I had a thought the other day while driving around listening to MP3’s. I envisioned a future where Supergroups are formed, groups that comprise some of the best or influential musical artists. You might get Chris Cornell singing, and Thurston Moore playing guitar, and Danny Carey from Tool playing drums, and Sting playing bass. And then they organise a tour where they play all of the best songs from any of the really classic rock bands, for instance Led Zeppelin … So they promoter gets all of these guys together, dumps the truckload of money on their doorstep and then they hit the road. 50 dates across the planet, playing stadiums. They come out and crank out Stairway to Heaven, Immigrant Song, Battle for Evermore etc and the goes on from there. Imagine the excitement and the novelty, imagine the interest.

As the iPod revolution continues, and moves into easily download-able video the music industry is going to have to come up with more ideas like this. Also, as the ideas of new accessible forms of musical expression are used up, and people get sick of the same old, novelty like this will be the way to breath life into the old standards that people love. This is the “mash up” taken to the next level.

So there you are music promoters / managers that read this site. Just get the best there is together, and get them to go out and play the Beatles back catalog, or the best of Hendrix etc.. You have to admit that it is something different.If you hear of anyone who has done this in the past please let me know.