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This is a list of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area, music groups founded in the San Francisco Bay Area or were closely associated with the region for a significant part of the group's active existence. Individual musicians who formed bands under their own name there are included, but not if they were primarily solo artists.
Almost in tandem with grunge's receding vogue, and the increasing popularity of alternative rock, nu metal, rap rock, hip hop, and boy bands, [44] MTV's Headbangers Ball (which had showcased music videos of many Bay Area thrash groups in the late 1980s and early 1990s) would be taken off the air in 1995, [45] limiting U.S. output of thrash (in ...
San Francisco 1980–1990 412 Broadway The Sound of Music: San Francisco 1980-1987 162 Turk Street in the Tenderloin. Target Video: San Francisco 1978–1981 Valencia Tool & Die: San Francisco late 1970s–early 1980s The Warfield: San Francisco 1979–present Trocadero Transfer: San Francisco 1990s Warm Water Cove: San Francisco informal, park ...
The Police, Devo, and Blondie were some of the notable bands that made their first Bay Area appearances at the Mabuhay Gardens. [1] The first punk performance at Sound of Music was in February 1980, with the bands The Employees and Freon. The venue became a full-time punk club, with many new up-and-coming bands playing most days of the week.
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk is a 2017 documentary about the punk rock music scene of San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area from the late 1970s to the 1990s. It features interviews performances by dozens of associated artists, notably Green Day .
The San Francisco bands' music was everything that AM-radio pop music wasn't. Their performances contrasted with the "standard three-minute track" that had become a cliché of the pop-music industry, due to the requirements of AM radio, to the sound capacity of the 45 RPM record, and to the limited potentials of many pop songs and song treatments.
The term "East Bay Grease" has been used to describe the San Francisco Bay Area's brass horn heavy funk-rock sound of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s; Cold Blood (formed in 1968) [3] was one of the pioneer bands of this sound. [4] Others were Chicago (formed in 1967) [5] and Tower of Power [4] (formed in 1968) [6]. The horn players for Chicago are ...
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