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ITT early bands of musicians b(...) 04/09/26(Thu)12:43:54 No.129931282

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ITT early bands of musicians before they were famous Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)12:43:54 No.129931282 Archived

>Tears For Fears teenage power pop/mod revival band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT7C__cOVWA

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)12:56:37 No.129931410

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)12:56:37 No.129931410

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>>129931282
Vangelis' first band before Aphrodite's Child and subesequent successful solo career.
Very catchy organ riff.
https://youtu.be/M5mqFl-PWz8?si=kQQA96cXp_g7lhTN

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)13:00:48 No.129931454

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)13:00:48 No.129931454

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Frank was 24 in this pic

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)13:02:17 No.129931470

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)13:02:17 No.129931470

>>129931454
I hate the mothers invention so fucking much.

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)13:18:03 No.129931624

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)13:18:03 No.129931624

Neil Young and Rick James' folk rock band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQTE8hKvaaI

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)13:22:53 No.129931668

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)13:22:53 No.129931668

>>129931410
>bro already had the signature beard back then
it looks so insanely out of place in that time period, like he time travelled from the 2010s

>>129931470
I hate Frank Zappa, they would've been a great band if they were fronted by Lowell George

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)13:31:35 No.129931771

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)13:31:35 No.129931771

15 year old M. Shadows' Bad Religion inspired high school punk band
https://youtu.be/Jl8rJ6d66hQ?si=08eD05eM2Ze596CS
I always thought M. Shadows sounded a bit like Greg Graffin and this demo tape just makes it even more obvious.

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)13:38:30 No.129931830

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)13:38:30 No.129931830

>>129931771
>Bad Religion
>Avenged Sevenfold
Brooks Wackerman was/is in both and he also had a very early somewhat cringe project.
https://youtu.be/yfzFxxJBJ8E?si=sZI-7AlJSFwVtr4x

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)14:04:11 No.129932051

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)14:04:11 No.129932051

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Singer and bassist went on to form Portugal. The Man.
https://youtu.be/kFO4FyqRrvg?si=J8PT8-Bo9VRNXRzq

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)14:18:10 No.129932154

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)14:18:10 No.129932154

>>129931771
The Rev was in a ska band pre-A7X.

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)18:13:17 No.129934504

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)18:13:17 No.129934504

4/5 of Maroon 5 was a power pop band in the 90s.
https://youtu.be/uuCgdFi5Lx8?si=w7HJfxfhpAtUza4R
Before that album they made shitty post-grunge.
https://youtu.be/3J3mCr40LEc?si=5S2NkSVX-04QZZKN

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)18:17:36 No.129934530

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)18:17:36 No.129934530

Pre-metal Ronnie James Dio singing sappy R&B.
https://youtu.be/uRmxZnzxPnQ?si=Vk5djmxz5kdJagAh

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)18:19:59 No.129934545

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)18:19:59 No.129934545

>>129934530
Meanwhile Billie Joel started off doing proto-metal.
https://youtu.be/L7s8PHnCTGI?si=13qIP4nvfeow96nz

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)18:31:24 No.129934599

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)18:31:24 No.129934599

Brann and Bill from Mastodon made a very decent mathcore/prog/death album in 1996.
https://youtu.be/A8gREdHF6Qk?si=rXInolwLRfKiGuHr

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)18:33:22 No.129934608

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)18:33:22 No.129934608

>>129934599
wtf never knew this was the mastodon guys

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)18:33:41 No.129934612

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)18:33:41 No.129934612

>>129934530
Here he is singing 60s power pop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHgcFXcY_yo

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)18:38:51 No.129934644

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)18:38:51 No.129934644

Bruce Springsteen's late 60s hard rock/prog rock band Steel Mill
https://archive.org/details/steel-mill-springsteen-1970-matrix-sf-ksan

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)18:38:54 No.129934646

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)18:38:54 No.129934646

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OobUs2zvN7o
James LaBrie of Dream Theater in a hair metal band

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)18:43:35 No.129934669

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)18:43:35 No.129934669

>>129934646
dream theater kind of was a hair metal band early on

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)21:16:21 No.129936136

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)21:16:21 No.129936136

>>129931771
>15 year olds out there making and recording music with their friends before going on to much greater heights in the coming years
>Meanwhile I'm 25 and have never recorded anything
Feels bad, man...

