Best band or musician from your hometown?

[you be betty]

ahhh i forgot about the Walkmen!  that's right.  part of Ok Go grew up around here, too...
 
 
 but if we're going DC in general, there is an obvious answer.

Dave Grohl is from Woodbridge, VA.  I attended 2nd grade in Woodbridge.

[nkotb]

What about Tommy???
 
 

Originally posted by Dr. Jonas Sulk:
  From the borough of Queens, N.Y.C.
 
 Johnny,Joey,Dee Dee,Marky
 
 THE RAMONES!

[brennser]

hmmmm, depends on your definition of from
 
 Bono is strictly speaking from Dublin but lived in my hometown of Bray while I was growing up (in a  Martello Tower)
   Phil Coulter lived literally across the street from us....not many people here will have heard of him but he's a pretty famous musician

[TheREALHunter]

Kelly Willis went to (and dropped out of) my high school (Annandale HS) and Dave Grohl would've went there as well had he been a year younger (they merged Thomas Jefferson into Annandale as it became a solely high tech school).

[sonickteam2]

i'll go with
 
 Rush or Neil Young

[renton007]

Roanoke/Salem:  Wayne Newton, there's no contest.
 
 My favorites were the local bands in the early ninties: Fallout, Integration, Equity, Swank.
 
 

Originally posted by beedubyah:
  Roanoke. Agents of Good Roots.
 
 Holla.

[asylumskater55555]

Rockville
 OAR

[TheREALHunter]

Originally posted by asylumskater55555:
  Rockville
 OAR

Don't forget Ms. Myra Ellen Amos.

[ccperkdog]

Hometown: San Diego
 
 A few to choose from and if we are going by cool factor and not popularity then Mojo Nixon and the Beat Farmers trumps Blink 182.

[eip]

Joan Jett went to my junior high (Randolph) in Rockville.

[TheREALHunter]

Originally posted by ccperkdog:
  Hometown: San Diego
 
 A few to choose from and if we are going by cool factor and not popularity then Mojo Nixon and the Beat Farmers trumps Blink 182.

God bless Mojo but I would say Rocket From the Crypt trumps em all.

[renton007]

No love for Zappa in Baltimore?!  Did he leave the area at a young age?

Teh Beat Farmers rawk!  Sandy Ego rulz!

[SalParadise]

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