Unrealized potential

[Roy Munson]

Originally posted by binnie
What do they sound like?

Hard to pinpoint. Kinda stoner rock meets Alice In Chains meets Soundgarden?

I bought their CD when it first came out ,some good stuff on it.

[Tiki-Tom]

Here's another pick of mine
King of Kings, a great one record band from 1991. Very hard to track down now. I love this one so much that I made a couple of backup copy's just in case . It was the first band to be signed to David Geffen's now defunct DGC label and was produced by Roy Thomas Baker. I guess someone thought they had a lot of potential to have these two working with an unknown group. Too bad they never got a lot of exposure. Their sound is very dark and sabbath like but with jazz overtones and spacey, out there sound effects. The musicians know how to play their instruments very well as there are few intricate freeform jazz parts on it. Extremely original band that worth getting if ya can find it.

[ppg960]

The Tradgicaly Hip - Still together but can't crack the US market.

Brighton Rock - Great vocals and riffs. Opened for bands like Kiss, Boston, and Triump. Again did great in Canada but nothing in the US market.

[fe_lung]

Grant Lee Phillips is the first name that comes to mind. Amazing singer, great songwriter.

Richard Thompson as well - another fantastic songwriter and guitarist.

There was a hip-hop/soul unit called Basshead in the early nineties that had a lot of potential but didn't get to make more than a couple of records.

Daniel Lanois is great.

Nick Cave could stand to be a hell of a lot more well known in North America.

Soooo many.

BTW: Now that I think of them, Badlands were pretty decent. The got thrown in the "Zepplin rip-off" category and it really wasn't deserved. Mostly due to the singer, I think. But Jake E Lee did some good work on that record.

[fe_lung]

Originally posted by ppg960
The Tradgicaly Hip - Still together but can't crack the US market.

And you can probably name 5 bands that do a watered down version of what they do but are all huge in the US.

[Tiki-Tom]

--Fishbone --
Their still around but they should get more respect. These guys have been kickin ass for years.

[ppg960]

Originally posted by fe_lung
And you can probably name 5 bands that do a watered down version of what they do but are all huge in the US.

I hear you.
Why these guys can't break the US barrier is beyond me. About 10 years ago, we drove down to Minniapolis to see them in a club. The place went nuts for these guys.
In Canada, they sell out 15,000 seat areas regularly..
Go figure.

[SparkieD]

Wolfsbane. Blaze Bayley left them to join Maiden, but it's really too bad Rick Rubin didn't promote these guys more. They had it going on. Rambunctious and fun, not technically great, but very catchy tunes.

[Antman]

The Sundays

[binnie]

Originally posted by Roy Munson
Hard to pinpoint. Kinda stoner rock meets Alice In Chains meets Soundgarden?

I bought their CD when it first came out ,some good stuff on it.

Sounds fantastic.

I'll be trackin them down....

[Roy Munson]

Yeah, and Fishbone should have been HUGE.

One of my fave bands of all-time.

[Tiki-Tom]

Kula Shaker
A British band that only put out a couple of record's in the late 90's. The music is modern psychedelic rock with a heavily Indian influenced sound. They became fairly big in England but never really made a mark here in the USA. Kula Shaker's debut album "K" is one hell of a good record.

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by binnie
Fu Manchu.

Possibly music's best kept secret.

Funky, stoner rock. More Sabbath than Sabbath, groovy as hell.

I've never met anyone who's heard them and not liked them.

I gave up on them after King of the Road, for the most part; California Crossing was OK, but they just started losing their edge and getting too friendly...I don't want Scott Hall making sense, lyrically...

The music itself just isn't as heavy as it should be these days...their best, most defining moment was (for me), Eatin' Dust (the 8 song version, not the Man's Ruin "Godzilla's Eatin' Dust" 10 incher)...

I honestly hated Start the Machine, but I was very much into the prior EP, "Something Beyond"...

I'd love to see a regression back to what worked with "Eatin' Dust", I really feel that was their creative peak...actually if they could combine "No One Rides for Free", "Daredevil", "In Search of", "The Action is Go" and "Eatin Dust" with the sheer aggression of their pre-Bong Load singles...

I'd mess myself...

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by SparkieD
Wolfsbane. Blaze Bayley left them to join Maiden, but it's really too bad Rick Rubin didn't promote these guys more. They had it going on. Rambunctious and fun, not technically great, but very catchy tunes.

"Live Fast, Die Fast" had the most energy in a debut LP I had heard since Van Halen 1.

Blaze was outstanding...Jase Edwards was a fucking GOD on the guitar...

The only low point I thought the album had was Tears from a Fool - but the funny thing is, even when Wolfsbane was bad, it was GOOD...

I really need copies of Massive Noise Injection and the self titled farewell album...can't find that shit anywhere...

[WACF]

Big Sugar...

Gordie Johnson has a killer guitar sound.


Deadly live show,