WI: The Ultimate Supergroup forms?

In 1969 legendary jazz musician Miles Davis, his drummer Tony Williams, and Jimi goddamn Hendrix all thought to make a band after a year of jamming in a apartment. They had all the components necessary just needing a bassist, so Jimi Hendrix proposed legendary bassist, former Beetle, Paul McCartney to join. They all were cool for it and sent Paul a telegram asking him to join them. However Paul was vacationing in Scotland at the moment and turned them down.

Lets say Paul takes them up on the offer and potentially one of the greatest supergroups of all time becomes a reality. What happens next? How do they affect music? Could they stay together for a decent length of time?
 
If they can pull it off - fine, but most supergroups are relatively short lived, due to a clash of egos. The only exception I know of, that lasted long term, was Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, but even they squabbled on occasion.

As a musician (I used to play guitar in rock bands), I can tell you from first hand experience that many musicians (moreso than the general public IMO) are flakes, who don't do the "I'm in it for the long haul, and as such, am willing to make sacrifices/concessions for the sake of the band" thing very well. They just are kind of la de da about things (a couple of bass players I played with come to mind), or (especially of they are from highly successful groups) have overblown egos, and "just know that my way of doing things is the right and only way to do things." This causes bad enough personality clashes when it's just one band member. When you end up with multiple band members having this mindset (a higher probability in supergroups), it can be downright toxic. Most supergroups implode after one or two albums, usually not living up to expectation for making great music the public expects from them (due to the clash of egos), or end up just being a "what the heck, let's collaborate, and make and album" side project for the musicians in the supergroup.

IMO a supergroup with Miles Davis, Tony Williams, and Jimi Hendrix would be cool (Paul McCartney, wouldn't fit in too well, he doesn't strike me as really being into jazz or fusion). Jimi did mention before he died, that he wanted to explore jazz, and both Miles and Tony, were great jazz players, but I wonder how long Jimi would stick to Jazz (before he died, he seemed to want to explore all genres of music in general, beyond, the blues, R&B, and rock & roll, that were what he had been mainly exposed to), before he got bored with it, and decided to move on. Also, Miles Davis was known to be an overbearing personality in his bands, and I wonder how long Jimi Hendrix would put up with that. In short, the Davis, Williams, Hendrix supergroup, featuring IMO Monk Montgomery on bass (he played bass in jazz guitar great Wes Montgomery's band for a long time [Wes was his brother], and would be a better fit than Paul McCartney [and a better bass player IMO], also he would be at loose ends after the death of his brother Wes in 1968), would probably be gone by 1972 or 73.
 

oberdada

Gone Fishin'
OMG Yoko Ono did not cause the Beatles to split up - It was Jimmy Hendrix!

Never liked that guy...
 

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Miles Davis was a heroine addict, not a good combination with Jimi Hendrix around. Jimi used LSD a lot, not a good combination with Paul McCartney around. Of course, just to top it, there's Jimi's alcohol 'issues': "You wouldn't expect somebody with that kind of love to be that violent ... He just couldn't drink ... he simply turned into a bastard"

One, maybe two amazing albums and then it'll implode upon itself.
 
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