Your Town's Best Musical Exports (Local legends-R)

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  • BigSpliffBigSpliff 3,266 Posts
    I guess Jimmy Jam kinda counts but I've never known him to be much of an actual musician.


    Easy now. I was initially talking about gigging musicians rather than producers. Him and Terry Lewis are obviously on some "greatest producers all time list" shit but as far as I know they haven't played out in decades. Who did he or Lewis play with aside from Flyte Tyme?

    next band was called, um, The Time (Morris Day, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Jesse Johnson, Jerome Benton, Jellybean Johnson, and Monte Moir)

    GET FAMILIAR AND THEN GET TO VEGAS!

  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts

  • Deftones
    Cake
    Jay King
    Timex Social Club
    Club Nouveau
    Lee Greenwood
    7 Seconds
    Steel Breeze
    Tesla

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    Arsenio Hall (didn't he sing or something? maybe not)

    well, he did do a novelty rap album as "Chunky A," so on a technicality...

  • SPlDEYSPlDEY Vegas 3,375 Posts


    - spidey

  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,947 Posts


    Zig-a-zig-ahhhh.

  • GrafwritahGrafwritah 4,184 Posts
    Arsenio Hall (didn't he sing or something? maybe not)

    well, he did do a novelty rap album as "Chunky A," so on a technicality...

    Yeah yeah yeah. That's back when he was in his latex-can-do-anything Welcome to America phase.

  • minneapminneap 541 Posts
    I guess Jimmy Jam kinda counts but I've never known him to be much of an actual musician.


    Easy now. I was initially talking about gigging musicians rather than producers. Him and Terry Lewis are obviously on some "greatest producers all time list" shit but as far as I know they haven't played out in decades. Who did he or Lewis play with aside from Flyte Tyme?

    next band was called, um, The Time (Morris Day, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Jesse Johnson, Jerome Benton, Jellybean Johnson, and Monte Moir)

    GET FAMILIAR AND THEN GET TO VEGAS!

    Which is the same lineup as Flyte Tyme except with Day, Jesse Johnson and Prince involved. And I can't afford Vegas.

  • dirtydirty 93 Posts
    Charlotte STAND UP!!!!




    ok.....sit down.

  • Best musical exports...? Not much choice from my town really, although these could be considered notable in some way...




  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
    In order of 'bestness'

    Splodgenessabounds
    David Bowie
    Status Quo

  • white_teawhite_tea 3,262 Posts
    THE REPLACEMENTS

    Along those same lines would be Semisonic.


  • I would have to say Laid Back "white horse" straight out of Copenhagen!

    Peace,

    Dress

  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
    Since we're talking best here, I'm not going to get all long listy on y'all.

    To name a few:

    The Remains
    The Modern Lovers
    Aerosmith
    Boston
    The Lyres
    Edan
    Mr. Lif
    Ed OG

  • spivyspivy 866 Posts
    Since we're talking best here, I'm not going to get all long listy on y'all.

    To name a few:

    The Remains
    The Modern Lovers
    Aerosmith
    Boston
    The Lyres
    Edan
    Mr. Lif
    Ed OG

    dinosaur jr.
    the pixies
    the cars

    but really has anything that has come out of boston been better than:

    NEW EDITION!

  • BigSpliffBigSpliff 3,266 Posts
    This thread reminds me of the Special Olympics for some reason.

  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts


    Sir Mix-a-Lot is so pissed at you right now.

    Nah, Mixalot's chilling:





    also:
    we need to establish where Steve Miller is from...

  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts
    I was just having a discussion with a homie about the greatest musicians/groups to come out of our respective hometowns and it got pretty interesting. And then I went back and downloaded a bunch of Husker Du shit because I don't have any at school. Anyway, here's a top 5 I came up with for Minnesota, Minneapolis specifically.

    1. Robert Zimmerman (Bob Dylan for those that ain't know)
    2. Prince
    3. Husker Du
    4. Atmosphere (I like other MPLS rap better but these dudes led the way for the rest nationally)
    5. Dave King (of The Bad Plus, Happy Apple, Halloween Alaska and others)

    I'm kind of scared to see what some of you east and west coast dudes come up with. Whatever, add on.

    Your top two I understand, but the next three and no mention of THE REPLACEMENTS!!!!!!!!!??????? PLAESE to get serious. Thank you.

    Yeah those 5 were just what I came up with so homeboy could relate. And I've never been a fan anyway..... Bring the hatt. Along those same lines would be Semisonic. And I guess Jimmy Jam kinda counts but I've never known him to be much of an actual musician.

    Replacements would come in right after Prince, maybe tied with the Huskers.

    Um, before Atmosphere and Dave King (who is certainly talented, and a guy I knew back when he was just Dave that drummer dude), I would put in The Jayhawks/Golden Smog, and my personal number 1, THE TRASHMEN.



    and for local legends, they don't get much localer or legendary than the Mighty Mofos


  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts
    THE REPLACEMENTS

    Along those same lines would be Semisonic.


    Semisonic was ultra weak, even compared to the main dude's first band, Trip Shakespeare, where he was second fiddle to his brother. I heard he(Semisonic Dan) made a boatload of money off of producing or writing for the Dixie Chicks, along with Gary from the Jayhawks.

  • Freddie Hubbard
    Billy Wooten
    Wes Montgomery
    Funk Inc.
    Caesar Frazier
    Ebony Rhythm Band
    Highlighters
    Amnesty
    Rhythm Machine
    Zerfas
    Anonymous

    GLARING OMMISSION OF NAPTOWN MUSICAL GENIUS:
    Henry Lee Summers

    Actually, I would add The Zero Boys and Sloppy Seconds for that punk/hardcore influence.

