What's Your Hometown's ContributionTo Music?

Killdozer were pretty influential in their way. The Madison punk scene didn't have the national impact on the culture that the '60s radicals did, but it was one of those places all the bands went to and made friends. The Crucifucks dedicated an album to Wisconsin. I heard Henry Rollins's dad lives there and that's why he always came through. Lots of bands still make a point of going there.

Other bands of note: Timbuk 3, Mecht Mensch, Tar Babies, Old Skull, Imminent Attack, Appliances-SFB, Rainer Maria, Garbage/Butch Vig, Ben Sidran, Joel Paterson, Jesse Hozeny. Butch Vig cut his teeth on recording punk for a decade before Nevermind, and did the Nevermind demos in Madison, for whatever impact that had. The place has been a longtime home to Clyde Stubblefield (the Funky Drummer), but I'm stretching.

Mostly, Madison just has a really active college and community radio scene, a city of really active fans, and it always has. We had MTV before most cities, and have always treated the Minneapolis underground as practically mainstream. Atmosphere draws as many people in Madison as in Minneapolis. So generations of UW college students come away thinking this is the norm around the country, but it really isn't.

Madison's impact is more obvious in politics and humor and movies: in the Wisconsin school of history, in the peace movement, the Zucker Brothers movies, Chris Farley, David Lynch, and the Onion. No local band has ever had that kind of impact...

Now, I know that Tracy Lords isn't really a musician, but her movies are a great backdrop no matter what album you're listening to.

And yes, as far as I know, AOR really did form while applying at Electric Boat (though I feel compelled to point out that they called Providence home.)

...and sonia.

To echo Dave225's earlier post: Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the Electric Eels, Scrawl.

To elaborate: New Bomb Turks, Gaunt, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Great Plains, Royal Crescent Mob, Howlin' Maggie, RJD2 (& the MHz crew).

Too bad I live in Brighton Beach in Melbourne, Australia.

Frank Zappa
David Lindley
Michael Stewart
Chris Strachwitz
(others are there beginning to bloom now ... including Franklin Bruno, Ben Harper ... while others had already blossomed but have enriched the area by dropping by for a time, Leonard Cohen and so on)

oh, and gene kelly!!

What's a hometown anyway?

"the city or town where one was born or grew up; also : the place of one's principal residence"

So you're half right.

I swear there's more from Brum, though... Bally Sagoo springs to mind but I ain't sure why.

FAXED HEAD claim to hail from there, but this is an elaborate hoax.

Some real bands from the town:

Power Salad, The Unibombers, Affluence, etc.

Hell, that's more than anything from Santa Monica or Pacific Palisades, CA.... what, the Treacherous Jaywalkers? Mustard?

And she was on the Manics' "Motorcycle Emptiness" so she definitely counts.

Brighton Beach contributed Norman Cook, right?

Well, depends on yr definition of hometown as described above. I was gonna claim our Quentin for Reigate, Surrey, since that's a. where hw was born and b. my nearest town.

Well, it would be if I were currently living in the UK.

Which I'm not.

So I guess I'll say...oh no! The Vines! Oh no!

*bows head*

-- sharivari

Somewhere in Buckinghamshire, I'd wager. I'm sure we lived mext door to Val Doonican when I was little...in fact I'm pretty sure my sister broke his greenhouse.

You also forgot the Boo Radleys michael.
...and sonia.

i forgot frankie goes to hollywood,too.i may be back...

From the Metroplex:
Old 97's
half of the Butthole Surfers
Stevie Ray Vaughan (proud for "Life By The Drop," shamed because of everything else)
the Toadies
Deep Blue Something
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians