Hat trick. artists with three hit bands

I've always wanted to form a band and call it Various Artists.

 

Man, I thought of him too before I read your post!

 

Cozy Powell:
BRIAN MAY WITH COZY POWELL - Resurrection
RAINBOW
MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP
WHITESNAKE
EMERSON, LAKE & POWELL
GARY MOORE
BLACK SABBATH
DONOVAN
not sure if his lps with Beck made the top 40. Great Hard rock drumer

 

Peter Frampton
1 The Herd 2 UK hit singles
2 Humble Pie
3 Frampton solo

 

Wow! All those bands had top 40 hit singles!? That's especially impressive for Fripp / Eno considering they never released any singles.

(People should really read what this thread is about before they just randomly reel off the name of anybody who's ever recorded in more than two configurations.)

 

Neither did half the bands listed in this thread

 

I don't think he's been mentioned yet, but Bootsy Collins had #1 R&B singles with James Brown, Parliament, Funkadelic, Bootsy's Rubber Band (and a #1 US Dance single guesting on Deee-Lite's 'Groove Is in the Heart').

And Bernard Sumner (Joy Division, New Order, Electronic) is a no-brainer that I think might have been missed.

 

We keep saying Maxie over here over here.Then when we turn out back, he goes in the flower pot again. No Maxie no!

 

Tom Petty

with The Heartbreakers
Traveling Wilburys
Duet w Stevie Nicks
Duet w Roger McGuinn
Duet w Hank Williams Jr.

 

title

three hit bands

certainly these bands listed have put out great music that has been very influential

guilty of not reading a further restriction by the op, thanks for the correction

sorry

 

Neil Young

Buffalo Springfield
CSYN
Neil Young



didn't read 7 pages of comments

Steve Winwood

Traffic
Blind Faith
Solo
Spencer Davis

 

I think only Genesis counts. He was the backing vocals on Screaming jets.

 

Ringo Starr
1 Beatles
2 solo
3 Plastic Ono Band L.p. John Lennom

 

Hmmm, this is hard to track down. RIAA shows the debut album went platinum, I'd say on the strength of
"Rock the Nation"
"Bad Motor Scooter"
"Space Station #5"
"Rock Candy"
which were hits. On the other hand, I don't see a Top 40 hit out of those, although I didn't research exhaustively. So (like some other entries here) it may not meet the OPs criteria if we hold to that strictly.

 

David Howie
1 solo
2 under pressure with Queen
3 Dancing in the streets w Mick Jagger

 

Robbie Robertson:
w/Dylan
The Band
Solo

 

I think this shows how counting duets as separate acts quickly gets ridiculous. A solo artist doesn't suddenly lose or change their identity when they record a duet, and you can easily find plenty of serial duettists who were never in bands that would qualify (Marvin Gaye is a screamingly obvious example: duet hits with four different partners - though these were, at least, ongoing parallel careers for him, not just novelty one-offs). If you're clutching at straws to include your beloved Bowie in a club where he really doesn't belong, then the first straw you should clutch at is Tin Machine, who - believe it or not - actually did manage a top 40 single in the UK. And if you're determined to count every hit collaboration, however dubious, you really shouldn't discriminate against Bing Crosby and Pat Metheny like that.

 

Actually, if you're going to count every duet and collaboration as a separate group, then you should probably just give up and hand over the crown to Kanye West, who as far as I can tell has had top 40 US R&B hits in nearly forty different permutations, either as the top-billed artist plus guest stars ("Kanye West featuring X. Y, or Jay-Z") or as the featured guest star of some other act (e.g. "DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince featuring Joanie, Chachi and Kanye West"). In the later category there are more than seventy different singles listed on wikipedia, and twenty of them were hits. But just between you and me, I don't think Kanye West has really been in more than 100 bands.

 

Yeah...maybe take out the one off duets and make it that they have to do an entire album.

Like Graham Nash

Hollies
Crosby and Nash
Solo

 

Yes well I never anticipated the Kanye West (serial) duets artist syndrome. That certainly wasn't my intention for this thread. I was just thinking of people like John Lennon who once had a hit duet. Lets face it there aren't that many people that have been in 3 hit bands with either a top 40 single or gold album. I thought the thread might get a little more mileage if we included duets. I've happily never heard Kanye West or any of his 70 duets. So it never did occur to me. Either way I can only think of a few more hat trick or people. How many more can there be.

 

Ok you enforce it. See if you also get people to stop naming groups that weren't. Even succesful

 

Lol. It won't work for me either.

 

Rudy Sarzo has been in 35% of all 80's hair metal bands.

 

Carmine Appice

Vanilla Fudge
JEff Beck
Rod Stewart

 

Jeff Beck
With Rod Stewart
With Honeydrippers
With Jan Hammer
Who else?