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Just a thought off the top of my head.
Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs????
Detroit Wheels?????
Blind Faith?????
Georgia Satellites?????
Golden Earring???
Strawberry Alarmclock???
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| Fiji Joe |
Georgia Satellites?...c'mon...how bout the Flying Burrito Brothers |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
quote:
Fiji Joe wrote:
...how bout the Flying Burrito Brothers
Yeah really. Great band....GENIUS!!! |
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| Gazza |
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
Them
The Velvet Underground (legendary but no one bought their records at the time!)
The Flatlanders
Whiskeytown
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quote:
Gazza wrote:
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
Them
The Velvet Underground (legendary but no one bought their records at the time!)
The Flatlanders
Whiskeytown
The John Entwistle Band
Gazza ........................................
We were all waiting for you last Friday Evening at THE BRAZEN HEAD ( band : Ellis Island ) and Clive the Bartender poured your pint of Guinness promptly at 10:00 PM CDT just like you ordered ..............................
After about a 1/2 hour , when you didn't show up , I couldn't hold out any longer promptly drank your beer .
Jersey Joe ! ™ |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Question Mark & the Mysterians? ? ?
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Oh yeah, The Traveling Wilbury's. They were pretty good. Certainly no lack of talent...at least they played their own instruments. |
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| Sir Stonesalot |
TTM, please define what "great" is, and what "made it" means. I have some bands in mind, but I need to know if we are playing by the same criteria. |
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Sir Stonesalot wrote:
TTM, please define what "great" is, and what "made it" means. I have some bands in mind, but I need to know if we are playing by the same criteria.
Well I suppose everyone's criteria will be a bit different.
"made it"? I put it in quotes because I can't really define that for anyone. I mean is one or two hits "making it"? I guess the best way to answer the question is to turn off your mind and turn on the antennas. For example Tommy Roe never "made it" as far as being cool goes, in the ultimate pantheon, but his hits were great.
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Spirit
Bob Dylans kids band
Evelyn "Champagne" King |
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Alice In Chains.
The Stooges!!!
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| Sir Stonesalot |
Speaking of Spirit tele....
Mark Andes is playing with Ian McLagan in the Bump Band. Keep an eye out for them, that's one gig not to be missed.
TTM...
So are we talking bands that had a long sustained career marked with a small bit of success, but remain mostly in obscurity? Or are we talking about bands that had a little success but couldn't ever quit their day jobs? Or are we talking about acts that were here and gone in a brilliant flash? Or are we talking bands that influenced but were never popular in their time? Or bands that are just as good if not better than successful bands, but no one ever heard of them?
Your question is too broad for me...or maybe the question is fine, but I have too many answers?
A band that fits my question #1 is XTC.
#2 Would be Todd Rundgren. Had some solo success but is more known as a producer...his day job.
#3 would be the Sex Pistols. BOOM!
#4 would be the New York Dolls or the Velvet Underground.
#5 would be The Cynics.
I got lots more, but I'd like to know what you were aiming at. |
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| rolling who |
Face to Face -- not the punk band, the 80s "new wave" band that had a hit with "10, 9, 8" and a great lost classic called "Out of My Hands."
And I normally hate bands with a female lead singer. |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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Sir Stonesalot wrote:
I got lots more, but I'd like to know what you were aiming at.
I wasn't actually "aiming" at anything in particular....except intelligent discussion maybe.... more like firing a sawed off shot gun with buckshot than a rifle. What actually prompted the question and set me off this morning was listening to 96 Tears. |
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[quote]Sir Stonesalot wrote:
Speaking of Spirit tele....
"Mark Andes is playing with Ian McLagan in the Bump Band. Keep an eye out for them, that's one gig not to be missed."
SS all in know about "Spirit" is the the singer married the drummers Mom
That is messed up
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| padre |
Yes, Georgia Satellites!
Jayhawks (they still have time to make it, I sure hope they do) |
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| Sir Stonesalot |
LOL, I'd forgotten about that Tele. That is fucked up. If memory serves, that relationship ended badly. How could it have done anything but?
Now back to the discussion at hand....
I'd say that Dylan guy, and that other dude from Memphis....whatshisname....Elton Parsley or sumething like that. Yeah, him. And that crazy black guy....the female impersonator preacher guy...the guy who yells "Shut Up!" all the time...that guy. You know who I mean?
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The Edgar Broughton Band
Steamhammer |
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| sirmoonie |
The Faces
Alice in Chains
Mott the Hoople
Johnny Guitar Watson
Smithereens
The Undisputed Truth |
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| VoodooChileInWOnderl |
Ultimate Spinach |
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Little Blue Boy & The Blue Boys |
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| sirmoonie |
quote:
Bruno Stone wrote:
Little Blue Boy & The Blue Boys
The High Numbers
The Detours
The New Originals |
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| VoodooChileInWOnderl |
13th Floor Elevators
Mike Bloomfield
Cold Blood
Dreams
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Todd Snider
Wilco
Mason Ruffner
Kinks(should have been huge!) |
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Big Star |
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The Stooges |
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Menudo
Faith + 1
The beatles
Timmy and the lords of the underworld
and
the Dirty Maccccccccc
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Jack Bruce Band with Mick Taylor |
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| Cant Catch Me |
First two aren't quite "bands," which I think was part of their failure to make it big. (Following the principle of the total being more than the sum of the parts. [A principle that I think made the Stones the greatest rock 'n roll band in all eternity, i.e. they are a band where the members combined produced an energy that outshone anything they could have done separately.])
Roy Buchanan,
Danny Gatton,
and, the band on my list, The Blasters.
Oh yeah, and Mick Taylor. Whatever happened to him? Whoops, sorry, I forgot, he IS big. And sweaty.
Also, in all seriousness:
Nick Lowe,
Dave Edmunds (although not so much as Nick Lowe, who deserves to be HUGE),
Joe Jackson (really, why Elvis Costello and not Joe Jackson?),
T. Rex (even though Bolan's death stopped any chance of them becoming huge),
XTC,
Squeeze,
the Buzzcocks,
Alex Chilton (and by inference, Big Star),
and, Richard and Linda Thompson (together, or separately).
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