  • verb606verb606 2,518 Posts


    also:
    we need to establish where Steve Miller is from...

    Phoenix, Arizona
    All the way to Tacoma
    Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A.

  • Big_ChanBig_Chan 5,088 Posts


    also:
    we need to establish where Steve Miller is from...

    Okay, Steve Miller is not really from Seattle. He was born in Wisconsin, then was in New York and Texas. He did used to spend a lot of time in Seattle. He lives in Idaho now and spends most of his time there.

  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts


    also:
    we need to establish where Steve Miller is from...

    Okay, Steve Miller is not really from Seattle. He was born in Wisconsin, then was in New York and Texas. He did used to spend a lot of time in Seattle. He lives in Idaho now and spends most of his time there.

    Didn't he make his fame as a Bay area sensation?

  • South LA edition:

    Minutemen
    NWA
    Pharcyde
    Fellowship
    Patrice rushen

    And on and on

  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts


    also:
    we need to establish where Steve Miller is from...

    Okay, Steve Miller is not really from Seattle. He was born in Wisconsin, then was in New York and Texas. He did used to spend a lot of time in Seattle. He lives in Idaho now and spends most of his time there.

    Steve Miller was born to Dr. George "Sonny" Miller, a pathologist, jazz enthusiast, hat salesman and amateur recording engineer, and Bertha, a jazz-influenced singer. While in Milwaukee, his first guitar chords were taught to him when he was five years old by his godfather Les Paul, pioneer of the electric guitar and multitrack recording. Les Paul and his wife Mary Ford were regular visitors at the Miller house and Dr. Miller was best man at their wedding. Les Paul encouraged young Miller to use his prodigious talents, and much of Miller's success has been attributed to Paul's tutelage. Miller still uses some of the techniques taught to him at that time.

    In 1950, the family moved to Dallas, Texas. While at St. Mark's School of Texas, Miller formed his first band, The Marksmen. Miller taught classmate Royce Scaggs ??? better known later by his nickname Boz ??? guitar chords so that he could join the band. After leaving St. Mark's ??? "I got kicked out," he recalled with a laugh in a 2004 interview[3] ??? Miller graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in the Lakewood area of Dallas in 1961. T-Bone Walker visited the Millers and was recorded by Sonny Miller; Steve has said that Walker formed a significant influence on his guitar style.

  • HeddyHeddy 131 Posts


    - spidey


    Dude....

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  • Most well known from DC and the immediate (as in off of 495) surrounding MD/VA area:

    Marvin Gaye
    Duke Ellington
    Roberta Flack
    Joe Quarterman
    Ian Mackaye & Fugazi
    Henry Rollins
    Dischord in General I guess
    Billy Stewart
    Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers
    Young Senators (got major play w/ Eddie Kendricks)
    Link Wray
    Van McCoy
    Toni Braxton
    Ginuwine
    Mya
    Dave Grohl
    Winstons
    Presidents
    Unifics
    Black Heat
    Phil Flowers
    Nils Lofgren
    Eddie Drennan
    Joan Jett
    Crystal Waters
    DJ Kool
    Raheem DeVaughn
    Wale
    Jewels
    Banbarra
    Trouble Funk
    Blackbyrds
    3 Pieces
    Thievery Corporation
    Bad Brains
    Minor Threat

    "Best" is relative

  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,473 Posts
    John Mayer


  • DrWuDrWu 4,021 Posts
    Cavaliers Unlimited.
    Pleasure.
    Cool'r.

    Livesavas.

    A whole bunch of altrockgrungegroups.

    The Octoberists. I heard on NPR that their music is literary.

    Louis Louis:
    Kingsmen.
    Paul Revere And The Raiders.

    80s Rock:
    Seafood Mama (Quarterflash)
    Johnny and the Distractions

    Punk:
    Smegma
    Napalm Beach
    Neo Boys
    ^ I've never heard any of them.

    Blues:
    Paul deLay
    Robert Cray

    Jazz:
    Mel Brown (Drummer)
    Thera Memory
    Jeff Lorber
    Tom Grant

    A whole more folks I'm not thinking of.

    Dan this is embarrassing on a whole lot of levels. First, no Poison Idea then no Nu Shooz or oscar nominated Elliott Smith. On the jazz tip we got Billy Larkin too. WTF?

    B/W

    It's the Decemberists. Lots of Indie rock people, some native, some not.

    Quasi
    Sleater-Kinney
    Dead Moon
    about a billion more

  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Most well known from DC and the immediate surrounding MD/VA area:

    Marvin Gaye
    Duke Ellington
    Roberta Flack
    Joe Quarterman
    Ian Mackaye & Fugazi
    Henry Rollins
    Dischord in General I guess
    Billy Stewart
    Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers
    Young Senators (got major play w/ Eddie Kendricks)
    Link Wray
    Van McCoy
    Toni Braxton
    Ginuwine
    Mya
    Dave Grohl
    Winstons
    Presidents
    Unifics
    Black Heat
    Phil Flowers
    Nils Lofgren
    Eddie Drennan
    Joan Jett
    Crystal Waters
    DJ Kool
    Raheem DeVaughn
    Wale
    Jewels
    Banbarra
    Trouble Funk
    Blackbyrds
    3 Pieces
    Thievery Corporation
    Bad Brains
    Minor Threat

    "Best" is relative

    Danny Gatton
    Emmy Lou Harris
    Mary Chapin Carpenter
    Roy Clark
    Nighthawks (as seen on the Wire!)
    Eva Cassidy
    Seldom Scene
    Root Boy Slim
    Elizabeth Cotton
    Flora Molton (Used to see her playing on the street with a tin can tied to her guitar neck. Made an lp for Arhoolie or someone like them.)
    John Jackson
    Grin
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