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From Blur to King Crimson, the Grateful Dead to Duran Duran and beyond, MOJO looks at the groups who\u2019ve spawned more side-projects than most bands have released albums<\/p>\n
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Words by Chris Catchpole<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-992879692.jpg” title_text=”Portrait Of The Band Power Station” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”image-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|300|||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”-10px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n A bit on the side: Power Station (l-r) Duran Duran’s \u00a0John Taylor, Tony Thompson, Michael Des Barres and Andy Taylor in 1985<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-dropcap” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Though they might seldom match the commercial or critical success of the bands from which they sprang, the side-project has long been a safe space for mercurial talents and fragile egos to indulge the musical passions their bandmates might be sniffy about.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n They can range from the sublime – Damon Albarn\u2019s Gorillaz quickly evolved from fun cartoon caper to an A-List collaborative project boasting some of the greatest musicians on the planet \u2013 to the ridiculous \u00a0\u2013 take your pick, but SuperHeavy: Mick Jagger\u2019s cringe-inducing supergroup with Dave Stewart, Joss Stone and Damian Marley springs to mind.<\/p>\n Ever since John Lennon shuffled off to form the Plastic Ono Band while still nominally a Beatle, musicians have strayed from the mother ship to launch their own passion projects, but \u2013 excluding solo careers and groups formed after a band have split up \u2013 MOJO here goes through the extra-curricular activities of those bands who spawned more sidelines than other groups have had hot, motorway service station dinners\u2026<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/Blur-hero-3.jpg” title_text=”Blur hero 3″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n We could fill another list feature entirely with the various projects Damon Albarn has embarked on when he wasn\u2019t working on Blur records, but while Damon busied himself with the likes of Gorillaz, The Good The Bad & The Queen and Africa Express, his bandmates weren\u2019t just twiddling their thumbs or making cheese.<\/p>\n Alex James had a one-off hit single in 1996 as a member of Me Me Me alongside \u201880s pop Zelig Stephen \u2018Tin Tin\u2019 Duffy and Elastica\u2019s Justin Welch, with the jaunty, Blur-like Hanging Around. Then, alongside fellow Groucho Club barflies Keith Allen and Damien Hurst, he distilled all that was regrettable about 90s lad culture into novelty act Fat Les, who bagged a UK #2 in 1998 with World Cup song Vindaloo. While it failed to replicate the success, 2002 effort Who Invented Fish And Chips? is notable for featuring the first credited vocal by Allen\u2019s then-teenage daughter, Lily. WigWam, James\u2019 blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-them collaboration with former 90s pop star Betty Boo, however, managed just one self-titled single which scraped into the charts at #60 in 2006.<\/p>\n Alongside a successful solo career while in and out of Blur (2004\u2019s Happiness In Magazines is a particular highlight) Graham Coxon has put out two albums since 2023 with his partner Rose Elinor Dougal as The Waeve. While he\u2019s added pilot, solicitor, animator and Labour councillor to his C.V., drummer Dave Rowntree has kept up his musical activities outside of Blur with soundtrack work, one solitary solo LP (2023\u2019s Radio Songs) and in 2006 an EP as part of The Ailerons. However, whether or not Blur were a going concern at this point is unclear.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/NEW-ORDER-ALAMY-HERO.jpg” title_text=”NEW-ORDER-ALAMY-HERO” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n The members of New Order clearly enjoy a busman\u2019s holiday. Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert\u2019s drolly-named The Other Two released two LPs in the gaps between NO records, and while he was still a member, Peter Hook concurrently plied his low-slung four-string trade in Revenge, Monaco and short-lived bass player supergroup Freebass alongside The Stone Roses\u2019s Mani and The Smith\u2019s Andy Rourke.<\/p>\n However, with three albums and six top twenty singles to their name, top billing surely goes Electronic, Bernard Sumner\u2019s dance-pop project with ex-Smith Johnny Marr. In fact, early Electronic singles Get The Message and Getting Away With It (also featuring a moonlighting Neil Tennant) were of such glistening magnificence that they threatened to disrupt the long-established band\/side project power dynamic by almost eclipsing both New Order and The Smiths. We\u2019re ruling out Bad Lieutenant, the group Sumner formed with additional New Order guitarist Phil Cunningham in 2008, on a technicality though, as New Order had officially split up during their brief, three-year existence.