Lemme tell you all a little story...
My friend and I got tickets to a show at the Middle East in Cambridge, MA to see Dredg, a band we had heard about and had bought their first and second albums.
Record sales were pretty lame, maybe selling ten thousand of each combined at the time we went (last February or March).
Tickets for this event (which they weren't even headlining) cost a staggering $5, and it was an extremely small venue. They had posters up for their newest album "el cielo", and I knew it was going to be an awesome show, since everyone followed my lead and ripped the dredg posters down about 1 song into the first band that started playing.
After dredg played (an excellent live show no doubt), everyone (all 35 people or so) cleared out, and left the headliners playing to empty air. No doubt dredg was getting some recognition.
The next tour, tickets for the show were $37, SnoCore, and they still weren't headlining, but had gotten up with some better-known bands.
The tour after that, they headlined, and now they're opening for the Deftones.
I'm incredibly happy theyre finally getting play on MTV and whatnot, and certainly doing better amongst the consumers.
The question is.....do you have a band that you have seen before they got "made" that you feel you helped start a little bit?
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dredg Or download some of their stuff. Its all good, and in fact, their two albums are actually so good you can listen to them from beginning to end.....rare for an entire album to be like that
