Are there still local pop heroes? L.P.H. -S/D

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I can't think of any .. but then, I'm not local to too many places, really...

I'z talking about bands like Cheap Trick, Michael Stanley, (blanking right now) .. where they would sell out 12 nights in a row at the stadium in their hometown, but could barely fill a dive-bar out of town.

Since I'm blanking on this .. Who *were* they?

Are there any now?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

King's X was like that in Houston for awile.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Oingo Boingo owned this, for better or worse, in LA for about fifteen years. Nowadays, the local equivalent would probably be the Kottonmouth Kings or something (I sure as hell HOPE they're not famous anywhere else, it's bad enough they are here!).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

godspeed does this in montreal but they are damn sucessful out of town too.
but les cowboys fringants, a francophone, sold out a ton of show like two months in advance in montreal but is probably unheard of outside quebec.

― ddd, Friday, 9 May 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Trip Shakespeare was another, on a smaller scale. Were they from Chicago? Milwaukee?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Minnesota.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

(Thus the song "Toolmaster of Brainerd," etc.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, there's a lot of French bands in this city like that.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Mushroomhead was huge in Cleveland a few years ago.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 9 May 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

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