Local bands that SHOULD have made it

[Tim73]

I never saw them live but in Swindon there was the Band of Gypsies who like every other band were previously called Lonely Planet Boys. I had a 3 track tape which sounded like a Hendrix-y Dogs D'Amour. Some of them went on to Tiny Monroe & I hear they now play in an alt-country band in Swindon but I've forgotten the name.

That tape stood out to me as they deserved more. That said, I can think of probably another 30 bands who were around at the time & I'd rather have seen troubling the charts as opposed to Vanilla Ice or whoever was around at the time. Ironically half of us appear to be on this forum!

[Darryl Wilks]

Originally posted by Tim73:
[QB]I never saw them live but in Swindon there was the Band of Gypsies who like every other band were previously called Lonely Planet Boys. I had a 3 track tape which sounded like a Hendrix-y Dogs D'Amour. Some of them went on to Tiny Monroe & I hear they now play in an alt-country band in Swindon but I've forgotten the name.

That tape stood out to me as they deserved more. QB]

<font size="4" face="Arial">You're right - they're now The Snakes. Most of them now feign embarrassment about the Band of Gypsies. The Lonely Planet Boys acheived a degree of 'fame' as they once supported the Dogs in Bristol (at the Bridge Inn I think), which was filmed and made widely available at record fairs back in the late 80s/early 90s including the Lonely Planet Boys set.

[Carl I.]

Originally posted by AlAlvin:
God where to start.

Kill Creek
Kill Whitey
Danger Bob
Cocknoose
Bubble Boys
The Wilmas

had a few that made it that shouldn't have
Paw
Stick

<font size="4" face="Arial">Kill Whitey...Kim...***sigh***

How about Raeg Al?

[AlAlvin]

God where to start.

Kill Creek
Kill Whitey
Danger Bob
Cocknoose
Bubble Boys
The Wilmas

had a few that made it that shouldn't have
Paw
Stick

[Tim73]

Originally posted by Gunstone:

<font size="4" face="Arial">You're right - they're now The Snakes. Most of them now feign embarrassment about the Band of Gypsies.

I feign embarrassment about going down Bristol bridge wearing leopard skin leggings under a pair of heavily ripped trousers coming home, pissing in my cowboy boot & passing out in the hall but it don't change the fact that it happened!!

[daveprince37]

Being from South Wales... I liked City Kiddz, Rag Dolls, Vanity, Rich Bitch, Skin (Nev Macdonald) etc I suppose when you've got 'Great' Bands like Stereophonics & the Manic etc who needs anyhting else like decent songs!!!!!?

[glamfly]

From my area?
Talks Cheap/Queeny Blast Pop
and of course:
Mother Love Bone

[glamfly]

Yes, and he just oozed ROCKSTAR too. Like Diamond Dave, but with a better voice, and by all accounts....cooler. I'm just glad I got to witness it live.
Carl, did you download that MLB live queen cover, I'm in love with my car, from that link that Randy gave us on the melodicrock site?
Great cover that was!

[Carl I.]

I got to see MLB open for The Dogs D'Amour, and then hung out with both bands after the show. On stage at first, having never seen MLB or knowing anything about them, Andy at first came across as an arrogant jerk, but as show went on, you really caught on to what was going on, and just how great he was. The other star of the show was Greg, the drummer. He "wowed" everybody in the place and actually got the biggest reaction when the introduced the band. Wonder why he never went on, and why Bruce didn't follow "The Jam" guys.

[AlAlvin]

[/QUOTE]Kill Whitey...Kim...***sigh***

How about Raeg Al?[/QB][/QUOTE]

ahhhh...Kim...Who is up in Chicago.

Forgot about Raeg (heard that the guitarist died of a heroin od)
and
Season to Risk
Wilmas
TV Fifty
Chubby Smith
Drag Queen (a band that a lot of people here would like)
Sin City
Tenderloin
Parlay
The list just grows...