5 Indie Bands I Wish I Could Have Seen Live

[tangy_seamonkey]

There are always those bands that you brag to your friends about, "I saw them way back when they used to play at this one dive bar in this one suburb." It feels cool to think you were ahead of the times. My friend wrote an article about bands he wished he had seen, but now can't. Did you miss these bands too? Or were you there on the scene?

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[systemerror]

Do you remember that scene is "High Fidelity" when they're talking about their top five first tracks on the album, and Jack's Black character calls BS on John Cusack's insertion of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by saying " why not side one, Track one of the Fifth Symphony?"

That's how I feel about this list.

[tangy_seamonkey]

Yes. Everyone loves to think they are more obscure than everyone else in music taste to feel cool. What about you? Got a list?

[foreignage]

the raincoats! at least to see their performance of their rendition of Lola.

The electric prunes. Janis Joplin in the very early days when she was with big brother and the holding company. The beatles when they were still playing at the cavern club or even in their germany days!

and thats just off the top of my head.

I really wouldn't consider this an indie list. The sex pistols were really well known in their day. well they were more infamous than famous. I'd classify this list as a legendary bands he wishes he could have seen live.

But great discussion topic.

[jim15w]

They never made it really big, but there was a local band called Sugarbomb that played in Dallas/Ft worth and Denton in the late 90s...they got dropped from their label after 2001... I never got to see them live, but if you track down their music, they were pretty bad ass. There is a myspace page with some of their songs if anyone is interested.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=134089659

Also, I would have liked to see the early stages of Harvey Danger.

Harvey Danger at the Groovy Mule

[tangy_seamonkey]

I'm not sure if it was considered "early" Harvey Danger, but I actually saw them in Denton at the Groovy Mule play with opener Zac Maloy. That had to have been in 2000, maybe? It might have been Reign by then. Either way, they were apart of the Edge's "secret band" tour around Dallas where you didn't know who was the main headliner until they came on. The bass player wore a Smokehouse T-shirt, the excellent BBQ place next door. I found that amusing.

[bookish_sunny]

I saw Sugarbomb a couple of times. They were pretty good. You can have my old cd.

[nnnslogan]

I worked security at a Ramones show in Houston. It doesn't matter. It's not like I have a TiVo in my brain and can replay the whole show, most of which I spent backstage looking at them from behind while they played. Then I stood with them a while afterward while people crowded around for autographs. It's just another little experience. If nothing else, it just proves they were real people and they were alive. Whoopee.

[jim15w]

I worked Security at an Avril Lavigne show...if anything, it proved she was not a real person / alive.

[tangy_seamonkey]

Haha. Did she have her own version of a champagne glass full of brown M&Ms?

[jim15w]

No, but her bus arrived late, AND she spent about 45 minutes in the bathroom before going on.

For strange requests, I remember the NY Giants stayed at a hotel in Grapevine, and on their long snack list was included individual bottles of pickle juice...