List of progressive rock supergroups explained

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

1970s

FoundedBand/project nameMembersNotes
1970Emerson, Lake & Palmer[1] Albums: Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Tarkus, Trilogy, Brain Salad Surgery, and more
1971Captain Beyond[2] Albums: Captain Beyond, Sufficiently Breathless, Dawn Explosion
1971Matching Mole Albums: Matching Mole, Matching Mole's Little Red Record
1973Badger Albums: One Live Badger, White Lady
1974Refugee Albums: Refugee
1974Armageddon Albums: Armageddon
1975National Health Albums: National Health, Of Queues and Cures, D.S. Al Coda, Playtime
1976801 Albums: 801 Live, Listen Now, Manchester University
1977U.K. Albums: U.K., Danger Money, Night After Night and more.
1977Strontium 90 Albums: (released 1997)
1978Soft Heap/Soft Head[3] Albums: Rogue Element, Soft Heap, A Veritable Centaur

1980s

Founded Band/project name MembersNotes
1981Asia[4] [5] Albums: Asia, Alpha, Astra, and more
1982In Cahoots Albums: In Cahoots Live 86-89, Digging In, Live in Japan, Recent Discoveries, Parallel, Out of the Blue, All That
1983Moraz - Bruford Albums: Music for Piano and Drums, Flags
1983News from Babel Albums: Work Resumed on the Tower, Letters Home
1986GTR Album: GTR

1990s

Founded Band/project name Members Notes
1991Short Wave Album: Short Wave Live
1992The Chris Squire Experiment Toured, but released no albums. Later re-emerged as Conspiracy
1997Bozzio Levin Stevens Albums: Black Light Syndrome, Situation Dangerous
1997Explorers Club Albums: Age of Impact, Raising the Mammoth
1997Rudess/Morgenstein Project Albums: Rudess/Morgenstein Project, The Official Bootleg
1998Gordian Knot Albums: Gordian Knot, Emergent
1998Liquid Tension Experiment Albums: Liquid Tension Experiment, Liquid Tension Experiment 2
1999Bruford Levin Upper Extremities Albums: Bruford Levin Upper Extremities, B.L.U.E. Nights
1999Qango Album: Live in the Hood
1999Planet X Albums: Universe, Live From Oz, MoonBabies, Quantum
1999Transatlantic Albums: , Live in America, Bridge Across Forever, Live in Europe, The Whirlwind, Kaleidoscope

2000s

Founded Band/project name Members Notes
2000Conspiracy

----Guest musicians:

Albums: Conspiracy, The Unknown
  • Band began in 1992 as the Chris Squire Experiment
2000John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess Album: An Evening with John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess
2002The Tangent Albums: The Music That Died Alone, The World That We Drive Through, A Place in the Queue
200221st Century Schizoid Band Albums: Official Bootleg V.1, Live in Japan, Live in Italy, Pictures Of A City — Live in New York
2002Jelly Jam Albums: Jelly Jam, Jelly Jam 2, Shall We Descend
2003OSI (Office of Strategic Influence)

----Guest musicians:

Albums: Office of Strategic Influence, Free, Blood, Fire Make Thunder
2004Altera Enigma

Former member:

Albums: Alteration
2004The Sound of Animals Fighting Albums: Tiger and the Duke, Lover, the Lord Has Left Us..., The Ocean and the Sun
2005White Albums:
Loyal (unreleased)
White (2006)
2006Circa Album: Circa 2007
2007Amaran's Plight Album: Voice in the Light
2007UKZ EP: Radiation
2009Yoso Album: Elements
2009Floating Me Album: Floating Me

2010s

Founded Band/project name Members Notes
2012Flying Colors Albums: Flying Colors, Second Nature, Third Degree
2014The Birds of Satan
  • Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters)
  • Wiley Hodgden (Chevy Metal)
  • Mick Murphy (Chevy Metal)
Album: The Birds of Satan
2014The Mute Gods Albums: Do Nothing till You Hear from Me, Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth, Atheists and Believers
2017Sons of Apollo Album: Psychotic Symphony
2017The Sea Within

Guest and touring member:

Album: The Sea Within

2020s

2021Arc of Life Album: Arc of Life

Star coverbands

Founded Band/project name Members Notes
1993Spin 1ne 2wo The band covered classic rock songs by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Blind Faith, Steely Dan and Bob Dylan.
2003Yellow Matter Custard The Beatles cover band.
2006Hammer of the Gods Led Zeppelin cover band.
2006Cygnus and the Sea Monsters Rush cover band.
2007Amazing Journey The Who cover band.

Abortive projects

Founded Band/project name Members Notes
c. 1976British Bulldog[6] Rehearsed, but project fell apart. Some material later re-used on U.K.'s first album and on Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record.
1980unnamed band Group proposed by Geffen Records, but Wakeman walked out before the band had ever played together; described in Wakeman's autobiography "Say Yes".[7]
1981XYZ Recorded demos; some material later re-used in other bands.

Notes and References

  1. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20070619/ai_n19306275 Simon Usborne, "Wanna be in my band? The world's greatest supergroups" The Independent, Jun 19, 2007
  2. Web site: Captain Beyond/Sufficiently Breathless - Captain Beyond - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic. AllMusic. 1 January 2018.
  3. Web site: Soft Heap - Record Collector Magazine.
  4. Web site: Supergroup return to the stage. Sunderlandecho.com. 1 January 2018.
  5. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20070619/ai_n19306275 Simon, "Wanna be in my band? The world's greatest supergroups" The Independent, Jun 19, 2007
  6. 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"
  7. Wakeman R, "Say Yes!"

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