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Location: Michigan | here were some of the up & coming bands in my home town when i was a youngster. they were playing at high school proms and teen high hops when i was a becoming a teenager.
bob seger system
amboy dukes
frigid pink
the frost
grand funk railroad
alice cooper
terry night & the pack
m.c.5.
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Location: Chicago | the sons of champlain
new riders of the purple sage
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hot tuna
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Location: Chicago | the sons of champlain
new riders of the purple sage
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Location: Newington, CT | Greg: You've gone click-happy! |
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Location: Newington, CT | Anyone remember --
Little Village
in New England?
Late '70's... |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Bill Deal and the Rondells |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Two great Central Florida bands were Tight Shoes and more recently the Groovemonsters both featuring the late great Dave Fiester.
And other not quite hometown but in the neighborhood bands who were always around:
The Outlaws
Sea Level
Molly Hatchet
Dixie Dregs
38 Special |
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Location: Ohio | NE Ohio
The Choir It's Cold Outside
Glass Harp
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Connecticut didn't have shit.
Jacksonville had Hatchet, the Outlaws, 38 Special, Skinnerd, Henry Paul, and many others. Petty was from Gainsville |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | There was this guy from Freehold NJ that wasn't too bad. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | The Surfaris. Almost my neighbors. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | My teen-age formative years were in Cape Cod, Mass (not MA) and in the Boston Area...
So I get to mention James Taylor, Arlo Guthrie, James Montgomery, the J. Geils Band...
In the 70's I knew buskers who attended the Berklee College of Music.
In the 80's, half of the people I knew were is some Punk Rock band or another....
So I used to get into bars and get free beer cuz "I'm with the Band!"
But I don't know if that really counts. :p |
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Location: MA | Originally posted by Beal:
Connecticut didn't have shit.
CT had one of the greatest-- Gene Pitney
Local New England bands (mostly Boston & north) I fondly remember--
The Ramrods
J. Geils
The Barbarians (w/ Moulty, the original 1 armed drummer!)
The Remains
The Orphans
The Ushers
Orpheus (my favorite)
The Spectres
Friday nights at the Pine Grove Pavilion in Portsmouth NH....good times. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Houston..........60's
Roy Head
Archie Bell and the Drells
Fever Tree
Josefus
13th Floor Elevators
Movin Sidewalks
ZZ Top
Bugs Henderson
Nitzinger
Edgar & Johnny Winter
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Location: 6 String Ranch | J Geils was Boston.
So was James Montgomery
James was out on the vinyard
As far as the Rockville legend, well if you like him, good.
In the major scheme of things, I stand by my original statement, with the exception of Al Anderson. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Side story... Back in the 70's I saw ZZ Top for free on the Charles River out near Watertown during Boston's "Summerthing" which were free concerts scattered around the Boston Metro area.
We had never heard of ZZ Top, and they were from Texas! :eek: :p
We went to the concert to see James Montgomery and The Walnut Band ('nuther local bar band).
ZZ was good, and now I can say that I have seen them, but we went for JM.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Paul Revere and the Raiders were here and Gary Puckett was just down the road, but I was in Carrington, North Dakota. I don't remember any famous bands from there. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | The Poppy Family played their first gig on Texada Is, just across the way. (Terry Jacks second or third act before the solo career)
Tom Northcott went to school here and dated a friends sister.
Saw Brave Belt at the Community Hall just before the name change to Bachman Turner Overweight.
Valdy's still in the neighbourhood when not touring.
Pied Pumkin/Pied Pair
Brain Damage
The Hometown Band
Uncle Wiggleys Hot Shoes Blues Band (adventurous story involving potential arrest there, they partied gooood!)
Some of the best were unknown anywhere but here.
Stillmeadow
The Rogues (it wasn't even original when they started in '67)
Broadway (ditto, '74)
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Location: Boise, Idaho | When I was at Kansas State, a roommate asked if I wanted to go to a local auditorium to see a rock band with a decent fiddle player. I said I couldn't imagine that would work. It was Kansas. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Some of the best were unknown anywhere but here.
WOW, based on your list I have to agree!
(Jacks Seasons in the Sun = 1 hit wonder!)
