The way I see it, a dream supergroup would include performers who you'd wanna hear playing with someone else, because of... / whatever your reason is/...
Aretha - probably the best female singer ever lived - sang her best performances with large concert bands, and not in her regular concerts or even on studio recordings. So, I'd love to hear her singing with a monster band and some great supporting cast.
My Soul Supergroup would be:
Aretha, Marvin Gaye, Temptations - vocals
George Duke, Stevie Wonder - keyboards
Marcus Miller - bass
Tony Allen and Billy Cobham - drums & percussion
Chicago - brass section
Prince and Leo Nocentelli - guitars
Rock:
Robert Plant, Freddie Mercury, Mark Knopfler, Guillan - vocals
Knopfler, May, Page, Gilmour - guitars
Marcus Miller - bass
Banks, Wright - keyboards
Kenny Aronoff and Ian Paice- drums
Mind you, today's level of concert and studio musicians is so incredibly high - most of the current big stage bands can back almost anyone and the outcome would be a super-amazing performance. Just look at SNL band, or former Letterman/Schaeffer band or Roots - they can play anything, literally anything, and it would sound tops. I highly recommend watching a concert of Eric Clapton's with Wynton Marsalis Band - that's a supergroup right there... Endless topic, of course...
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George Harrison
Jeff Lynne
Bob Dylan
Tom Petty
Roy Orbison
NSFW!
That's a pretty amazing lineup for sure.
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Mind you, today's level of concert and studio musicians is so incredibly high - most of the current big stage bands can back almost anyone and the outcome would be a super-amazing performance. Just look at SNL band, or former Letterman/Schaeffer band or Roots - they can play anything, literally anything, and it would sound tops. I highly recommend watching a concert of Eric Clapton's with Wynton Marsalis Band - that's a supergroup right there... Endless topic, of course...
Must mention Jon Batiste and Stay Human as well. Just fantastic.
I don't have a deep knowledge of individual musicians, so I after some cursory examination of the candidates, and limiting the group to the standard rock band, I present the band that I would like to listen to:
Vocals: Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Guitar: Eddie van Halen (van Halen)
Bass: Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Drums: Neil Peart (Rush)
I don't have a deep knowledge of individual musicians, so I after some cursory examination of the candidates, and limiting the group to the standard rock band, I present the band that I would like to listen to:
Vocals: Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Guitar: Eddie van Halen (van Halen)
Bass: Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Drums: Neil Peart (Rush)
no trombone???
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“To generalize is to be an idiot.” William Blake
Vocals - Gord Downie
Lead guitar - Kirk Hammett
Rhythm guitar - James Hetfield
Bass - I don’t know, anyone
Drums - Danny Carey
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A lot of times the best songwriters in bands aren't the lead singer or lead guitarist. Izzy Stradlin was not that well known to casual rock fans in Guns N Roses, yet he's responsible for so many of their bigger hits.
An incredible songwriter for a mega rock group, but no one putting a super group together would put him in it. Supergroups are always the "face" of a few different bands, which doesn't always translate to great song writing in said super group, and song writing is king. Without that you're dead.
Traveling Wilburys was a little different as they actually had great songwriters together, as opposed to others that go for best/most famous musicians and a famous frontman.
I absolutely love when Orbison comes in with his part. But that might be more to do with just loving his voice than anything special with this song.
He is a gooder.
I just feel like they played it very safe with the structure of the song, perhaps too safe.
Maybe that's what happens with these super groups or big-time collabs. Rather than expanding exponentially on their collective muscial genius, they instead rely on recognition to get people excited. Whereas if they focused first and foremost on the music writing, they could really exploit their potential. But often you find with these collabs they just take a well-trodden path with the lyrics and melody.
"Everybody's got somebody, to lean on" is about as cookie cutter as you can get for lyrics.
Harrison's parts come across more signature to his personal style. And that's the thing I've always respected about him. Whatever he's contributed to, those contributions are authentic to him. He brought another dimension to the Beatles with his songs, rather than attempting to conform to what John & Paul had already done.
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