Local bands who have "made it big"

[jb12string]

What bands or artists from where you are from have "made it". Off the top of my head, bands that were formed or were headquartered around here:
Poison
Fuel
Live
Mickey Dean

[bigmuff113]

SRV is from Austin, I live in SA. Does that count?
Axe is one. Mainly just famous people in bands

[Guitar_Ninja]

Joni Mitchell
The Sheepdogs

[mal paso]

I'm from Detroit, so, a lot of people










As for Indiana, umm, Dan Quayle? Oh wait, Axl. and Johnny Cougar too. Think that might be it.



Kinda miss Detroit

[scantron81]

B-52's
Danger Mouse
Of Montreal
Corey Smith
The Whigs
Casper & the Cookies
John Berry
Pylon
Neutral Milk Hotel
Masters of the Hemisphere
Vic Chestnutt
Drive by Truckers
REM
Widespread Panic
Japancakes
Elf Power
Olivia Tremor Control

[mal paso]

I didn't know the Elephant 6 stuff was from Athens. That's pretty cool!




Apples in Stereo were Colorado? Is that right?

[Jazzerstang]

Aerosmith's first or second gig was at the middle school (back then, the region's High School) that I interned at this past school year for my graduate studies (guidance counselor).

[scantron81]

Originally Posted by mal paso

I didn't know the Elephant 6 stuff was from Athens. That's pretty cool!

Apples in Stereo were Colorado? Is that right?

Robert (Apples) is from Colorado. He wound up in Ruston, LA where he met Jeff Mangum. They wound up in Athens and the E6 thing sort of happened. I have band practice over at the Elf Power house. We shot a video there last month. It's pretty magical.

You're in Bloomington? Are you going to attend Plan-it-X fest? Several of my friends and bandmates are playing there. I declined an invite so I could take a family vacation rather than tour the South & Midwest in a hot van in June.

[hoodtube12]

Louisville, Ky

My Morning Jacket

[adkima00]

Tom Kieffer from Cinderella went to my high school.

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[mal paso]

Scantron, that's awesome! I devoured that stuff in the 90s! I hung out with the Apples after a show in Detroit, very cool people. Show was great obviously.

You like the Lilys at all? Kurt took a lot from Rob(at least that's the impression I get) The Kinksian lyrical detail, the radio ready power pop. Good stuff.


Yeah I'm in Bloomington, but only barely. If you're so inclined, PM me that info, so I can try and check those bands out!

[soulman969]

Colorado's Own: (these are who immediately come to mind)

Firefall
Poco
The Dirt Band
SugarLoaf
Subdudes
Big Head Todd
Dan Fogelberg
Loggins & Messina Band
Judy Collins
Phillip Bailey (Earth, Wind and Fire)
Tommy Bolin (Zephyr)
The String Cheese Incident
Left Over Salmon
Yonder Mountain String Band
The Astronauts
Richie Furay (Buffalo Springfield, Poco, SHF Band)
Rusty Young (Poco)
Rick Roberts (Burrito Bros, Mannassas, Firefall)
Jock Bartley (Firefall)

[Slow Reflexes]

Well, depends what you mean by "made it big."

Portland area had Nu Shooz, Quarterflash, Curtis Salgado, Everclear, Napalm Beach, Courtney Love (sorry 'bout that), the Crazy 8s... I keep thinking Robert Cray and the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, but maybe they were more Eugene.

Um, who else... Modest Mouse... I think Johnny Marr was here with them for a while... Stephen Malkmus was here for a while, but I think he moved...

Oh, yeah... Smegma and Floater.

That's about all I can think of.

Edit: Oh, crap... The Kingsmen! How could I forget them...

[Lowbassnotes]

Robert Cray
Henry Vestine(Canned Heat)
Gil Landry(Old Crow Medicine Show)

But the top of the heap ever here was Tim Hardin(Wooodstock, major influential song writer, true blues). He grew up and went to school here, a close friend of my dad. Cherry Poppin Daddies as well but I never considered them great, always considered them Johnny come lately stuff around here.

[Roku]

Originally Posted by scantron81

B-52's
Danger Mouse
Of Montreal
Corey Smith
The Whigs
Casper & the Cookies
John Berry
Pylon
Neutral Milk Hotel
Masters of the Hemisphere
Vic Chestnutt
Drive by Truckers
REM
Widespread Panic
Japancakes
Elf Power
Olivia Tremor Control

You missed two that are not FROM Athens but played there all the time when I was there in college. Sugarland and Zach Brown Band.

[Roku]

Important: This is not an endorsement of Sugarland

[scantron81]

Originally Posted by Roku

You missed two that are not FROM Athens but played there all the time when I was there in college. Sugarland and Zach Brown Band.

Ah yes, recall seeing their names on the Georgia Theater Marquee many times. Sugarland didn't really "grow up" within the Athens scene. They were a record label creation. Jennifer Nettles performed here with various bands for many years before Sugarland. I saw her at the 40 Watt in '01 and she had a wonderful voice. Somewhere along the way she picked up that standard country-pop twang. She used to host coffee house shows in the basement of my church for married couples with children who couldn't get out much. There was a free childcare area upstairs so the parents could sip wine, enjoy nice tunes from a live band and relax a little. It was very thoughtful of Jennifer to do that at our church.

[Paul in Colorado]

The only band I can think of that came out of Hayward with any real success was Yesterday and Today. If you want to expand the circle by 30 miles I'd be here all night typing.

[PoiDog]

Originally from Hawaii, so we have:

1) Bruno Mars (I remember when he was a little kid doing Elvis impersonations in Waikiki);
2) Bette Midler (went to my high school way before I did) (a lot of people think she's from NY but, believe it or not, she's from Hawaii);
3) ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro; and
4) the immortal Don Ho of "Tiny Bubbles" fame (though most of us preferred his song "Who is the lolo who stole my pakalolo?" a LOT more).

Currently on assignment in Matamoros, Mexico, and they have (actually had cuz he died a few years ago) a guy named Rigo Tovar, who was crazy famous in Mexico and -- perhaps of more interest to this forum -- incorporated electric guitar into his music, which was not very common when he was starting out. The city even has a big statue of him, which is very reminiscent of the one for Freddie Mercury in Montreux, Switzerland.

[bigmuff113]

Anyone from Amherst, Mass?