Go (band)
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Go was a supergroup
Supergroup (music)
In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....

 conceived in 1976 by Stomu Yamashta
Stomu Yamashta
Stomu Yamashta Stomu Yamashta Stomu Yamashta (born is a Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer. He is sometimes credited as Stomu Yamash'ta. His father was the band director Kiyoharu Yamashita (1907–1991)....

 (percussion and keyboards), which also included Steve Winwood
Steve Winwood
Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...

 (vocals and keyboards), Al Di Meola
Al Di Meola
Al Di Meola is an acclaimed American jazz fusion and Latin guitarist, composer, and record producer of Italian origin. With a musical career that has spanned more than three decades, he has become respected as one of the most influential guitarists in jazz to date...

 (lead guitar), Klaus Schulze
Klaus Schulze
Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried. He was briefly a member of the electronic bands Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel before launching a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums released across five decades.-1970s:In...

 (synthesizers) and Michael Shrieve
Michael Shrieve
Michael Shrieve is an American drummer, percussionist, and later, an electronic music composer. He is best known as the drummer in Carlos Santana's eponymous band, playing on their first eight albums from 1969 through 1974...

 (drums).

Go recorded two studio albums, Go (1976) and Go Too (1977). The band also recorded a concert they performed in France
France
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: this album, Live From Paris, from the June 12, 1976 concert, became a cult favourite.

Discography

1976 Go
Go (Go album)
Go is the first album by Stomu Yamashta's fusion supergroup Go.- Personnel :*Stomu Yamashta - percussion and keyboards*Steve Winwood - vocals and keyboards *Klaus Schulze - synthesizers*Michele' D'Adamo - guitar*Al Di Meola - lead guitar...

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1976 Go Live from Paris
Go Live from Paris
Go Live from Paris is the second album by Go, recorded live in Paris at the Palais Des Sports on the 12th June 1976.- Personnel :*Stomu Yamashta - percussion and keyboards*Steve Winwood - vocals and keyboards*Klaus Schulze - synthesizers...

Live
1977 Go Too
Go Too
Go Too is Go's third album. Stomu Yamashta, who together with Steve Winwood, Michael Shrieve Al Di Meola, Klaus Schulze and others founded the group Go, replaced Steve Winwood, who had left the group, by Jess Roden and modified the style of the music for the album. In addition, Linda Lewis was...

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