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-74279839.jpg” title_text=”%22King Crimson%22 Red Album Lineup” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n With a lineup history as complex as their time signatures, King Crimson were always an outfit primed for extra-curricular excursions. While former bandmembers often found success outside of Crimson\u2019s court, most notably bassist Greg Lake who left the band before second LP In The Wake Of Poseidon to form Emerson, Lake And Palmer, those still within the ranks also sought out other outlets to scratch their various itches.<\/p>\n Drummer Bill Bruford co-founded prog supergroup U.K. alongside fellow ex-Crim John Wetton during the period of inactivity that followed 1974\u2019s Red (a group who would themselves spawn their own spin-offs), and when back in the KC fold in the 80s he formed a duo with fellow ex-Yes member Patrick Moraz. Earthworks and another supergroup with former Yes men, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, were formed during a second hiatus before Robert Fripp assembled King Crimson\u2019s \u2018double trio\u2019 configuration in the \u201990s.<\/p>\n Then, of course, there\u2019s Robert Fripp himself. Not content with lending his cerebral guitar skills to records by David Bowie, Blondie, The Roches, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel and countless others (at a conservative estimate, Fripp has appeared on over 700 records), he\u2019s played with multiple bands including Centipede and Van Der Graaf Generator.<\/p>\n In 1973 he formed Fripp & Eno with fellow studio boffin Brian Eno, the pair releasing four albums over three decades, and from 1997 he launched ProjeKcts, a succession of experimental King Crimson spin-off groups featuring various band members designed to prototype new ideas for future King Crimson music. To date, almost 30 releases have been put out under the ProjeKct umbrella.<\/p>\n For anyone wanting *even more* shades of Crimson, there\u2019s long-serving drummer Pat Mastelotto\u2019s two outfits, Tuner and Stick Men; ex-drummer Ian Wallace\u2019s Crimson Jazz Trio, offering jazz interpretations of the band\u2019s work; and the 21st Century Schizoid Band a short-lived OG reconfiguration that featured founding King Crimson members Michael Giles and Ian McDonald.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” min_height=”10.5px”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-109766094.jpg” title_text=”Group Portrait Of Duran Duran” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Not content with conquering the pop charts and being Princess Diana\u2019s favourite band, by the mid-80s the members of Duran Duran felt they needed extra space outside of the group to indulge more expansive artistic urges.<\/p>\n After the release of third LP Seven And The Ragged Tiger, Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, and Roger Taylor broke away to form Arcadia, producing a more arty\/pretentious take on Duran Duran\u2019s synth-pop sound. Their sole album, 1985\u2019s So Red The Rose, featured an impressive roll call of guests including Sting, Grace Jones, Herbie Hancock and Pink Floyd\u2019s David Gilmour.<\/p>\n Not to be outdone, the remaining Taylors, John and Andy, hooked up with Chic drummer Tony Thompson and chain-smoking blue-eyed soul smoothie Robert Palmer to form the more hard-rocking The Power Station. Taking their name from the New York hit-making studio, the band\u2019s Bernard Edwards-produced debut was an international success and might also be one of the most 1980s-sounding records ever made.<\/p>\n Palmer quit not long after the album\u2019s release, but the four unexpectedly reunited for a less successful follow-up in 1996, Living In Fear. Around the same time, John Taylor joined former Sex Pistol Steve Jones and Guns N\u2019Roses members Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum in Neurotic Outsiders, releasing one self-titled album in 1996.<\/p>\n Nick Rhodes, meanwhile, formed a long-running side-project with Duran Duran\u2019s US-born \u201890s guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, TV Mania, recording one largely forgotten album Bored With Prozac And The Internet? in 2013 and reunited with Duran Duran\u2019s original singer Stephen \u2018Tin Tin\u2019 Duffy (him again) as one half of The Devils in 2002.