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If you could create a rock supergroup, who would be in it?

I saw this little exercise in Spin magazine back in fall of '04 (props if you can find it in an archive). The basic premise is to create a supergroup of your favorite musicians from the past and present, and describe what kind of sound you'd like to hear from the group and what sort of dynamic you think they'd likely have.

There are a few allowances and rules:

1) you can use people from past and present, and they can be dead or alive

2) the people you choose must be able to work together as a cohesive band. even if you love them all, you wouldn't put prince, jamiroquai, and michael jackson in the same band because they would clash personally, they would all kind of serve the same purpose, and the band just wouldn't work.

3) it's not concrete, but it's encouraged to at least pick a guitarist, a bassist, a drummer, and a singer, and you can add onto that as necessitated by your conceptual design.

4) please don't be unimaginative and say something like "led zeppelin is my supergroup" or "the who with david gilmour instead of pete townsend." the idea is to create an original concept/sound.

So, I'm curious as to who everyone in the community would choose for their supergroup, and can you describe how they would sound and how they would work together to create your perfect band. I'll tell you mine to start off:

Guitar: John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra)

Bass: Les Claypool (Primus)

Drums: Thomas Pridgen (Mars Volta)

Vocals: Jon Anderson (Yes)

Keys: Herbie Hancock

Production/Songwriting/Sound effects/Guitar: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (Mars Volta)

So I imagine this as a largely instrumental group, a combination of prog sensibilities (long songs, focus on the album as an art form, space/fantasy concepts) and a hard funk-fusion sound akin to the song Vital Transformation by the Mahavishnu Orchestra and the bass-heave rock-out parts of a lot of Yes songs.

I feel Geddy Lee would be more appropriate than Jon Anderson if this were the only style we're going after, but I think he'd bring a certain softness and sense of dynamics that would work against the raw funk of Pridgen and Claypool.

I think all these guys are still alive so there is hope. Descrbie the concept of your band too.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    woah this is an awesome question. well, here i go!:

    Guitar: Jimi Hendrix... so its not the most original answer, but really, it can't be a supergroup without hendrix.

    Drums: John Bonham... the one and only bonzo!

    Vocals: Freddie Mercury... he could sing anything and everything - perfectly.

    Bass: Les Claypool... dang how could you not have him?!

    Keys: Richard Wright... hello, its pink floyd!

    Songwriting: Bob Dylan... i'd like to hear how all the other members of the band add their own personal touch to whatever he would write.

    The types of music they would make/play would be just out of this world! but i dont think this band would last very long (just until their fame dwindles)... there's just too much epic power between so few people, on just one stage! :)

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Vocals: Robert Plant Lead Guitar: Jeff Beck Bass Guitar: John Entwistle Rhythm Guitar: Tom Petty Drums: John Bonham Keyboards: Jonathan Cain

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Drums - I was gonna say Pridgen, but seeing as you beat me to it I'll go with Chris Dangerous from The Hives

    Guitars - Steve Van Zandt (The E Street Band), Kirk Hammett (Metallica)

    Bass - Joe Lally (Fugazi)

    Vocals - Matt Caughtran (The Bronx)

    And if this "supergroup" recorded an album, I'd get Dennis Lyxzen (Refused) and Keith Buckley (Every Time I Die) to do guest vocals, Bootsy Collins to play bass on a couple of tracks, Allison Robertson (The Donnas) to contribute some guitar......and It would be a glorious, bastardised mash-up of all things punk, metal, garage, funk, and rock.

  • 1 decade ago

    Vocals: Brent Smith (Shinedown)

    Guitar: Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society)

    Drums: John Fred Young (Black Stone Cherry)

    Bass: Duff McKagen (Guns N Roses)

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  • 1 decade ago

    guitar: john 5 (rob zombie)

    bass: peter steele (type o negative)

    drums: jess margera (cky)

    vocals: trent reznor (nine inch nails) & peter steele

    keys: stephen bier aka m.w.gacy (marilyn manson)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison all playing together

  • 1 decade ago

    john lennon

    george harrison

    billy preston

    kieth moon

    michael jackson

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Why make another super group when The Offspring have already accomplished that task.

  • 1 decade ago

    i wanna hear incubus and phish come together to jam !

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