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if you are just dudes in other bands that formed a new band, that is just a BAND, not a supergroup.
a suprgroup is so titled because, due to the supposed worth of the individual famous artists involved, everyone expects something transcendent from the supergroup, something even greater than the sum of their parts.
kurt cobain's clothes are more "famous" than King Buzzo. hell, courtney love is more famous than everyone in fatomas put together.
Fame is NOT relative. the more people know you the more famous you are. it is as simple as that, and easily quantifiable.
there ahve been a lot of supergroups that amounted to flat out shit.
one that did not, and I am not a fan of eitrher the or their previous bands, is crosby stills and Nash (and later young, whom I do admire and listen to).
crosby was in The Byrds
Stephen Stills was in Traffic
Grahma Nash was in The Hollies
(neil Young was also in Buffalo Springfield)
The backbeat band is as close to an indie/alternative supergroup as there ever has been, with key members from REM, Sonic Youth, Afghan Whigs, Soul Asylum.
if the criteria were otherwise then any band is a supergroup, since most musicians have been in countless previous bands before they hit it big.
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