Local Music Scene ???

[Lucky #7]

Even if it were legal, that is the most supremely unenforceable requirement in history. 

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Speaking of the tax thing.  Many of the homes on Extreme Makeover and the year supplies of you name its given to families down on their luck by the Oprah's of the world, they never get to keep most of the stuff because it is considered income.  They had no money to begin with, so how could they pay the tax on that stuff.  If the tax is paid as a gift or by an anoymous donor, that is also income, so more taxes.

 

[Lucky #7]

I despise the IRS.  The fact that Clinton actually had to come out and tell them that they weren't going to tax the person that caught Mark McGwire's record breaking homerun really showed the kind of craptastic organization they really are.

 

[JaySwear]

the singer from Hootie and the Blowfish was from Gaithersburg :dontknow: haha ummm... Joan Jett moved to Rockville (right down the road) when she was in High School or Junior High. obviously neither of those are really part of the local scene anymore. oh, and R.E.M. wrote "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" about the area, too.

SR-71 is one of my favorite bands of all time, and they're from the Baltimore / Towson area. if you've heard the song "1984" (and trust me, you have) then you've enjoyed some SR-71 goodness (even though Bowling For Soup are the ones who put the single out the singer from SR-71 wrote it and they recorded a better less radio-friendly version).

Frank Zappa was born in Baltimore. thats got to count for some serious points. then Good Charlotte takes some points away, i guess. O.A.R. is pretty neutral in the points running i would think. apparently Tupak moved to Baltimore in High School too. gotta love Wikipedia.

otherwise this area is pretty typical. lots of crappy bands, and a very select few that turn out to be decent. but in an area like this it's hard to decide what to call "local." MD isn't huge, so Baltimore, DC, northern VA, and anywhere in between can really be called local.

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

the singer from Hootie and the Blowfish was from Gaithersburg :dontknow: haha ummm... Joan Jett moved to Rockville (right down the road) when she was in High School or Junior High. obviously neither of those are really part of the local scene anymore. oh, and R.E.M. wrote "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" about the area, too.

SR-71 is one of my favorite bands of all time, and they're from the Baltimore / Towson area. if you've heard the song "1984" (and trust me, you have) then you've enjoyed some SR-71 goodness (even though Bowling For Soup are the ones who put the single out the singer from SR-71 wrote it and they recorded a better less radio-friendly version).

Frank Zappa was born in Baltimore. thats got to count for some serious points. then Good Charlotte takes some points away, i guess. O.A.R. is pretty neutral in the points running i would think. apparently Tupak moved to Baltimore in High School too. gotta love Wikipedia.

otherwise this area is pretty typical. lots of crappy bands, and a very select few that turn out to be decent. but in an area like this it's hard to decide what to call "local." MD isn't huge, so Baltimore, DC, northern VA, and anywhere in between can really be called local.

Didn't Bob Marley live in Baltimore as a kid?  Thats plenty of street cred for me.  Doesn't get any better in my book.

 

[Jusatele]

I am about 60 miles outside of LA, local scene can rock, and at the same time be dead as a doornail, Seems if you want to get a contract you need to be down in the city, which sucks big time. All the big clubs are in Hollywood so you go there and do the pay to play thing. More locally, Riverside has launched a few bands in the last few years, in fact we have a reputation for launching bands. Myself now, being just over 50, I get calls enough to fill in when a guitarist is out of town at a gig in some oldies bar, or do a party or something, you know do the songs we all grew up with, Hate to say it guys but most of us will be doing that someday, I also meet with a Jazz group about once a month and we work out our chops, And there are some jams I can get to if I like, mostly I just play around the house, I still pick up the axe and do finger exercises for an hour about 5 times a week and I will turn on the Serius radio, pick a station and jam out for a while.
Besides that,, I do not really follow the local scene much, a few times a year I hear about a local band that is getting good and we find a way to go see them, Mostly Kids stuff but is always good to see new kids going for it.

 

[jimh]

I grew up in Southampton, UK.  The music scene there is / has always been very vibrant and diverse.

A few good bands/artists have gone on to become pretty big.

I talk about these guys a lot, but Band Of Skulls are personal friends of mine.  I've got Russell's 60's Jazzmaster in my man cave at the moment.
They got a tune onto the Twilight New Moon soundtrack.  The latest generation Ford Mustang commercial uses one of their songs.  Swatch Watches used a track in their commercial.  Also the UK's Next Top Model uses a track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw1pp0f8xM0

The Delays.  I went to School with Aaron the keyboard player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbIddy1G_OY

Craig David. For all your RnB needs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YCXJcoCBGI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv4lKeSTkJc&feature=related

Rufus Stone.  Quality Soul band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7WTrg8gRQU&feature=related

 

[mayfly]

We bitch and moan about the local Scene here in Ottawa, but It's actually pretty good.  There are many good original bands, and dozens of pretty good cover bands - and venues for either to play.  There are even some local clubs that are all original music only - no cover bands allowed.  These ones are the most fun to play.  There are piles of local festivals where folks can hear live music, which are also open to local talent.  There is also local TV coverage of new bands. 

