Electronic - a spinoff of Joy Division and The Smiths. Once again, not sure if “side project” is better, but at least half its history is while New Order were on hiatus, and all of it is post-Smiths.
Bad Lieutenant is a new band which is basically New Order w/o their bass player who left to do his own thing. They’re more of an acoustic-rock sound than New Order was. They’ve had quite a bit of radio play here in Chicago (though their tours keep getting canceled for one reason or another…visa problems first, then volcano problems).
I’ll go ahead and add another I thought of on the way home:
Love & Rockets was formed with three former members of Bauhaus.
The Firm was a spinoff of Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page), Bad Company (Paul Rodgers), and Uriah Heep and Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (Chris Slade).
I’m assuming that’s not The Firm that released Star Trekkin’…
Bow Wow Wow was a spin-off of Adam & the Ants.
The Band was spun off from Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks. Or, if you like, from Bob Dylan’s electric touring band.
I don’t think you could say that The Raconteurs spun off from the White Stripes, although it does consist of half of the band…
However, The Dead Weather is spun off from The Raconteurs.
The Eagles spun off from Linda Ronstadt’s touring band, and then later formed a second incarnation with members from Poco and Joe Walsh.
I doubt that most on here would have ever heard of them, but Youth of Today spawned quite a few “spin-off” bands:
http://bandtoband.com/index.php?Page=Search&BandId=33
That “local cluster” looks like it was drawn with a Spirograph and and that “family tree” is just…like…wow.
all these mentions of Soundgarden and none for Audioslave? formed from the Soundgarden leadsinger and the members of Rages against the Machine less the singer.
and I am drawing a blank on who from Soundgarden was in Mother Love Bone?
Crowded House - spun off of Split Enz
Semisonic - spun off of Trip Shakespeare
And (obscure, but a personal favorite) The Swirling Eddies - spun off of Daniel Amos
I came in here to vote for this.
New Riders of the Purple Sage originated as a spinoff of The Grateful Dead. They never topped any charts and the Dead guys left pretty quickly, but they kill in concert.
Virtually every band Eric Clapton has been in could qualify: Cream, Derek and the Dominoes, Louisiana Gator Boys, Yardbirds, et al. could be seen as spinoffs of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers.
The Band is essentially a spinoff from The Hawks…
The Max Weinberg Seven is composed of former E Street Band, Southside Johnny and Miami Horns.
The Mescaleros from The Clash. Joe Strummer, RIP.
Perhaps lesser known by some an early punk band called Big In Japan whose members then went on to become:
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Souxsie & The Banshees
The KLF
The Lightning Seeds
The Teardrop Explodes
The Hollies never officially broke up and are still touring, for what it’s worth.
The Knitters spun off from X; Humble Pie and The Faces from The Small Faces…
:smack: You’re right… I think I was thinking of Temple of the Dog when I posted that.
Another one:
**Cracker **was a “spin off” of Camper Van Beethoven
The biggest commercial success has to be ABBA: Benny & Bjorn were members of the successful Swedish bands The Hep Cats and The Hootenanny Singers. And Agnetha & Frida had pre-ABBA sucessful solo carerrs.
Erasure and Yaz(oo) from Depeche Mode.
And the link for both of them is the same person, Vince Clark (with Andrew Bell in Erasure and with Alison Moyet (who is really looking fabulous lately) in Yaz(oo)).
Not quite “spin-offs” but if you follow Johnny Marr, he played with The The as well as Modest Mouse…
You would be correct in that assumption, though the thought of Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers doing a Star Trek spoof is humorous. 