Which band was formed first, John Popper's band, Blues Traveler, or Rob Parissi's band, Wild Cherry?
Rob Parissi Robert "Rob" Parissi is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, perhaps best known as frontman for the American funk group Wild Cherry, best known for their 1976 Parissi-penned chart-topper "Play That Funky Music". He was born in 1950 and raised in the steel mill town of Mingo Junction, Ohio. He graduated from Mingo High School in 1968. Rob formed the band Wild Cherry in 1970 in Steubenville, Ohio, one mile north of Mingo Junction along the Ohio River. The band played the Ohio Valley region, Wheeling, West Virginia and the rest of the Northern West Virginia panhandle, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Generation Wild (song) Generation Wild is the title track and the first single to be released from Swedish glam metal band Crashdïet's 2010 album "Generation Wild". It is the first single to feature the band's new singer, Simon Cruz, on vocals after their previous singer, H. Olliver Twisted, left in 2008.