What bands did you hear/like before they became famous? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

lindalove · 10-07-2006, 06:50 PM

Bowling For Soup. They are from my hometown! (And I was in band with the drummer.)

cj2112 · 10-07-2006, 08:59 PM

Hmm lets see, I can remember seeing Pantera play the Troubador (at that time the troubador was a pay to play club) in Hollywood long before they got popular. I was watching Guns & Roses play little clubs in So. Cal. before they got big. I saw Nirvana play some little club in seattle before they got big (they sucked....bad). I went to a few Danzig shows back in the day as well.

Fly · 10-08-2006, 05:28 AM

i saw Mookie Blaylock play up here in Vancouver many times.

they were told that they weren't aloud to use that name so........

they changed there name to Pearl Jam.

Coppertop · 10-08-2006, 08:48 AM

I was into White Zombie before Thunderkiss '65 hit the MTV circulation, and well before the purported Beavis & Butthead deal.

hiredgun · 10-08-2006, 11:38 PM

Coldplay. I listened to them back when nobody had any idea who they were.

Ch'i · 10-08-2006, 11:55 PM

I second Coldplay. Great band.

Jack1.0 · 10-09-2006, 06:02 AM

I was infatuated with U2 in 1982 when they released their first album.

God of Thunder · 10-09-2006, 06:08 AM

I was a Barenaked Ladies fan before they became real big.

They played a lot of clubs in the Michigan area and got a lot of airplay on Detroit radio stations before making it real big with the "stunt" album.

It would have been great growing up in this area when Bob Seger, Ted Nugent, Grand Funk and them were starting out. I have uncle who used to see them in local bars. Unfortunatley, I was too young.

maleficent · 10-09-2006, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Jack1.0

I was infatuated with U2 in 1982 when they released their first album.

ditto that...

paddyjoe · 10-09-2006, 06:16 AM

I used to go watch Lou Gramm sing in some of the joints around Rochester, before he made it big in Foreigner. Dude could sure sing!

snowy · 10-09-2006, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Jack1.0

I was infatuated with U2 in 1982 when they released their first album.

Actually, their first album came out in 1978--Boy, which was followed by October in 1981 and War in 1983.

Travis would be mine...oh wait...no one in the United States remembers that they've heard Travis.

Bobaphat · 10-09-2006, 09:28 PM

hmmm. Nirvana, Modest mouse (hated them) bad religion

snowy · 10-09-2006, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Bobaphat

Modest mouse (hated them)

Modest Mouse was hugely popular in the PacNW for a long time before hitting it big.

It seems that only yesterday they were playing the roller rink in Bend, Oregon.

bobby · 10-10-2006, 10:20 AM

pink martini......saw them a lot before the got famous..........swell stuff!!!

xoxoxoo

balderdash111 · 10-10-2006, 11:38 AM

I don't care for them anymore, but I saw Dave Matthews Band play a frat party in Connecticut before they hit it big.

My understanding is that they played at a lot of colleges in the early 90s, so I suspect many people can say that.

Gilda · 10-10-2006, 01:08 PM

I'm a huge Girlyman fan, so someday if they do hit it big, I'll have this as proof that I was there before they hit the bigtime. They still play mainly smaller venues and tickets are dirt cheap.

Gilda

roachboy · 10-10-2006, 02:57 PM

my friend kathleen is the coolest person i know in this regard: she went to michigan state in the early 1970s and lived near a bar where the stooges were the house band.

anything i could possibly say pales in comparison.

Porkchop · 10-19-2006, 08:45 AM

Years back it was INXS.

Derwood · 10-19-2006, 12:04 PM

I saw Ralph Covert (and his band the Bad Examples) dozens of times in Chicago in the early to mid 90's. He's not doing kids music and has videos on Playhouse Disney

roachboy · 10-19-2006, 12:40 PM

i just remembered that i have another friend who is also much much cooler than me who knew the folk from the mekons when they were first starting out in leeds--apparently they would call his answering machine and play thei new tunes into the telephone. he says he still has the tapes. i tried to get him to break them out from time to time, but we were always in a bar when we would have the conversation and it never panned out.

and yet another friend who is childhood friends with folk from the flaming lips

and another who apparently taught the guitarist from interpol how to play.

i do not have such cool stories, because i am less cool than these folk.

