Amerigo Vespucci

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 07:03 PM
Original message

YOUR choice for the WORST "Supergroup" of all time

Here are a couple to get you started:

1). Bad English

The Babys' Jonathan Waite on vocals, Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain from Journey, and 2 non-super guys on bass & drums.

2). Damn Yankees

Jack Blades from Night Ranger, Tommy Shaw from Styx, plus the Nuge, and another guy you never heard of on drums.

OK...Your turn!

:toast:

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Taverner

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 07:07 PM
Response to Original message

1. The Firm

On paper, it sounded great. Paul Rodgers, Jimmy Page and some other excellent musicians.

On CD, however, it sounded like crap.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Amerigo Vespucci

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 07:09 PM
Response to Reply #1

2. You're right. They didn't have the songs or the passion.

No "Zep-caliber," "Free-caliber," "BadCo-caliber" songs on either of their two albums, and both Page and Rodgers just seemed like they'd be happier elsewhere.

:toast:

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

SPKrazy

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 07:27 PM
Response to Reply #1

6. what about "radioactive"

:P

:shrug:

okay

you're right

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Bennyboy

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 07:41 PM
Response to Reply #1

8. They were even worse LIVE.....

Unbelievably bad. Might have been the single most dissappointing concert I have ever been to.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Taverner

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 07:52 PM
Response to Reply #8

9. Page was pretty into the white stuff at that time

And he was coming from a several year hiatus where he didn't touch the guitar.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

KitchenWitch

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 07:19 PM
Response to Original message

3. Asia

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Amerigo Vespucci

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 07:22 PM
Response to Reply #3

4. bbernardini is truly a prophet...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7165325

:evilgrin:

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

KitchenWitch

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 07:26 PM
Response to Reply #4

5. OMG

:rofl:

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

bbernardini

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat Nov-24-07 07:09 AM
Response to Reply #4

32. TOLD YOU.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Generic Brad

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 10:11 PM
Response to Reply #3

12. I agree

They received a lot of hype and only had one pop hit to show for it.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

fudge stripe cookays

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 10:35 PM
Response to Reply #12

13. Make that two.

Edited on Fri Nov-23-07 10:35 PM by fudge stripe cookays

"Heat of the Moment", yes, but "Only Time Will Tell" got some air and MTV play too.

Since I got XM Radio and moved to Wisconsin, I have heard "Sole Survivor" three times! Hadn't heard it in twenty something years!

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Generic Brad

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 10:40 PM
Response to Reply #13

14. I only liked "Heat of the Moment"

Edited on Fri Nov-23-07 10:40 PM by Generic Brad

Maybe that is why I subconsciously blocked out their other songs. And I have their CD sitting right in front of me.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Redstone

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 07:30 PM
Response to Original message

7. Never heard of either of them, so they can't have been too "Super" after all.

Redstone

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Orrex

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 09:13 PM
Response to Original message

10. I don't know if it counts as a supergroup, but...

Coverdale/Page always seemed congenitally ridiculous to me.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Orrex

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 09:14 PM
Response to Reply #10

11. And now that I think of it, Tin Machine wasn't too great, either

David Bowie

Adrian Belew, I think.

And...?

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Amerigo Vespucci

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 10:59 PM
Response to Reply #11

18. Tin Machine:

Bowie, Tony & Hunt Sales, & Reeves Gabriels (no Belew), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Machine

The concept always seemed better than the actual CDs. I was relieved when Bowie simply went back to being Bowie.

:toast:

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Orrex

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 11:15 PM
Response to Reply #18

19. Thanks--I was too lazy to Wiki on my dialup connection

IIRC Belew played on the Sound and Vision tour, and of course Bowie sang on Pretty Pink Rose.

Somewhere in all of that I must have jumbled Belew in with Tin Machine. Oops!

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

gmoney

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 11:20 PM
Response to Reply #11

20. there's a great story from one of the Pixies about Tin Machine...

Edited on Fri Nov-23-07 11:24 PM by gmoney

I think it was Joey, the guitarist, and they were playing a big Euro-festival, and Bowie invites Joey into his trailer to play him the Tin Machine record.

"How was it?"

"Well, with David Bowie standing right there, it was the best fucking thing I'd ever heard."

(on edit: Turns out Bowie was a huge fan of the Pixies, which sort of inspired him forming the group)

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

driver8

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat Nov-24-07 01:35 AM
Response to Reply #20

25. Joey is my guitar God!!

I love his playing!!

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Initech

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 10:44 PM
Response to Original message

15. Audioslave

I saw them in '05, they put on a good show. But Chris Cornell + Rage =/= work. They made one decent album and two shitty albums. Now on the other side, Rage is back together and rocks more than ever, and Chris Cornell's new solo album is fantastic.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Amerigo Vespucci

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 10:57 PM
Response to Reply #15

17. Yes, as a Soundgarden fan I welcomed new Cornell material...

...but Audioslave didn't have what it took to stay in it for the long haul.

:toast:

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Robeson

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Nov-23-07 10:48 PM
Response to Original message

16. Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, and other 70's suburban pop....

...:hide:

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Sugar Smack

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat Nov-24-07 12:22 AM
Response to Reply #16

22. Oh, OHHHH! There's a special place in hell for Fleetwood Mac haters.

:wow: Honey!!! Get back in that chimney!!:P

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

carly denise pt deux

(855 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat Nov-24-07 12:17 AM
Response to Original message

21. Damn Yankees

Carly

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

porphyrian

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat Nov-24-07 12:22 AM
Response to Original message

23. The Superfriends with the Wonder Twins and that stupid monkey.

"Form of a rhinoceros, shape of an ice ramp" my ass.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

ghostsofgiants

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat Nov-24-07 12:42 AM
Response to Original message

24. Velvet Revolver are pretty awful.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

asthmaticeog

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat Nov-24-07 01:45 AM
Response to Original message

26. GTR

:puke:

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

TK421

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat Nov-24-07 01:51 AM
Response to Reply #26

27. Who is GTR?

:shrug: I'm so musically ignorant, and haven't been keeping up with the more recent bands...sorry

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

asthmaticeog

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat Nov-24-07 01:55 AM
Response to Reply #27

28. Weak '80s project.

Steve Howe from Yes, Steve Hackett from Genesis with an ex-Marillion drummer. For some reason, this combination of musicians produced a barely listenable single that sounded kind of like Journey, of all things. And come to think of it, Journey would certainly be contenders for worst supergroup...

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

TK421

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat Nov-24-07 01:59 AM
Response to Reply #28

29. Artists from Yes and Genesis that couldn't produce a listenable sound?

Well...that really sucks ass, and I'm not even sure that listenable is a real word, but since I'm so drunk, I decided to make it up...here, tonight. :D

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

asthmaticeog

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat Nov-24-07 02:02 AM
Response to Reply #29

30. Yeah, it was really an unfortunate record.

Though it spawned my all time favorite record review. Not even one word long. It just read "SHT."

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

backwoodsbob

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat Nov-24-07 05:45 AM
Response to Reply #30

31. no mention of rockstar supernova?

worst band ever

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

DU AdBot (1000+ posts)

Thu May 02nd 2024, 09:08 PM
Response to Original message

Advertisements [?]

Top

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.