People who have been in 3 or more great bands - not counting session dudes or as solo artists

eg
Kid Congo Powers - Gun Club, Bad Seeds, Cramps

Brian Baker - Minor Threat, The Meatmen, Samhain, Dag Nasty

Jeff Tweedy

(Wilco, Loose Fur, Uncle Tupelo)

Kawabata Makoto: Acid Mothers Temple, Mainliner, Tsurubami, Toho Sara, others...

David Pajo: Slint, Palace Bros, Stereolab, Royal Trux (also: The For Carnation, Tortoise, King Kong and lol zwan).

oh he toured as lead guitarist for Yeah Yeah Yeahs last year...

lu edmonds-the damned, public image, the mekons, 3 mustaphas 3, shriekback, billy bragg (and the spizzles, yat-kha, kirsty macall, although that may be more session work... hard to tell...) and many, many others, including some he fronted. man works for a living.

Bill Bruford - Yes, King Crimson, UK

I'm sure we'll get some debate on the "greatness" of these three bands, but Pat Smear: The Germs, Nirvana, Foo Fighters.

everybody in P-Funk

Nick Sanderson: Clock DVA, Gun Club, World of Twist, Earl Brutus

I guess Clapton but I hate all the bands he's been in

Janet Weiss: Sleater-Kinney, Quasi, the Jicks.

Ron Wood: the Birds, Faces, Rolling Stones

Greg Cartwright - Compulsive Gamblers, Oblivians, Reigning Sound, Deadly Snakes, 68 Comeback

Mike Watt: The Minutemen, Firehose, The Stooges

Billy Childish - Milkshakes, Del Monas, Headcoats, Mighty Caesars, etc

Mike Watt: Minutemen, Firehose, Dos

... Stooges!

another one where greatness is debatable but: Jack White - The Go, The White Stripes, Racounteurs, Dead Weather

Chris Cutler - Henry Cow, Art Bears, Pere Ubu.

I'll wait for Geir to tell us about Jeff Lynne.

barney sumner

i don't think electronic are "great" exactly, but as good as/better than the foo fighters etc

Steve Roback: Rain Parade, Clay Allison, Opal

ooh speaking of which Roy Wood - the Move, ELO, Wizzard

xp

Lawrence Hayward-Felt, Denim, Go-Kart Mozart.

Damon Albarn-Blur, Gorillaz, The Good, The Bad & The Queen

Eric Drew Feldman - Capt. Beefheart, Pere Ubu, PJ Harvey (if that one isn't sessioneering)

Eye Yamataka - Boredoms, UFO Or Die, Hanatarash, probably more

Hah! [sitting in for geir] Yeah, Jeff Lynne: Idle Race, the Move, ELO, Traveling Wilburys. Did I miss any? lol

Yes, Yamataka has also worked with Naked City & Musica Transonic. Come to think of it Kawabata Makoto was also in Musica Transonic [see above]

steve winwood

maybe a stretch but... Josh Homme - Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, Them Crooked Vultures

Yoshida Tatsuya - Koenjihyakkei, Ruins, Korekyojinn, the list goes on

Fred Frith - Henry Cow, Art Bears, Naked City

Bob Drake - Thinking Plague, 5uus, himself solo!

tons of prog/jazz/improv musicians basically

johnny marr : the smiths, electronic, the the, modest mouse, the cribs

or does he cross the boundary as a session muso now (not including his guest appearanes on various one off tracks) ?

as far as i know, he was officially a member of three of these bands at least.

Eric Drew Feldman - Capt. Beefheart, Pere Ubu, PJ Harvey (if that one isn't sessioneering)

― Matt #2, Tuesday, May 4, 2010 12:15 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

i'd say his work on the first couple frank black solo albums is a step above "sessioneering" too

Marc Bell/Marky Ramone - Dust, The Voidoids, The Ramones

Kenney Jones: the Small Faces, the Faces, the Who

Ronnie James Dio - Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio. Um, Elf too?

