Favorite local bands....

[nofi]

...that never quite made it. hydra had three or four albums released on capricorn/mca but never became more than a regional act. here are some samples.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38lVYDX6zPM&feature=related











http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnv_PFZ3IEU&feature=related

the drummer steve pace was in krokus for a few years and the bassist orville davis became a country singer.

[jumbodbassman]

don't you just love the sound of an lp pop....  I clearly don'y use my turntable enough....


Hydra sounds like a pretty good band..  shoulda.....coulda,  early mid 70's  -  prog or glitter ruled

[Bargeon]

One of my favorite LP's, by Norwegian gutitar man Terje Rypdal, had a bad pop in the first track on side two.

I relpaced that LP years ago with a CD but to this day when I play that track on the CD I still hear that POP!

[patman]

Pure Prairie League has always been one of my favorite bands.  I have 3 of their CD's in my office now...they are in pretty constant rotation. Wish I had a turntable...some albums of theirs aren't available on CD.

[gweimer]

From Chicago, there was Off Broadway.  They had 2 albums out, but never quite hit.  They're playing in Chicago next month.

Columbus has The Godz.  I need to brush up on them, but they're still playing here and there, I guess.

[godofthunder]

 I remember The GODZ !!!!!!!!!

[Denis]

Southern Culture On The Skids is one of my all time favorite local bands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPtEogfQoJI&feature=more_related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_cmAsPbYGo&feature=related

[patman]

I do remember the Godz

Met Eric Moore while playing a show in Columbus Ohio at the Agora (too many years ago to admit).

Unique individual.

[Hornisse]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sajPHBr4UX4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkgkueS1sIw&feature=related

Austin has had its share of great bands over the years.  I guess I'm still stuck in the 1980's.

[bobyoung]

don't you just love the sound of an lp pop....  I clearly don'y use my turntable enough....


Hydra sounds like a pretty good band..  shoulda.....coulda,  early mid 70's  -  prog or glitter ruled

Yeah very good, little too derivative of the whole southern rock thing though.

[nofi]

not 'southern rock' at all. i'm from atlanta, i know these things.

[Basvarken]

I think Hydra sounds a lot like Johnny Winter.

[gweimer]

I liked the Hydra cuts.  I remember seeing the albums when they came out.  Now that I'm home, I can post some links.

Off Broadway


The Godz


And my favorite has to be psychodots, out of Cincinnati (they are The Bears without Adrian Belew)

[patman]

Psychodots were a bar band in town called the Raisins for a long long time...used to see them a lot.  Great playing.

[Highlander]

I'd forgotten completely about Hydra - I still have the first LP, but no player...