks and killer hooks,
they were pretty cool for a non metal band..

[Panamark]

Guess I would have to say ABBA too on last post's logic

[Panamark]

Unca E !

Roy Orbison was/is a legend.
God broke the mould when he created
that guy. Im sure you know his life story too,
to come back from losing your wife and two
children was incredible. That dude sang like
an Angel !