Your Mount Rushmore for bands from Buffalo

[Draconator]

Lance Diamond deserves some consideration. Gamalon also. 

Edited 15 hours ago by Draconator

[Simon]

4 hours ago, SinceThe70s said:

Isn't moe. from Buffalo?

 

Yes, they came out of UB.

I think them and Spyro Gyra are the only acceptable answers to this question. 👍

[US Egg]

About 40 years ago Willie Nile was seen as someone who might hit the big time. He was popular in the business.

[Wacka]

Cory Wells from Three Dog Night was from the east side.

[BillsFanNC]

8 hours ago, US Egg said:

About 40 years ago Willie Nile was seen as someone who might hit the big time. He was popular in the business.

 

Great call.

 

Willie emerged in the early 80s to much critical acclaim complete with Dylan comparisons and a support act for The Who.

 

Then he  mostly disappeared for the better part of twenty years. His 1999 return album Beautiful Wreck Of The World is great. Since then he's been very prolific, still putting out new music as recently as 2021 in his 70s.

 

 

 

Buffalo references:

 

 

Tribute to Jeff Buckley:

 

 

[BillsFanNC]

Been quite some time since I went down the Willie Nile rabbit hole ..

 

 

Also for the cover song thread. He did an entire album of Dylan covers a few years ago.

 

 

[US Egg]

1 hour ago, BillsFanNC said:

Great call.

 

Willie emerged in the early 80s to much critical acclaim complete with Dylan comparisons and a support act for The Who.

He was somehow related to my 1st wife, they’d talk occasionally about him being in NYC. Never heard or saw him.

 

Someone I did hear and see because of her was Buffalo’s Vegas boys, the Scinta Bros. Her cousin hired them for his summer luau’s before they got steady work in Sin City for quite awhile.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

I seem to remember Shakin Smith and his blues band at the Bona Vista on Hertel, late 70s.  And probably every other bar on Hertel or Elmwood that had live blues. 😁