Who are the best bands from each NFL playoff city?

[Bennyboy]

SF: Green Day
Seattle: Quarterflash
NOLA: Professor Longhair
New England: James Taylor
Indianapolis(??? there's a band in Indianapolis?)
Carolina: Hootie and the Blowfish
San Diego: ???
Denver: Big Head Todd and the Mosters!

[Brigid]

1. Yes, we have bands here in Indy.

http://www.indybands.com

[Bennyboy]

2. For San Diego it is Delta Nove...

Yep, great band outta the Diego. Funk and groove monsters. Viking is a hoot too....

[taterguy]

3. Oh FFS

Hootie was from Columbia, which is 90 miles from where the Panthers play. You might as well mention any of the gazillion great bands from Chapel Hill.

Charlotte was home to the great band Fetchin' Bones, known for their epic shows in the 80s but I couldn't find any on Youtube because people didn't go to shows with fucking phones back in the day.

[Tom Ripley]

22. My vote would go to Antiseen

[Rhythm]

42. They were my first exposure to Charlotte's 'local music' scene...

I was in high school, and they played at a friend's New Year's Eve party...

Big house in the ritzy section of town...
no furniture downstairs...
and broken windows by the time Jeff Clayton was done riling up the pit. *L*

[Tom Ripley]

43. I'm assuming there were also smoke bombs present

good times

[Rhythm]

46. At the Milestone shows, yeah... but not at Clay's house...

He got enough grief from the cops because of the noise and the crowds...

[Rhythm]

23. I always had a crush on Hope Nichols... so much fun to hang out with...

Yay for being a Charlotte girl...





And yeah, "Hootie..." is a Columbia, SOUTH CAROLINA band...

[LynneSin]

4. Seriously - you have Seattle in the Playoffs and Quarterflash is the best band you can come up with?

How about Nirvana or Pearl Jam or Soundgarden to name a few?

[dawg]

5. Don't harden your heart.

[LynneSin]

6. OMG please stop or I'm going to have to rick roll you

Or even worse....

I'll Rico Roll you!

[pokerfan]

31. Another good one!

[taterguy]

7. How about Jimi Hendrix?

[LynneSin]

8. I'll take that

[Bennyboy]

9. That's the one you picked up on?

Green Day? Big Head Todd? Hootie? even Fess was tongue in cheek.....

SF: The Good old Grateful Dead

Denver: String Cheese Incident

New England: PHISH or at least J Geils.

Carolina: has to be Ben Folds (again sarcasm)

[Initech]

11. And Green Day is the best from SF?

What about Neurosis or NoFX or Cypress Hill?

[LynneSin]

21. I'll take Green Day over any of those

just saying

[Jenoch]

18. Not to mention that Quarterflash started in Portland. Portland

I agree about Pearl Jam. Jeff Ament's dad is a buddy of my father's.

[geardaddy]

34. Or Jimi?

[Initech]

10. My picks:

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San Francisco: Neurosis
San Diego: Slightly Stoopid (maybe Neon Trees a close second)
Seattle: Pearl Jam
New England: Dropkick Murphy's
Indianapolis: Cage The Elephant
Denver: String Cheese Incident
New Orleans: The Meters, Louis Armstrong
Carolina: ?

And for New Jersey where the Super Bowl is being played: Symphony X!

[Bennyboy]

12. you were going so good too....

Denver: String Cheese, leftover salmon, Yonder Mountain string Band

New Orleans? really music city USA and you can't think of one? Louis Armstrong, Galactic, Dr John, the Nevilles, The Meters, Trombone Shorty.....

Carolina: John Coltrane. Earl Scruggs. Doc Watson. Thelonious Monk.

[Initech]

13. Ah how could I forget the Meters?? Love old school jazz funk.

[GoCubsGo]

38. And, if one is to also include South Carolina as part of "Carolina"...

James Brown, Eartha Kitt, Peabo Bryson, Chubby Checker, Dizzy Gillespie, The Swinging Medallions, Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs...

[dawg]

39. Georgia lays first claim on the hardest working man in showbusiness.

We have a statue and everything.

[GoCubsGo]

40. He was born in Barnwell, SC.

His home when he died was a few miles up the road from me in Beech Island, SC. Georgia can lay claim to him all they want, but he's a South Carolinian.

[Bennyboy]

50. Warren Haynes is from Georgia....

The title has been transferred now...

[dawg]

51. As much as I love me some Gov't Mule ...

I'm not relinquishing claim on JB. He might have been born in SC, but he did move here when he was five, and this is where he made his career. Kind of like Elvis and Memphis. I think Memphis has somewhat of a claim on the King, even if Tupelo had him first.

[countryjake]

14. Brandi Carlile, for 2000, Alex.

Who is the best crackerjack band from Seattle?

Brandi Carlile (and those Fighting Machinists)

[yuiyoshida]

15. For a moment I thought you meant MARCHING BANDS..

I was gonna say we don't have any...unless .. maybe The University of California at Berkeley would count. UCSF probably doesn't have a band. Its a medical University!

