List of progressive rock supergroups
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This is a list of progressive rock supergroups, with each band's founding line-up and members who joined within a year of founding. This list contains only groups which have performed more than a single song or live show together.
List of progressive rock supergroups by decade[]
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1970s[] | ||||
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Founded | Band/project name | Members | Notes | |
1970 | Emerson, Lake & Palmer[1] |
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Albums: Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Tarkus, Trilogy, Brain Salad Surgery, and more | |
1971 | Captain Beyond[2] |
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Albums: Captain Beyond, Sufficiently Breathless, Dawn Explosion | |
1971 | Matching Mole |
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Albums: Matching Mole, Matching Mole's Little Red Record | |
1973 | Badger |
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Albums: One Live Badger, White Lady | |
1974 | Refugee |
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Albums: Refugee | |
1974 | Armageddon |
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Albums: Armageddon | |
1975 | National Health |
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Albums: National Health, Of Queues and Cures, D.S. Al Coda, Playtime | |
1976 | 801 |
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Albums: 801 Live, Listen Now, Manchester University | |
1977 | U.K. |
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Albums: U.K., Danger Money, Night After Night and more. | |
1977 | Strontium 90 |
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Albums: Strontium 90: Police Academy (released 1997) | |
1978 | Soft Heap/Soft Head[3] |
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Albums: Rogue Element, Soft Heap, A Veritable Centaur | |
1980s[] | ||||
Founded | Band/project name | Members | Notes | |
1981 | Asia[4][5] |
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Albums: Asia, Alpha, Astra, and more | |
1982 | In Cahoots |
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Albums: In Cahoots Live 86-89, Digging In, Live in Japan, Recent Discoveries, Parallel, Out of the Blue, All That | |
1983 | Moraz - Bruford |
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Albums: Music for Piano and Drums, Flags | |
1983 | News from Babel |
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Albums: Work Resumed on the Tower, Letters Home | |
1986 | GTR |
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Album: GTR | |
1990s[] | ||||
Founded | Band/project name | Members | Notes | |
1991 | Short Wave |
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Album: Short Wave Live | |
1992 | The Chris Squire Experiment |
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Toured, but released no albums. Later re-emerged as Conspiracy | |
1997 | Bozzio Levin Stevens |
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Albums: Black Light Syndrome, Situation Dangerous | |
1997 | Explorers Club |
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Albums: Age of Impact, Raising the Mammoth | |
1997 | Rudess/Morgenstein Project |
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Albums: Rudess/Morgenstein Project, The Official Bootleg | |
1998 | Gordian Knot |
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Albums: Gordian Knot, Emergent | |
1998 | Liquid Tension Experiment |
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Albums: Liquid Tension Experiment, Liquid Tension Experiment 2 | |
1999 | Bruford Levin Upper Extremities |
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Albums: Bruford Levin Upper Extremities, B.L.U.E. Nights | |
1999 | Qango |
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Album: Live in the Hood | |
1999 | Planet X |
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Albums: Universe, Live From Oz, MoonBabies, Quantum | |
1999 | Transatlantic |
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Albums: SMPT:e, Live in America, Bridge Across Forever, Live in Europe, The Whirlwind, Kaleidoscope | |
2000s[] | ||||
Founded | Band/project name | Members | Notes | |
2000 | Conspiracy |
Guest musicians:
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Albums: Conspiracy, The Unknown
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2000 | John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess |
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Album: An Evening with John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess | |
2002 | The Tangent |
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Albums: The Music That Died Alone, The World That We Drive Through, A Place in the Queue | |
2002 | 21st Century Schizoid Band |
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Albums: Official Bootleg V.1, Live in Japan, Live in Italy, Pictures Of A City — Live in New York | |
2002 | Jelly Jam |
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Albums: Jelly Jam, Jelly Jam 2, Shall We Descend | |
2003 | OSI (Office of Strategic Influence) |
Guest musicians:
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Albums: Office of Strategic Influence, Free, Blood, Fire Make Thunder | |
2004 | Altera Enigma |
Former member:
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Albums: Alteration | |
2004 | The Sound of Animals Fighting |
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Albums: Tiger and the Duke, Lover, the Lord Has Left Us..., The Ocean and the Sun | |
2005 | White |
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Albums: Loyal (unreleased) White (2006) | |
2006 | Circa |
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Album: Circa 2007 | |
2007 | Amaran's Plight |
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Album: Voice in the Light | |
2007 | UKZ |
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EP: Radiation | |
2009 | Yoso |
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Album: Elements | |
2009 | Floating Me |
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Album: Floating Me | |
2010s[] | ||||
Founded | Band/project name | Members | Notes | |
2012 | Flying Colors |
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Albums: Flying Colors, Second Nature, Third Degree | |
2014 | The Birds of Satan |
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Album: The Birds of Satan | |
2014 | The Mute Gods |
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Albums: Do Nothing till You Hear from Me, Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth, Atheists and Believers | |
2017 | Sons of Apollo |
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Album: Psychotic Symphony | |
2017 | The Sea Within |
Guest and touring member: |
Album: The Sea Within | |
Star coverbands[] | ||||
Founded | Band/project name | Members | Notes | |
1993 | Spin 1ne 2wo |
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The band covered classic rock songs by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Blind Faith, Steely Dan and Bob Dylan. | |
2003 | Yellow Matter Custard |
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The Beatles cover band. | |
2006 | Hammer of the Gods |
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Led Zeppelin cover band. | |
2006 | Cygnus and the Sea Monsters |
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Rush cover band. | |
2007 | Amazing Journey |
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The Who cover band. | |
Abortive projects[] | ||||
Founded | Band/project name | Members | Notes | |
c. 1976 | British Bulldog[6] |
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Rehearsed, but project fell apart. Some material later re-used on U.K.'s first album and on Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record. | |
1980 | unnamed band |
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Group proposed by Geffen Records, but Wakeman walked out before the band had ever played together; described in Wakeman's autobiography "Say Yes!".[7] | |
1981 | XYZ |
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Recorded demos; some material later re-used in other bands. |
References[]
- ^ Simon Usborne, "Wanna be in my band? The world's greatest supergroups" The Independent, Jun 19, 2007 Archived 2009-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Captain Beyond/Sufficiently Breathless - Captain Beyond - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ "SOFT HEAP". Progarchives.com. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ "Supergroup return to the stage". Sunderlandecho.com. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ Simon, "Wanna be in my band? The world's greatest supergroups" The Independent, Jun 19, 2007 Archived 2009-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Dan Wooding's "Caped Crusader" quotes Wakeman as saying that the band had not decided on a name, but that "it may well have been British Legion"
- ^ Wakeman R, "Say Yes!"
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