Bands you wish everyone else knew about.

[Lprechaun]

Every once in awhile someone somewhere will turn me onto a new band or group I hadnt heard of. Might be something older like Nat King Cole that you woldnt ever think you would like or something from your childhood that you just dont remember like Social Distortion that you have a new found respect for or a new band that you had to go find everything they had ever done.

Mine would be The Drowning Men, they were signed by Borstal Beat records after touring with Flogging Molly (BB is FMs label) the wife and I have seen them numerous times and its always a great show.
http://www.thedrowningmen.com/

My personal favorite song is "Rita". Enjoy

Im hoping to find some more good groups from this thread!

[Pushead2]

Just a few

Belmont:


Stand Atlantic:


Chris Malinchak (although he has a following):


Story Untold:


Upon a Burning Body:

[DeepPurple]

The singer reminds of the guy from The Darkness, in fact with mustache curl I think he's going for the same look. They have a bit of theatrics, the video has about a 1 minute lead in, but they've got a sort of Queen or Adam Lambert kind of sound.



This is an unknown band, but more of an oddity than anything. In 1980 a disco band out of Miami called La Flavour decided to scrap their image and become a hard rock band and change their name to Fair Warning. Their debut disco album was produced by Mark Avsec of Wild Cherry and later Donnie Iris Band. He had written a hard rock song, She don't Know Me, and it was intended to be the lead off single for Fair Warning debut rock album.

Fair Warning and Bon Jovi were both signed by Mercury Records. This is the recording of She Don't know Me by Fair Warning from an album that was never released. The label decided that Bon Jovi had a better image and shelved the Fair Warning album, never to be seen again, and gave the song to Bon Jovi. It was the second single after Runway from his debut album and was the only song by the band Bon Jovi that was not penned by Jon Bon Jovi or another member of his band. Truth be told, I love the Fair Warning version of the song!!

[cripple creek]

greta van fleet sound promising to these 70' era rock ears

[SuperChief]

For the prog lovers in here (NZoner and others) - this is about as good as it gets in prog today. This band is insane.

[GloucesterChief]

Minna No Kodomo-chan (Everyone's Children)





Really small time outfit from Tokyo but great sound with metal guitars and dirty dirty darkwave snyth work. Click CC for English translations.

[lawrenceRaider]

Like the first one better by Minna No Kodomo-chan. Great addition to the thread.

[eDave]

How about some Brandi Carlile. Look at how happy she is! Gives me great music chills every time.

You go gurl. Let hem laugh while they can. Then watch them scatter in the wind. The jokes on them.

[Halfcan]

Originally Posted by cripple creek

greta van fleet sound promising to these 70' era rock ears

[Chief Northman]

Originally Posted by cripple creek

greta van fleet sound promising to these 70' era rock ears

Too much of a Zeppelin ripoff for my liking.

[eDave]

Originally Posted by Chief Northman

Too much of a Zeppelin ripoff for my liking.

I don't mind the rip-off. They just suck at it. I don't get the hype. At all.

I'm glad people like them though. This album is their last probably.

[Stryker]

[Stryker]

Originally Posted by Halfcan

This is METAL at it's finest! I beg for something else?

[Fishpicker]

Originally Posted by DeepPurple

What more can I do, there's nothing I haven't tried
Still it's so hard for her to notice
I've tried hard to be straight
There's nothing left I can say
If only she would look my way

Hnnggngngngnggghhhh

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by DeepPurple

This is an unknown band, but more of an oddity than anything. In 1980 a disco band out of Miami called La Flavour decided to scrap their image and become a hard rock band and change their name to Fair Warning. Their debut disco album was produced by Mark Avsec of Wild Cherry and later Donnie Iris Band. He had written a hard rock song, She don't Know Me, and it was intended to be the lead off single for Fair Warning debut rock album.

Fair Warning and Bon Jovi were both signed by Mercury Records. This is the recording of She Don't know Me by Fair Warning from an album that was never released. The label decided that Bon Jovi had a better image and shelved the Fair Warning album, never to be seen again, and gave the song to Bon Jovi. It was the second single after Runway from his debut album and was the only song by the band Bon Jovi that was not penned by Jon Bon Jovi or another member of his band. Truth be told, I love the Fair Warning version of the song!!

That was interesting. The Fair Warning version seemed like a partial recording, as there were holes in the song where you'd normally expect a guitar riffs. Still, it wasn't bad.

Sure must have pissed them off to hear somebody else signing it on the radio. What a brutal business.

[DeepPurple]

Originally Posted by Frazod

That was interesting. The Fair Warning version seemed like a partial recording, as there were holes in the song where you'd normally expect a guitar riffs. Still, it wasn't bad.

Sure must have pissed them off to hear somebody else signing it on the radio. What a brutal business.

I think also I like the Fair Warning version because I've always disliked Bon Jovi. I saw the Scorpions on the Love at First Sting tour of '84 in Savannah. BJ was the opening act and we didn't know who they were. The guy had the big hair and fishnet shirt and ran around the stage posing for the girls, we all started chanting The Scorpions. I know he's suppose to be a great guy, but I guess my first impression of him has lasted and then his label screwed this other band.