Best band or musician from your hometown?

[vansmack]

Jude376's post about a band being from his region and not knowing about it inspired me to think about this.
 
 Who is the best band or solo artist from your hometown?
 
 Mine would seem obvious, being that I'm from Anaheim, that it would have to be No Doubt.  But I would say that the little known fact that Jeff Buckley was born and raised in Anaheim makes him the best musician from Anaheim, hands down.

[lbcardoni]

Baltimore has:
 
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[nkotb]

Hell yeah.
 
 There's not a lot of local Sykesville bands, so I'd choose either Marshall Slaw or Compression.  But since I lost their homemade cassettes probably 10 years ago, they might not be as good as I remember them...
 
 

Originally posted by lbcardoni:
  Baltimore has:
 
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[Vas Deferens]

Hometown is Santa Rosa, California...
 I would say The Velvet Teen.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Sarasota, FL:  Hot Water Music or Against Me!
 
 (both of which are "technically" from Gainesville, FL, but both have band members who went to my high school in SRQ)

[ggw]

I don't think anyone is from my specific hometown, but Ted Leo hails from the adjacent town of Bloomfield, N.J.

[xneverwherex]

Novato, California (in Marin County)
 Huey Lewis & the News
 Metallica - San Rafael, CA and Novato, CA (at least some of them live there now)
 En Vogue - Novato (or so I had heard)
 
 hmmm guess the best is Huey Lewis  

[godsshoeshine]

karl hendricks

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I grew up in rural upstate NY. The Figgs are from the nearest town, Saratoga Springs.

[lbcardoni]

karl hendricks  

How's the cat?

[Sage 703]

Glen Ellyn, IL: Billy Corgan
 
 I guess technically he grew up in Glendale Heights, but his step parents live there now and he went to my high school for a year.  So I'm claiming him.

[Jaguar]

My mind is blanking out but just a few.
 
 (Baltimore)
 
 Billy Holiday
 Cab Calloway
 Chick Webb
 David Byrne
 
 Though I'm not a fan in the least, I bet that Hoya would want to add TuPac(sp?) and Cisco to my list.

[beedubyah]

Roanoke. Agents of Good Roots.
 
 Holla.

David Hasselhoff

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Rakim Indie Balzac:
  David Hasselhoff

LOL. The question said 'best'.    :p  
 
 Fellow elementary school alumni...alumnus...whatever. LOLOL. Not a classmate though as he's a lot older than I.