Go was a supergroup made up of Stomu Yamashta (percussion and keyboards), Steve Winwood (vocals and keyboards), Al DiMeola (lead guitar), Klaus Schulze (synthesizers), Jerome Rimson (bass guitar), Pat Thrall (guitar on 'Live'), Brother James (congas on 'Live'), Michael Shrieve (drum kit), and Karen Friedman (vocals on 'Live'). In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe music groups comprising members of great proficiency who had already achieved fame or respect in other groups or as individual artists. ... Stomu Yamashta is a Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer. ... Image:S Winwood S Fisher. ... Al DiMeola (born July 22, 1954) is an American jazz fusion guitarist. ... Klaus Schulze (born August 4, 1947 in Berlin) is a German electronic art music composer and New Age composer, who also used the alias Richard Wahnfried and also known as Wahnfried on the last albums. ... Michael Shrieve (born July 6, 1949, in San Francisco) is a U.S. drummer, percussionist, and later an electronic music composer. ...

For a short time Stomu Yamashta managed to lead this collection of superstars in a group setting. The group, "Go", made two relatively lackluster studio albums, "Go" (1976) and "Go Too" (1977). If this had been all they did together, likely few but the most diehard fans of those performers in the band would know the group ever existed. However the band Go recorded a concert they performed in France, and it was later released as a rather short double album (four album sides running only 63 minutes total). This album "Live From Paris" from that June 12, 1976 concert, made them a cult favorite for those into fusion jazz or electronica at the time. Part of the reason for this is the inspired playing by the members of the band during this concert, with some believing it contains almost every member's best work. Stomu Yamashta is a Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer. ...

Despite the strong cult following for this group and its individual members, it took over two decades after the advent of the CD for any of these albums to be officially released on that medium, with "Live" being released only recently (Fall/Winter 2005). This, despite progressive record shop owners saying for a time that the question they were asked most often was, "when will Go, 'Live From Paris' be released on CD?"

Even when these albums were released on CD, they were very small pressings. So far they have gone out of print so quickly that not enough copies exist to actually satisfy those interested in getting them.

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Steve Winwood's collaborations