Inspired by my comment in the Van Halen thread about going out with Sammy, I thought it might be interesting to see what kind of concert line ups could be created as people move from one band to another. of course, these would likely never happen due to the personalities involved and unfortunately, some of them have passed away, but it's still interesting to wonder what could have been. So, here's two to get us going

The Van Halen Family Tree:
Extreme
Van Halen w/ Chrerone
Van Halen w/ Dave
Van Halen w/ Sammy
Sammy Hagar
Montrose

The Birth of Metal Family Tree:
Whitesnake
Deep Purple Mark III
Deep Purple Mark II
Rainbow
Dio
Heaven and Hell
Black Sabbath
Ozzy Osbourne

i'm sure there's others out there. any thoughts?

i did this long ago with the buffalo springfield, it is remarkable:

buffalo springfield

CSN

manassas

CSNY

stills-young band

stills solo

young solo

poco

loggins & messina

souther, hillman, furay

furay solo

bruce palmer solo (1 album)

messina solo

and we won;t even go into what came out of all of those bands............yes we will:

loggins solo - blue sky riders

souther solo

hillman solo

flying burrito brothers (w/hillman)

crosby*nash

crosby solo

nash solo

CPR

and there are probably more that i am forgetting.

..and I remember replying to Renny with the Yardbirds

Eric Clapton solo
Jeff Beck solo
Jimmy Page solo
The New Yardbirds
Cream
Led Zeppelin
Jeff Beck Group
Blind Faith
The Firm
Renaissance
Illusion
Page/Plant
Coverdale-Page
Beck Bogart & Appice
Derek & the Dominoes
Box Of Frogs

...maybe more...

both pretty amazing, for sure

Just to expand on these...

Starting with Van Halen, add:

Chickenfoot
Red Hot Chili Peppers
David Lee Roth
Winery Dogs
Steve Vai
Frank Zappa
Missing Persons
Duran Duran
Journey
The Turtles
Adrian Belew
King Crimson
The Bears
Z
Dethklok

And you can tie this side to the BoMFT via Vai. Come to think of it, via just Rudy Sarzo in Ozzy's band, you can tie the BoMFT to just about every band in the universe, past, present and future.

2 words: Paul Rodgers

yeah, that's a 3 day festival, all by itself.

The Moments
The Small Faces
Winston's Fumbles
The Herd
The Faces
Humble Pie
Rod Stewart
Ronnie Lane
Slim Chance
Ian McLagan
Bump Band
The Who (Kenney Jones)
Peter Frampton
Steve Marriott
Steve Marriott's Packet of Three

Yes.

I started to try to chart out a degrees of separation/family tree for Yes, but it ripped open a hole in the fabric of spacetime.

So I stopped.