Bands from your hometown(area)?

[CapnSev]

The Used, The Killers, and Donny Osmond.

 

[Zako]

Iowa, Slipknot!
Des Moines is 2 hours from where i live...

 

[Ozonbass]

A couple of my personal favorites:

Smoking Popes
Naked Raygun
Big Black
Urge Overkill (playing with one of their old drummers now)

 

[J. Crawford]

Big Organ Trio. Rusted Root.

 

[Hollywars]

I live in chicagoland so its def a long list, but to shorten it I'll just say bands that come from my county, which narrows it down to two bands and a singer, that I know of, lol.

The death metal band Oceano(which I actually played a couple shows with cack in my metal days), most probly never heard of em tho.

The defunct band Five Pointe 0, Once again probly never heard of em but they broke up just on the cusp of being huge, I forgot why. They had a single on the original resident evil soundtrack and it had some good radio play as well then they just broke up, they're trying to come back as a band called Zillion now.

Lastly, Lionel Richie attended high school in my town, my grandma went to school with him actually, he was born in Tuskegee tho.

Now, a lil list of my fave chicagoland bands: Disturbed, Mudvayne, Chevelle, Smashing Pumpkins, and Alkaline Trio. (Oh, and fallout boy is from around here too but I dont like them so much)

Oceano is deathcore...

Anyways, Periphery is right around here in DC/Bethesda, Good Charlotte (ew) is on the southern peninsula of Maryland, Misery Index and Dying Fetus are in Upper Marlboro I believe, and some really awesome thrash band that I can't remember is from Rockville.

 

[eddievanbassman]

ZZ Top, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Pantera, The Toadies, Drowning Pool,... just a few Texas Bands. I like em all.

 

[Joey3313]

A couple of my personal favorites:

Smoking Popes
Naked Raygun
Big Black
Urge Overkill (playing with one of their old drummers now)

No love for Slapstick?

 

[not_jason]

Portland has a long list of great bands.

That it does. I also double checked your location to make sure we were talking about the same one. Not a lot of famous acts from Maine, but I'm very happy with our scene.

 

[NKBassman]

The Guess Who were from Winnipeg...

 

[SVTDOUBLEBUCK]

We have our own Hardcore scene here in CT, but some noteworthy bands consist of: Hatebreed, Emmure, John Mayer, Howard Jones (Killswitch Engage), Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional)

 

[Time Consumer]

Oceano is deathcore...

Anyways, Periphery is right around here in DC/Bethesda, Good Charlotte (ew) is on the southern peninsula of Maryland, Misery Index and Dying Fetus are in Upper Marlboro I believe, and some really awesome thrash band that I can't remember is from Rockville.

I really hate when people correct me on some inane genre difference, I know the guys and I couldn't give a flying f**k what genre they think they are, really doesn't matter dude. I could start a whole thread on my hatred of all the made up genre's there seem to be an endless supply of nowadays. At least someone knows who they are tho, lol I was afraid folks would be like "theyre not famous".

 

[geeza]

Where I live now, Taylor Swift was from not far away.

 

[Munjibunga]

Iron Butterfly, Santana

 

[Ozonbass]

No love for Slapstick?

Slapstick, Broadways, Lawrence Arms...didn't know when to stop .

 

[Time Consumer]

Iron Butterfly, Santana

Sweet, I wish I lived near Santana, maybe some of the magic would rub off just due to proximity.

 

[Billy K]

Airplane(S.F.)
Steve Miller Band(MIll Valley now Oregon)
Dead(S.F. moved to Marin)
Journey(Marin)
Train(S.F.)
Sly and the Family Stone(larry Graham)( Vallejo)
Edward Hawkins
Tower of Power(Oakland)
Booker T(Tiburon)
Maria Muldur(Mill Valley)
Tracie Chapman(Mill Valley)
Young Bloods(west marin Inverness)
Night Ranger(Mill Valley,Sonoma)
Mr. Big(Fairfax)
New Riders(Fairfax)
Danny Carmossi(Heart Drummer Fairfax)
Quicksilver Messanger Service(Mill Valley)
Bill Graham(not a band but the biggest promotor ever Mill Valley)
I got to stop for now running out of room. more to come later

 

[Phalex]

Pop Evil are from Grand Rapids. We played a show with them (In a weird way) once.

 

[undeadbass]

I grew up in the Three Villages in Long Island (Setauket, Stony Brook, and Old Field are the villages, right next to Port Jeff), a place where musicians move when they get the money - case in point, the members of Foghat at one point owned half the buildings in town. The Boogie Hotel Recording Studio used to be down the street from my house. The area is now home to Dee Snider, Richie Blackmore, Bakithi Kumalo, and Roger Waters, to name a few.

As far as bands forming there, Blue Oyster Cult formed at Stony Brook University. And I went to the same high school (about 20 years later) as the members of Suffocation.

 

[GRISSLEHEAD]

From the Washington D.C.Area
Roberta Flack,Nils Lofgren,Frank Zappa,Emmy Lou Harris,Danny Gatton,Dave Grohl.......to name a few

 

[pica]

Well let see, in Detroit and the surrounding area we have....Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, MC5, Romantics, Grand Funk Railroad, all of Motown, Funk Brothers, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, Eminem, Sponge, Von Bondies, Glen Frey, Rare Earth, just to name a few.