[pipi_k]

16. New England

I would pick Boston over James Taylor

[edbermac]

24. Don't forget Aerosmith.

[Bennyboy]

25. Except they suck.

Always have and always will. J Geils blow them (and damn near everyone) offa da stage...... I might go with the Dropkick Murphys..... Or Phish (if New England and not Boston)

[Chan790]

29. Phish sucks.

In the universal sense, Phish is a terrible band. When one wants to assess the shittiness of other bands, the proper measure of shittiness is the Trey-Anastasio.

For examples, Phish is always one Trey-Anastasio, as is Oysterhead and Trey Anastasio Band because these are bands that Trey Anastasio is in. The Grateful Dead are 0.5 Trey-Anastasios because they are half as shitty and at-least when they were doing it, it was original. Creed is 2 Trey-Anastasios because they are twice as bad.

As a comparative metric, the Trey-Anastasio is roughly-equivalent to one Chuggo. Thus it is equally appropriate to say that Phish is one Chuggo in terms of musical shittiness. Likewise, we can express the value of shittiness for other acts in Chuggos or in Trey-Anastasios. Creed's shittiness is not only two Trey-Anastasios but also two Chuggos.

The record for musical shittiness is held by Sugar Ray, a mid-1990s rap-rock band from Los Angeles, at an astounding 17 Trey-Anastasios.

[HappyMe]

41. Really? The James Geils band?

Hardly.

Phish? Nope.


James Taylor? Hell no.

[Tom Ripley]

44. In my experience, J Geils was the only big Boston band of the 70s who didn't totally suck live

Aerosmith, Boston, and the Cars were awful awful live bands.
J Geils Band could deliver the goods in person.

[Bennyboy]

45. Ding ding ding....

J Geils was MONEY. I loved that band and Magic Dick is why I play the blues harp today....


the Cars were the worst live band ever. Seriously lousy.

Aerosmith, for about a minute,( not coincidentally when they were still getting high on weed and acid and not coke, heroin and pills) were decent on records, but live they lacked an awful lot. Same shit over and over again.

They were one of the bands that bridged that era that I came from (the Dead, Beatles etc) to that of my 4 years younger brother. All of the music started to suck complete ass then. The Cars, Journey, All of that was absolute garbage. Boston. Oh, that band was horrible live. In with the coke and out with the psychedelics.

thank God that we got a huge music (and not coincidentally a huge psychedelic) Renaissance period going on and we don't NEED to have crap thrown at us all the time.

[Iggo]

47. J Geils was ONLY good live.

[Bennyboy]

49. So funny that when they made a great album....

It really didn't sound like them, it sounded like the rest of the garbage that was out there at the time. And they stopped touring not after it's release (and a HUGE tour with the Rolling Stones)because they really didn't like the album and have to play those songs over and over ad nasuem, like every other band was doing then.

[geardaddy]

35. Or The Cars.

[Jenoch]

17. The marching band at Green Bay East High School is pretty good.

[Zorro]

19. San Diego? Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper, of course!

[Bennyboy]

26. Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Slightly Stoopid

are contenders too.....

[kwassa]

20. Indianapolis: John Hiatt, Wes Montgomery

[Bennyboy]

27. And now we are down to

The Grateful Dead versus Pearl Jam in one game (With Phish's WILSON thrown in) and String Cheese Incident versus J Geils in the other....

[KamaAina]

28. Green Day is actually from Berkeley

so they'd be tied in with the Raiders. Tough luck, guys.

Indiana: John Mellencamp (Seymour).

[Iggo]

30. Metallica and Mother Love Bone and Boston...

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...and who the heck is from Denver anyway?

[Bennyboy]

37. The Colorado Music scene is huge.

String Cheese Incident is the biggest. Yonder Mountain String Band, Leftover Salmon all of that Colorado rocky grass. Big Head Todd too.....The Motet is amazing.

[KamaAina]

32. Weren't you the one who informed me of the demise of the New Orleans Radiators?

[Bennyboy]

36. Yep, still sad over that one too...

One of my very favorite bands ever. Doo0ds played more songs than anyone. I was trying to be obtusely sarcastic in my OP, and it worked out about as well as I thought (which is not at all).

Right now the Midnight Disturbers and the Revivalists are killing the NOLA thing.

Some Radiators are in The New Orleans Suspects and they kill ya too....

And there will be the Jazzfest reunion again this year and the other anny shows. They just ain't touring....

[OriginalGeek]

33. Hmmmm

I think my picks are louder:
SF: Possessed or maybe Exodus - Bay area thrash is one of the cornerstones of extreme metal
Seattle: Wolves In The Throne Room (Actually Olympia, WA but I figure that's covered by the Seattle football area)
NOLA: I like Soilent Green a lot but there are a ton of great sludge metal bands from NOLA.
New England: that's Boston right? How about Boston? Or Agoraphobic Nosebleed. Or Dropkick Murphys
Indianapolis: Hmmmm, maybe Radiation Sickness
Carolina: IS Greenville south Carolina covered in "Carolina"? If so, Nile.
San Diego: that one is easy: Cattle Decapitation*
Denver: I'll go with Cephalic Carnage unless I hear someone I like more came from Denver. But CC is cool enough for now.







*fun fact about CD: The band was founded by vegans - I think only a couple of the current members are now though. The songs are sort of written from the cow's point of view. Huge into animal rights, environmental issues and against mans' inhumanity to man.

[Fearless]

48. Probably not best but certainly most iconic for Boston...