How hot is your local music scene?

[guitar man]

Where you live, if you want to go hear some really hot live music, what band(s) do you go hear?

That's the one thing I really love about Tulsa, there are some of the hottest players on the planet inhabiting the smokiest, dingiest little dives every friday and saturday night around here. My favorite band to go hear around here is The Real Band. I love these guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YROIioftK0

who are your favorite local heroes?

:hi:

[mitchum]

1. My local music scene (Athens, GA) lives on past glory...

but hey, it's the only way to convince people to spend years washing dishes and making burritos before their ship sails in. Although that will never happen...
Yay for cheap labor!

[guitar man]

2. lol

I know how that goes, my ship came in but it ran aground :rofl:

[bif]

3. Detroit. Still one of the best music cities in the country

For rock, blues, world, classical, soul/r&b, and of course, jazz!

[guitar man]

4. right on

It must be really cool to live in Motown :thumbsup:

[bif]

5. The music scene is amazing.

But I'm not sure how great it is to live here. Actually, what I tell people is "It's a great place to live, but I'd sure hate to visit it."

[guitar man]

6. lol

I want to come up there and cruise the clubs one of these days just to check it all out

[bif]

23. Come on up!

Just last weekend I went to the Ferndale Art Fair & DIY Fair. Tons of free/excellent music. Check out the website: http://diystreetfair.com/main-stage/

[leeroysphitz]

32. Did you catch Great Lakes Myth Society in Ferndale?

Might not be your cup of tea but they are my favorite local(ish) band...

[Terry in Austin]

17. I've heard that the next big industry in Detroit is farming

[CBGLuthier]

7. It sucks. Cause everyone's gone to Tulsa

I probably don't have to tell you that the nightlife in Oklahoma City sucks.

Hard to believe that 80 years ago we were a hotbed of jazz music.

[guitar man]

8. tell me about it

I work and stay in OKC and am home to Tulsa on the weekends. I have been out and about in the OKC area trying to book gigs for us and it just sucks. Nobody wants to pay a band anything in OKC no matter how good you are. :(

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

9. I heard coldplay from my balcony

a few weeks ago. I held up the phone for my 16 year old niece who thought that was pretty cool. We live in Munich so we have a pretty good music scene. Greenday played a while back. We have a nice variety of bands that play here.

[guitar man]

10. that's cool

big names playing in your neighborhood is really cool :thumbsup:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

11. It is

very cool. I don't have to pay for tickets and I can hear them live. :D

[guitar man]

12. I'd have a recorder

with microphones hanging out the window :D

[old mark]

13. We have a local jazz festival every winter, held in about a dozen local clubs and bars.

Never been to it.
Haven't seen a live band in nearly 10 years other than at the mental hospital where I used to work.

Last live music I saw in this area was in 1971 - Andres Segovia.

mark

[Broken_Hero]

14. Tulsa has a good music scene?

well, I never would've thought that. I'm about 2hrs from there...to my knowledge the music scene in my area is dead

[guitar man]

18. Oh yeah

We have had a lot of people from Tulsa hit the bigtime and a lot of them are still around here ehrn they are not on the road. Leon Russell, Roy Clark, JJ Cale, Elvin Bishop,The GAP Band, David Gates,Ronnie Dunn (Brooks and Dunn), Jamie Oldaker (drummer for clapton, seger, frampton)David Teegarden(bob seger drummmer) Dwight Twilley....and the list goes on, all from Tulsa.

I walked into a jam session a while back and got to sit in with most of JJ Cale's band. It's a really cool scene here :)

[crispini]

15. Dallas has the Polyphonic Spree

who I just LOVE LOVE LOVE although they are a bit more famous than your typical local band perhaps.

Some of my other favorites are: Old 97's, Deathray Davies, Slobberbone. I need to get out and experience some more local bands and pick up some new favorites.

[Terry in Austin]

16. Extremely. Hey, this is Austin

Any number of joints, dives, rooms, venues, arenas, and a dozen bands for every one of them. Heck, even the grocery stores have live music.

My local heroes, aside from Chris Gage, all go back a ways: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, 13th Floor Elevators, Balcones Fault.

:hi:

[guitar man]

19. cool

Stop stealing our musicians lol. :hi:

[Blue_Tires]

20. hey guitar man...

I wanted to show you the music blog of an old friend, who is a freelance reviewer and music historian in Kansas City...He could tell you anything you wanted to know about that place...I know it's shameless pimping, but his blog is too good not to share with people who love music as much as he does:

http://joelfrancis.com/

[guitar man]

21. thanks for the link

It looks like a great blog...bookmarked!

I notice he's got a nice article about Cross Canadian Ragweed on there, those are some good 'ol Oklahoma boys. A good friend of mine wrote "Mexican Sky" :hi:

[rucky]

22. The Glenn Miller Orchestra is coming to my town.

yep.

[quakerboy]

24. So Hot

I wasn't even invited.

[guitar man]

25. rofl

I feel that way too sometimes :rofl:

[quakerboy]

30. Ok, fine, you got me

I was invited, but by the time I showed up, it was all over.

I am sure that there are lots of good bands. I know way too many amateur musicians for there not to be. Some of them are even pretty good. But the venue's that I have experienced suck. It could just be that I hate hipster culture and trendyness, as well as paying 10 bucks for 75 cents worth of food, and that I dont really drink much, but I don't think so.

[bif]

26. Check out my music blog

It doesn't focus on Detroit bands, but features some relatively unknown groups:
http://marksmusicmemo.blogspot.com/

[Fleshdancer]

27. You can find good live music any day of the week in Austin

The city is preparing for the Austin City Limits Music Festival next week: http://www.aclfestival.com/default.aspx

[ceile]

28. Geez, it's Austin. You can't get away from it.

The airport, the grocery store, every club, pool hall, dance hall and street corner has something musical going on everyday.

[SteppingRazor]

29. I live in South Florida, where electronic music largely supplanted the live music scene. Still...

there have been a lot of really great local bands I've seen quite a few times.

The Freakin Hott is probably my favorite current local band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNJxmq3elV4


Hash Brown was great when they were around:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coaE2Dq5Jr8


A great new band here is Stonefox:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQQjxlINhPg


The Pretty Faces are another great local band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4lQ88Xp-8w


And The Heavy Pets are, in my opinion, perhaps the best up-and-coming jam band in America today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTE2ciMAqP4

[lazyriver]

31. In NW NJ it's Todd Sheaffer and Railroad Earth. Here's Todd

with another local favorite, Swampadelica, at the Historic Blairstown Theatre...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UerSMPAvyU