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    Which singer or musician has been in the most bands? Who are music's Lee Chapmans and Steve Claridges?

    Vince Clark's been in Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure; according to Wikipedia he's also been in The Clarke & Ware Experiment and The Family Fantastic. Which makes six.

    However, I'm sure someone can beat that. (Paul Carrack possibly.)

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    Gary Moore?

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      Mick Harvey:
      Birthday Party
      Crime and the City solution
      Bad Seeds
      The WallBangers
      and, er, does solo count?

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        If you add ad hoc collaborations, then Eric Clapton and Eric Burdon are the Nicolas Anelka and Stan Collymore of musicians prone to engage in blues wankery.

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          Bill Bruford was always a bit of a tart. I saw him twice in 1975, once with Gong and once with Roy Harper.

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            Chris Hillman:

            a couple of early bands
            The Byrds
            The Flying Burrito Brothers
            Manassas
            Souther-Hillman-Furay Band
            McGuinn, Clark and Hillman
            Ever Call Ready
            The Desert Rose Band
            Rice, Rice, Hillman and Pedersen

            and solo and other stuff

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              Martin McCarrick has (as well as his solo work) been in The Willing Sinners (Marc Almond's band), This Mortal Coil, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Therapy?, The McCarricks and (I think) Heidi Berry's backing band.

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                Pan Tau wrote:
                If you add ad hoc collaborations, then Eric Clapton and Eric Burdon are the Nicolas Anelka and Stan Collymore of musicians prone to engage in blues wankery.
                Does the Collymore comparison refer to the number of football clubs he'd played for or, er, other mutiple assignations he might have had?

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                  Mauro Pawlowski is a Belgian musician who has played in numerous bands. Some of the more popular ones are:

                  Evil Superstars
                  Mauro Pawlowski & The Grooms
                  Mitsoobishy Jacson
                  Kiss My Jazz
                  The Love Substitutes
                  Shadowgraphic City
                  dEUS
                  Somnabula
                  Othin Spake
                  Club Moral
                  Monguito
                  The Parallels
                  etc...

                  Adrian Belew played with:

                  Talking Heads
                  Nine Inch Nails
                  Frank Zappa
                  King Crimson
                  David Bowie

                  which is a very star-studded list, and he featured with countless other acts too numerous to mention.

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                    Do session musicians count though? If so, it's gots to be Pino Palladino.

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                      I can't help thinking someone in the Deep Purple/Rainbow/Whitesnake/Black Sabbath axis migh have a claim here.

                      Why oh why is Pete Frame's work not online?!

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                        Someone in the English folk-rock Fairport Convention/Steeleye Span/Albion Band/Pentangle, etc axis might also have a good claim. How many bands has Danny Thompson been in?

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                          Ha! Harry's got something there; Cozy Powell was in the following bands:

                          The Sorcerers (1967-1968)
                          Youngblood (1968-1969)
                          The Ace Kefford Stand (1969-1970)
                          Big Bertha (1970)
                          The Jeff Beck Group (1970-1972)
                          Bedlam (1972-1973)
                          Cozy Powell (1974)
                          Cozy Powell's Hammer (1974-1975)
                          Rainbow (1976-1980)
                          Cozy Powell (1979)
                          Graham Bonnet & the Hooligans (1980-1981)
                          Cozy Powell (1981)
                          Michael Schenker Group (1981-1982)
                          Cozy Powell (1982-1983)
                          Whitesnake (1983-1984)
                          Emerson, Lake & Powell (1985-1986)
                          Pete York/Cozy Powell (1987)
                          Black Sabbath (1988-1991)
                          The Brian May Band (1991-1992)
                          Cozy Powell (1992)
                          Cozy Powell's Hammer (1992-1993)
                          The Brian May Band (1993-1994)
                          Black Sabbath (1994-1995)
                          Peter Green Splinter Group (1997)
                          Tipton, Entwistle and Powell (1997)
                          The Brian May Band (1998)
                          Peter Green Splinter Group (1998)

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                            One for the post rock contingent - Dave Pajo.

                            He's played with:

                            Slint
                            Tortoise
                            Stereolab
                            Will Oldham/Palace Brothers
                            King Kong
                            Royal Trux
                            The For Carnation
                            Papa M/Aeriel M
                            Early Man
                            Dead Child

                            and, of course, Zwan.

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                              Andy C wrote:
                              Rice, Rice, Hillman and Pedersen
                              That has to be the least snappy band name in history.

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