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Who would be in your perfect supergroup? You may choose musicians who are dead or alive.

My perfect supergroup would have Joe Cocker on lead vocals, Eric Clapton on lead guitar, John Lennon on rhythm guitar, Roger Waters on bass, Keith Moon on drums and Rick Wakeman on keyboards.
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Thodsis · 51-55, M
Debbie Harry on vocals.
Jimmy Page on guitar.
Richard Wright on keyboards.
Aphex Twin on beats.
And Lee Scratch Perry on general vibes.

A mixture so wrong that it must be right.
helenS · 36-40, F
@Thodsis Richard Wright wasn't exactly a virtuoso... I'm tempted to say he couldn't play at all. Sorry...
Thodsis · 51-55, M
@helenS Don't be sorry. Personal tastes are just personal.
Dark Side Of The Moon trumps anything though. :)
Bewilderbeeste · 61-69, M
@Thodsis Jimmy Page and Richard Wright are both brilliant.
helenS · 36-40, F
@Thodsis I think Rick had a certain feeling for good chord progressions. Nice examples are the final part of "A Saucerful of Secrets" on the Ummagumma album, and "Cirrus Minor" on the soundtrack album "More".
Bewilderbeeste · 61-69, M
@helenS I love those albums. Pink Floyd were at their best in the early days. Not that there's anything wrong with "The Dark Side Of The Moon", I love that album. It's just that the older ones were better in my opinion.
helenS · 36-40, F
@Bewilderbeeste There was a concert by "Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets" in Berlin, last year, and it was fantastic. I enjoyed that so very much.
Yes I agree, their output up to and including the "Meddle" album was excellent; I never payed much attention to the stuff they released after Meddle.
"Animals" is quite good though. "The Wall" is an embarrassment to music...
Bewilderbeeste · 61-69, M
@helenS I wouldn't say "The Wall" is an embarrassment, I just need to be in the right mood for it. I admit it's not their best but I bought it anyway [i]because[/i] it's a Pink Floyd album.
helenS · 36-40, F
@Bewilderbeeste You're a big fan! 😏
It may be a generational thing, when I started listening to "pop" music, none of my peers were interested in the Floyd. I was the only one, maybe because I was a classical music girl?
Bewilderbeeste · 61-69, M
@helenS I've liked Pink Floyd since I was just 12, when they had those early hit singles "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play". The best "pop" group was the Beatles (I've loved them since I was only 7), and look how they evolved in just five years. By the time I was 12 they'd got the "Sergeant Pepper" album at the top of the charts. The next band I started to follow with a passion after the Beatles was The Who. I got into them at about 10, then when I was 12 I started to like the psychedelic sounds of Traffic and early Pink Floyd. I still listen to all this stuff and I'm 68 now.
helenS · 36-40, F
@Bewilderbeeste Two bands from the 1970s I enjoy listening to are "Genesis" (with Peter Gabriel, lead voice, and Steve Hackett on lead guitar) and "Yes" with Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman on keyboards.
High-quality stuff!
Bewilderbeeste · 61-69, M
@helenS I love Yes. Genesis were at their best with Peter Gabriel.
helenS · 36-40, F
@Bewilderbeeste Never again has rock music, as a genre, produced anything on that level, in my opinion. But that's only me, of course.
Bewilderbeeste · 61-69, M
@helenS I agree. The classic rock period was the late 1960s and early 1970s.
helenS · 36-40, F
@Bewilderbeeste Rock music is dead now. See here, for example:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jan/10/rock-n-roll-read-last-rites
Bewilderbeeste · 61-69, M
@helenS Most of today's music means absolutely nothing to me. I still listen to old rock music because it's proper music played by real musicians.
Bumbles · 51-55, M
@Thodsis Love it..Debbie Harry with Jimmy Page!