Greatest "mother tree" band?

Hi Sarsar!

Thanks for asking this. You know what I'm gonna say don't You

To me it's two bands, inextricably twined..

Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, joined by a common Producer/Manager (Martin Birch) and a whole lotta personnel intermixture

From them came...

Rainbow

Whitesnake

Ozzy Osbourne

Dio

Alcatrazz

Yngwie Malmsteen

Blue Murder

And many more.

Pink Floyd. Rick Wright put out 2 solo albums and is working on a third. Syd Barrett put out 5. Gilmour did 3 and is working on another. Waters has 6 and even Nick Mason has 2 and wrote a book. While they all didn't leave, they did go on to have separate solo careers.

edit: hey sarah

Emperor.

Here's a small list of some of the bands associated with the band's members: Zyklon, Zyklon-B, Arcturus, Burzum, Gorgoroth, Satyricon, Enslaved, Dissection, Aboryn, Carpathian Throne, In the Woods..., Green Carnation, and many more.

I'm going with Rodan on this one, a small indie band that released only album, albeit a phenomenal one, around 1993.

The spawn: June of '44, Rachel's, Retsin, The Sonora Pine, The Shipping News, Tara Jane O'Neil, and I'm sure there's a few more I'm missing

The Eagles.

Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, and Timothy B. Schmidt, as well as former members Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner have ALL had solo careers.

Ozzy Osbourne

Maybe not the largest amount, but the 'greatest' in my mind.

Bauhaus.

- Love and Rockets / Tones on Tail / Dali's Car/ Peter Murphy [solo] / Daniel Ash <3 [solo] / David J [solo]

None of the branches were as fabulous as Bauhaus in my eyes - but they were pretty effing fabulous nonetheless.

Also,

Rozz Williams' Christian Death

- Premature Ejaculation / Daucus Karota / Shadow Project / Rozz Williams [solo] / EXP / Eva O [solo] / Rick Agnew [solo] / Poop / Christian Death 1334 / Heltir

Deep Purple-Rainbow which we get Dio from before he went to Sabbath, Whitesnake,Ian Gillan band,Turner Hughes Project,Glenn Hughes solo Glenn hughes with Black Sabbath,Joe Lynn Turner solo,Ian Gillan with Black Sabbath

Guns n Roses ?

Or the Beatles.. all of the main 4 had a good solo career ..

Was that right :S ? hehe

3 way tie

The Beatles- influenced all pop bands, good and bad

The Yardbirds- influenced all hard rock and metal to come

The Velvet Underground- all indie/punk/noise bands

If we go with individuals, rather than bands...

Elvis Presley- pop, country and everyone who ever decided to start a band to meet girls

Chuck Berry- every guitarist who's ever lived, whether they realize it or not

Little Richard- all the rock n roll wildmen, shock rockers and gender benders

James Brown- everything from funk to soul and R&B

Johnny Ray- the original emo hehe...