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-835384218.jpg” title_text=”Sonic Youth” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n In keeping with their origins in New York\u2019s art-punk No Wave scene, Sonic Youth\u2019s members frequently dipped their toes into side projects that further explored the band\u2019s experimental M.O.<\/p>\n In an effort to raise the spirits of Minutemen\u2019s Mike Watt following the death of bandmate D. Boon, Sonic Youth\u2019s members pulled together a hybrid covers band Ciccone Youth. Their moniker inspired Madonna\u2019s surname, they released covers of Madge hits Into The Groove and Burning Up in 1986, and in 1989 released The Whitey Album, featuring Dinosaur Jr\u2019s J. Mascis and an inspired cover of Robert Palmer\u2019s post-Power Station smash Addicted To Love. More than just a bit of fun, Thurston Moore is on record saying it\u2019s his favourite SY album.<\/p>\n Moore and drummer Steve Shelly joined punk hero Richard Hell in short-lived NYC punk supergroup Sim Stars, who released three EPs in 1992. Moore and Lee Ranaldo also collaborated with Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and Jim O\u2019Rourke (by this point a fully-fledged Sonic Youth member) in the Diskaholics Anonymous Trio, who over three albums in the 200s delivered a pleasingly skronky mix of free jazz and noise rock.<\/p>\n Kim Gordon, meanwhile, co-founded Free Kitten in the early \u201890s with Julie Cafritz of Pussy Galore, later adding Yoshimi P-We from Boredoms and Mark Ibold from Pavement. They released several EPs and three albums, Nice Ass (1995), Seminal Education (1997) and Inherit (2008).<\/p>\n In addition, the band set up Sonic Youth Recordings (SYR) in 1996 as an outlet for more experimental collaborations, where each release in the series featured song titles in different languages (SYR5 in Japanese, SY6 in Lithuanian for example).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-85238616.jpg” title_text=”Photo of FAITH NO MORE” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Faith No More frontman Mike Patton is a musician for whom having just one band was never going to satiate his creative desires. During the band\u2019s original run, Patton concurrently fronted experimental Californian absurdists Mr. Bungle, who often provided a petri dish for ideas explored in FNM.<\/p>\n After Faith No More split up in 1998, the singer expanded the rock multiverse with a succession of supergroups. That same year he formed Fant\u00f4mas with The Melvins\u2019 Buzz Osbourne, Slayer\u2019s Dave Lombardo and Mr. Bungle bassist Trevor Dunn, quickly followed by Tomahawk – featuring Dunn, The Jesus Lizard\u2019s Duane Denison and drummer John Stanier from alt-metallers Helmet.<\/p>\n In 2001, Patton teamed up with hip hop producer Dan The Automator and Elysian Fields\u2019 Jennifer Charles on the tongue-in-cheek Nathaniel Merriweather Presents… Lovage: Music to Make Love To Your Old Lady By;\u00a0fronted an album with New York turntablists The X-Executioners, General Patton Vs. The X-Executioners; and contributed to avant-garde saxophonist John Zorn\u2019s Moonchild: Songs Without Words.<\/p>\n Even after Faith No More\u2019s reunion in 2009, Patton kept up the side hustling. Not to be outdone, FNM keyboardist Roddy Bottum formed indie pop outfit Imperial Teen in 1996, who had a minor hit in 1998 with Yoo Hoo, which featured in the film Jawbreaker. Bassist Billy Gould, meanwhile, performed in faux Mexican drug cartel grindcore mob Brujeria, under the alias G\u00fcero Sin Fe, and joined ex-Dead Kennedy frontman Jello Biafra in Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine for their 2009 debut album.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-74738860.jpg” title_text=”Music File Photos – The 1970s – by Chris Walter” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”ss-custom-header” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” text_font_size=”35px” header_2_font=”Cabin|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”35px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n The collectivist hippie spirit personified, within leader Jerry Garcia\u2019s lifetime, the various members of the Grateful Dead jammed, boogied and choogled their way through a swathe of side-projects, exploring everything from bluegrass, jazz, funk, country, experimental rock and disco, while still remaining committed to the Dead.<\/p>\n New Riders Of The Purple Sage grew out of the same fertile San Francisco scene as the Grateful Dead themselves and their initial, somewhat fluid, lineup included Jerry Garcia alongside Dead members Phil Lesh and Robert Hunter. Although only Garcia appeared on the band\u2019s 1971 self-titled debut.