The_Jazz · 10-19-2006, 12:51 PM

One of my best friends in middle school's oldest brother went to UGA and brought back an album by a local band. We thought that we were the coolest 7th graders ever because we were listening to college music. The band was REM and the album was "Murmur".

I was really into Sugar before they even came out with an album, but that's just because Bob Mould was fronting it. I drove 120 miles and bought "Copper Blue" the day it came out in 1991 or 92.

I saw a free show with the Lemonheads, the Smashing Pumpkins and some other band in 1990 in a dorm basement. Surprisingly, the Lemonheads were the best band.

magictoy · 10-19-2006, 02:08 PM

I saw the Allman brothers in a junior college gym.

mixedmedia · 10-19-2006, 03:14 PM

I saw the Sugarcubes on tour for their debut album, Life's Too Good, fronted by the inimitable Björk Gundmundsdottir. It was a great show!

hunnychile · 10-19-2006, 07:06 PM

I used to design and make posters for a guy named Stevie Ray Vaughn in Dallas when his band played at the Greenville Bar & Grill. He said I could get in free & drink on his tab. It was great and as you know SRV was a terrific musician. His brother would sit with me & hubby when he wasn't playing with his bro then and take a break out back to smoke a j. Great times.

Dallas used to rock BIG time.

Bill O'Rights · 10-20-2006, 04:45 AM

311, The Faint, Bright Eyes are a few that you've probably heard of.

Keep your eyes and ears open for Cursive and Echobliss.

iamtheone · 10-20-2006, 05:35 AM

White Zombie, GnR, Metaliica, Faster Pussycat, System of a Down

absorbentishe · 10-20-2006, 05:57 AM

Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, MXPX, NoFX, Weezer, There's more, just can't think of them...

BulletCatcher · 10-21-2006, 07:15 PM

I almost got into a fight with Axl Rose before GnR hit it big. Does that count?

lindalove · 10-22-2006, 01:42 AM

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Originally Posted by BulletCatcher

I almost got into a fight with Axl Rose before GnR hit it big. Does that count?

I'd love to hear this story...

BulletCatcher · 10-23-2006, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by lindalove

I'd love to hear this story...

Not much to tell really. I was a senior in high school in a small Iowa town (Burlington) and GnR were playing at the Civic Center. On the day of the concert, a couple of friends and I went to Hardee's for lunch. While standing in line to order we saw this guy sitting by himself near the counter. He looked like he hadn't bathed in a week and had long, stringy, greasy hair with ripped clothes and tattoos all over his arms. Now with us being idiot punk high schooler's we started making comments about his appearance loud enough for him to overhear. Of course he doesn't take kindly to this and he gets up and gets right in my face. Words were exchanged and then he pushed me. I pushed back and he wound up and took a swing at my head but I stepped back so he missed. Before it went any further a guy steps between us and announces that he is an off duty Police Officer and threatens to arrest us both so my friends and I decided to leave at that point.

I had no idea who he was at the time but not more than a month or so later I saw the video for Sweet Child 'o Mine (or was it Welcome to the Jungle? Whatever thier first video was) on MTV for the first time. I recognized him right away and seeing as they were in town the day it happened I have no doubt it was him.

heroquest · 10-27-2006, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by mixedmedia

I saw the Sugarcubes on tour for their debut album, Life's Too Good, fronted by the inimitable Björk Gundmundsdottir. It was a great show!

this is the only good band mentioned in the thread.

mythikal · 10-29-2006, 10:32 PM

Lets see.... ummmmm, Its a local band here in my town , a punk band, I listen to one of their song in the practice room was lil craappy at first but when they did recording studio... nominated for best new song of the year.....( its like a grammy)

Lizra · 10-30-2006, 04:14 AM

The Cars.
A group of us trendsters went to Bogarts in Cinncy, right when their first album broke. We liked them so much we all wore buttons we'd made with a snazzy new button making machine

(Buttons were big in the punk/new wave late 70's!

) We used pix's of the guys from the album sleeve.
They were just starting to get airplay, and to see actual people (that they didn't know) wearing buttons of them really surprised them

....it was fun.

So a couple years later, when they played their "big" concert at Market Square Arena, in our hometown......the Cars threw an after set party for the loyal fans at the Hyatt. That was kind of nice.....