Isn't AlanM from Connecticut? |
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Location: NJ | the hooters
john eddie and the front street runners
bruce springsteen
todd rundgren
robert hazard and the heros
cinderella
bonjovi
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Location: Harsens Island, MI | We saw Toby Redd a lot. The drummer is Chad Smith who's now with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. And it's not really "back in the day", but we saw/heard the White Stripes at the Detroit Institute of Arts (free show) in '03 or '04. |
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Location: Tennessee | Just for fun, check out this slide show of then and now:
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/entertainment/music/NATLRock-Stars-Then-a... |
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Location: Harsens Island, MI | Grace Slick... yikes! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Gee Bobbo, it takes a while to watch that whole thing!
I notice that most of the Women still look pretty good for their age. (Sorry Gracie)
As to the guys... Aw, We Don't Care! At least We Ain't DEAD! :cool:
We\'re on the next page... So here is the Link again... |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | One of my favorite Atlanta bands was Mothers finest..Anyone remember those guys(and gal)? |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by Beal:
J Geils was Boston.
So was James Montgomery
James was out on the vinyard
As far as the Rockville legend, well if you like him, good.
In the major scheme of things, I stand by my original statement, with the exception of Al Anderson. I'm with Beal... I tried posting an answer to this thread last night several times and it was just too depressing. The first "Live" national act I saw was in the late 70's (Allman Bros.). I believe I was in the only "high school" band we had and we sucked, and only lasted a few weeks together. There were no clubs that had music to even sneak into. There was no music scene to speak of in most of Connecticut. Most of the proms and "sock hops" were DJ's.
On the otherhand, there were lots of talented musicians. The guy responsible for me even thinking about taking guitar seriously I recently found on Facebook. I still play an old Hank Sr. riff he taught when we were back in high school. He still gig around CT. Most musicians either played for themselves or just family or church stuff. I was one of the few (two or three) I knew my entire childhood that even thought of playing music professionally.... and that dream was beaten out of me and a regular basis.
It wasn't until I left Connecticut that I found out that in most cities you could find lots of clubs, or at least one.... with live music. Even in Connecticut there are some towns that have live music at least weekly, but it's also 30+ years later. Where I grew up... still nothing.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by freckles:
Grace Slick... yikes! I'm officially jealous :mad: |
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Location: Harsens Island, MI | Grew up in L.A.
Three best local bands were:
Van Halen
(Use to do great covers, great party band)
Quiet Riot
(studied guitar with this Guy named Randy Rhoads)
Exciter
(Randy went to record an album in England with a guy named Ozzy. Randy thought the best local guitarist was in exciter, so my substitute teacher while Randy away was this guy Named George Lynch).
Until Randy came back for a month or so, to teach a little more, then he hit the big time.
(Eddie and George did okay too).
I guess we all did okay... Gave me a great story to tell ... |
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Location: michigan | Freckles, your story sounds similar to mine. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Lisa attended High School with a group of guys that went by the name of Paris. They moved to L.A. where Bret Michael Sychak became Bret Michaels and Richard Ream turned in his shears (hairdresser) for drumsticks and became Rikki Rocket. The band changed their name to Poison and the rest is Spandex and Hairspray history. One of their early video's has some home movies of a skating rink... It was the skating rink they played in Mechanicsburg, PA as Paris. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
The concept that Ovation was born in CT, is an irony that still baffles me. Pretty simple, I think: no distractions -- literally none -- to get in the way of making great instruments. |
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Location: Newington, CT | There used to be a GREAT band playing locally called "The Swing of Things." I think they are still active, but haven't seen or heard them in years.
I'm a single daddy, after all. As the poet once said, "...don't get around much anymore." |
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Location: Jet City | I was 15 when I saw a little local band called Metallica play the first time. Dave Mustaine was still in the band. I was also a big Y&T fan.
As for our High School, we had Brad Gillis who took over Randy's spot with Ozzy after Randy died (then went on to Night Ranger), then there was Dan Chauncey who went to play with 38 Special on their "Rock and Roll Strategy" album, Mark McGee who's been the lead player for Greg Allmann and Friends for nearly 2 decades, and in my same class we had all the guys from Testament.
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Location: St Louis | Originally posted by AlanM:
Anyone remember --
Little Village
in New England?
Late '70's... Late '70's??
The Little Village I remember was John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe and the drummer who's name escapes me. They were early '90's and only released one album as I recall. Good band. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Paul Revere and the Raiders were here Yeah, but they didn't get famous till they moved here!
