You know how there's always artists with lots of side projects, or they keep changing their band and/or name? Let's talk about them.

I'll start with some obvious ones.

Will Oldham:
Palace
Palace Songs
Palace Brothers
Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Prince Paul
Prince Paul
De La Soul
Gravediggaz
Handsome Boy Modeling School

and maybe the winner...?

Lou Barlow
Deep Wound
Dinosaur Jr.
Sebadoh
Sentridoh
Folk Implosion
Deluxx Folk Implosion
Lou Barlow

Wow I did not know Barlow was in Dinosaur Jr, I love Sebadoh and always dismissed DJ as rather fluff.


Mike Patton
Mike Patton
Faith No More (Technically still together)
Mr. Bungle
Fantomas
Tomahawk
Lovage
Peeping Tom

Prince:
Prince & the Revolution (Purple Rain, Around The World In A Day and Parade)
Prince & the N.P.G. (Diamonds and Pearls)
Prince & the New Power Generation (o+>)
N.P.G. (Gold *****)
New Power Generation (New Power Soul)
and Prince himself released several albums under his name alone or the symbol: o+>

his side projects:
The Time
Sheila E.
The Family
Madhouse
Ingrid Chavez
Jill Jones
Vanity 6
Apollonia 6
Mayte
Carmen Electra
Eric Leeds

and depending on your definition of "side projects", he's written/produced a ton of songs for other artists, if not the entire albums, like Candy Dulfer, Martika, Rosie Gaines, Taja Sevelle, Dale Bozzio, The Bangles, etc.

Dave Grohl is of course the frontman for Foo Fighters, but has did the drums for other groups, and actually played as part of the band with a few, and had his Probot project as well.
Foo Fighters
Queens of the Stone Age
Probot
Killing Joke
Nine Inch Nails
Garbage

Many more

Hasn't Prince Paul also been involved with Deltron 3030, Lovage, and Gorillaz (unless I'm thinking of Dan the Automator)?

I'm pretty sure John Zorn or Bill Laswell should be the winners here...

Artist - Dream Theater

Mike Portnoy (drummer)
Liquid Tension Experiment (2 albums)
O.S.I.
Transatlantic (2 albums)
Yellow Matter Custard
**Neal Morse
**John Arch
**Encores, Legends & Paradox - A Tribute to the Music Of ELP
**Working Man - Rush Tribute

James Labrie: Vocalist
Madmen & Sinners
Frameshift: Unweaving the Rainbow
Winter Rose
3 Solo CDs
**Explorer's Club (2 albums)
**Leonardo: The Absolute Man (main character)
**Ayreon: the Human Equation (main character)
**Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
**Dragon Attack - A Tribute To Queen
**Working Man - Rush Tribute

Jordan Rudess: Keyboard
Rudess Morgenstein Project
John Petrucci And Jordan Rudess - An Evening With...
Many solo CDs
**David Bowie - Heathen
**Encores, Legends & Paradox - A Tribute to the Music Of ELP
**Steinway To Heaven - Magna Carta's Keyboard Hall Of Fame Vol. I
**Noirin Ni Riain - Celtic Soul
**Vinnie Moore - Time Odyssey

John Myung: Bass
Platypus (2 albums)
the Jelly Jam
**Gordian Knot - Gordian Knot
**Explorers Club - Age Of Impact

John Petrucci: Guitar
Liquid Tension Experiment (2 albums)
John Petrucci And Jordan Rudess - An Evening With...
**Explorers Club - Age Of Impact
**Dragon Attack - A Tribute To Queen
**Working Man - Rush Tribute
**Various Artists - Guitar Battle

**Notes: Guest Appearance

My guess: a techno producer from Cologne named Wolfgang Voigt. Likely a partial but mostly complete listing from www.discogs.com:

Aliases: All, Auftrieb, Brom, Centrifugal Force, Crocker, Dextro NRG, Dieter Gorny, Digital, Dom, Doppel, Filter, Freiland, Fuchsbau, Gas, Grungerman, Jens Harke, Love Inc., M:I:5, Mike Ink, Mike Ink & The Chain of Brotherhood, Mint, Popacid, Riss, RX7, Split Inc., Strass, Studio 1, Tal, Vinyl Countdown, Wassermann

Groups: Atlantic Trance, Best Boy, Biosphere #1, Burger/Ink, Destination Moon, Dog Star Man, Electrochic, Formicula 4, The Golden Age Of Adventure, House Of Detroit, Lovecore, M*A*S*S*H, M.F.A., Music For Assholes, Pacific 231, Planet Love Ink, Science Wonder, Stardate 1973, Stardiver, Structure, Third Electric, Thranx!, Voigt & Voigt

Jim Thirlwell has released music under many names.

Yeah - there was some other band he played drums with I think...can't really recall the name...but the kids sure loved it.

I figured I shouldnt add the obvious, plus it was a bit ago. but yeah they were KINDA popular. hehe

Plus theres others whos albums he played on as well.

Dinosaur Jr, fluff? Are you fucking kidding me? "You're Living All Over Me" and "Bug" are late-80's classics!

Blur's Damon Albarn as several side projects/bands.

Luke Haines:
- The Autuers
- Baader Meinhof
- Black Box Recorder
- solo album: "The Oliver Tremor Manifesto"

The King's X guys have done quite a bit of side stuff as well:

Ty Tabor solo
Poundhound
Supershine
Gaskell solo
Jelly Jam
Liquid Tension Experiment
Jughead
Platypus

Les Claypool tends to do a lot.

Primus, Oysterhead, Les Claypool and the Holy Mackeral, Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, Bucket of Bernie Brains,

Rob Halford ... not a lot but some.

Judas Priest
Fight
2wo
Halford

more Proof that he (Grohl) was the only talant in that band.

Are you insane? Kurt Cobain was the greatest rock guitarist! Better than Hendrix! Better than Eddie Van Halen! Better than.....

....oh, sorry. For a second there my mind was taken over by a Rolling Stone writer.

Never listened to them in the SST days. I got a SST demo tape and it had a couple of Dinosaur (pre-Jr lawsuit) and I was not knowcked out by them, so I never listened to their stuff. Then of course is the fluff 90s', Feel the Pain exempolifies their stuff to me. Maybe I need to check out their SST collection.

Grohl was also in Tenacious D...and yeah...that other band

Trey Anastasio (Phish)
Trey Anstasio Band - couple different line-ups, completely different bands
70 Volt Parade
Oysterhead
Bad Hat
Surrender to the Air
Solo
Orchestra
New York (one time only)

Reggie & The Full Effect have side projects on their own album...

and some are member of the get up kids

Funny, but so true.

Ministry's Al Jourgensen:
1. PTP
2. Revolting Cocks
3. 1,000 H0m0 DJs
4. Acid Horse
5. Lead Into Gold
6. Lard
7. Pailhead
8. Buck Satan & The 666 Shooters (still has yet to produce recorded material)
9. Special Affect (his band before Ministry)