ASIA: CONTINENTAL DRIFT?
It is no coincidence that supergroup rhymes with gloop. Supergroups are what Rolling Stone puts on the pages it can’t flog to Camels and condom companies. Supergroups always contain at least two people who were in, related to, or close personal friends of Yes, ELP or Genesis.
ASIA: CONTINENTAL DRIFT?
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Sylvie Simmons
It is no coincidence that supergroup rhymes with gloop. Supergroups are what Rolling Stone puts on the pages it can’t flog to Camels and condom companies. Supergroups always contain at least two people who were in, related to, or close personal friends of Yes, ELP or Genesis. Supergroups are richer, older and more cosmic than mere mortals, and unless you’re on a jogging high or you’ve got more pot than braincells, they’re usually more boring.
But this world of Ours has its surprises. Like, for instance, there’s 10 million guitar players in China, but none of them are in Asia. Asia is a supergroup by any definition—virtually a Shakespearean supergroup-within-a-supergroup, what with its founding members John Wetton, Steve Howe, Geoff Downes and Carl Palmer being graduates from the supergroups of the ’70s: King Crimson, U.K., Yes (two of them!) and ELP—but if you listened to their latest album and you didn’t know who it was, you’d probably think it was pretty damn decent stuff.