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omnistry
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Joined: Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:42 pm Posts: 1373 Location: Lynn, MA
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 Local Bands
Who are your favorite bands from your local area?
I like the Dropkick Murphys. Their songs are about the working man, drinking, and being Irish-Bostonians.
[url]http://www.dropkickmurphys.com[/url]
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AWPJudy
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Joined: Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:22 am Posts: 1584 Location: Portland HARDCOREgon
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favorite local band: The Observers.
post-hardcore art school punk. depressing but clever lyrics.
http://www.theobservers.org/sounds/defeated.mp3
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clouds
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adam's lament, mary's den.... and a couple others that i don't have cds of.
oh, my brother too.
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thejedipunk
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Joined: Mon Jan 24, 2005 4:58 pm Posts: 2748
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in the OC?????
the aquabats, code name: rocky.............................................
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schmatzee
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Joined: Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:46 pm Posts: 2222 Location: Tokyo
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bands in my town suck.
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Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:27 pm |
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BlazingSage
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Joined: Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:40 pm Posts: 935 Location: Massachusetts
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Dropkick Murphy's are pretty good. Leah Stargazing is an alright band and my brother knows one of the guys in the band.
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Catfish
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Joined: Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:25 pm Posts: 617 Location: still Chicago
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I'm from Chicago.
The vast majority of all electric post-war blues was recorded and preformed in the Chicagoland area.
I assume by local bands you were referring to small-unknown acts, but legends like Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Paul Butterfield maintained an active presence in Chicago until their deaths, so you could consider them local bands.
With the great migration, delta blues artists left the south for urban centers in the Midwest (i.e. Howlin' wolf to Chicago, John Lee Hooker to Detroit), what followed was a renaissance for Chicago blues labels, most notably Chess and Midwest Groove.
As far as favorites are concerned Muddy Waters will always be #1, but Little Walter was also a genius, and a much-underrated vocalist. Paul Butterfield is my favorite white blues artist, and a god on the diatonic harp. I'll take him over William Clarke any day.
I'm by no means a post-war purist. I love West Side Soul. Magic Sam is becoming on of my favorite artists. If you haven?t heard his stuff you should. He combines west side soul, postwar electric, and early funk. Think James brown meets B.B. King.
I like delta and Texas shuffle too.
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Sclone
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Joined: Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:48 am Posts: 1169 Location: IN HEAVEN
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I hate and will always hate my local bands.
Mostly because two of the ones that made it, represent everything wrong
with the music business.
Limp Bizkit and Yellow Card...both freaking jacksonville based bands.
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schmatzee
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Joined: Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:46 pm Posts: 2222 Location: Tokyo
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hahaha that sucks
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TuffGhost
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Joined: Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:37 am Posts: 338
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My local scene is shit, in a particularly frustrating way. All of the bands in my area that anyone cares about are terrible (see http://www.myspace.com/mouthtomouth for an example of this). There are, however, a few completely amazing local bands like Half-Handed Cloud and the Thinking Fellers Union Local #282 here that no one cares about. Deerhoof are from around here, but they are a bit too popular to be calling local.
[quote="Catfish"] Little Walter was also a genius, and a much-underrated vocalist. I like delta and Texas shuffle too.[/quote]
Indeed. Little Walter is great. I have the original 78's of most of his 50's sessions with Checker. I think Skip James and Rev. Gary Davis are my favorite blues musicians though.
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Replica
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My band, and whatever the fuck our name is.
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Catfish
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Joined: Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:25 pm Posts: 617 Location: still Chicago
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[quote]I have the original 78's of most of his 50's sessions with Checker[/quote] you are lucky. I wish I had the $$ to collect.
[quote]Rev. Gary Davis[/quote]
I never got into that pre-war east coast thing. to be fair, I really haven't heard a lot of it.
[quote]Skip James[/quote]
I love skip james. He has a real distinct sound. It's kind of erie and rural at the same time. It's unfortunate that he dosn't get a lot of mainstream credit. Anytime I hear him talked about it is by some obtuse scholar who is trying intellectualize his work. artists like Skip James should just be enjoyed for their songs. I wish I had more of his stuff but all I have Today and a compilation. Any recomendations?
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Jomei
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[quote="TuffGhost"] Thinking Fellers Union Local #282[/quote]
OH MY EFFING GAWD. I didn't think anyone in the universe had heard of them. I accidentally downloaded one of their songs when I was looking for Noodles music a long time ago. WEIRD SHIT!
"In the Stars I Can Sizzle Like a Battery"
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Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:33 pm |
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TuffGhost
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Joined: Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:37 am Posts: 338
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[quote]I have the original 78's of most of his 50's sessions with Checker[/quote] You can get 78's at very reasonable prices if you find a good connection for them. Strange little record stores are usually best. I usually end up paying only $2-$4 each. Listening to blues and jazz on 78's is a very cool experience, particularly with 20's and 30's stuff.
[quote]I never got into that pre-war east coast thing. to be fair, I really haven't heard a lot of it.[/quote] His pre-War recordings actually aren't that good. He has some amazing stuff from the late 50's and 60's though. The albums Harlem Street Singer and Say No to the Devil are both amazing. There is no other guitarist that sounds even remotely like him.
[quote]Any recomendations?[/quote] I think Greatest of the Delta Blues singers is the best of his 60's recordings. The Complete Early Recordings of Skip James is a good compilation of his 30's sessions.
[quote="Jomei"]OH MY EFFING GAWD. I didn't think anyone in the universe had heard of them. I accidentally downloaded one of their songs when I was looking for Noodles music a long time ago. WEIRD SHIT! [/quote]
Yeah, I love them. Some of their albums are just weirdness, but others are much more than that. Strangers from the Universe is haunting, beautiful and completely unlike anything else. It's out of print but it's pretty easy to get a cheap used copy on amazon. It's definitely worth getting. One of my favorite rock albums ever.
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bleuster
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Joined: Sun Jan 16, 2005 2:53 am Posts: 280
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[quote="Jomei"][quote="TuffGhost"] Thinking Fellers Union Local #282[/quote]OH MY EFFING GAWD. I didn't think anyone in the universe had heard of them. [/quote]
I thought [i]I[/i] was the only who's heard of them(well, I should know better when TuffGhost is around), but I thought they were so um.. "eccentric" I never bothered to mention them. We really should keep in check with these type of bands more often.
Hate my local bands. My friends keep telling me to join them for a concert, but I know I'll be in for 25 minutes of emo.
Orange County has a rich history of music, though. Surf music(Dick Dale), punk(Agent Orange), and such. More vibrant then L.A. it seems in retrospect-for my taste, at least. I'm going to the Fullerton Museum and learn some more cuz learning is pwerarw!!1
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