McCartney Times

“Who would be in your fantasy supergroup?” It’s a classic music nerd question, but one that you grow out of pretty quickly, I find. It’s a question normally asked when we’re teenagers. When our musical heroes aren’t real people but gods of rock, sent from a higher plane of existence to change the lives of mere mortals. There’s no question of chemistry, it’s merely maths. A factual statement that if one artist is great, and another artist is also great, then putting them together must make greatness. Except sometimes you get The Traveling Wilburys, where that seems to be true.With them, we can live in a world without Them Crooked Vultures, or Asia, or Chickenfoot or any of the thousands of so-called “supergroups” that do nothing but let the world know that great music is essentially luck. Sometimes it can work. Boygenius were pretty great at their peak, ditto Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. However, each of them was less of a ‘supergroup’ and more of a band of musicians with chemistry, who just so happened to be successful musicians in their own right.

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Source: The conversation that formed The Traveling Wilburys