Peter "Sleazy" Christopheren - Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Psychic TV

Bill Rieflin - Ministry, KMFDM, Lard, Pigface, Revolting Cocks, R.E.M.

Mick Harris - Napalm Death, Scorn, Painkiller

Scott Weinrich

Mick Harris - Napalm Death, Scorn, Painkiller

+ Lull, his best project.

Matthew Bower:

Skullflower
Total
Sunroof!
Hototogisu

Brian Baker - Minor Threat, The Meatmen, Samhain, Dag Nasty

― Brio, Tuesday, May 4, 2010 4:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

let's say 3 1/2 in light of dag nasty

Ronnie James Dio - Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio. Um, Elf too?

― Matt #2, Tuesday, May 4, 2010 5:30 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

elf hell yeah!!

this is way, way harder for women than it is for men

Eric Drew Feldman - Capt. Beefheart, Pere Ubu, PJ Harvey (if that one isn't sessioneering)

― Matt #2, Tuesday, May 4, 2010 10:15 AM (37 minutes ago)

he's on Trompe Le Monde no? He toured with Pixies on keyboards in 91-92 when I saw them.

Xpost. Well, there's Patricia Morrison (Sisters of Mercy, Damned, Gun Club) if you're not too fussy about whether they were truly "great" or not when she was in them.

Ronnie James Dio - Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio. Um, Elf too?

― Matt #2, Tuesday, May 4, 2010 1:30 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

He wins.

Carmine Appice and Tim Bogert: Cactus, Vanilla Fudge and Beck Bogert and Appice.

my girl kimmy deal

Sammy Hagar-Van Halen, Montrose and ......(chickenfoot).

John Wetton-King Crimson, Family, Uriah Heep, Asia

lol surm, I kept trying to remember Kim Deal's name but kept getting stuck on Kim Gordon

oops

Are Asia a great band?

no, probably not.

How this:

Glenn Hughes: Trapeze, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath.

^ only the first two were great while he was in them.

Maybe we should extend this to people who were in bands at a time they didn't suck! i.e. Glenn Hughes in Black Sabbath doesn't count.

xpost

Jimmy Page: The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, The Firm

ok...chickenfoot...trapeze...the firm...let's raise our standards folks

Trapeze fucking rules dude. I'll give you the other two.

Alex Chilton (Box Tops, Big Star, Panther Burns)

Thanks for the Matthew Bower mention, I was gonna get to that. You might also want to include Youngsbower.

Surely Aiden Baker fits in here somehow, but all I can think of is Nadja right now...

The Firm ... lolllll

In my defense, check this post out:

Nick Sanderson: Clock DVA, Gun Club, World of Twist, Earl Brutus

― Football's Flocking Home (Tom D.), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 1:05 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Who????

Gun Club rules the school...and I've heard great things abt hte others

In my defense, check this post out:

Nick Sanderson: Clock DVA, Gun Club, World of Twist, Earl Brutus

― Football's Flocking Home (Tom D.), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 1:05 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Who????

At least no-one mentioned Freeheat.

Homme is a great answer

Youve never even heard the others and you're giving me shit about Trapeze being on here???

xpost

Ashley Hutchings: Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and The Albion Band

Vince Clarke: Depeche Mode (it was good while he was in it), Yazoo, Erasure.

what's the third great band Kim Deal was in?

i'm guessing the Amps ...

Pharoah Sanders - Sun Ra Arkestra, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane

Prince Paul: Stetsasonic, De La Soul, Gravediggaz... I guess some folks would count Handsome Boy Modeling School too.

Brian Baker - Minor Threat, The Meatmen, Samhain, Dag Nasty

Don't forget Junkyard and Bad Religion too.

oh forgot about the amps. they were great?

SO GREAT. Well, their one album was good. Not sure what the criteria for "great" in this thread is though. "Great" = they existed?

