(11-25-2014 11:23 AM)cokermania Wrote:  No one can compete with UNT but I had no idea Neutral Milk Hotel was from Ruston. Always thought they were from Georgia for some reason. Too cool.

There aren't any SA bands worth claiming IMO.

You are partially correct. They moved from Ruston to Athens, GA early in their playing days and hit it big from there. Prospects of getting noticed in Ruston were diminished, especially in those days. Bill Doss went to LA Tech, not sure about JM.

EDIT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mangum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Doss

(11-26-2014 08:13 AM)dahbeed Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 03:45 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  Kings of Leon are from somewhere between Murfreesboro and Nashville I think, I was a student when they made it big seemed like every other person I met that year claimed to know them or have seen them at a house party.

Never really cared for them to be honest.

they're from okie-la-homie.

they may have relocated to where you say before/after success but they are from the state with bent trees and muddy holes they call lakes.

and i do like them.

3 of the 4 were from Mt. Juliet TN (suburb of Nashville) and the band was formed in Nashville.

(11-26-2014 12:34 AM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  

(11-24-2014 10:11 PM)Franko Wrote:  

(11-24-2014 09:56 PM)Blue Raider Dave Wrote:  I played golf a couple of years ago with Steve Gorman, drummer for the Black Crowes. He went to WKU. A great fellow who now lives in Nashville.

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Steve is currently in a new band, with Kentucky native Joan Osborne, Audley Freed of Cry of Love, plus Jackie Green of the Black Crows plus a couple of other musicians, named Trigger Hippy.

So, have The Black Crowes broken up AGAIN?

In the Black Crowes, they dont call it a breakup, they call it a hiatus

(11-26-2014 09:02 AM)TeKERaider Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 08:13 AM)dahbeed Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 03:45 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  Kings of Leon are from somewhere between Murfreesboro and Nashville I think, I was a student when they made it big seemed like every other person I met that year claimed to know them or have seen them at a house party.

Never really cared for them to be honest.

they're from okie-la-homie.

they may have relocated to where you say before/after success but they are from the state with bent trees and muddy holes they call lakes.

and i do like them.

3 of the 4 were from Mt. Juliet TN (suburb of Nashville) and the band was formed in Nashville.

is that why the documentary on them was named 'mt juliet sky'? oh...that's right. it was named 'talahina sky' after talahina okie-la-homie. where the followill clan is originally from and if you watch the documentary it's more on that influence than the influence from mt. juliet. their dad (leon) was a pennycostal preacher that drug them all over the south but mostly okie-land.

you can claim they did originate in nashville and i can't really argue against it. but imo they are associated more with choklahoma.

and i like to bust mtpikapp's chops whenever i get an opportunity. great to see his girlfriend still runs to his rescue. lol.

I don't know much about the documentary but I know they went to high school here. The all knowing wikipedia says they were born here. I don't know what else they need to do to be considered "from" here. I will have to check out the doc.


The three Followill brothers (Matthew is their cousin) grew up in Oklahoma and Tennessee with their father, Ivan Leon Followill, a United Pentecostal Church preacher, and their mother, Betty-Ann. Caleb, Jared, and Nathan were born in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, and attended Mount Juliet High School, while Matthew was born and reared in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. According to Rolling Stone magazine, "While Ivan preached at churches and tent revivals throughout Oklahoma and the Deep South, the boys attended services and were occasionally enlisted to bang on some drums". They were either home-schooled by their mother, or enrolled in small parochial schools at this time. Except for a five-year period when they settled in Jackson, Tennessee, the Followills' childhoods were spent driving through the southern United States in a purple 1988 Oldsmobile, camping for a week or two wherever Ivan was scheduled to preach.[1]


When the boys' father resigned from preaching and their parents divorced in 1997, Nathan and Caleb relocated to Nashville and embraced rock music and the lifestyle they had previously been denied, attempting to break into the music industry in the process. While there, they met songwriter Angelo Petraglia who helped the siblings hone their songwriting skills and introduced them to the musical influences of Thin Lizzy,[2] The Rolling Stones and The Clash in particular. Their youngest brother, Jared, who had briefly attended public school, was more influenced by the music of the Pixies and The Velvet Underground. When he and their cousin Matthew also moved to Nashville in 1999, Kings of Leon was formed. They named the band after their grandfather Leon, who passed away in January 2014

(11-24-2014 10:02 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  Amy Lee, of Evanescence, went to MT

every time I hear her voice it makes me think she has to be 'smack happy' in the sack....

easily one of the most alluring voices I've ever heard.....she's a leader of sirens...

