Not unless they changed the band's name. They were the Stones before the lineup changes, and they were the Stones after the lineup changes, so no. If they kept the 'Small Faces' name, then no - but since they changes the name to 'Faces' then yes, as the Faces are 3/4 of the Small Faces combined with 2/4 (or was it 2/5 - did they have a permanent keyboard player at any point?) of the Jeff Beck Group to form the "supergroup" Faces. If they had kept the 'Small Faces' name, then it would have just been Steve Marriott being replaced by Wood on guitar and Stewart on vocals.
So if YOU personally haven't heard of someone, then that means they aren't/weren't famous?! Bruce and Baker were quite well known in the UK prior to Cream as both were members together of two fairly successful and highly influential at the time bands, and Rick Grech was a bandmember on the first two 'Family' albums until he was poached by Blind Faith (which he may have regretted since Family continued for several more years without him - while Blind Faith OTOH...). Sure he was the least known member of Blind Faith, but he was hardly unknown. BTW reportedly The Beatles dropped their original intended title for the White Album after Family released their debut album which had a similar title to they one they were intending to use.
How was that a "claim to fame"? Neither the movie, nor the soundtrack album were released prior to the Band Of Gypsys new years eve concerts, let alone the release of the resulting BOG live album. A dwindling crowd of only a few hundred saw them at Woodstock as they were way behind schedule, appearing the morning after the concert was due to end, so most of the crowd had already gone home. So any guy who plays a concert to a few hundred people one time is "supergroup material"? Seriously?
Given the impact, yes. Super group it is! Let’s see, who has heard of the GBO? Now, who has heard of Woodstock. Thanks for making my point.
Just trying to play the game, beacuse it sounds like fun to me (yes, I get the question was rhetorical). So, it is late 80s. What would be a more big superstar household band going across different age groups? How about Miles Davis, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Joe Strummer, Johnny Cash? Or Bono, Herbie Hancock, Jean Michel Jarre, Paul McCartney, Dave Gilmour? Fredie Mercury, Giorgio Moroder, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Barry Gibb? Or Barbra Streissand, Joan Jett, Agnetha Faltskog, Patti Smith, Dolly Parton? Or Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Serge Gainsbourg, Frank Sinatra?Or Jimmy Page, Tommy Iommi, Ian Gillan, Lars Ulrich, Lemmy , Little Richard (ok I am just going silly.)
If you can have 'super-duper' bands, then by default you must have just regular 'duper' bands - why don't we ever talk about them...?
They're not the superest, and not really a group per se, but recognition must go to Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, and Stephen Stills. They arguably paved the way for CSY, and the title of their album, Super Session, just may have inspired the term “supergroup”.
Here’s some I haven’t seen listed yet (I think)… Derek & The Dominoes H.S.A.S. Mr. Big Blue Murder Badlands Alias Contraband Arc Angels Neurotic Outsiders Audioslave Living Loud Army Of Anyone Chickenfoot Tinted Windows The Dead Daises KXM The Hollywood Vampires
In my “world” at the time, Fugazi was a super group of sorts with ex members of Minor Threat and the Rites of Spring
That was one single with Tennant, the real supergroup line up (for one full album) was Bernard Sumner (Joy Division and New Order) Johnny Marr (The Smiths) Karl Bartos (Kraftwerk)
