Super Bands That Never Quite Happened

 There’ve been a lot of super bands over the years – Blind Faith; CSNY; The Good, The Bad & The Queen; even the Travelling Wilburys. Here’s a sampling of what might have been.  

I’m also sharing any pix that came up when I entered in the new band name on Google Images.  Enjoy!

Buffalo Springfield + Lovin Spoonful = Buffalo Spoonful

Though Lovin Springfield would be a good house band for The Simpsons

Modest Mouse + Depeche Mode = Modest Mode

Depeche Mouse is pretty good too

Pink Floyd + Deep Purple = Pink Purple

Now goes by the name Mauve

Rolling Stones + Stone Roses = Rolling Stone Roses

I see I wasn't the first to think of this

Moody Blues + Moby Grape = Moody Grape

Mamas & the Papas + Mothers of Invention = Papas of Invention

Queens of the Stone Age + Mothers of Invention = Stone Age Mothers

Original name: The Queen Mothers

Black Sabbath + Yardbirds = Blackbirds

Actually, the name of several bands

Bad Company + Green Day = Bad Day

I understand "Green Company "was also in the running

Ben Folds Five + Fall Out Boy = Ben Falls Out

Formerly known as the Fallout Five

Neutral Milk Hotel + Black Eyed Peas + Stone Temple Pilots = Neutral Eyed Pilots

"Best Sunglasses for Pilots" (thrustflight.com)

Aerosmith + Portishead = Aerohead

I understand, though, that "Aeroport" tested well in Europe

Grateful Dead + Def Leopard = Dead Leopard

With new band members Don and Eric

Led Zeppelin + Deaf Leopard = Led Leopard

LED Leopard Neon Light Sign (wayupgifts.com)

Lynyrd Skynyrd + Def Leopard = Lynyrd Lepyrd

Leonard Elementary School, Troy MI

The Mamas and the Papas + Big Brother and the Holding Company + Sly and the Family Stone = The Mamas, The Papas, Big Brother & the Family

Strawberry Alarm Clock + Blue Oyster Cult + Quicksilver Messenger Service = Strawberry Oyster Service

Oysters with Champagne Strawberry Mignonette (sprinklesandsprouts.com)

Band of Horses + Crazy Horse = Band of Crazy Horses

Band of Horses has covered "Powderfinger"

Black Sabbath + Black Flag + Black-Eyed Peas + Black Mountain Boys + Black Rebel Motorcycle Club + Ladysmith Black Mombazo = Black

Talking Heads + Jefferson Airplane = Talking Airplane

From the Duchess of York’s Budgie series

Nickelback + Soundgarden = Backgarden

Arctic Monkeys + Flying Burrito Brothers = Flying Monkeys

With the Wicked Witch of the West on vocals

Men Without Hats + My Morning Jacket = Men Without Jackets

"Without My Morning Hat" was another possibility

Blink-182 + Maroon 5 + Matchbox Twenty = 182+5+20 = 207

AC/DC + ZZ Top = AC/DC/ZZ

Guys with long beards and sunglasses in schoolboy outfits & wearing beanies

Franz Ferdinand + Country Joe & the Fish = Franz Ferdinand & the Fish

Cod, Franz Ferdinand Bar, Steyr, Austria

King Crimson + Small Faces = Crimson Faces

Beach Boys + Beastie Boys = Beachy Boys

pour votre plaisir d’ecoute 

Iron Butterfly + Butthole Surfers = Iron Butthole 

"Butterfly Butthole" just didn't have the same ring to it

Motorhead + Smashing Pumpkins = Motorpumpkins

A Motown group out of Chicago

Smashing Pumpkins + Limp Bizkit = Smashing Bizkit

Oh, so close

Rage Against the Machine + Florence and the Machine = Rage Against Florence

Ditto

Cheap Trick + Sex Pistols = Cheap Sex

Somebody else beat me to it 

No Doubt + New Order = No Order

Ditto

Pure Prairie League + Blue Oyster Cult = Pure Prairie Oysters

Yum …

Foo Fighters + Flaming Lips = Flaming Foo

A foo dog is a “traditional Chinese architectural ornament known in colloquial English as foo dogs or lion dogs.”  This particular one just so happens to be flaming.

Catherine Wheel + Van Halen + Dinosaur Jr = Catherine Van Halen Jr.

Was she the lead singer?

Bon Jovi + Joy Division = Bon Jovi Division

Garden State angst

Jesus & Mary Chain + Alice in Chains = Jesus, Mary & Alice in Chains

Glasgow, meet LA

Blood, Sweat & Tears + Tears for Fears = Blood, Sweat & Fears

So, another Aussie band

Pearl Jam + Guns ‘n Roses = Pearls ‘n Roses

The two actually had planes to tour together in 1993

Chemical Brothers + Cocteau Twins = Chemical Cocteau

Members of the 2 bands actually played together in the band Snowbird

The Shins & The Strokes = The Shrinks

You know, there’re a lotta bands out there

Blur + Pulp = Blurp

Absolute dream group for Britpop fans

Goo Goo Dolls + Lady Gaga = Goo Goo Gaga

More popular with a younger crowd, I understand

Red Hot Chili Peppers + Fleetwood Mac = Red Hot Chili Mac

Please note the jalapenos

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young + Emerson, Lake & Palmer = Emerson, Stills, Nash & Palmer LLC

Attorneys at law

Coldplay + Radiohead = Headcold

Oddly not already taken

And here are a few I couldn’t find any pix for:

• 8 Nine Inch Nails + Iron Maiden = Nine Inch Maiden
• My Bloody Valentine + REO Speedwagon = My Bloody Speedwagon 
• Deaf Leopard + Led Zeppelin = Deaf Zeppelin
• Jethro Tull + Molly Hatchet = Jethro Hatchet
• Death Cab for Cutie + A Tribe Called Quest = A Death Cab Called Quest
• Guided by Voices + Kings of Leon + System of a Down = A System Guided by Leon
• Electric Light Orchestra + Creedence Clearwater Revival + Bachman Turner Overdrive = Electric Clearwater Overdrive 
• Panic at the Disco + Rage Against the Machine = Panic Against the Disco Machine 
• Huey Lewis & the News + Paul Revere & the Raiders + Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers = Huey Revere & the Newsbreakers
• Lynrd Skynrd + Marilyn Manson = Lynrd Mansyn
• Electric Light Orchestra + Flying Burrito Brothers + Grand Funk Railroad = Electric Burrito Railroad