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re: Best Side Projects/Lesser Known Bands of Famous Musicians

Posted on 1/29/15 at 8:57 am to
Posted by The Spleen
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 1/29/15 at 8:57 am to
Mad Season is probably one of my favorites.

One of Layne Staley's best vocal performances.

Rive Of Deceit
Posted by TFTC
Chicago, Il
Member since May 2010
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Posted on 1/29/15 at 9:00 am to
Gram Parson's

International Submarine Band

Blue Eyes

covered by Jeff Tweedy and Jat Farrar's first band... Uncle Tupelo

Blue Eyes
Posted by TFTC
Chicago, Il
Member since May 2010
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Posted on 1/29/15 at 9:06 am to
Also, Coffee Creek was a cover band that was made up of the original members of Uncle Tupelo and Brian Henneman (Bottle Rockets)

you can download the mp3s from one of their live shows at Cicero's in St. Louis (June '92) here

edit: they never recorded and original, studio tracks

This post was edited on 1/29/15 at 9:08 am
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
81604 posts
Posted on 1/29/15 at 9:09 am to
quote:

Uncle Tupelo and Brian Henneman
Oh damn...
Posted by RaginCajunz
Member since Mar 2009
5310 posts
Posted on 1/29/15 at 9:17 am to
I submit Puscifer: (Maynard of Tool)

Conditions of My Parole - Live on Letterman
This post was edited on 1/29/15 at 9:24 am
Posted by LSUrme
CTC
Member since Oct 2005
5335 posts
Posted on 1/29/15 at 9:25 am to
What baw said about Chino Moreno.

Crosses - Bitches Brew
Posted by The Seaward
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2006
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Posted on 1/29/15 at 9:42 am to
sunset rubdown (spencer krug of wolf parade)

I'm not sure if Wolf Parade qualifies as "famous" and I'm not sure I would even call Sunset Rubdown a side project since the quality and quantity of their output became at least equal to Wolf Parade, but any chance I get to pimp Sunset Rubdown, I'm taking it.
Posted by pankyrang78
Member since Nov 2014
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Posted on 1/29/15 at 9:53 am to
quote:

sunset rubdown (spencer krug of wolf parade)

I'm not sure if Wolf Parade qualifies as "famous" and I'm not sure I would even call Sunset Rubdown a side project since the quality and quantity of their output became at least equal to Wolf Parade, but any chance I get to pimp Sunset Rubdown, I'm taking it.




Yes! Sunset Rubdown put out some really great shite. Definitely on par with Wolf Parade. Saw them in 2007. Saw Wolf Parade in 2006. Really lovethose bands.
Posted by Galactic Inquisitor
An Incredibly Distant Star
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 1/29/15 at 10:15 am to
Unified Theory

Chris Shinn - Lead vocals/guitar (Everything Is Energy/Live/son of former Hornets owner George Shinn, but talented nonetheless and a genuinely nice guy)
Christopher Thorn - lead guitar (Blind Melon)
Brad Smith - bass/backing vocals (Blind Melon/Abandon Jalopy)
Dave Krusen - drums (Pearl Jam/Candlebox)

Wither
Posted by The Seaward
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2006
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Posted on 1/29/15 at 10:15 am to
I saw Wolf Parade live in '08, Sunset Rubdown in '09. Both great shows. Krug is probably my favorite songwriter of the past decade. I wish he would go back to making more guitar-centic music.
Posted by JuiceTerry
Roond the Scheme
Member since Apr 2013
40868 posts
Posted on 1/29/15 at 1:45 pm to
Treat Her Right was Sandman's band before Morphine.
Good shite.

The Traveling Wilburys was about as star-studded a side project as there ever was, if not the most.
This post was edited on 1/29/15 at 4:44 pm
Posted by Poodlebrain
Way Right of Rex
Member since Jan 2004
19860 posts
Posted on 1/29/15 at 1:50 pm to
I don't know about the best, but it is up there for most amusing. The Pleasure Barons were a side project of Mojo Nixon, Country Dick Montana and Dave Alvin
Posted by ThePenIsMightier
Member since Jul 2006
9061 posts
Posted on 1/29/15 at 1:59 pm to
quote:

The Pleasure Barons


Oh wow. Can't believe I forgot them. That live album is still one of my favorites.
Posted by Dandy Lion
Member since Feb 2010
50248 posts
Posted on 1/29/15 at 2:09 pm to
Power Station- Robert Palmer with bassist and guitarist from Durán Durán

Tin Machine- David Bowie with Soupy Sales´s sons

Gorillaz- Damon Albarn of Blur

Ian Hunter- Mick Ronson (of David Bowie fame)

Derek and the Dominoes- Allman and Clapton

This post was edited on 1/29/15 at 2:11 pm
Posted by nc14
La Jolla
Member since Jan 2012
28193 posts
Posted on 1/29/15 at 3:46 pm to
Keith Richards - X-Pensive Winos, New Barbarians
Phil Collins - Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Posted by tigermeat
Member since Jan 2005
3004 posts
Posted on 1/29/15 at 4:05 pm to
Brad Whitford of Aerosmith and Derek St. Holmes, the great underrated singer for Ted Nugent released an awesome rock album in 1981.

Whitford/St. Holmes---I Need Love

Toni Iommi's first solo album rocked. Performances by Dave Grohl, Ozzy, Henry Rollins, Billy Corgin, Ian Astbury, Brian May, etc. was a helluva album.

Toni Iommi (Feat. Ian Astbury)---Flame On

This post was edited on 1/29/15 at 4:08 pm
Posted by MAROON
Houston
Member since Jul 2012
1765 posts
Posted on 1/29/15 at 5:20 pm to
Temple of The Dog

Basically Pearl Jam and Chris Cornell
LINK
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
141660 posts
Posted on 1/29/15 at 5:43 pm to
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The Hotrats (originally the Diamond Hoo Ha Men) is a cover band formed by Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey as a side-project from their main band Supergrass. The band is named after Frank Zappa's album Hot Rats. The duo recorded a set of covers with producer Nigel Godrich for an album entitled Turn Ons in the vein of David Bowie's Pin Ups which was released in early 2010.
Probably my favorite cover act ever

The Hotrats - "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right to Party" -- done in the style of Pete Townshend/Who c. 1970
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
23315 posts
Posted on 1/29/15 at 5:43 pm to
Neil Peart "Burning with Buddy" - Tribute to drummer Buddy Rich with each song featuring a different drummer
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
23315 posts
Posted on 1/29/15 at 6:01 pm to
My friend Jerry Martini (formerly of Sly and the Family Stone) along with a couple of future Night Rangers came out with this band and album:


Rubicon - Cheatin'
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