It ain't Austin, but it ain't bad either.

Mayfly

P.S. catch my new band Cornflower Blue on "Daytime Ottawa", October 28  :icon_jokercolor:

http://www.rogerstv.com/page.aspx?lid=12&rid=4&sid=68

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

I would like to bash our terrible music scene here, but unfortunately in part of it, although I could snigger at a few local bands (about 5, one keeps breaking up), the members of which are all in each others bands, that apparently all love Led Zeppelin IV (not that that's a bad thing).

 

[m4rk0]

This is the only Craig David I know:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMEsBEBypRE

 

[tfarny]

Well, I'd love to complain about my local music scene but I live in New York, so I won't do that!  :evil4: :evil4: I haven't really scratched the surface and might not ever have time to really get a handle on it all.

 

[hannaugh]

I'm in the same boat as tfarny.  When you live in So Cal, there's a band every 10 feet.  I can tell you that Sea Wolf, Elvis Perkins, Andrew Bird, The Airborne Toxic Event, Incubus, Jack's Mannequin, Maroon 5, No Doubt, NOFX, The Offspring, Silversun Pickups, Weezer, Beck, and Audioslave are just a few that either come from this area or now live here. 

Now, as far as Fullerton music goes, I don't know that much because I hate the downtown scene (full of frat boys and wasted girls with bad dye jobs) and I never go down there, but I know there is an awesome jazz club down the street that has music all the time.  And the pub I go to has a really good Irish band sometimes and a terrible classic rock acoustic cover band with an incredibly obnoxious singer. 

 

[Jusatele]

Hannaugh, that is why I say Riverside is can be said to be redhot or dead, I can see so many bands or run into band members because I am in SoCal, but then a lot of times I have to run down the freeway a bit to do it. When Riverside used to put on the Orange Blossom Festival, each year we had 4 stages going for 4 days, I can remember seeing so many bands when they were just buzz words and not famous. I have pictures of Pink partying in a local pub before going onstage that I bet she would like see destroyed. Yea sometimes it seems real funny that you can walk in to a music store and there is the bass player for this band or the drummer for that. But all in all the real exciting stuff is watching a band get bigger and suddenly they are on the radio. You sit back and think, "I remember when he couuld not even make that riff now everyone is whistleing it."
Funny, I grew up in a town in the south where I cut my teeth playing C&W onstage because there was only 1 club doing rock and 20 doing Country. I find it hard to find a good C&W band out here. Not that I want to cry in my beer all night, but it is how we all learned stage presence.

 

[MikeW]

Unfortunately, the vortex that is L.A. sucks most of the talent from San Diego as well as other areas of SoCal. There's a good music scene here, but rarely does anything really original come out down here. Everybody moves north since there are so many more opportunities there. But it's not hard to find good music. Good cover bands are easy to find on the weekends and it seems the tribute bands do pretty well here as well.

 

[Jusatele]

20 years back we used to go to San Deigo to hear bands not doing Hair Metal, we loved the scene down there, I have a lot of cds I bought off bands in bars in SD.
Ahh, good memories flowing back of the mind.

 

[ptirman]

Just moved to Santa Barbara. Mostly what I've seen are a bunch 50 something y/o's playing classic rock. They're great though. Going to see Maroon 5 tonight at the Santa Barbara bowl and will see Van Morrison, and Black Crowes in the next month as well as John Williams. Eclectic for sure. Lots of potential.

 

[MikeW]

There are still some pretty good classic rock cover bands down this way. And a really good surf music band called Surf Kings plays every now and then. Good stuff if you can catch them.

 

[Justinginn]

I live in Budapest, Hungary where the music scene is pretty awful. Sure, everybody's got a guitar but they're all taking classical guitar in school and none of them can play.  :sad: Here you can only find jazz (generally decent guitar/melody instruments but lacking some serious soul in the rhythm department) and Scandinavianish metal. Metal bands don't exist here and if you have a Line6 Spider and Epiphone LP you're considered rich. The jazz guys are cooler. I don't do much with classical guitar. The music here is dominated, even more than the states (is that possible?) with NTZZ pop and hip-hop, all of it from the states. Not much of a music scene.

However, I'm starting to play out a little with some chill acoustic stuff I've written. I'm playing the 22nd at a place my girlfriend's dad runs. Wish me luck.  ccasion14:

 

[elfro89]

round here is easy, right now the bands that are considered hotshit are 


The Draymin - Quite like these guys. Not really my kind of music, but they are everything a good band should be; good and not full of shit like many of the bands around here are. Full support of these townsfolk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hflsj2GwBLY

Other shite here is pretty much everything else. there really isn't much going for scottish music in my opinion.

here are some prime examples.

band should be renamed "aweful".
http://www.myspace.com/crayyyons

 

[elfro89]

Well, I'd love to complain about my local music scene but I live in New York, so I won't do that!  :evil4: :evil4: I haven't really scratched the surface and might not ever have time to really get a handle on it all.

i wished i lived in new york thats my dream after college! emigrate to the states... and work as a musician in new york, can't get better then that!