<\/p>\n Not long after, during a break between Dead tours, Garcia formed Old & In The Way as an outlet for his passion for bluegrass (he played banjo in the band) alongside bluegrass players David Grisman, Peter Roan and Vassar Clements. The group played a handful of gigs in 1973, recordings from which were collected as 1975\u2019s Old & In The Way, which \u2013 unusually for a short-lived side-jolly – would go on to become the best-selling bluegrass album of all time, until the release of the O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack in 2000.<\/p>\n In another Dead fallow period between 1974 and 1975, Garcia and organist Merle Saunders formed Legion Of Mary, who played over 60 shows performing an eclectic mix of rock, jazz, funk and soul. In 1979 Garcia officially became a member of bassist and long-time collaborator John Kahn\u2019s outfit Reconstruction, further exploring a jazz fusion and even disco-influenced angle. Although neither band recorded a studio album with Garcia, you can find their work on various live compilations and bootlegs.<\/p>\n Garcia\u2019s main outlet outside of the Grateful Dead, however, was the more groove-based jams of the Jerry Garcia Band. Kahn and Garcia were the only two constants in an ever-evolving\/revolving lineup and despite playing together and gigging for over twenty years, they only released one live and one studio album. However, posthumously, there has been an avalanche of live recordings to explore, including the 21-volume and counting Garcia Live series.<\/p>\n Around the time Garcia was kicking back with Legion Of Mary, guitarist Bob Weir joined San Francisco compadre Matthew Kelly\u2019s Kingfish alongside ex-New Riders Of The Purple Sage bassist Dave Torbert. Although by 1977\u2019s Live \u2018N\u2019 Kickin\u2019, Weir was back playing full-time with the Dead and most of his songs and parts were removed from the record. Featuring jazz aces Billy Cobham on drums and, briefly, Weather Report bassist Alphonso Johnson, Weir\u2019s Bobby And The Midnites mainly focused on live performing rather than studio work and only recorded two LPs in the early 80s, 1981\u2019s self-titled debut and 1984\u2019s Where The Beat Meets The Street.<\/p>\n After Garcia\u2019s death in 1995, Weir focused on Ratdog while he and Dead bassist Phil Lesh formed Further in 2009, who mainly performed Grateful Dead material.\u00a0 Since 2015, Weir has performed Dead songs as part of Dead & Company alongside singer\/guitarist John Mayer and ex-Grateful Dead drummers Mickey Hart and \u2013 prior to 2022 Bill Kreutzmann. Lesh pays similar homage to his old band in Phil Lesh & Friends. 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Side Projects:<\/span> Me Me Me \/ Fat Les \/ Gorillaz \/ The Good The Bad & The Queen \/ WigWam \/ The Alierons \/ The Waeve<\/h2>\n
Key Release:<\/span> Gorillaz, Demon Days (album, 2005)<\/h2>\n
Who:<\/span> New Order<\/h2>\n
Side Projects:<\/span> The Other Two \/ Revenge \/ Electronic \/ Monaco \/ Freebass<\/h2>\n
Key Release:<\/span> Electronic, Getting Away With It (single, 1989)<\/h2>\n
Who:<\/span> King Crimson<\/h2>\n
Side Projects:<\/span> U.K.\/ProjeKcts \/Bruford Moraz\/Earthworks\/Tuner\/Stick Men\/Crimson Jazz Trio\/21st Century Schizoid Band<\/h2>\n
Key Release:<\/span> ProjeKct One, Live At The Jazz Caf\u00e9 (album, 1998)<\/h2>\n
Who:<\/span> Duran Duran<\/h2>\n
Side Projects:<\/span> Arcadia \/ Power Station \/ Neurotic Outsiders \/ TV Mania<\/h2>\n
Key Release:<\/span> The Power Station, Some Like It Hot (single, 1985)<\/h2>\n
Who:<\/span> Sonic Youth<\/h2>\n
Side Projects:<\/span> Ciccone Youth \/ Dim Stars \/ Free Kitten \/ Diskaholics Anonymous Trio \/ SYR<\/h2>\n
Key Release:<\/span> Ciccone Youth, The Whitey Album (album, 1989)<\/h2>\n
Who:<\/span> Faith No More<\/h2>\n
Side Projects:<\/span> Mr. Bungle \/ Mondo Cane \/ Dead Cross \/ Imperial Teen \/ Brujeria \/ Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine<\/h2>\n
Featuring a forty-piece orchestra and fifteen-strong backing band, his Mondo Cane project put out an album of cover versions of \u201850s and \u201860s Italian pop hits in 2010. Dead Cross followed in 2015, a hardcore\/thrash crossover outfit featuring Lombardo and Justin Pearson from San Diego punks Retox.<\/p>\nKey Release:<\/span> Mondo Cane, Mondo Cane (album, 2010)<\/h2>\n
Who:<\/span> Grateful Dead<\/h2>\n
Side Projects:<\/span> New Riders Of The Purple Sage \/ Old & In The Way \/ Legion Of Mary \/ Jerry Garcia Band \/ Kingfish \/ Bobby And The Midnites \/ The Rhythm Devils<\/h2>\n
Hart and Kreutzman, meanwhile, had an informal side project within actual Grateful Dead concerts, performing improv sets together during gigs as The Rhythms Devil from the \u201870s through to the \u201890s. The pair were formally recruited by Francis Ford Coppola to record the soundtrack for 1979\u2019s Apocalypse Now. Music from the recordings were also released in 1980 under The Rhythms Devils banner as The Apocalypse Now Sessions.<\/p>\nKey Release:<\/span> Old & In The Way, Old & In The Way (album, 1975)<\/h2>\n