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Originally Posted by hunnychile

I used to design and make posters for a guy named Stevie Ray Vaughn in Dallas when his band played at the Greenville Bar & Grill. He said I could get in free & drink on his tab. It was great and as you know SRV was a terrific musician. His brother would sit with me & hubby when he wasn't playing with his bro then and take a break out back to smoke a j. Great times.

Dallas used to rock BIG time.

This sounds great! I loved the Fab T-birds......

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Originally Posted by roachboy

my friend kathleen is the coolest person i know in this regard: she went to michigan state in the early 1970s and lived near a bar where the stooges were the house band.

anything i could possibly say pales in comparison.

Ahhh! Raw power!

World's King · 11-04-2006, 02:44 PM

All of them.

Delirious · 11-28-2006, 07:25 AM

I saw Korn at Roseland open up for Biozhard and then House of Pain (which nobody stayed for) Before the show the band was in the same pizza shop as us. They stuck out like a sore thumb but we just figured they were there for the show, needless to say we were surprised when we saw them on stage. The first song they played was "blind" and I just happened to be near a speaker when the first BOOM went off.

Jadey · 12-01-2006, 04:44 PM

I remember seeing Marilyn Manson long before they made it big. Marilyn and Daisy opened up for a few bands and then came out and stood in the crowd behind me drinking beer and watching some of the next band.

I also saw Korn early on. I had no idea who they were and but went nuts when Jonathon Davis came out with the bagpipes to start Chutes and Ladders. I can still remember most of that concert. I was blown away. I went to the mall to buy their album the next day and nobody had heard of them. I had to wait almost another year before their debut album came out.

Another band I saw that really left an impression with me was at a club in chicago. They were the 2nd of 3 bands and they wheeled the lead singer out onto stage use a dolly and he was wearing a straight jacket and a Hannibal Lecter like restraint mask. The lead singers vocals absolutely blew me away. I'm not as big a Disturbed fan anymore, but was really impressed by their early shows.

I also saw the precursor to Godsmack prior to them making it big. I saw Sully Erna's first band Strip Mind and have 1 of about 50,00 copies of their only release. I thought they were pretty good, but obviously I was in the minority. So when Godsmack came out I was pretty psyched after I heard from my roommate that "the drummer from Strip Mind has a new band".

I saw the GWAR knock-off band Green Jell-o prior to them changing their name to Green Jelly and before they became a bit weel known with a few minor hits.

I know there are a few more, but can't remember them right now.

Charlatan · 12-01-2006, 05:19 PM

Like roachboy I have many friends who are cooler than I. They have some great stories (though I am not sure that anything short of having the Stooges as your house band will be good enough).

One friend tells a great story of going to this small bar in St. Catherines to see The Police on their first tour. They weren't doing any gigs in Canada but managed to get invited to play this tiny little bar in a tiny little town. They drove up from Buffalo and put on a kick ass show.

Another tells of seeing U2 in Ottawa at Barrymore's (a locally famous concert hall). The guy who booked them was very in the know about what was cool. He was on of the first North Americans to book them. They were generally unknown at that point except to a few cutting edge types. By the time they started the tour though, they had their first cover on Rolling Stone (when being on the cover meant something). Suddenly they were huge (by independent music standard).

This same guy caught REM at the same place. The band went over to Hull (Quebec bars are open later and were way cooler) with a bunch of people from the audience and hung out.

The only two bands I can say I saw early on, and I'm not really a fan of either is The Barenaked Ladies and The Tragically Hip. The Ladies did a series of gigs in Ottawa at a small night club. This is when they were still just pushing their yellow cassette around and hadn't released an album.

I caught the hip twice. Once at the small campus pub (Gord Downie fell off the small stage while flinging his, at the time, really long hair around) and then they opened frosh week the following year.

stevie667 · 12-03-2006, 02:17 PM

I was given a lecture about how the Zutons have been subjected to Terry Wogan and having far too many old people watching them by the mrs.

Granted, i did see more grey hair than an old peoples home, and a few anoraks.

Does that count?

Or The Calling before they became big over here. Wherever you will go was the tune on the first trailer for Enterprise, so d/led that straight away, ages before it was released.

CandleInTheDark · 12-04-2006, 05:24 PM

Alexisonfire is a fairly (recently) popular band (here in Canada) that's I've been listening too for a long.

Glad-I-Ate-Her · 12-06-2006, 07:41 PM

I remember buying Depeche Mode's "Just can't get enough" vinyl import 12" (I still have it) and seeing them about a month later in a club in lower Manhattan. Who knew?

