Quote Originally Posted by BradH
I think a real contender for "first supergroup" was Crosby, Stills & Nash. Graham Bond wasn't known in the U.S. but in the U.K. they knew The Byrds and even Buffalo Springfield....and Nash w/ The Hollies obviously. That was about a year before Blind Faith. I guess with Blind Faith the term "supergroup" was really centered around a band concept with one guy on bass, one on guitar, etc.
Absolutely. CSN had as many "bona-fides" as any of the "supergroups"... before or after. (way more actually, if you go by charted hits). Again though, I think the term was first conjured up, then repeated, and finally became colloquial, with the formation of Blind Faith. Probably initially came from an A&R guy or newspaper writer. I think the term (adjective) "super" was fairly new, and very "hip" in them days... superball... superbowl, etc. No doubt, a very natural "new word" for that time. Same thing happened later with Watergate... every single political blunder of any sort since, is termed "xxxx-gate." ...even today.

I'm pretty sure both albums came out in 69, although I think you're right that CSN was actually formed first. I remember traveling to South Dakota (Black Hills, Custer State Park, Wind Cave, Mt Rushmore, Sturgis Cycle Rally, etc) that summer and taping Marakesh Express off air on my portable FM/casette. It was during that week I bought the brand new Blind Faith LP (sight unheard), which had just been released (to moocho hype). I was quite pleasantly surprised... it was better than I'd expected, being that the hype had made me just a little suspicious (cynical bast_rd that I am).

BTW Brad... I recently got ahold of some live shn & flac files. What programs do you use with them. None of my audio editors & programs are set up for them, although I'm sure there are codecs/plug-ins I could import/set up for converting them. I was just wondering if there's an easier thing I'm overlooking before I spend the time doing that.