Kingsmen (Louie Louie)
Doc Severinsen
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Wildwood:
Originally posted by AlanM:
Anyone remember --
Little Village
in New England?
Late '70's... Late '70's??
The Little Village I remember was John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe and the drummer who's name escapes me. They were early '90's and only released one album as I recall. Good band.
The Little Village that I remember did blues, Hendrix, other stuff, and an original that they called "Beaver Fever" that, I gather, had little or nothing to do with woodland critters with big teeth. |
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Location: chicago | There was a garage band just across the street(north side in Chicago).A couple of the covers were Styx songs Lorelli and Lady...turns out the guitar player was John Curlewski,He was the original gtr player that Tommy Shaw replaced,So here he is playing styx covers in a garage band while Styx is just hitting it big and touring the world. |
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Location: Seattle | Bighorn
Burgundy Express
Heart
Dynamic Logs
Dr Funk
Interesting Where Are They Now link for Pacific Northwest Bands.
http://pnwbands.com/nwtributes.html
When in Seattle go see the Experiance Music Project.... not quite the RR hall of fame but pretty interesting. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | My neighbor's son was high school friends with the Ramones. I guess they went to Also went to Forest Hills High School. So did I and some guys names Simon and Garfunkle and Burt Bacharach. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | The Ramones, Simon & Garfunkle, Bacharach....I can imagine the rumbles in the alley after class.... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | My brother-in-law was one of the main members of The Pagans.....
punk rock from somewhere around Cleveland in the late 70's early 80's. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Originally posted by fillhixx:
The Ramones, Simon & Garfunkle, Bacharach....I can imagine the rumbles in the alley after class.... "I wanna be sedated" Bridge over troubled water" and "raindrops keep falling on my head" :p |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Local Joined Forces & Max Creek |
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Location: Bellevue, Washington | Presidents of the USA
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Alice in Chains
Nobody said this had to be about the seventies right? I guess I'm showing my age here...
I've heard many stories from my parents about local bands in the 70's and had nothing but good things to say about a band called Rail. Also Queensryche! |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | You guys are lucky to have such history. I grew up in Davenport Iowa, The only thing that really came out of there was I went to Jr and Sr high with Roger Craig and Jamie Williams that played for the 49's. I did how ever when I was stationed in Germany I use to volunteer since I was a MP for concert detail. I got to see this concert by a group called Scorpions. I came home telling everyone about them and no one heard of them. A couple years later when I came home they were all over the radio. Wish I was as lucky as you guys were. |
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Location: Michigan | a few more to add
mitch ryder & the detroit wheels
mike & suzi quatro
glenn frey ( eagles )
the underdogs
brownsville station
comander cody
iggy pop & the stooges
terry night & the pack
question mark & the mysterians
GWB |
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Location: south east Michigan | My cousin Tommy has been playing sax in "question marks" band for a couple years now.
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Location: Nashville TN. | Originally posted by PEZ:
Local Joined Forces & Max Creek Joined Forces Jimi Bell in the Movie Light of Day with Joan Jett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6hgVEEo_ls&feature=related
Jimi can play
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzIOmOgwYW4&NR=1
Here is Max Creek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVSZ85tRXeg |
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Location: south east Michigan | Guess what guys... PEZ has discovered YouTube.
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Location: Nashville TN. | LOL
Brad
I think I found it a while ago....
great place to walk down memory lane |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Cincinnati, Ohio - late '60's - early '70's. The place was called the Family Owl; sort of the local version of the Troubadour Club. It's a parking lot now. :(
Our band was one of the regular groups - we did a lot of CSN&Y type acoustic rock, some of which we wrote, and some of which were covers. There was another regular band there called Melange. And they were HOT! Played everything from bluegrass to the folk-rock kind of stuff we did, all kinds of acoustic instruments - guitars, mandolins, banjos. We jammed with them a lot.
Anyway, they had a guitar player with a really smooth country-rock voice.
The kid's name was Craig Fuller, from Covington, Kentucky, just across the river.
He started a band called Pure Prairie League.
Wrote a song called "Amie."
Beyond that we didn't have much home grown stuff. Adrian Belew (also from Covington), who played with David Bowie. Blessid Union of Souls and Over the Rhine in recent years.