Was Pharoah really an official member of Alice Coltrane's band, or was he just a "session dude" for her?

justin broadrick - jesu, final, techno animal, godflesh, napalm death

Joe Strummer: 101'ers, Clash, Mescaleros

Dunno, he was on at least 3 of her albums though.

xpost to Tuomas

oh and head of david.

Justin Broadrick!!! Yes!!!

yea the Amps were SO. GREAT. end of story :)

Michael Gira:

Swans
Angels of Light

Some other stuff, too, right?

Wino: The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, and I'm guessing probably one of his many other bands is great

Pharoah Sanders - Sun Ra Arkestra, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane

― Matt #2, Tuesday, May 4, 2010 2:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

You wanna do jazz, its gonna get a little ridiculous. Everybody was in everybody's band at one time or another.

Tanya Donelly: Throwing Muses, Belly, The Breeders

John McEntire: Tortoise, The Sea and Cake, and The Red Krayola.

Naomi Yang: Galaxie 500, Magic Hour, Damon & Naomi

Dunno, he was on at least 3 of her albums though.

Yeah, I know, but the circle of musicians in the scene was pretty tight - many them used to play on each other's sessions all the time without necessarily being a member of a specific band.

(x-post with Bill Magill)

Wino: The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, and I'm guessing probably one of his many other bands is great

Spirit Caravan is my favorite Wino project, and The Hidden Hand were at least good if not great.

Matha Wash - The Weather Girls, C+C Music Factory, Black Box

oh ffs, MaRtha Wash

Matt Pike: Sleep, High on Fire and...umm...Kalas. Asbestos Death?

gene hoglan - dark angel, death, strapping young lad, fear factory

bill chill

Bill Leeb - Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Delerium

cEvin Key - Skinny Puppy, Download, The Tear Garden, Doubting Thomas

adrian and paul gurvitz - gun, three man army, baker gurvitz army

(how many siblings were in three great bands together?)

Well if Baker-Gurvitz Army count as a great band (never heard em tbh) then Ginger Baker - BGA, Cream, Hawkwind

the one baker gurvitz army record i have is pretty smokin'

Terry Hall - The Specials, Fun Boy Three, The Colourfield
(or do The Colourfield suck? never heard em)

Lemmy

The Rockin' Vickers, Hawkwind, Motorhead

Before anybody starts in with the "Rockin' Vickers weren't great" nonsense, dig this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaHYKmPSvXk

Mark Ibold: Dustdevils, Pavement, Sonic Youth (+ Free Kitten)
Jim O'Rourke: Gastr Del Sol, Sonic Youth, Red Krayola (+Loose Fur, Illusion of Safety, Wilco)

not to rep a friend too hard, but there are a lot of people around who are in multiple great bands, still extant....

like erin allen, who is in Sister Fucker, Work, Child Pornography, and High Castle. all amazing bands.

Jim O'Rourke: Gastr Del Sol, Sonic Youth, Red Krayola (+Loose Fur, Illusion of Safety, Wilco) +BRISE-GLACE!

Twink - Tomorrow, Pink Fairies, Pretty Things

this is way, way harder for women than it is for men

Maybe, but if we're gonna go with these:

Chris Cutler - Henry Cow, Art Bears, Pere Ubu.
Fred Frith - Henry Cow, Art Bears, Naked City

Then we need to add:

Dagmar Krause - Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, Art Bears.

John McGeoch: Magazine, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Public Image Ltd.

(how many siblings were in three great bands together?)

merle and gg to thread

Yoshimi P-We - Boredoms, UFO Or Die, OOIOO (Free Kitten were arse iirc)

xpost can't believe I couldn't remember Dagmar, embarrassing.

Another one:
Jan St. Werner: Mouse on Mars, Lithops, Microstoria, (Stereolab).

Jan St. Werner: Mouse on Mars, Lithops, Microstoria, (Stereolab).

+ Von Sudenfed.

Another woman:

Kate Korus - The Slits, The Raincoats, The Mo-dettes.

Skip Spence:

Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, The Doobie Bros.

