Post some of your favorite local bands from back when you were in High School

[LynneSin]

Memories - we had some kickass bands. There was Kix (who still tours and does Rocklohoma each year), The Sharks (Won the first MTV video contest), Hybrid Ice (quite the memory to their song Magdeline) and a local Perry County Favorite - the Inciters.

What were some of your local favorite bands from your HS years?

[BeachBaby]

1. Bon Jovi!

Not quite so local anymore, though. :D

[GalleryGod]

11. I Recall those days. Bon Jovi @ the Satellite

Laura & the Lifebuoys
Rocked Philly,hard!

[meegbear]

2. Boston, J. Giels Band, The Cars

[SoxFan]

3. Boston., early-mid 1980s

Del Fuegos
Scruffy the Cat
Till Tuesday
Neighborhoods
O-Positive
The Turbines
Salem 66
The Outlets
Lyres
The Lines
The Stompers

[meegbear]

4. WBCN

[driver8]

10. Scruffy the Cat!!

Now there's a band name that I haven't heard in about 20 years!!

I used to have one of their cassette tapes -- I'll have to see if I can find it.

**on edit:

Have you heard of the Gigolo Aunts?

I went to high school with those guys.

[SoxFan]

22. Of course I've heard of the Gigolo Aunts!

"Walk Among Us" is a great tune!

[AlCzervik]

17. and John Butcher Axis.

Life takes a life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esmud1nNemA

[SacredCow]

5. Let's see....

C'vello (not MY favorite- I thought they were awful, but they were popular), Three Blind Mice, Passing Glances, Gutter Sharks, Liquid Jelly Monkey Love, and Ezra (which ultimately became Better Than Ezra)...

[Sheets of Easter]

6. Half Life, Dream Death, Eviction, Necropolis, DoomWatch,

Necracedia, Travesty, Castle Blood, Nunslaughter, Shape of Rage, Battered Citizens,etc.

Iron City punk & metal!

[BOSSHOG]

7. The Cate Brothers, Zorro and the Blue Footballs, Black Oak Arkansas

and of course, Ray Zorback.

[BlueIris]

8. Mammals in the Hard Drive and Sweaty Nipples.

Sometimes the Pacific Northwest is cool.

[BrotherBuzz]

9. Clover

That was before Hugh Anthony Cregg, III joined the band and before he changed his name to Huey Lewis.

[Westegg]

12. "Full House" from Fox Chapel, PA-- late '70s...

...Admittedly, it was a bunch of my pals. Steve, Brad, Nick, Mike, Wally D.! They rocked, though. Did a mean "Funk #49," and a killer "China Grove."

[5thGenDemocrat]

13. Saginaw (MI) Arthur Hill, class of '75 (should've been '74)

The two biggest here were probably The Kingsmen and The Frost. The Frost featured Dick Wagner, who's gone on to have a very nice career backing national musicians -- most notably Alice Cooper. Terry Knight and the Pack, from Flint (35 miles), were big, too, and evolved into Grand Funk Railroad by the time I was in high school.
Question Mark and the Mysterians ("96 Tears") are from Saginaw, as is Stevie Wonder. My bestest buddy, Polly, a few years older than me, went to Saginaw High with Rudy Martinez, aka "Question Mark."
Bob Seger, Ted Nugent and Alice Cooper would be good examples of other acts local enough to drop in a couple of times a month. So were the MC5 ("Kick Out the Jams") and SRC ("Hall of the Mountain King").
John
We attended most of our live shows at the YMCA (Friday nights), Daniel's Den (a converted movie theater) on Saturdays and the Bay City K of C Hall most other times. Usually, a show cost a buck a ticket -- two or three for the big shows at the Auditorium.

[Sugar Smack]

14. Pressure Boys.

Southern Culture on the Skids. Superchunk.

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. Figures on the Beach

[distantearlywarning]

16. Soul Cracker

Who went on to reality star fame in VH1s "Bands on the Run"

Also the Gin Blossoms, who I remember being advertised as a $3 cover back in the day.

[ceile]

18. Retarded Elf, Billy Goat, Bouffant Jellyfish

Never missed a Little Sister show when they came through town.

[puerco-bellies]

19. Van Halen.

The only time I paid to see them was in high school gymnasiums for the stunning price of .50 cents. A year later they played the forum and tickets were $6.00 bucks, so I refused to pay that outrageous price..

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. Cheap Trick

[LanternWaste]

21. Seventh Son

Seventh Son played some original stuff and a LOT of the classics at a little dive my pals and I would hit called 'Skippy's Mistake'. And they were GOOD-- not the typical 'college garage band trying to make it big' stuff. Just some really good guys who had day jobs and rocked the house on the weekends! :)