Bands of Brothers

The Everly Brothers (clearly, the grand ol' men of brother bands)
Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson (the Beach Boys)
Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb (the BeeGees)
Ron and Scott Asheton (the Stooges)
Angus and Malcolm Young (AC/DC)
Mark and Bob (and for a while, Jim) Mothersbaugh, Gerald and Bob Casale (Devo)
Noel and Liam Gallagher (Oasis)
Gregg and Duane Allman
Maurice and Verdine White (Earth Wind & Fire)
Bootsy and Catfish Collins (both in James Brown's band)
Chris and Rich Robinson (Black Crowes)
Colin and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead)
Mark and David Knopfler (Dire Straits)
Benji and Joel Madden (Good Charlotte)
Alex and Eddie Van Halen
Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan (they recorded at least one album together)
Tim and Neil Finn

Any others? (And that's just the brothers, so far ...)

Ron & Russell Mael (Sparks)
David Sylvian & Steve Jansen (Japan - real surname of both: Batt)
Gary & Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
Andrew, Jon & Tim Farriss (Inxs)
Tommy & Billy Robertson (Polyrock)
Doug & Billy Yule (the last gasp of the Velvet Underground)
Curt & Cris Kirkwood (Meat Puppets)
Tjinder & Avtar Singh (Cornershop)
Tony & Hunt Sales (Tin Machine)
Chip & Tony Kinman (The Dils, Rank & File, Blackbird, Cowboy Nation)
Joe & Bob Pernice (Pernice Brothers)
Johnny & Edgar Winter



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The Avett Brothers
The Smothers Brothers - don't forget the guitars
The Kinks - Ray and Dave Davies

Bob and Tommy Stinson (The Replacements)
Jim and William Reid (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
Matt and Bubba Kadane (Bedhead, The New Year)
Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, Tommy, Marky, Richie, C.J. (The Ramones)*
Wayne and Mark Coyne (The Flaming Lips)
Michael and Peter Timmins(Cowboy Junkies)
Damian and John O'Neill (The Undertones)
Steven and Jeffrey McDonald (Redd Kross)













* - Probably better suited to that elusive "Band of Bruddas" thread.

Mike & Ali Score (A Flock of Seagulls)
Ivan & Stefan Doroschuk (Men Without Hats)
Jim & Earle Mankey (Sparks again)
Mike & David Connell (The Connells)
David & Steven Roback (Rain Parade)
Dan & Warren Zanes - (Del Fuegos)
Daniel, Andrew & David Smith (Danielson Famile)
Alejandro & Javier Escovedo (True Believers)
Andy & Ivor Perry (Easterhouse)
David & Robert McComb (The Triffids)

So obvious no one has bothered naming them yet:

The Jackson 5
The Osmonds

Howlin' Pelle Almquist and Nicholaus Arson (the Hives)
Bobby, David and Dannis Hackney (Death)
Henry, JoJo and Ringo Garza (Los Lonely Boys)
Craig, Scott and Ed Sutton (The Noise Next Door)
Charlie and Craig Reid (the Proclaimers)
Gary Lee and Van Conner (Screaming Trees)
Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin (Boards of Canada)
Jad and David Fair (Half Japanese)
Chris and Mark Reynolds (Red Flag)
Phil and Paul Hartnoll (Orbital)
Charlie, Ronnie and Robert Wilson (the Gap Band)
O'Kelly, Vernon, Ronald and Rudolph Isley
Caleb, Jared ("Pigeons Dig Me") and Nathan Followill (Kings of Leon)

It says something about the general level of esteem that KoL is held in, on this board, that the Osmonds got mentioned before the Followills.

