OC/DC, we called ourselves.
I posted this in a different sub last night and it got a lot of traction but ultimately was removed (personal promotion since I'm a band member's son). I thought I'd try again here.
My dad had an amazing band in 1972, and at the time they were given what was the largest recording contract in Canadian rock history. They wound up getting an album almost ready for release but struggled to find a commercial hit, and gradually they fell apart. My dad always had regrets about the album not being cut, but he did have all the tracks.
42 years later he had the tracks remastered and a record company turned it into an album. Since its release a few years ago, some radio stations have picked it up calling it the 'most amazing music we've never heard'. They even had one song in the background of a feature film.
Here's a link to the album's bandcamp page.
https://guerssenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/reminiscence
Hope you like it! My dad would love to hear some thoughts, I'll relay any comments to him.
I like B&B, they're kinda neat. So is this trivia!
Like most, I didn't know a lot about them - they didn't really have huge indie careers - but I do find them quite cool for their role.
With that said, they're getting up there in age. They still perform well tho, so I hope to see them get a tag team title reign or two.
Source, predictably: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butcher_and_The_Blade
They're called Effervescence. Their hit singles include "My Last Breathalyzer Test" and "Bring Me More Wine". And who could forget "Lacrymismosa"?
It's a pun croc band.
Who's out there doing innovative, modern heavy metal and will be putting out awesome work for decades to come on the bass? Who is still reaching their peak?
Born of Osiris? Periphery? The Contortionist? Solid bass performances on many tracks from these guys.
I'd say bands like Hellyeah, Avenged Sevenfold, and even Meshuggah aren't what I'm looking for as all their members have been active and well known since the 90s or earlier.
This was either a documentary or a 60 Minutes-type news special. It featured two rock bands, one that had come up organically through the local music scene and one that had been assembled through auditions held by a record company (like the Backstreet Boys or Spice Girls, except it was a rock band). It went back and forth between the two bands and showed interviews with them, contrasting their different experiences.
This was in the late 90s, likely close to 1998. I remember that because for a long time I had thought that Semisonic was the "artificial" band. When I just happened to look them up recently I realized that they were never in such a documentary, and that they were just a regular band that formed in Minneapolis. I vaguely remember the "organic" band as being a grunge band like Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains, but again, they were in no such documentary.
Any ideas? I just can't imagine that I made this up in my head because it would have been so weird for me to come up with this idea back then.
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