Andy Partridge also did an album with Harold Budd several years ago that was quite different from his XTC work. It didn't sound much like Monstrance either, for that matter.

Bob Welch's work pre and post PARIS.

Almost forgot about this one. Ronn Moss (Ridge on the Bold and the Beautiful) played with the band Player who had the late 70's hit Baby Come Back.

This one's a little obscure, but as a fan of quirky German band Trio ("Da Da Da" from the Volkswagen commercial), I was pretty disappointed in lead singer Stephan Remmler's cheesy, easy-listening solo albums.

Da Da Da was a monster hit in Europe in the summer of '82.

Jim Peterik (Survivor) was also the leader & vocalist of Ides Of March (Vehicle).

George Young (brother to Angus and Malcom of AC/DC) was in the group The Easybeats who had the hit Friday On My Mind.

stewart copeland of the police led a band called klark kent.

Many years ago, when I frst got turned on to New Orleans R&B, I heard this song called "It Will Stand" (by a group called The Showmen.) The song hit the pop charts in 1961 and both the pop and R&B charts in 1964. There was something familiar about the lead singer's voice. After doing some research, I learned that the singer was Norman "General" Johnson (who was later the founder and lead singer of The Chairmen of the Board, which had a sizable hit with "Give Me Just a LIttle More Time" (a song which I have heard countless times on oldies stations.)

In addition to producing many of the early AC/DC albums, as well as records by The Angels and other acts, George Young and his partner from The Easybeats, Harry Vanda, founded Flash & the Pan in 1976, a studio-based project that released a number of albums which sounded nothing like their prior band.

Midge Ure's stints in the Bay City Rollers-ish Slik and the more post-punk leaning Rich Kids bear no resemblance to his future work with Ultravox, Visage or as a solo artist.

Debbie Harry's 1968 foray into folk-rock as part of Wind in the Willows (as a brunette, no less) didn't exactly presage her status as a punk/new wave icon a decade later.

Same goes for Andy Summers' (or Somers, back then) work with Dantalion's Chariot.

Before Deep Purple there was the pop psych of Episode Six, lovingly compiled on the Sequel CD "The Roots of Deep Purple".

I have this book (somewhere) of family trees of rock bands. It's a lot of fun. You can see all this fascinating crosspollenation, especially of all those English bands from the 70s. It wasn't tremendously current but I'd recommend it.

Ed King of early Lynyrd Skynyrd fame was the lead guitarist on Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and Peppermint".
The lead singer for The Outsiders on the song "Time Won't Let Me" was later the lead singer on "Precious & Few" from Climax.
The lead guitar player on The McCoy's "Hang On Sloopy" was a very young Rick Derringer.

The Folksmen sound nothing like Spinal Tap.

A friend of mine saw Spinal Tap in concert a few years ago. The Folksmen were the warm-up band!

Rick Springfield had an album or two in his real Australian voice before breaking through in his faux-All American persona.

Vince Gill was in Pure Prairie League.

Harry Sheerer's head must be spinning with those wig changes!

Donnie Iris, who scored in the early 80s with "Ah! Leah!" and other power-pop nuggets, was the lead singer for the Jaggerz, a one-hit wonder ten years earlier ("The Rapper," 1970).