MT can claim Diarrhea Planet. They are from Nashville.

(11-26-2014 08:13 AM)dahbeed Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 03:45 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  Kings of Leon are from somewhere between Murfreesboro and Nashville I think, I was a student when they made it big seemed like every other person I met that year claimed to know them or have seen them at a house party.

Never really cared for them to be honest.

they're from okie-la-homie.

they may have relocated to where you say before/after success but they are from the state with bent trees and muddy holes they call lakes.

and i do like them.

their early releases are dahsnizz....

(11-26-2014 09:17 AM)Korun Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 12:34 AM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  

(11-24-2014 10:11 PM)Franko Wrote:  

(11-24-2014 09:56 PM)Blue Raider Dave Wrote:  I played golf a couple of years ago with Steve Gorman, drummer for the Black Crowes. He went to WKU. A great fellow who now lives in Nashville.

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Steve is currently in a new band, with Kentucky native Joan Osborne, Audley Freed of Cry of Love, plus Jackie Green of the Black Crows plus a couple of other musicians, named Trigger Hippy.

So, have The Black Crowes broken up AGAIN?

In the Black Crowes, they dont call it a breakup, they call it a hiatus

Sadly, I know you are right...

(11-26-2014 09:20 AM)dahbeed Wrote:  and i like to bust mtpikapp's chops whenever i get an opportunity. great to see his girlfriend still runs to his rescue. lol.

Bust my chops about Kings of Leon all you want, I couldn't care less about that band, I only mentioned them because I was surprised no one else did the way everyone talked about them when I was a student.

Norfolk and the Hampton Roads area has a pretty decent music history. Chuck Berry is from here, Gary U.S. Bonds is from here, Bruce Hornsby, Clarence Clemmons, Pharrell, Bill Deal, Missy Elliott, The Candy Snatchers, At War, Mae, The Last Bison... Scott Travis (Drummer for Judas Priest) lives here too. And if you want to count nearby, the Chris Daughtery is from about an hour and a half away near Murfreesboro NC. About halfway between Norfolk and Greenville, NC.

(11-26-2014 10:27 AM)DragonLair Wrote:  



MT can claim Diarrhea Planet. They are from Nashville.

No. They are Belmont. Belmont music sucks and should not be associated to MT

(11-24-2014 09:34 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  Might be because they aren't famous?

They're pretty famous. More famous than you or me.

I think this was the big hit:

(11-24-2014 07:07 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  never heard of

Me neither but that song was really good. Very good thread..Cage the Elephant was very good but Amy Lee is amazing.

(11-26-2014 03:43 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 09:20 AM)dahbeed Wrote:  and i like to bust mtpikapp's chops whenever i get an opportunity. great to see his girlfriend still runs to his rescue. lol.

Bust my chops about Kings of Leon all you want, I couldn't care less about that band, I only mentioned them because I was surprised no one else did the way everyone talked about them in when I was a student.

let me ponder that response in the land of insecurity.....for the grammar nazis you needed a 'period' in lieu of that comma....oh, I get it now, it's a raggin' thingy that is now becoming easier to absorb.....

(11-26-2014 07:47 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 03:43 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 09:20 AM)dahbeed Wrote:  and i like to bust mtpikapp's chops whenever i get an opportunity. great to see his girlfriend still runs to his rescue. lol.

Bust my chops about Kings of Leon all you want, I couldn't care less about that band, I only mentioned them because I was surprised no one else did the way everyone talked about them in when I was a student.

let me ponder that response in the land of insecurity.....for the grammar nazis you needed a 'period' in lieu of that comma....oh, I get it now, it's a raggin' thingy that is now becoming easier to absorb.....

With 10,000+ living MT alums in the Greater Nashville Area; I think we'll go ahead and claim 1/2 the Rockers, Country Rockers, Pop stars, and Studio Musicians from the last 50 years. They are either born here, raised here, lived here part time, recorded here or retire here! That's why The Lovin Spoonful, and John Sebastian (yes, He stayed here for a while) wrote "NASHVILLE CATS"/ So, let's begin with:

Brenda Lee, Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Ray Stevens, Jimi Hendrix, Porter Waggoner, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Everly Brothers, Steppenwolf, Eddie Arnold, Chet Atkins, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Donna Summers, Dolly Parton, Bee Gees, John Hartford, Tom T. Hall, Roger Miller, Ringo Starr, Amy Grant, Greg Allman, and Dinah Shore to name just a few!