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What large urban area has consistently produced the worst bands and why might that occur? For example, an amazing amount of rubbish came out of the SF Bay Area for decades - and yes, I'm including the Dead Kennedys. (Their LA contemporaries were much better even though LA is universally thought of as a worse place to live, with a less 'creative' atmosphere.)

― tarden, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Let me jump on this one with the obvious answer - the late 70's North Lincolnshire scene centred on Cleethorpes produced no bands of any worth whatsoever. The Sex Pistols gig at the Winter Gardens in late 77 persuaded everyone present to rush from the venue and NOT form a band. One or two punk outfits did eventually emerge, Grimsby's Influx and Barton-on-Humber's The Vice Principals slugging it out for attention with the more popular drum and organ duos which monopolised the local music scene. Since then - nowt. But you can still hire a drum and organ duo for £15, a plate of sandwiches and a gallon of warm bitter.

― Dr. C, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I bring similarly sad news from the Mid-Surrey scene. Despite the best efforts of the Dorking Advertiser to promote local bands, and if the letters pages are to be believed a thriving youth culture intent on wrecking civilisation, the rock does not thrive. True, there is plenty of activity on the "pub blues" underground and a Guildford- based Robbie Williams impersonator regularly packs out the Green Room at the Yvonne Arnaud, but even these green shoots do not a pop revolution make. Also all the bands seem to have dodgy names like British Lion, and the Pat Sharp haircut still clings to horrid life, but I'd imagine this is true of anywhere in the UK.

― Tom, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I usually detest BOston bands of today. WIth their loud guitars and wussy punk life styles...plastic punk? Or maybe prefaded punk

― Mike Hanley, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Black Flag notwithstanding, I think Orange County, California should be firebombed. The obnoxious combination of crap music (No Doubt, half-a-million Nineties ska acts), crap politics (Nixon's home and Reagan's and Bush's spiritual home) and crap landscape/architecture definitely warrants the Hiroshima treatment.

San Francisco, however, merits a neutron bomb -- kill the people, keep the buildings intact, then repopulate with cooler people when the radiation levels come back down.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

whats pittsburgh like?

just curious...

― gareth, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Like a hilly Cleveland.

― Steve Deisler, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New York.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No bombing of OC while I'm in it, thanks. Though I'll agree with you on its general horribleness on those fronts.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, my dog lives there.

One thing about Ohio - if the land is flat, does that mean the sky looks better?

― youn, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I spend most of my time face down so I can't really be trusted to answer that question.

Cleveland did have a little heyday with Pere Ubu, the Electric Eels, Devo, Dead Boys, the Styrenes, the pagans, and um... the Raspberries but that was the 70's. Today it's ugly and uneventful and I'd really like to move.

― Steven James, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned:

> No bombing of OC while I'm in it, thanks. Though I'll agree with you on its general horribleness on those fronts.

Yer choice of one-way tixs to NYC or London for yerself and loved ones if/when the bombing starts. Game?

:-)

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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