Epic Soundtracks: Swell Maps, Red Krayola, solo.

I guess that "solo" may not count.

He did that cool collab with Jowe Head, too.
He probably fits in this thread as well?

lora logic: x-ray spex, essential logic, red krayola

Ah, I was trying for Lora Logic but could only get two. Awesome job, well done.

Keiji Haino: Fushitsusha, Kikuri, Nijiumu, Sanhedrin, Black Stage, Vajra... and a couple of others I think.

haruomi hosono: apryl fool, happy end, tin pan alley, ymo, friends of earth, HAT, sketch show, tokyo shyness

actually i guess tokyo shyness is a solo project so forget that. still pretty amazing cv tho

Keiji Haino: Fushitsusha, Kikuri, Nijiumu, Sanhedrin, Black Stage, Vajra... and a couple of others I think.

Keiji Haino solo is pretty much its own beast, as well.

Asahito Nanjo - High Rise, Mainliner, Musica Transonic
Here's a list of his bands from wikipedia, take your pick (not sure when this list was compiled though):

- Red Alert (psychedelic punk group, 79-81)
- Red (experimental performance, 79-89)
- Conformist (dark psychedelic group, 81-82)
- Deaf and Dumb House (esthetic improvisation unit, 81-82)
- Virus Freak (avant-garde free rock group, 81-82)
- Tako (avant-garde performance group, 81-82)
- I’m useless (strange free rock unit centring around Tamio Shiraishi, 81-82)
- Telepatys going bad of Rotness (psychedelic punk group, 81-82)
- Kosokuya (psychedelic avant-garde group, 82-83)
- Sweet Inspirations (progenitor of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, 83-84)
- Psychedelic Speed Freaks (the ur-High Rise, 83-84)
- High Rise (heavy psychedelic group, 84 - present)
- Shokubaiya (improvised music unit, 88-89)
- Nijiumu (improv unit formed with Keiji Haino, 88-90)
- Ohkami no Jikan (dark psychedelic group, 90 - present)
- Ten no Okami (avant-garde unit, with Keiji Haino, 90-91)
- Johari (ethnic meets experimental, 90-92)
- Toho Sara (avant-garde shamanism, 92- present)
- Group Musica (avant-garde symphonic group, 94 - present)
- Bibliotheca Hermetica (avant-garde, 94 - present)
- Mysterious Adni (avant-garde, 94 - present)
- Ancient Wisdom (avant-garde, 94 - present)
- Splendour Solis (avant-garde, 94 - present)
- Up Tight (free jazz unit, 94 - present)
- Musica Transonic (psychedelic improvised music, 94 - present)
- Mainliner (heavy psychedelic noise rock group, 95 - present)
- Psychedelic Background (trip psychedelic group, 96 - present)
- Minus Three Years Old (new psychedelic blues band, with Keiji Haino, 96 - present)

I was going to try to stick to women only for balance, but a shout-out has to be made to Alex Neilson - Scatter, Directing Hand, Trembling Bells, plus shitloads of collaborations/guest appearances/session-type stuff.

Sorry, but do all 28 of those really qualify as "great bands"?

xp

He did say "take your pick".

They probably are all great! The 9 of them I know are anyway.

a shout out has to be made to Alex Lifeson, who has been in the same band for 40 years.

Davey Henderson -Fire Engines, Win, Nectarine No. 9
Richard Hell -Television, Heartbreakers, Voidoids.

Heather Leigh Murray - Charalambides, Tarpis Taula, Scorces, Gown

damn that rockin' vickers track is hott

Chris Woodhouse: Karate Party, Mayyors, the Intelligence (maybe FM Knives)

Sandy Denny - The Strawbs, Fairport Convention, Fotheringay

Heather Leigh Murray - Charalambides, Tarpis Taula, Scorces, Gown

+ Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast.

Kendra Smith - Dream Syndicate, Opal, Guild Of Temporal Adventurers

Bjork if you count Gling-Glo along with K.U.K.L. and Sugarcubes.