I also saw the Ramones at CBGB's before anyone heard of them.

Glad

10-07-2006, 06:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
lindalove Registered User	What bands did you hear/like before they became famous? Bowling For Soup. They are from my hometown! (And I was in band with the drummer.)

10-08-2006, 05:28 AM	#3 (permalink)
Fly see the links to my music? Location: Beautiful British Columbia	i saw Mookie Blaylock play up here in Vancouver many times. they were told that they weren't aloud to use that name so........ they changed there name to Pearl Jam. __________________ BASTARD SterlingStudios

10-09-2006, 06:02 AM	#7 (permalink)
Jack1.0 Tilted	I was infatuated with U2 in 1982 when they released their first album. __________________ Jack1.0 ---------------------------------------------- I've learned to embrace my inner Geek. I haven't found anything else I'm good at.

10-09-2006, 06:08 AM	#8 (permalink)
God of Thunder Talk nerdy to me Location: Flint, MI	I was a Barenaked Ladies fan before they became real big. They played a lot of clubs in the Michigan area and got a lot of airplay on Detroit radio stations before making it real big with the "stunt" album. It would have been great growing up in this area when Bob Seger, Ted Nugent, Grand Funk and them were starting out. I have uncle who used to see them in local bars. Unfortunatley, I was too young. __________________ I reject your reality, and substitute my own -- Adam Savage

10-09-2006, 09:28 PM	#12 (permalink)
Bobaphat whoopity doo Location: Seattle	hmmm. Nirvana, Modest mouse (hated them) bad religion __________________ --size matters not-- yoda

10-07-2006, 08:59 PM	#2 (permalink)
cj2112 Unbelievable Location: Grants Pass OR	Hmm lets see, I can remember seeing Pantera play the Troubador (at that time the troubador was a pay to play club) in Hollywood long before they got popular. I was watching Guns & Roses play little clubs in So. Cal. before they got big. I saw Nirvana play some little club in seattle before they got big (they sucked....bad). I went to a few Danzig shows back in the day as well.

10-08-2006, 08:48 AM	#4 (permalink)
Coppertop Getting Medieval on your ass Location: 13th century Europe	I was into White Zombie before Thunderkiss '65 hit the MTV circulation, and well before the purported Beavis & Butthead deal.

10-08-2006, 11:38 PM	#5 (permalink)
hiredgun Addict	Coldplay. I listened to them back when nobody had any idea who they were.

10-08-2006, 11:55 PM	#6 (permalink)
Ch'i Artist of Life	I second Coldplay. Great band.

10-09-2006, 06:16 AM	#10 (permalink)
paddyjoe through charlatans phone Location: Northcoast	I used to go watch Lou Gramm sing in some of the joints around Rochester, before he made it big in Foreigner. Dude could sure sing!

10-10-2006, 10:20 AM	#14 (permalink)
bobby Super Moderator Location: 18,000+ posts on TFP #1,2,3,4 and 5,but I'm not counting!	pink martini......saw them a lot before the got famous..........swell stuff!!! xoxoxoo __________________ "Life goes on,within you,and...with out you !" xoxoxoo

10-10-2006, 11:38 AM	#15 (permalink)
balderdash111 Psycho	I don't care for them anymore, but I saw Dave Matthews Band play a frat party in Connecticut before they hit it big. My understanding is that they played at a lot of colleges in the early 90s, so I suspect many people can say that. __________________ A little silliness now and then is cherished by the wisest men. -- Willy Wonka

10-10-2006, 01:08 PM	#16 (permalink)
Gilda 32 flavors and then some Location: Out on a wire.	I'm a huge Girlyman fan, so someday if they do hit it big, I'll have this as proof that I was there before they hit the bigtime. They still play mainly smaller venues and tickets are dirt cheap. Gilda __________________ I'm against ending blackness. I believe that everyone has a right to be black, it's a choice, and I support that. ~Steven Colbert

10-10-2006, 02:57 PM	#17 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	my friend kathleen is the coolest person i know in this regard: she went to michigan state in the early 1970s and lived near a bar where the stooges were the house band. anything i could possibly say pales in comparison. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite

10-19-2006, 08:45 AM	#18 (permalink)
Porkchop Psycho Location: Good ol Blighty	Years back it was INXS. __________________ Be cool btch now btch be cool Sport 1976 Taxi Driver.

