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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.
The concept that Ovation was born in CT, is an irony that still baffles me. |
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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.
I ended up being a technical recruiter. Where did I go wrong? |
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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
woohoo. |
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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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Autographs can be arranged. |
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remember some of the local bands from your home town when you were younger ???