Also far from this board's musical focus:

Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson
Nick and Drew Lachey (98 Degrees)
Jordan and Jonathan McKnight (New Kids)
Marty, Randy, El and David LeBarge
Gene and Terrence Thornton (Clipse)
Kentrell and Alan Lindsay (the Knux)
LeRoy, Eddie, Eugene, Haini and Rudy Wolfgramm (the Jets)
David and Howard Bellamy (the Bellamy Bros.)
Tompall, Chuck and Jim Glaser (Tompall & the Glaser Bros.)
Ira and Charlie Louvin
Michael and Kevin Bacon (the Bacon Bros.)
Michael and Randy Brecker (the Brecker Bros.)
Evan and Jaron Lowenstein
Jeff and Fred Mudd (the Mudlarks)
Wes, Buddy and Monk Montgomery
The Hudson Brothers
The Jonas Brothers

Timothy & Jamie Monger (Original Brothers & Sisters of Love/Great Lakes Myth Society)
Ronnie & Jason Martin (Dance House Children/The Brothers Martin)
Bill, Bob, Larry & John Cowsill


Actual brothers in fictional cartoon band:
Bill & Russell Cosby (The Fat Albert Junkyard Band)


Brother bands with no actual brothers:

Walker Brothers
Ween
Waco Brothers
Was (Not Was)
The Ramones
Jungle Brothers
Bollock Brothers
Chemical Brothers
The Partridge Family

Jonas. Hanson.

One letter difference. Three brothers*. Six shades of shit.

Coincidence?

They're like two coordinates to some sort of epic Triangle of Suckiness. I'll leave it up to the rest of you to provide the third point on the map.

There are, after all, so many choices.

(((There are only three Jonas Brothers, right?)))

Okay. There's a light year difference between the Jonas Bros. and Hanson. Certainly, Hanson's a great live band, and their other albums are pretty good and lean more towards Southern Rock, not towards the hellish level the Jonas Bros. live on.

That was a weird thing to defend.

Ah, beating up on teeny-bopper brother bands is not a productive use of anyone's time. It's not as if anyone is expecting some home-schooled 15-year-olds to record Revolver. You might as well curse out an Otter Pop for not being worthy of three stars in the Michelin Guide.

One of the Hansons went on to form Tinted Windows, a more than decent power-pop band, and one of the Jonases wants to grow up to be Elvis Costello and named his solo band the Administration because the word sort of reminded him of the Attractions. They all seem like decent enough sorts to me.

I do hate that little anti-Christ Bieber putz, though.

Ricky Nelson's pretty twin boys - Gunnar and Margaret. (I assume Soupy Sales' boys grew up in the vicinity of the Nelsons - in which case, they should have beaten their candy asses).

Kevin Haskins and David J (Bauhaus, ToT, L&R)

Holy crap!

Dave & Phil Alvin (The Blasters)

I hang my head in shame for having thought of Men Without Hats before the Alvin boys.

Also ashamed to have not thought of Paddy & Martin McAloon of Prefab Sprout before now.



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Tim & Neil Finn (Split Enz & Crowded House, don't know if Tim was in the Mullanes)
Simon Knuckley & Tim Knuckley (Wet Taxis)
Hamish Kilgour & David Kilgour (The Clean)
Rob Snarski & Mark Snarski (Chad's Tree)

The Sales brothers from Tin Machine and Iggy Pop. I was thinking the only other person with that surname is Soupy. Turns out he's their dad.



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Aitch wrote:

> The Sales brothers from Tin Machine and Iggy Pop. I was
> thinking the only other person with that surname is Soupy.
> Turns out he's their dad.

Mr. Reno already mentioned Tony & Hunt Sales, the children of the late comedian Soupy Sales (born Milton Supman). "Soupy" was his family's nickname, and he took his surname "Sales" from the comedian Charles "Chic" Sale.

Tim and Richard Butler (Psychedelic Furs)
Buzz and Bunk Gardner (Mothers of Invention)
Walt, Bruce, and Tom Fowler (Zappa)
Mike and Geoff Chunn (the other brothers in Split Enz)
Wim and Will Butler (Arcade Fire)

Bootsy and Catfish were also in Parliament/Funkadelic just in case anyone didn't know.

- DAD N SON DUO= THE SPANIC BOYS.
Brothers who didnt play in bands together but were both musicians
paul mcartney n mike mcgear
mick n chris jagger
james n livingston taylor
harry n tom chapin
david n shaun cassidy

few other guys who plyed together
nils n tom lofgren
marshall n robert crenshaw