Thalia Zedek - Uzi, Live Skull, Come

David Grubbs - Squirrel Bait, Bitch Magnet, Gastr Del Sol

Carla Bozulich - Ethyl Meatplow, Geraldine Fibbers, Evangelista

Grubbs did time in the Red Krayola, too.

oh Lydia Lunch duh

Heather Leigh Murray - Charalambides, Tarpis Taula, Scorces, Gown
+ Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast.

+ Jandek too (unless that counts as sessioning)

Steve Albini - Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac (who I don't really think are great but a lot of people do)

Daniel Ash - Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, Tones on Tail

Robert Smith - The Cure, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Glove

oh, that's good

Gavin Russom: Delia & Gavin, Black Leotard Front, LCD Soundsystem (+Sweet Thunder, not counting his solo stuff)

I wanted to list Lydia Lunch but I got the impression she was more of a solo artist who swung from collaboration to collaboration.

teenage jesus and 8 eyed spy would be the great "groups" she was in.

rockin' vickers were kicking, but I would have named Sam Gopal over that, that album they did w/lemmy on it is vv sinister & trippy & great.

Fred Cole - The Lollipop Shoppe, The Weeds, Dead Moon, the Rats

Anyway, Simon House - High Tide, Third Ear Band & Hawkwind.

Also Trevor Lucas, who was in Eclection, Fotheringay and Fairport Convention.

Epic Soundtracks was in These Immortal Souls, too and they were great.

a special honourable mention has to go to the original Modern Lovers who collectively were in also in Talking Heads, The Cars and The Real Kids

twink - tomorrow, pretty things, pink fairies

John McEntire: Tortoise, The Sea and Cake, and The Red Krayola.

alternate John McEntire: Bastro, Gastr del Sol, Seam (briefly, but it was their greatest lineup)

Doesn't Neil Young count? Provided you a) count him as "part of" Crazy Horse, rather than just fronting them, and b) count CSNY as great. Well...normally I'd say really good, not great, but they're as great as most everyone mentioned above.

Chris Knox (The Enemy, Toy Love, Tall Dwarfs)

andy summers - zoot money band, dantalion's chariot, the animals, the police

Gavin Russom: Delia & Gavin, Black Leotard Front, LCD Soundsystem (+Sweet Thunder, not counting his solo stuff)

+ Black Meteoric Star!!

Paul Raven (RIP) was in Killing Joke, Godflesh, Ministry, Pigface, Prong, Treponem Pal, and numerous other projects, and despite not having a terribly distinctive sound, must have been an incredibly personable musician.

Jay Reatard (Reatards, Lost Sounds, Final Solutions, Evil Army)

Oh and Angry Angles.

Arto Lindsay - DNA, Lounge Lizards, Ambitious Lovers

So are we discounting people with a significant solo career or not? The OP makes it seem like the case, which would mean stuff like Jay Reatard wouldn't count. I mean, otherwise I'd totally be repping Pollard (GbV, Brown Submarines, Circus Devils would be my 3).

... not counting his solo stuff)

+ Black Meteoric Star!!

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 2:25 PM (4 minutes ago)

John Balance - Coil, Psychic TV, Current 93

"would mean stuff like Jay Reatard wouldn't count"
I didn't name his solo stuff, everything I named was a band iirc.

Maynard James Keenan - Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer (though not a big fan of that last one)

x"would mean stuff like Jay Reatard wouldn't count"
I didn't name his solo stuff, everything I named was a band iirc.

Gotcha now, I was misreading the intent.

conclusion: lots of people have been in 3 or more great bands

^Srsly

Vince Clarke - Depeche Mode, Erasure, Yazoo

steve hillage - uriel/arzachel, khan, gong

"conclusion: lots of people have been in 3 or more great bands"

true. but i'm bored. so...