10-20-2006, 05:35 AM	#26 (permalink)
iamtheone Psychoholic Location: Ein tov she'ein bo ra!	White Zombie, GnR, Metaliica, Faster Pussycat, System of a Down __________________ Music is holy, art is sacred, and creativity is power... Think for Yourself Question Authority

10-19-2006, 12:04 PM	#19 (permalink)
Derwood Who You Crappin? Location: Everywhere and Nowhere	I saw Ralph Covert (and his band the Bad Examples) dozens of times in Chicago in the early to mid 90's. He's not doing kids music and has videos on Playhouse Disney __________________ "You can't shoot a country until it becomes a democracy." - Willravel

10-19-2006, 12:40 PM	#20 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	i just remembered that i have another friend who is also much much cooler than me who knew the folk from the mekons when they were first starting out in leeds--apparently they would call his answering machine and play thei new tunes into the telephone. he says he still has the tapes. i tried to get him to break them out from time to time, but we were always in a bar when we would have the conversation and it never panned out. and yet another friend who is childhood friends with folk from the flaming lips and another who apparently taught the guitarist from interpol how to play. i do not have such cool stories, because i am less cool than these folk. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite

10-19-2006, 12:51 PM	#21 (permalink)
The_Jazz Asshole Administrator Location: Chicago	One of my best friends in middle school's oldest brother went to UGA and brought back an album by a local band. We thought that we were the coolest 7th graders ever because we were listening to college music. The band was REM and the album was "Murmur". I was really into Sugar before they even came out with an album, but that's just because Bob Mould was fronting it. I drove 120 miles and bought "Copper Blue" the day it came out in 1991 or 92. I saw a free show with the Lemonheads, the Smashing Pumpkins and some other band in 1990 in a dorm basement. Surprisingly, the Lemonheads were the best band. __________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin "There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush "We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo

10-19-2006, 02:08 PM	#22 (permalink)
magictoy Crazy	I saw the Allman brothers in a junior college gym.

10-19-2006, 03:14 PM	#23 (permalink)
mixedmedia has all her shots. Location: Florida	I saw the Sugarcubes on tour for their debut album, Life's Too Good, fronted by the inimitable Björk Gundmundsdottir. It was a great show! __________________ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

10-19-2006, 07:06 PM	#24 (permalink)
hunnychile Alien Anthropologist Location: Between Boredom and Nirvana	I used to design and make posters for a guy named Stevie Ray Vaughn in Dallas when his band played at the Greenville Bar & Grill. He said I could get in free & drink on his tab. It was great and as you know SRV was a terrific musician. His brother would sit with me & hubby when he wasn't playing with his bro then and take a break out back to smoke a j. Great times. Dallas used to rock BIG time. __________________ "I need compassion, understanding and chocolate." - NJB

10-20-2006, 04:45 AM	#25 (permalink)
Bill O'Rights will always be an Alyson Hanniganite Location: In the dust of the archives	311, The Faint, Bright Eyes are a few that you've probably heard of. Keep your eyes and ears open for Cursive and Echobliss. __________________ "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony "Hedonism with rules isn't hedonism at all, it's the Republican party." - JumpinJesus It is indisputable that true beauty lies within...but a nice rack sure doesn't hurt.

10-20-2006, 05:57 AM	#27 (permalink)
absorbentishe Boy am I horny today Location: T O L E D O, Toledo!!	Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, MXPX, NoFX, Weezer, There's more, just can't think of them...

10-21-2006, 07:15 PM	#28 (permalink)
BulletCatcher Crazy Location: America's Outback	I almost got into a fight with Axl Rose before GnR hit it big. Does that count?

10-29-2006, 10:32 PM	#32 (permalink)
mythikal Upright	Lets see.... ummmmm, Its a local band here in my town , a punk band, I listen to one of their song in the practice room was lil craappy at first but when they did recording studio... nominated for best new song of the year.....( its like a grammy)

11-04-2006, 02:44 PM	#34 (permalink)
World's King Here Location: Denver City Denver	All of them. __________________ heavy is the head that wears the crown

11-28-2006, 07:25 AM	#35 (permalink)
Delirious Crazy Location: Queens, NY	I saw Korn at Roseland open up for Biozhard and then House of Pain (which nobody stayed for) Before the show the band was in the same pizza shop as us. They stuck out like a sore thumb but we just figured they were there for the show, needless to say we were surprised when we saw them on stage. The first song they played was "blind" and I just happened to be near a speaker when the first BOOM went off. Last edited by Delirious; 11-28-2006 at 07:28 AM..

