More specifically:
Ted Nugent, guitar – of the Amboy Dukes and a soloist
Jack Blades, bass/vocals – of Night Ranger
Tommy Shaw, guitar – of Styx
Mike Cartellone, drums – DY was his first major gig
Well, there’s Bloodbath…
…and then there’s Maude
Electronic (New Order/Pet Shop Boys) had a couple of good albums.
Arcturus, Kalmah, and Age of Silence.
Gah, I forgot Oysterhead, with Les Claypool, the bassist from the Police and a drummer from somewhere…
And I forgot Queens of the Stone age.
But most of all, I forgot the best cover band in the whole entire world, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes!
If we’re on about supergroups that weren’t really groups, the cake topper would have to be The Dirty Mac…John Lennon, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Mitch Mitchell.
This sentence clearly needs some revision. There’s a Sting joke here somewhere though. I just can’t seem to come up with it. Damn my non-functioning brain.
Les and Sting? Wow, what a weird concept.
Going back a few posts, I don’t see Van Halen meeting the criteria.
They are?
The wreckage from two bands from Halifax in Canada produced two chimera bands. Neuseiland was made up of Charles Austin and Drew Yamada, formerly of The Super Friendz, and Joel Plaskett and Cliff Gibb, formerly of Thrush Hermit. They were all right. Plaskett must have liked the idea, because he later recruited Dave Marsh, also formerly of The Super Friendz, for his band The Joel Plaskett Emergency. They rock.
Too bad Echo & The Bunnymen don’t fall into the OP’s criteria.
This gives my a good hijack opportunity / help request: Does anyone recall a (non-Sting) post-Police side project with a name that sounded similar to Eberhardt Dance Experience?
I know … I just thought it was interesting that Van Halen was in a sense a chimera band. It’s just that VH was a chimera of three high-school garage bands. But there’s probably a zillion bands whose origins were similar.
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A legit chimera band not yet mentioned was the mid-80s supergroup the Power Station: solo singer Robert Palmer with John Taylor and Andy Taylor from Duran Duran and former Chic drummer Tony Thompson.
The Postal Serive–Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie, Jimmy Tamborello from Dntel, and Jenny Lewis from Rilo Kiley. Oh yeah.
Angelenos may remember The Knitters (X + The Blasters)
Dashboard Confessional – with Chris Carrabba, and then Dan Hoerner from Sunny Day Real Estate, with Scott Schoenbeck from The Promise Ring playing bass on tours.
Where’s the Travelling Wilburys? Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and George Harrison is as significant a grouping as you can get without the Stones merging with the Who and the Beatles.
Going through my MP3 list quickly, the ones that jump out at me:
Fugazi – Minor Threat and Rites of Spring
Gorillaz – Blur, Talking Heads, Dr Octogon
Pinback – Thingy and Three Mile Pilot
Rival Schools – Quicksand and Gorilla Biscuits
Shellac – Big Black and Brick Layer Cake
Tortoise – bastro and eleventh dream day
Tuatara – REM, Luna, Screaming Trees
Homme and Nick Oliveri used to be in Kyuss, and if you can’t their last QotSA album then they have links to the Screaming Trees (Lanegan) and Nirvana (Grohl).