Doesn't Neil Young count? Provided you a) count him as "part of" Crazy Horse, rather than just fronting them, and b) count CSNY as great. Well...normally I'd say really good, not great, but they're as great as most everyone mentioned above.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 22:23 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

Mynah Birds, Buffalo, CSNY, Crazy Horse. Yep I reckon.

paul thompson - roxy music, angelic upstarts, concrete blonde

drummers shouldn't even really count, i guess.

WTF guys?!?! This far in and no Klaus Dinger?

Kraftwerk, Neu!, La Dusseldorf

Mike Patton – Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, [your third choice here][I picked Lovage]

or Fantomas

Although I guess I'm stretching that Kraftwerk, but he was considered a member at one point, wasn't he?

(xpost)

Trevor Horn – Yes (I like this era of Yes), The Buggles, and Art of Noise

Martin Jackson – The Chameleons, Magazine, and (mindblowing weird outlier third band) the funtimes stylings of Swing Out Sister...

Dan Bejar - New Pornos, Destroyer, Swan Lake
Spencer Krug - Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake

Glaring contemporary omission so far as I can see is Spencer Krug; Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown and Swan Lake.

Ahh, 13 seconds too late! =)

WTF guys?!?! This far in and no Klaus Dinger?

Kraftwerk, Neu!, La Dusseldorf

Yeah, I think this fell foul of my attempt to only name girls, or it would have been one of my first thoughts. I'd count Kraftwerk for sure, though if you don't want to then La! Neu? have a fair few good tracks.

anton fier was in a bunch of great bands -- pere ubu, feelies, golden palominos, lounge lizards, probably more.

. . . and Michael Rother????

Kraftwerk, Neu, Harmonia

Nick Cave -- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party and, um, Grinderman?

Also: Warren Ellis -- Dirty Three, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and, um, Grinderman?

I honestly forget that Rother was in Kraftwerk sometimes!

(xpost)

Pretty sure no one else is going to agree with this nomination, but one of these bands is in my top ten faves of all times and I honestly do love the other two:

Bob Nanna - Braid, Friction, Hey Mercedes (I guess The City on Film too, but that is so not great)

Paul Bostaph-Slayer, Exodus, Testament

Does Adrian Borland warrant a mention? The Outsiders, The Sound, 2nd Layer, White Rose Transmission.

Im voting Dio as the winner of this thread.

Also: Warren Ellis -- Dirty Three, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and, um, Grinderman?

― Lostandfound, Tuesday, May 4, 2010 9:49 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

DIRTY THREE!!

Lee Harris played drums in Talk Talk and later on 'Codename Dustsucker' by Bark Psychosis as well as O'Rang and the Beth Gibbons/Rustin Man album. Pretty good track record.

Richard Sinclair: Wilde Flowers, Caravan, Hatfield & the North, Camel, National Health (for a bit, I think).

Neal Schon: Santana, Journey and Bad English!

drummers shouldn't even really count, i guess.

I know some can't, but the rest ought to at least try, I feel.

Margaret Fiedler - Ultra Vivid Scene/Moonshake/Laika (she's pretty much a full-time member of Wire now as well).

... not counting his solo stuff)

+ Black Meteoric Star!!

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 2:25 PM (4 minutes ago)

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 4:30 PM (1 hour ago)

LOL

Looks like you guys couldn't wait for me to namecheck Jeff Lynne, after all. :)

I know it's arguable, but I'd like to rep for Graham Gouldman. Even if many of his best songs in the 60s were recorded by bands he wasn't part of, The Whirlwind were still kind of nice, and Wax also had their moments. Plus 10cc of course.

And John Wetton obv.

(King Crimson, Roxy Music, UK, Asia)

Bill Bruford - Yes, King Crimson, UK

+ Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman & Howe, who were of course classic Yes minus Chris Squire, but still officially a different band.

He also toured with Genesis, although it can be argued whether he and Daryl Sturmer have ever been actual members of the band.

Oh, and, if ABWH counts as a band, Steve Howe would also be in there, having been a member of Yes and Asia in addition.

