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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.
how about your local favorites that got their 15 minutes of fame back then ? :cool: GWB :cool: |
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Location: Chicago | the sons of champlain
new riders of the purple sage
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Location: Chicago | the sons of champlain
new riders of the purple sage
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hot tuna
aspiration (fusion: Neil Janklow & co)
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Location: Chicago | the sons of champlain
new riders of the purple sage
quicksilver messenger service
hot tuna
aspiration (fusion: Neil Janklow & co)
dead kennedys
oxbow |
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Location: Chicago | the sons of champlain
new riders of the purple sage
quicksilver messenger service
hot tuna
aspiration (fusion: Neil Janklow & co)
dead kennedys
oxbow |
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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
Wild Cherry
Eric Carmen |
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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.
Oh! James Montgomery plays the harp... So, no Ovations involved. |
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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)
Reunion |
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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
quincy
britaany fox |
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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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remember some of the local bands from your home town when you were younger ???