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Let's see, local bands when I was younger, I take that to mean from the time I could drive myself until I moved out after college, in no particular order, this would be growing up in Rockland County with access to NYC, Northern NJ and upstate NY, I have to agree with Mister Beal, there wasn't much happening in Connecticut ...
Bear Brother's Band
Springsteen
Blotto
Ramones
Blondie
804
Spyro Gira
Patti Smith
South Side Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
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Location: Michigan | Originally posted by guitarwannabee:
here were some of the up & coming bands in my home town when i was a youngster. they were playing at high school proms and teen high hops when i was a becoming a teenager.
bob seger system
amboy dukes
frigid pink
the frost
grand funk railroad
alice cooper
terry night & the pack
m.c.5.
how about your local favorites that got their 15 minutes of fame back then ? :cool: GWB :cool: Ooops disregard. |
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Location: Central California, USA | In the San Francisco Bay Area.. wow.. yeah.. lots. To name them is like trying to answer a question that you have 1,000 answers to.. but don't know where to start.
I see that Dobro beat me to the New Riders of the Purpla Sage (5 times). A little history about that:: most people don't realize that the Grateful Dead was born from a fork in the road of the New Riders of the Purple Sage. When Garcia fired up the Dead and they split into seperate bands, no one knew which one (if either) was going to go forward or die. It ends up that, obviously, the Dead made the huge advancements, but NRPS didn't exactly roll over and die. In fact, their most recent album release is 2009.. so for impact's sake it was the Grateful Dead.. but for longevity's sake, NRPS still has a pumping heartbeat. Long Live the spirit of Marmaduke!
If anyone else remembers standing in line on Steiner Street during foggy evenings waiting to get into Winterland during the late 60's to mid 70's, you know what I mean. It was actually REAL back then. Frankly, I feel quite patriotic to have been a part of that era in the SF Bay Area.. and don't even get me started on Tower of Power! |
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Location: Chicago | Wow, so cool to hear from old stomping grounds!
Wow, so cool to hear from old stomping grounds!
Wow, so cool to hear from old stomping grounds!
Wow, so cool to hear from old stomping grounds!
Wow, so cool to hear from old stomping grounds!
Wow, so cool to hear from old stomping grounds!
Wow, so cool to hear from old stomping grounds!
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Location: Chicago | Seriously: From 70-74 I spent COUNTLESS hours waiting to get into Winterland. Many of the hours I do not remember well.
Some shows: Allmans, James Cotton, ELP, Yes, Johnny Winter, the Dead, Santana, Focus, Lee Michaels, Sabbath, Santana, Wishbone Ash, the Airplane, Tull, Traffic ... on and on!! |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Originally posted by an4340:
Let's see, local bands when I was younger, I take that to mean from the time I could drive myself until I moved out after college, in no particular order, this would be growing up in Rockland County with access to NYC, Northern NJ and upstate NY, I have to agree with Mister Beal, there wasn't much happening in Connecticut ...
Bear Brother's Band
Springsteen
Blotto
Ramones
Blondie
804
Spyro Gira
Patti Smith
South Side Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
I think there are others but these stuck in my head. I remember a few of those bands doing the Thruway circuit but would "804" be "805"? 805 was a Syracuse group that played exceptional progressive rock. I'm not sure I ever caught an "804". |
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Location: Michigan | dobro you should feel good about only losing hours , i have lost the years of 1970-1974 :eek: GWB |
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Location: Michigan | alice cooper before he made it to the big time on a local underground t.v. station .GWB
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Location: Michigan | the soulbenders took 5th place in a 1967 battle of the bands from grand rapids michigan .
im still living in the past . GWB
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Location: Michigan | Originally posted by guitarwannabee:
here were some of the up & coming bands in my home town when i was a youngster. they were playing at high school proms and teen high hops when i was a becoming a teenager.
bob seger system
amboy dukes
frigid pink
the frost
grand funk railroad
alice cooper
terry night & the pack
m.c.5. So...did you ever make out to Sherwood Forest? |
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Location: Michigan | never did .
i just went on a website for them and all of those bands would just follow each other weekend after weekend from
sherwood forest to the hideout to the notre dame teen high dance.
here is a venue of who was playing back then , it is a pretty impressive list for local bands.GWB
http://www.motorcitymusicarchives.com/sherwoodforest.html |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmeeeee not on our side
No it isn't
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remember some of the local bands from your home town when you were younger ???