(Missed the Wetton namecheck because ILM is hiding parts of the thread - plus I forgot Uriah Heep)

Does Miles Davis count? :)

That's actually a really good point Geir, I mean he did assemble quite a few distinct bands over the years that all definitely had their own thing going on. But I suppose others may feel that opens a can of worms with jazz dudes.

Mike Saunders: Vom, Angry Samoans, and Metal Mike, Alison, & Julia.

Richard Hell: Television, Heartbreakers, Voidoids.

+ Dim Stars!

drummers shouldn't even really count, i guess.

I know some can't, but the rest ought to at least try, I feel.

― sonofstan, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 22:56 (Yesterday)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI

August Darnell - Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Machine, Kid Creole & the Coconuts

Erik Rutan: Ripping Corpse, Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal

John Dwyer - Pink And Brown, Coachwhips, the Hospitals, Thee Oh Sees,

Chuck Biscuits - D.O.A. , Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Danzig, Samhain, (Run-D.M.C. & Social Distortion as session guy)

Keith Relf-Yardbirds, Armageddon, Renaissance

Does Miles Davis count? :)

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 8:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Doing jazz would kill this, like I said above. One day in the '50s you would have Miles play with Charlie Parker at some club, and they would be billed as "Miles Davis". Next night they would play together with some other dudes billed as "Charlie Parker". Everybody was in everybody's band back then.

Joe Preston - The Melvins, Earth, Sunn O))), High on Fire, Men's Recovery Project, Harvey Milk, Superconductor, Godheadsilo

Thats a good one right there.

Also: Warren Ellis -- Dirty Three, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and, um, Grinderman?

― Lostandfound, Tuesday, May 4, 2010 9:49 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

DIRTY THREE!!

― the Rob Based god (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 21:57 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Wasn't he in the Dirty Three as well?

lol Warren Ellis; every time I see that name I reflexively think "Transmetropolitan, Stormwatch, The Authority, Excalibur, Thunderbolts"

Joe Preston - The Melvins, Earth, Sunn O))), High on Fire, Men's Recovery Project, Harvey Milk, Superconductor, Godheadsilo

^^^^^^^^^^ winner, lock thread.

not so fast

Kramer - Bongwater, Shockabilly, Half Japanese, Ween, B.A.L.L., The Fugs, G.G. Allin & the Superscum and finally a 6-month stint with the Butthole Surfers

plus Gong, & Zorn groups

Mick Jones! Foreigner, The Clash, Spooky Tooth!

John McGeoch: Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, PiL

Melanie Clarin: The Donner Party, SF Seals, The Catheads

Sam Coomes: The Donner Party, Heatmiser, Quasi

Barbara Manning: 28th Day, World of Pooh, SF Seals

David Immerglück: The Ophelias, Monks of Doom, Camper Van Beethoven

John Langford, Mekons, The Three Johns, Waco Brothers

Dave Stewart (no not the Eurythmics one) - Egg, National Health, Hatfield & The North, Khan, Arzachel, Bruford, AND he produced "Neil's Heavy Concept Album"

Paul Carrack: Ace (not a great band, but they had a great single), Roxy Music (full-blown band member around the time of Manifesto), Squeeze, Mike + the Mechanics

Dusty Watson: Agent Orange, Dick Dale & The Del-Tones, Slacktone, Jon and the Nightriders, The Queers, Davie Allan and the Arrows, The Surfaris

varg vikernes: burzum, mayhem, darkthrone.

whooo.

Lobby Loyde: Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, Coloured Balls, Rose Tattoo

Larry Wallis: Pink Fairies, Motorhead, UFO, Larry Wallis's Psychedelic Rowdies. (Was also in Blodwyn Pig, who I don't think I've ever actually heard.)

Paul Marotta: Electric Eels, Mirrors, Styrenes

Jacques Petrus and Mauro Malavasi: Change, Macho, BB&Q Band, Zinc, Revanche

Michael Des Barres: Silverhead, Detective, Chequered Past (okay, Chequered Past might be pushing it as far as greatness goes. Same reason I'm not nominating Stiv Bators for Rocket From The Tombs/Dead Boys/Lords Of The New Church.)

