Fourteen seconds of muscular rock: that’s what new supergroup Them Crooked Vultures are offering up online to give everyone who missed their live debut at Chicago’s Metro on August 9th a taste of their forthcoming album. Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones posted a brief clip of the studio version of “Nobody Loves Me And Neither Do I” on their official YouTube page yesterday. The song was the last track performed by the Vultures at their Metro show, which Rolling Stone’s Smoking Section proclaimed epic: “Never has a supergroup sounded more like the sum of its parts.”
In terms of big-name recognition, no supergroup features more talent than the Traveling Wilburys, a quintet that featured four Rock and Roll Hall of Famers — Bob Dylan, the Beatles' George Harrison, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty — along with Electric Light Orchestra mastermind Jeff Lynne. The five-piece recorded one album together, Vol. 1, and after the passing of Orbison, reconvened as a quartet for 1990's Vol. 3.