12-01-2006, 04:44 PM	#36 (permalink)
Jadey This Space For Rent Location: Davenport, Iowa	I remember seeing Marilyn Manson long before they made it big. Marilyn and Daisy opened up for a few bands and then came out and stood in the crowd behind me drinking beer and watching some of the next band. I also saw Korn early on. I had no idea who they were and but went nuts when Jonathon Davis came out with the bagpipes to start Chutes and Ladders. I can still remember most of that concert. I was blown away. I went to the mall to buy their album the next day and nobody had heard of them. I had to wait almost another year before their debut album came out. Another band I saw that really left an impression with me was at a club in chicago. They were the 2nd of 3 bands and they wheeled the lead singer out onto stage use a dolly and he was wearing a straight jacket and a Hannibal Lecter like restraint mask. The lead singers vocals absolutely blew me away. I'm not as big a Disturbed fan anymore, but was really impressed by their early shows. I also saw the precursor to Godsmack prior to them making it big. I saw Sully Erna's first band Strip Mind and have 1 of about 50,00 copies of their only release. I thought they were pretty good, but obviously I was in the minority. So when Godsmack came out I was pretty psyched after I heard from my roommate that "the drummer from Strip Mind has a new band". I saw the GWAR knock-off band Green Jell-o prior to them changing their name to Green Jelly and before they became a bit weel known with a few minor hits. I know there are a few more, but can't remember them right now.

12-01-2006, 05:19 PM	#37 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	Like roachboy I have many friends who are cooler than I. They have some great stories (though I am not sure that anything short of having the Stooges as your house band will be good enough). One friend tells a great story of going to this small bar in St. Catherines to see The Police on their first tour. They weren't doing any gigs in Canada but managed to get invited to play this tiny little bar in a tiny little town. They drove up from Buffalo and put on a kick ass show. Another tells of seeing U2 in Ottawa at Barrymore's (a locally famous concert hall). The guy who booked them was very in the know about what was cool. He was on of the first North Americans to book them. They were generally unknown at that point except to a few cutting edge types. By the time they started the tour though, they had their first cover on Rolling Stone (when being on the cover meant something). Suddenly they were huge (by independent music standard). This same guy caught REM at the same place. The band went over to Hull (Quebec bars are open later and were way cooler) with a bunch of people from the audience and hung out. The only two bands I can say I saw early on, and I'm not really a fan of either is The Barenaked Ladies and The Tragically Hip. The Ladies did a series of gigs in Ottawa at a small night club. This is when they were still just pushing their yellow cassette around and hadn't released an album. I caught the hip twice. Once at the small campus pub (Gord Downie fell off the small stage while flinging his, at the time, really long hair around) and then they opened frosh week the following year. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke Last edited by Charlatan; 05-19-2008 at 04:28 PM..

12-03-2006, 02:17 PM	#38 (permalink)
stevie667 Too Awesome for Aardvarks Location: Angloland	I was given a lecture about how the Zutons have been subjected to Terry Wogan and having far too many old people watching them by the mrs. Granted, i did see more grey hair than an old peoples home, and a few anoraks. Does that count? Or The Calling before they became big over here. Wherever you will go was the tune on the first trailer for Enterprise, so d/led that straight away, ages before it was released. __________________ Office hours have changed. Please call during office hours for more information.

12-04-2006, 05:24 PM	#39 (permalink)
CandleInTheDark Addict Location: Where the music's loudest	Alexisonfire is a fairly (recently) popular band (here in Canada) that's I've been listening too for a long. __________________ Where there is doubt there is freedom.

12-06-2006, 07:41 PM	#40 (permalink)
Glad-I-Ate-Her Junkie Location: 1 mile from Ground Zero	I remember buying Depeche Mode's "Just can't get enough" vinyl import 12" (I still have it) and seeing them about a month later in a club in lower Manhattan. Who knew? I also saw the Ramones at CBGB's before anyone heard of them. Glad __________________ I'm "Glad I Ate Her" because the payback was worth it!!