So let's get directly and inexorably to our business at hand.
To wit:
...and the post-Elvis pop/rock/soul/folk/country/hip-hop solo artist or band you feel could have been hugely commercially successful based on their name alone is...???
Discuss.
No arbitrary rules whatsoever, by which I mean if you want to nominate somebody who was/is actually famous go for it.
In any event, my nominee is these guys...
...who were a kind of big deal in the NYC underground of the 80s. (By kind of a big deal, I mean that I used to see flyers for their CBGBs gigs on lampposts in my Village neighborhood all the time). In any case, I never got to see them live, but I always thought their moniker was hilarious. And I should add that after stumbling across their music online recently, I really regret having missed them back in the day -- as you can hear, their shtick was a kind of unpretentious, often amusingly rootsy racket that I would have dug the most in a small club.
Alrighty then -- who would YOUR choice(s) be?
And have a great weekend, everybody!!! 😎
PS: You can find out more about these guys -- including the skinny on their upcoming (November) NYC reunion show -- over at their official website HERE.
From my DC clubbing days in the late 70s early 80s: Tru Fax and the Insaniacs.
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Okay, just one more. A 1960’s garage band from Yorktown Heights, NY:
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Captain Al
There was a band in Atlanta in the 80s/90s called Betty's Not a Vitamin, based on the observation that Flintstones vitamins did not have a vitamin in Betty's image.
ReplyDeleteHere's a hall of fame name, Victor and the Spoils who released two 45s in 1966.
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Sniff 'n' the Tears had one top 20 hit with Driver's Seat in 1979, a great song that always makes it to my car and/or rocking mixes.
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Go To Blazes
Gutterball
Supersuckers
Top Jimmy and The Rhythm Pigs
Carlos Guitarlos - Lead guitar for The Rhythm Pigs, and a fine solo artiste
Hoodoo Gurus
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Fido & the Hydrants
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The Brian Jonestown Massacre
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When I was going to junior college one of my classmates had a band called The Four Gasms.
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Heh.
DeleteAnd speaking of Atlanta, there's always Darryl Rhodes and the Hahavishnu Orchestra, not to mention Thermos Greenwood and the Colored People, so-called because they painted their faces.
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