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Greatest lost Bands that deserved better
- Thread starter ChefKen
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Agreed, but they have done pretty well for themselves. 14 albums since 1988, and they continue to tour with a pretty good following. I wouldn't consider them "lost".
Follow For Now, on the other hand, suffered from a (false) comparison to Living Colour. But they were much funkier, IMO. Only one album from this great Atlanta band.
That is some great punchy bass!
Man, sooo many bands I think are underrated or forgotten who deserved much better.
Will have to check out Rise Robots Rise. I remember hearing about them and seeing that CD with the black, white and red cover, but I don't think I've ever heard them.
At the moment, the bands that happen to come to mind are The Lee Harvey Oswald Band who put out two albums and one ep in the early 90s. Almost a joke band, but really tight, fun and very rockin' stuff. Just always thought they were a blast, and they split before the internet was a big deal...they just sorta fell through the cracks.
Another is also a three piece: the instrumental band Don Caballero. They are still around but were more active in the 90s. Interesting stuff, very complex time signatures and so on. Run the gamut from punk to math to prog to jazz.
Somehow these two bands popped into my brain with the OP's question, but there are so many others.
If you go back to the 50s, 60s and 70s, I could go on for weeks.
Will have to check out Rise Robots Rise. I remember hearing about them and seeing that CD with the black, white and red cover, but I don't think I've ever heard them.
At the moment, the bands that happen to come to mind are The Lee Harvey Oswald Band who put out two albums and one ep in the early 90s. Almost a joke band, but really tight, fun and very rockin' stuff. Just always thought they were a blast, and they split before the internet was a big deal...they just sorta fell through the cracks.
Another is also a three piece: the instrumental band Don Caballero. They are still around but were more active in the 90s. Interesting stuff, very complex time signatures and so on. Run the gamut from punk to math to prog to jazz.
Somehow these two bands popped into my brain with the OP's question, but there are so many others.
If you go back to the 50s, 60s and 70s, I could go on for weeks.
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Novo Combo - Michael Shrieve was in this band. All the band members were very talented and even though they never achieved great success as a band, individually, they each went onto success touring and recording with other acts. The band had two albums and a couple minor hit songs.
Yet another three piece band comes to mind. Acetone. Sometimes I feel like me and my wife are the only people who knew about this band. I thought they were great and deserved a lot more of the limelight. Very classy...mostly very mellow. The singer/songwriter/bass player Richie Lee unfortunately committed suicide at the age of 34 back in 2001.
Acetone released a few singles and eps and (I think) 5 albums. All quality stuff, IMO. Seems like they were more well-known by other artists. The British band Spiritualized tapped them to open for them on tour and Neil Young signed them to his record label.
The interplay of (Mapleglo Rickenbacker) bass and guitar is really something. Like a psychic link. WARNING: the track below is something to listen to only when you are ready to relaxxxxxx...
Acetone released a few singles and eps and (I think) 5 albums. All quality stuff, IMO. Seems like they were more well-known by other artists. The British band Spiritualized tapped them to open for them on tour and Neil Young signed them to his record label.
The interplay of (Mapleglo Rickenbacker) bass and guitar is really something. Like a psychic link. WARNING: the track below is something to listen to only when you are ready to relaxxxxxx...
Linc!!!
I was a student of Linc Chamberland, during the 1970s when he was still living in South Norwalk. He was (and still is) a legend. During the early 1960s, while he was on the road with his band The Orchids, he was one of the early white players to adopt the fluid, string-bending blues style of BB and Freddie King, et al. Linc participated in jam sessions with Robbie Robertson (later of The Band) and Roy Buchannan. There are stories of how Roy would face the back of the stage so that no one could steal his licks. When it was Linc's turn to play, he would play back Roy's lines verbatim, just to get his goat.
Speaking of bands that deserved better, Linc's band Sawbuck was signed to Motown records. The record company made them change their name to Gotham. It was a high-energy horn band. They made one album, called "Pass the Butter," which is pretty good, although Linc told me "they cut the balls off that band." When that band didn't succeed, Linc didn't want to tour any more and stayed home to teach and fish.
By the 1970s, Linc had gravitated to jazz. His tone was similar to Jim Hall, but he had adapted Coltrane's "sheets of sound" approach to guitar, which meant that he was not playing straight eight or sixteenth notes (a la Pat Martino), but irregular groupings of notes. On Tuesday nights, when I was still in high school, we would drive down to Rapson's Bar in Port Chester, NY, to hear Linc's weekly gig with Dave Liebman, Frank Vicari, Lyn Christie, and Jeff Williams. It was mind-expanding music.
Linc died in the mid-1980s. I have never heard another guitarist like him.
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The Band leader I helped manage in the early 90s took lessons from Linc.....Jon Rindnell.....Blackdog...Know him?
Sorry, ChefKen, I don't know Jon. I'm guessing that he studied with Linc after he moved up to New Milford. By that time, I had stopped studying with him.
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A really good progressive rock band that never seemed to get the fame they deserved.
A really good progressive rock band that never seemed to get the fame they deserved.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
I Love You - a late '80s, early '90s band out of LA that I saw a couple times . Great live band, nice guys.
I Love You was a band that formed in Hollywood, CA in 1988 from the ashes of the Florida punk-metal band, Sinful Pigeons.
After a heated bidding war, I Love You signed with Geffen Records in the summer of 1990, releasing their self-titled full length in the spring of 1991.
Their final Geffen Records album, All Of Us, was released in Spring, 1994. Following a short tour, in support of "All of Us", I Love You broke up in the summer of 1995.
I Love You was a band that formed in Hollywood, CA in 1988 from the ashes of the Florida punk-metal band, Sinful Pigeons.
After a heated bidding war, I Love You signed with Geffen Records in the summer of 1990, releasing their self-titled full length in the spring of 1991.
Their final Geffen Records album, All Of Us, was released in Spring, 1994. Following a short tour, in support of "All of Us", I Love You broke up in the summer of 1995.