James Burton: Rick Nelson, Elvis Presley, Emmylou Harris (I believe he was a bit more than a session dude with these acts))
Bob Weston: Shellac, Mission of Burma, Volcano Suns (maybe not great?)

James Burton: Rick Nelson, Elvis Presley, Emmylou Harris (I believe he was a bit more than a session dude with these acts))

― asthmatic american, Friday, May 7, 2010 1:32 PM (27 minutes ago)

was Elvis' guitarist in Vegas for 7+ years iirc! that's a bit of a commitment imo.

Twink: Tomorrow, the Pretty Things, The Pink Fairies

Aynsley Dunbar: Journey, Aynsley Dunbar's Retaliation, Mothers/Zappa, Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Blue Whale, UFO. But it could be argued that he was more of a session guy for some of those. And he missed being in the Jimi Hendrix Experience by a coin toss.

Love Twink!! ...and wasn't Steve Howe also in Tomorrow?

Mark Sultan/BBQ: Spaceshits, Sexareenos, Mind Controls, King Khan and BBQ Show, The Ding Dongs

Twink was mentioned upthread but it bears repeating

Jim White: Dirty Three, Cat Power, Smog, Nina Nastasia

Dave Stewart (no not the Eurythmics one)

David Alan Stewart was also in The Tourists and The Spiritual Cowboys, although I guess you could argue whether they were actually great....

Mick Jones! Foreigner, The Clash, Spooky Tooth!

Trouble is, the Mick Jones who was in The Clash (and also in Big Audio Dynamite), is another Mick Jones than the other one...

Casino Steel: The Hollywood Brats, The Boys, Gary Holton & Casino Steel, CCCP

Kramer - Bongwater, Shockabilly, Half Japanese, Ween, B.A.L.L., The Fugs, G.G. Allin & the Superscum and finally a 6-month stint with the Butthole Surfers

And also this (from Wikipedia):

"Kramer worked for the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) from 2004 until February, 2006. His main job was to manage the JREF One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, which offered a million dollar prize to anyone who could demonstrate paranormal ability; the money remains unawarded. Additional duties included the investigation of paranormal phenomena, exposing "psychic" frauds and "faith healers", debunking modern new-age fallacies such as homeopathy and feng-shui, and teaching critical thinking... He insists that the work he performed under James Randi during these two years was the most important work of his life."

James Baker - the Victims, the Scientists, the Hoodoo Gurus
Ronnie Wood - the Birds (Say Those Magic Words alone makes them great), the Creation, the Faces, the Rolling Stones (and the Jeff Beck Group if you like that)

Pete Wylie - Wah! Heat, The Mighty Wah!, J.F. Wah!, Wah!, Wah! The Mongrel

Isn't that a birrova cheat?!???!? Pete Wiley renamed his band into ninteen-canteen variations of "WAH!!!!!!!!!!" every blimmin' time he changed his underwear, never mind every time he released a gramophone!!!!! In fact was a kind of "rockist" (To use the early 80s hip-priest venacular!!!!!!) version of Splodgenessabounds!!!!(!!!)

Erm, anyway!!!!! Back on topic!!!!!!!! My nomination is of course the mighty Bjorn Ulvaeus!!!! He's been in The Hootenany Singers, Bjorn and Benny, and Abba!!!!!!!

Did we really miss Tom Warrior? His ego will be crushed.

Hellhammer, Celtic Frost & Triptykon.

Jim White: Dirty Three, Cat Power, Smog, Nina Nastasia

That's a seriously great resumé.

Glen Danzig - Misfits, Samhain, Danzig

I suppose I may be stretching it a bit if I mention Tony Banks because of Genesis, Bankstatement and Strictly Inc. The latter two were both supposed to be bands, but were still seem as Banks solo projects...