vansmack
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Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 07:52 PM UTC
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Jude376's post about a band being from his region and not knowing about it inspired me to think about this.
Who is the best band or solo artist from your hometown?
Mine would seem obvious, being that I'm from Anaheim, that it would have to be No Doubt. But I would say that the little known fact that Jeff Buckley was born and raised in Anaheim makes him the best musician from Anaheim, hands down.
nkotb
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 08:00 PM UTC
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Hell yeah.
There's not a lot of local Sykesville bands, so I'd choose either Marshall Slaw or Compression. But since I lost their homemade cassettes probably 10 years ago, they might not be as good as I remember them…
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brokensocscene
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 08:02 PM UTC
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Hometown is Santa Rosa, California…
I would say The Velvet Teen.
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 08:03 PM UTC
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Sarasota, FL: Hot Water Music or Against Me!
(both of which are "technically" from Gainesville, FL, but both have band members who went to my high school in SRQ)
ggw
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 08:03 PM UTC
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I don't think anyone is from my specific hometown, but Ted Leo hails from the adjacent town of Bloomfield, N.J.
xneverwherex
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 08:06 PM UTC
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Novato, California (in Marin County)
Huey Lewis & the News
Metallica - San Rafael, CA and Novato, CA (at least some of them live there now)
En Vogue - Novato (or so I had heard)
hmmm guess the best is Huey Lewis :)
godsshoeshine
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 08:09 PM UTC
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karl hendricks
Rhett Miller
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 08:10 PM UTC
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I grew up in rural upstate NY. The Figgs are from the nearest town, Saratoga Springs.
callat703
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 08:26 PM UTC
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Glen Ellyn, IL: Billy Corgan
I guess technically he grew up in Glendale Heights, but his step parents live there now and he went to my high school for a year. So I'm claiming him.
jaguar
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 08:27 PM UTC
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My mind is blanking out but just a few.
(Baltimore)
Billy Holiday
Cab Calloway
Chick Webb
David Byrne
Though I'm not a fan in the least, I bet that Hoya would want to add TuPac(sp?) and Cisco to my list.
beedubyah
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 08:31 PM UTC
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Roanoke. Agents of Good Roots.
Holla.
jaguar
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 08:37 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Rakim Indie Balzac:
David Hasselhoff
LOL. The question said 'best'. :p
Fellow elementary school alumni…alumnus…whatever. LOLOL. Not a classmate though as he's a lot older than I.
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 08:42 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Jaguar:
Though I'm not a fan in the least, I bet that Hoya would want to add TuPac(sp?) and Cisco to my list.
Sisqo?? the "thong song" guy from Dru Hill?? … i'm truly offended that you'd think i like Sisqo :eek:
2pac, on the other hand …
ratioci nation
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 08:42 PM UTC
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STORY OF THE YEAR!!!!!!
or Son Volt, Wilco would be a stretch since they turned their back on the St. Louis area for Chicago, both are actually from Belleville, IL (just outside of STL), but Farrar now lives in St. Louis
or Chuck Berry
thegazelle
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 08:44 PM UTC
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Buffalo– Ani Difranco and moe.
And I'll throw old Goo Goo Dolls in there for good measure, but not newer Dolls.
jaguar
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 08:55 PM UTC
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Though I'm not a fan in the least, I bet that Hoya would want to add TuPac(sp?) and Cisco to my list.
Sisqo?? the "thong song" guy from Dru Hill?? … i'm truly offended that you'd think i like Sisqo :eek:
2pac, on the other hand …
LOL. Sorry….but, you do know how to spell his name correctly. Better yet, you, a Floridian living in DC, know that he was from Druid Hill. Even I didn't know that.
jaguar
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Re: Best band or musician from your hometown?
June 29, 2006 at 09:01 PM UTC
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Originally posted by nkotb:
Hell yeah.
There's not a lot of local Sykesville bands, so I'd choose either Marshall Slaw or Compression. But since I lost their homemade cassettes probably 10 years ago, they might not be as good as I remember them…
What about Roy Buccanon? Or was he from out closer to Frederick?
