Local bands that never made it big...
 

Here are 4 ...(skip first 40 seconds)



Who comes to mind in your area?

Ian Shelter. a 80ish Sacramento band that was a hell of lot better than Telsa

:2 cents::2 cents:

Zebra

most underrated band out of Long Island
I saw thse guys live at Hammerheads back in the day
rock on!

Econoline Crush was decent,never really hit the big time

The Franklins, Kasuals, Wednesday Night Heroes

Actually WNH are making some moves, and playing shows with some big name punk acts these days.


LONG LIVE ETOWN PUNK

L.A. based

Stealer = early 80's metal, Singer Ron Keel went on to be a CW singer.

Black & Blue = early 80's metal , would sell-out 300-500-1500 seats when ever they played. Singer Jamie St. James co-wrote a bunch of Kiss songs w/ P. Stanley. Guitar player is the current "Ace Frehley" named Tommy Thayer

The best of the bunch , in L.A. that never made it out, is a Band called London , they where huge in the early Glam scene. Nicky Sixx's first band, amongest many many more of those dude's who started out in London and went onto other bands. I think London is actually still together in whatever form, playing "retro Glam" nights around town.

here are two great bands from detroit they both had deals that fell apart
the lead singer ended up playing guitar for Uncle cracker


HiFi Handgrenades put out an album on a indy toured for a year with Foo Fighters then broke up
they had some great great songs but I chose a cover because well I love superchunk

don't forget the Howling D's

Hagfish

Broken Sunday from Grand Rapids, MI were a killer band with great music... RIP
http://www.myspace.com/brokensunday

The Toilet Boys from NYC

http://www.myspace.com/toiletboysnyc

Zebra was HUGE locally and still play out. Hammerheadz (old Febs)!! Played there many times! :thumbsup

Blue Rodeo and The Tragically Hip are both great Canadian Bands who are very popular north of the border.

Download some of their tunes and you will be very pleased.

Try these:

The Tragically Hip
-New Orleans is sinking (from the 80`s Ironic eh)
-Music at work
-Blow at high dough
-Bobcaygeon

Blue Rodeo:
- Try
- Hasn`t hit me yet
- 5 days in May

One of the Best!

it's a huge surprise these people didn't make it big

I couldn't find a full clip of the group Tablet , but they got screwed by their record company and never made it big.

I could only find a sampler of their album "Pinned"

1st 2 songs are great..

http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/r...=001&disc=001#

that was a good one

i think the hip do very well down here in the states.

So funny you mention them - I was just reminiscing about them the other day and listened to a few songs.

Saw this thread and had to post one of my favorite local Baltimore bands... Dog Fashion Disco. They had their last show a few years ago and dissolved for all the reasons bands normally do. Lack of large commercial success was on of them. They had a metal, jazz, hardcore fusion sound with lead singer Todd Smith laying down some uniquely diverse vocal talent. Offen compaired to Mike Patton. Check them out and their new band if you like hardcore with a melodic and sometimes sadistic flair...



http://www.myspace.com/dogfashiondisco


The lead singer and guitarist of DFF went on to start a new band called Polkadot Cadaver...



http://www.myspace.com/polkadotcadaver


I just picked up their CD Polkadot Cadaver - Purgarory Dance Party. If you want to hear a hardcore indie album unlike anything you've ever heard pick up a copy. Badass!

They used to be local. The Gone Jackals.

"You don't know a thing about me":

well i havent made it completly big but im still trying.

lol - my own band

let's see the video

here is one about paris if ya havent heard it..

you, my friend, reside at the far end of the spectrum :2 cents:

~Ray

we never made an official one - i think there are some live videos on VHS - lol

we just played for years in clubs of our area - but we had fun

and we made one album

http://www.madalton.de/madalton/gruppe/album11.jpg

http://www.madalton.de/madalton/gruppe/album22.jpg

loud and proud. nice ladies as well

Just in our neck of the woods. Head east towards Syracuse and you're likely to find people who've never heard of them.

how about Chicago , Atlanta... no good music there?
~Ray