Bands with just three members.

[BlankSlate]

@eschereal

Marcy Playground, anyone heard of them?
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Sure, a one-hit wonder band.

I smell sex and candied yams, mmm

[ElmerH]

Nirvana,
Muse,
Triumph

[Yorkshire_Pudding]

Oddly, Presidents of the United States of America were first to mind. Nothing wrong with them…but I’m pretty surprised that they leapfogged CSN and Peter, Paul & Mary in my raised-by-60s-folky-hippy-parents consciousness.

[Snowboarder_Bo]

@epbrown01

Timbuk3, though they later added a fourth member. At their height they were in the movie DOA with Quaid and Ryan, playing “Too Much Sex, Not Enough Affection” but they’re probably best known for “The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades.”

Here’s my version: The Slow & Low Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

@Dante_1111

Opal: David Roback (Rain Parade), Kendra Smith (Dream Syndicate), Keith Mitchell (Green On Red). Awesome neo-psychedelia! One of the favorite “local” LA bands from my teens. Wore out my Happy Nightmare Baby cassette a few times.

@Egnu_Cledge

I love Opal. Have you heard their Early Recordings compilations? Possibly even better than the album. Check out Lisa’s Funeral and Cherry Jam.

Truly, y’all are my peeps! Happy Nightmare Baby is one of just a handful of albums from the late 1980s that are perfect. I’ve lost at least 1 cassette and 3 CDs to ex-girlfriends, so I now keep 2 copies of the CD in my house, just in case. And yeah, I backed up my mp3 files too. I freaking love that album.

[China_Guy]

Hound dog Taylor and the Houserockers

Reverend Horton Heat

George Thorogood and the deleware destroyers had 3 person incarnatons.