Holiday Music Challenge

My family moved so much, I really don't have a home town other that I've lived in Greensboro longer than any ....

Rhiannon Giddens 

Happy to have her! 

There are many from the area,100 mile radius.

I don't think Silver Spring, MD had a sound! 😆 But it does have a Fillmore Auditorium! 

Bay Area, there isn't enough room.. :-) We are full to the top with a bunch of the greats and up and coming. Man oh man there were a lot of local bands that played around my home town. Antioch/Pittsburg/Brentwood area. 30 miles away was Berkley, 35 was Oakland and 45 miles was San Francisco. I was everywhere as a kid. 

@oldhvymec 

Come on, man, you can do it. Psychedelic central! This should be easy for you.

Sly and the Family Stones, Carlos, Ramons, War, PHDs, Huey Lewis and the News. Doyle Cook was real popular too.

Oakland and SF both are under siege. Looting is a capital offence, as soon as they treat it like that and stop messing around, the problem it will stop over night.. Armed response to the looting. Drop them where they stand.. Problem solved.. They use to hang cattle rustlers and horse thieves. Guillotine ain't a bad idea either..

Regards

"Temptation" Dianna Krall

" Feeling Good" Michael Buble   

"I will Remember You" Sarah McLachlan    

"Summer of '69" Bryan Adams    

"Powerless" Nelly Furtado

"Arms of Mary" Chilliwack

"Working For The Weekend" Loverboy    

"Eyes of a Stranger" Payolas

"Which Way You Going Billy" Poppy Family

"Crazy on You" Heart ( actually from Seattle, but were a staple in Vancouver back in the day)

@tony1954 Nice work! Plenty of great pipes on your list. Sarah at Radio City in NYC is one of my all time fav shows, back before she got huge with Lilith Fair. Crazy on You - one the most memorable guitar hooks ever!

Thanks for indulging us. Cheers,

Spencer

@dabel Don't forget Iggy, MC5, Mitch Ryder, and not my personal fav, but gotta give props to Bob Seger...And of course White Stripes / Jack White. A rockin' town for sure! Cheers,

Spencer

All of EWF & Chicago.   The latter even had Bay Area alum Bill Champlain as a member for 28 years.

The Rolling Stones at Chess (The Rolling Stones, Now!)  Willie Dixon's main gig. (I just sold the reel to reel tape for $90)

Pro Musica at Medina Temple 

Howard Levy

Chicago on Come Fly With Me by Sir Francis

@fuzztone Ahh, the windy city! Surprised you didn't add Muddy or Wilco. Another Chicago standout...Liz Phair. Great city for live music, I try to catch some every time I visit. Cheers,

Spencer

@sbank    

When I was much younger, Sarah was just starting out and used to come into our shop to get promotional material made and we spent a lot of time just yakking about stuff. What a beautiful person and so sweet.

oh man, Sarah is the Bomb !

for me in the Winter hood ? Jackson Browne - Downhill from Everywhere 

Surfs up ! Anything Beach Boys

@dabel A tip of the hat and an octopus on the ice for you!

@tony1954 great story. When Sarah reaches for the high notes…wow, the voice of an angel!

@tomic601 yeah, you’ve got a master chef’s pantry there for sure. Let’s go man, cook us a 5star music meal!

Ann Arbor.

MC5, Rationals, Stooges, Cult Heroes, Commander Cody, Deon Jackson, Destroy All Monsters-high school friend became drummer, Nomo, RFD Boys, The Arbors, SRC, Sunday Funnies, Saturday Looks Good, Bob Seeger, Del Shannon, Cub Koda, Brownsville Station,  SLK, Madonna.

In San Jose California we had The Chocolate Watchband (three albums on Tower Records, home of early Pink Floyd), Stained Glass (two albums on Capitol), People (two on Capitol), The Syndicate Of Sound (one album on Bell Records), The Count Five (one album), and Fritz (the mid-late 60’s garage band whose members included Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham. Do a search to find the pic of them on stage at Mother Butler High School, Stevie in a prom dress ;-) . And then in the 70’s of course The Doobie Brothers. Before getting a deal with Warner Brothers Records, they were the house band at a biker bar up in the Santa Cruz mountains.

At one point in time Chuck Berry was living in town, as was acid-casualty Skip Spence (Moby Grape, drummer on the first Jefferson Airplane album), whom after being released from Agnew Mental Facility could be seen wandering the streets of downtown San Jose, bumming cigarettes and loose change. R.I.P. and shine on, you crazy diamond.

@bdp24 I'm ready to watch the San Jose music documentary when you make it. So much good stuff that never got enough attention. Thanks for sharing.

@sns Michigan rocks! Time to spin some Iggy...

Cheers,

Spencer

Yeah Spencer, Greg Shaw (Bomp Magazine and Records, manager of The Flamin' Groovies, U.S.A. Garage Band expert and collector---over 100,000 GB 45's!) called San Jose Ground Zero for the Garage Band scene.

I was at The Watchband's first show, saw The Trolls (Stained Glass' original name, when they were a quartet), The Syndicate, and People, all before seeing The Beatles at The Cow Palace in S. San Francisco in the summer of '65---Eric.

I'll see your Philidelphia and raise you ONE for
Chicago

heartbreak, @fuzztone I thought you made us a playlist of your post above. Yeah, Philly had plenty of cheese-whizzy jingles too. 😆

The jingles were all made by the same jingle factory.

I’m pretty busy for a p/l. New phone, new NAS new DSP etc