'We got our own thing to do...' : supergroups and solo projects of ye olde hard rock

Asia?

I tried to stick to bands that had names in the title. The list would gotten big if you threw in the various prog bands.

Richie Blackmore's Rainbow maybe should be here, as he just kept firing his lead singer and having a new band every LP for a while there. He was kind of a midway house for hard rock vocalists and their solo career aspirations.

didn't they drop his name from the band name after the first one?

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The list would gotten big if you threw in the various prog bands.

Thought of Emerson, Lake, and Powell.

No Coverdale/Page, no credibilty. (Or is that first "no" superfluous?) Anyway, I've never listened to an entire album by any of these but I was always slightly curious about BBA.

Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Nicky Hopkins, and Keith Moon in a band that Moon joked “would go over like a lead balloon”:
https://youtu.be/Vuj5toLeyY8

West, Bruce & Laing were actually pretty good in a knuckle-walking sort of way.

I'd have added BLT (Jack Bruce, Bill Lordan, Robin Trower) to this list.

coverdale/ page and ELPowell should indeed be included…

Damn Yankees
Chicken foot

Crosby stills n nash

Velvet revolver

BBM.

Lol no wilburys?

Eh I dunno. They had nothing to prove. Love em anyway though

I've got the two Rossington Collins Band albums (only two I know of) on a reissue CD somewhere: main prob was the songwriting wasn't so distinctive w/o VZ, however Dale Krantz's (female!) vocals avoided direct comparison with Ronnie's own, and sure was nice to hear her over the sweaty guitar army. Not great, but refreshing at the time. I was cautiously optimistic but then there was something in Rolling Stone about miserable maniac Collins chasing her down the street after a show, so screw that but then she married Rossington and sang lead in The Rossington Band (AKA Rossington) but then became a backup singer in later versions of Lynyrd Skynyd, because can't no girl sing lead in that.

Phantom, Rocker and Slick sounds like the name of an awesome law firm.

Dow what are the 2 or 3 best tracks on those?

I always thought that "Men Without Shame" was a pretty cool tune by Phantom, Rocker and Slick. It got played on the radio, that's where I remember hearing it for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NJ5qAzk1rk

What started me thinking again on these 'law firm' named bands that came out of other bands breaking up was getting into the 2 breakup Aerosmith records and then the two spinoffs with the Joe Perry Project and Whitford-St. Holmes.

The Joe Perry Project records are really pretty good. The lead singer does channel up some Tyler but at times reminds me of Dan McCafferty from Nazareth. You can hear on these records what is Perry in Aerosmith's tunes. The two breakup Aerosmith records are not bad, but are a bit more laid back by comparison.

Got to say, the law firm name of 'Cornell, Morello, Commerford and Wilk' is much better than calling your band AUDIOSLAVE.

Lol no wilburys?

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noted hard rock shredders Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne

G-Force - their one and only album rules; some great shredding from Gary

xp "Three Times As Bad" was an outstanding Rossington-Collins studio track, and the instrumental versions of "Freebird" in their live sets (lots of soundboards); really they were better live, as you might suspect. Had Leon Wilkerson and Billy Powell in there too, with some other guys in their orbit whose names I forget, also in the Allen Collins Band, mostly available on a few studio boots I think. Never heard The Artimus Pyle Band, but some friends said it was pretty hot live, years and years ago. Think he still plays, and several albums.

Bogert, rhymes with yogurt. Poor guy never gets no respect.

Oh wow Wiki sez BB&A's Live In Japan was only released in Japan, but I recall hearing it at various parties around the Ol' Dirty South: barrific flash & thud arena rock, exemplary the early 70s--the studio s/t was okay, but the live had even more Don Nix, adding the bar-arena-cain't-bust-this "I'm Goin' Down" ("Down, down, down!"), another scorched chestnut, Tim Rose's "Morning Dew," ye olde "Jeff's Boogie." a dipstick diptych of "Across The Plynth" and Junior Walker's "Shotgun," something by Curtis Mayfield, some uh BB&A originals oh and "Superstitious, " which it was said that Stevie had originally given Beck first crack at, then took it back, but JB played on the Wonder hit version (so I was told), anyway here you get it with the famous Noo Yawk Vanilla Fudge veterans' vocals, "Vehry Soopah-" etc (those guys were also in Cactus, gotta give 'em credit for that).
Don't know what I would think of that brief-lived soopahgroop now, but at the time I preferred the arena-ruling Johnny Winter And Live, And being Rick Derringer and Randy Jo Hobbs (both from the McCoys of "Hang On Sloopy" fame) and Tommy Caldwell (also of Captain Beyond, plus he played on Derringer's "Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo.")

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Never got the BBA "Live in Japan" as it was often crazy expensive when I saw the CDs.

I've always liked the Beck Bogart and Appice record. I got it on LP and played it a ton. Beck's singing on "Black Cat Moan" I thought was pretty decent. They probably would have had to have had a 'hit' to have continued. From what I remember, this band was supposed to happen when the first Jeff Beck Group fell apart, but Beck was ill and the other two went onto Cactus.

The two studio and one live West, Bruce and Laing records are pretty good. They definitely got a sludgy and dark sound, kinda tempered when you read about how whacked out on smack all of them were. They are definitely worth hearing if you like Cream and Mountain, but don't expect those heights.

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Had no idea some of these guys were so prolific, and are still at it.

Tim Bogert (whose name no one can spell) is still out there despite having really messed himself up in a motorcycle accident ten or twelve years ago. He can't tour but still does studio stuff and local gigs.

Listening to the lone Blind Faith album this week, I got to wonder how things would have been just a bit different if that would have just been the next TRAFFIC album and not called a supergroup.

Got to think Ginger Baker while his playing as usual was very good, he was probably the lunatic reason why this did not last more than a record.

I'd love to have heard a version of Little Wing like the Dominoes doing it with Winwood and Clapton, that could have been pretty sweet.

Got to think a version of Traffic Faith with Capaldi and Wood might have been more the chill groovy scene that Clapton was looking to find like the Band and they could have collaborated. One could even imagine what a version where Dave Mason comes back - got to think his easy does it music CLapton might have enjoyed playing guitar upon.