Lesser known bands that you think should have been bigger...

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Brave Volunteer said:
I think with Slade it was bad timing. We were just coming out of the Vietnam War, and I don't think the general public was in the mood for such a band. We were still licking our wounds, so to speak, and nobody wanted an irreverent, good time band at that time. If they had come out 2-3 years later, I think they could've been huge.

Another band I think should've been bigger was Riot (not to be confused with Quiet Riot).
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Probably some truth to that but they did pop up in the US in the early 80's with My Oh My and Run Runaway but it just didn't stick over here.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
I think with Slade it was bad timing. We were just coming out of the Vietnam War, and I don't think the general public was in the mood for such a band. We were still licking our wounds, so to speak, and nobody wanted an irreverent, good time band at that time. If they had come out 2-3 years later, I think they could've been huge.

Another band I think should've been bigger was Riot (not to be confused with Quiet Riot).
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Right on the money. They may have been slightly ahead of the times with Rock City and Narita (very good, nonetheless), but Fire Down Under was fantastic and still holds up well 40+ years later (man, typing that made me feel old).
 
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ArdentVol said:
really would have loved seeing superdrag
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Got to play a back to back gig with them w/my 1st band in 2002ish. Pappas had already left the band though. Still was fun to share a stage. JD had quit drinking too. He had some demons with alcohol. But for Knoxville bands—Royal Bangs. Got to play with them too. Great band.
 
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ArdentVol said:
I had an advanced art class with John Davis in high school. He was a friendly and interesting guy, very creative and talented with paints, as well. I thought it was so cool when "Sucked Out" actually got some play on MTV.

i saw john in memorial concert for alex chilton at the shell in memphis
did great job on big star cover

cool
which HS?
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Farragut
 
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TC 83 said:
Got to play a back to back gig with them w/my 1st band in 2002ish. Pappas had already left the band though. Still was fun to share a stage. JD had quit drinking too. He had some demons with alcohol. But for Knoxville bands—Royal Bangs. Got to play with them too. Great band.
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Rarely able to spend much time in Knoxville in early 2000s and but I had heard of the Royal Bangs. Still jJealous of you guys who were in bands
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Locally: The V-Roys, 10 Years, and Superdrag were all great in their prime.

311 had a cult following, but they were so great. Goose currently.
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311 had a pretty good run being in the spotlight. They hit it big in 1995-96 and was pretty mainstream through 2005ish. They've still been active. I would say they went from cult following to hit it big to now probably inbetween cult and big.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Dude, thank you. I've been listening to them a lot since you posted. I had never heard them, but I love BI's early albums.

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Right on, yeah they are truly amazing. They only have a few albums but they are all something else, especially Gather, Form & Fly. They also did a one off album with Bon Iver and a bunch of other people, its called Gayngs. One of my all time favorite albums.

The atmospheric dance-pop collective Gayngs craft impeccably rendered, R&B-infused electro-indie pop built upon a foundation inspired by smooth and quirky English art rock outfit . Formed in 2008 by Minneapolis-based producer/songwriter Ryan Olson, along with members Jack Coulter and Adam Hurlburt, Gayngs were hardly a trio, as over 25 artists chose to participate, including Joe Westerlund, Brad Cook, and Phil Cook from North Carolina’s Megafun, Ivan Howard of , 's and Mike Noyce, and Rhymesayers rapper , just to name a few. The band’s debut album, Relayted, arrived in 2010

 
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HollowaytoSeivers said:
Right on the money. They may have been slightly ahead of the times with Rock City and Narita (very good, nonetheless), but Fire Down Under was fantastic and still holds up well 40+ years later (man, typing that made me feel old).
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Damn right it does! But I do have to say, that album cover didn't do that band any favors! LOL! When you think of heavy metal album covers, a closeup of a snow-white cute baby seal doesn't immediately come to mind! In fact, all of Riot's album covers kind of suck! I love the band's music, but when it came to artwork/packaging, they weren't exactly KISS or Iron Maiden.
 
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HollowaytoSeivers said:
Right on the money. They may have been slightly ahead of the times with Rock City and Narita (very good, nonetheless), but Fire Down Under was fantastic and still holds up well 40+ years later (man, typing that made me feel old).
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do you mean the Rock City with Chris Bell?
 
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Blue Murder is another band I thought would be bigger. Their debut album is kick ass and I saw them open for Bon Jovi. Formed by guitarist John Sykes, along with drummer Carmine Appice and bassist Tony Franklin in 1989, this power trio produced a great sound!



 
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ArdentVol said:
do you mean the Rock City with Chris Bell?
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No, Riot's Rock City was their debut album that came out in 1977. They were from NYC.

For those who don't know (since I know ArdentVol does), the Chris Bell who was in the band Rock City eventually left them and formed Big Star.
 
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I always thought Chevelle could have been bigger than they are. They hit it big with "The Red" and were big for about 5 years but then kind of went back to cult status. They are one of those bands that has a certain sound but it works and while a lot of their albums sound the sameish, I still don't think they've had a bad album.
 
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HollowaytoSeivers said:
No, Riot's Rock City was their debut album that came out in 1977. They were from NYC.

For those who don't know (since I know ArdentVol does), the Chris Bell who was in the band Rock City eventually left them and formed Big Star.
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Did not notice that you had Rock City in italics. I guess this Excitable Boy got carried away to find that someone knew of Rock City. Wonder how many people know Chris attended UT his freshman before going home to Rhodes (then Southwestern).

Drove back to Knoxville often from NC for the Holloway-Seivers magic
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
I always thought Chevelle could have been bigger than they are. They hit it big with "The Red" and were big for about 5 years but then kind of went back to cult status. They are one of those bands that has a certain sound but it works and while a lot of their albums sound the sameish, I still don't think they've had a bad album.
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I loved their first couple of albums, and Wonder What's Next is awesome all the way through. I have several of their songs in my Heavy playlist. Good live, too. Another band with a similar sound from the same era was Evans Blue.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
I loved their first couple of albums, and Wonder What's Next is awesome all the way through. I have several of their songs in my Heavy playlist. Good live, too. Another band with a similar sound from the same era was Evans Blue.
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they will be playing in Tuskaloser on Oct 16 and will be in Alpharetta the next night
 
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I stumbled upon another band I forgot about that definitely have a cult following but never truly broke through. If you love long, insanely gorgeous guitar jams, take twenty minutes and take in Built To Spill's cover of Cortez the Killer, one of my all time favorite songs and thus one of my all time favorite covers:

 
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ArdentVol said:
Oops.
Did not notice that you had Rock City in italics. I guess this Excitable Boy got carried away to find that someone knew of Rock City. Wonder how many people know Chris attended UT his freshman before going home to Rhodes (then Southwestern).

Drove back to Knoxville often from NC for the Holloway-Seivers magic
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I see what you did there, Excitable Boy.

I didn't know that Chris went to UT before SaM/Rhodes. This thread has been very interesting to follow with the mentioning of some great bands that been either were criminally overlooked, or merely should have been bigger.

I'll add two bands that fill both overlooked and bigger, at least in the US: Thin Lizzy and UFO.
 
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bignewt said:
I stumbled upon another band I forgot about that definitely have a cult following but never truly broke through. If you love long, insanely gorgeous guitar jams, take twenty minutes and take in Built To Spill's cover of Cortez the Killer, one of my all time favorite songs and thus one of my all time favorite covers:

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Dave Matthews also covers Cortez quite well...

Here he is with the great Warren Haynes:
 
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