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)21:17:24 No.129936140

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)21:17:24 No.129936140

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The band that would become the Beatles

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)21:25:39 No.129936211

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)21:25:39 No.129936211

>>129936140
RIP lads you would've loved NSYNC and one direction

Anonymous
04/09/26(Thu)23:14:27 No.129937462

Anonymous 04/09/26(Thu)23:14:27 No.129937462

>>129931282
As a TFF fan I keep hoping that one day they'll dust off one of these songs at a show just for the hell of it. And it keeps never happening.

Anonymous
04/10/26(Fri)03:19:22 No.129938904

Anonymous 04/10/26(Fri)03:19:22 No.129938904

>>129931282
Before Zombie Nation/John Starlight wrote Kernkraft 400, he was in a progressive/experimental thrash metal band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq2ptvLlHl8

Anonymous
04/10/26(Fri)10:46:23 No.129941023

Anonymous 04/10/26(Fri)10:46:23 No.129941023

>>129934646
LaBrie's somewhat androgynous voice works so well with this style.
I'd argue it works better than prog.
OT:
Marie Fredriksson's band before Roxette.
https://youtu.be/dV9MlJmQs2M?si=-kNVupgMAp0BmAPL

Anonymous
04/10/26(Fri)10:48:44 No.129941052

Anonymous 04/10/26(Fri)10:48:44 No.129941052

The guy from Megadeth was in a local Bay Area band called Matallica in the early 80s.

Anonymous
04/10/26(Fri)11:09:48 No.129941307

Anonymous 04/10/26(Fri)11:09:48 No.129941307

>>129931282
Obligatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFLe35sReWA

Anonymous
04/10/26(Fri)11:14:28 No.129941354

Anonymous 04/10/26(Fri)11:14:28 No.129941354

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>>129931282
SOPHIE's 00s Berlin MySpace indie band from before the transition
https://youtu.be/5ZXZA3injtc?si=9VF1iTskIn6I0Riq

Anonymous
04/10/26(Fri)11:16:59 No.129941383

Anonymous 04/10/26(Fri)11:16:59 No.129941383

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Before making moody indie rock as Doves, the band was originally doing house music as Sub Sub, after a fire destroyed their recording studio they changed their name and style.
One of their songs also reached number 3 in the singles chart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRguEi3wufQ

Anonymous
04/10/26(Fri)17:16:18 No.129945074

Anonymous 04/10/26(Fri)17:16:18 No.129945074

>>129931282
David Bowie 1965
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uAPSNgLYhM

Anonymous
04/10/26(Fri)17:29:27 No.129945195

Anonymous 04/10/26(Fri)17:29:27 No.129945195

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Lou Sneed's silly pre-VU novelty song:
https://youtu.be/erwrHgOckjs

Anonymous
04/10/26(Fri)17:35:51 No.129945257

Anonymous 04/10/26(Fri)17:35:51 No.129945257

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Iggy took his surname from his first band, The Iguanas
https://youtu.be/l5tmgj4thbI

Anonymous
04/10/26(Fri)18:50:50 No.129946021

Anonymous 04/10/26(Fri)18:50:50 No.129946021

>>129945257
aura farming drip fr fr no cap

Anonymous
04/10/26(Fri)19:27:41 No.129946374

Anonymous 04/10/26(Fri)19:27:41 No.129946374

>>129941383
I know that's the story that the media ran with, but the album they had been working on at the time of the fire already sounded like Doves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvmqHc-xf9Q

Anonymous
04/10/26(Fri)19:50:16 No.129946605

Anonymous 04/10/26(Fri)19:50:16 No.129946605

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Kyuss counts