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Crucifucks, Broken Trust, Jim Jones and the Kool Aid Kids, Desacrator,Dead River Drag, Latin Dogs, Boom and the Legion of Doom, Grog, Feedbag, Doxie, FAQ, Crowded Morgue, God Bullies, Thrall.

Brain dead, more later.

Phil A. Sheo and the Wet T-Shirt Contest - Kalamazoo

Feisty Cadavers - Detroit

Jaks - Ann Arbor

Sexplosive B - Kalamazoo

Last Laugh - Kalalmazoo

The Deconstruction - Kalamazoo

Born Without A Face - Grand Rapids/Detroit (?)

Grudge Match - Grand Rapids

Fletcher - Kalamazoo

swope...kalamazoo

water for the pool....kalamazoo

young and the useless...kalamazoo

grady....south haven

Vertical Pillows - Detroit

Junk Monkeys - Detroit (wait, were they on there yet?)

Iodine Raincoats - Ann ARbor (eh, but they played everywhere)

Bremens - kalamazoo (known to cry onstage)

 Loop D. Loop - kalamazoo

Fatty 2 x 4 - Kalamazoo

STRUGGLE - Kalamazoo

The Up -Detroit? ("skinniest speed freaks ever!" - N*il J*hl)

 The Frost - Detroit (?)

UNRELATED SEGMENTS - Detroit or ann ARbor. Rawk!

The Aardvarks - somewhere around this side of the state--60's 

Scooter and the... Oh.

Triplemint - Kalamazoo

Thought Industry - Kalamazoo

Killswitch - Kalamazoo

Selling Heaven - Kalamazoo

Catharsis - Kalamazoo

Doxie - Kalamazoo

The Kona Buds - Battle Creek

The Itch - Battle Creek

Boneyard - Battle Creek

Griever Sauliks - Kalamazoo

Monster Zero - Kalamazoo

Domestic Violence - Kalamazoo?

do these have to be bands that actually played out, or can they be bands that just existed but never made it past the garage?

Here are a few more:

I'm not sure about the cut-off date on some of these:


Stray Bullet - Pullman (I don't know if they ever actually played out, but it wasn't with me)

Spitting Nickles - Kalamazoo (I don't know if they ever actually played out, but it wasn't with me)
Manchowder - Kalamazoo
Lickety Spliff - Kalamazoo
THC and the Happy Campers - Kalamazoo
Sludgebutts - Kalamazoo
The Schmeglords (sp?) - Kalamazoo
The Vicksburg Steelers (sp?) - Kalamazoo
Hammer13 - Kalamazoo?
Tongue - Kalamazoo
Man Alive - Kalamazoo
Memories of Tomorrow - Kalamazoo
People Love Dreams - Kalamazoo
Cottage Cheese - Kalamazoo
Just Say No - Lansing
the Beanfarts - Lansing?
Jim Jones & the Koolaid Kids - Kalamazoo/Holland?

FourPeace (Metal) - Kalamazoo
Cryonax (Metal) - Kalamazoo
Skin Killing Skin (Metal) - Kalamazoo

Yes!  Thanks, I changed the site to reflect two lists:

Kalamazoo bands and

Michigan punk/hardcore/wave bands.

ponk, what was the name of the Big Rapids punk band you were talking about a few leppo forums ago? 

The Thyme-Kalamazoo

The Mussies-South Haven

The Five Emprees-Benton Harbor

Tonto & The Renegades-Lansing

The Saharas-Lansing

The Jujus-Grand Rapids

The Luv'd Ones-Niles

he is not a band but I am throwing him in the pot cause he is from here

Nadara Michael Walden

here is another Kzoo band

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Man, now I'm going to have to make 3 lists. One being the non Kalamazoo, and non punk/hardcore/wave bands from the state.

I don't care if a few joke bands get in there, but Phil A. Sheo, sheeeeesh! 

I Robot - Kalamazoo

The Quitters - Kalamazoo (short lived Wood Bros band with Greg the Greaser on bass)

InOurselves - Kalamazoo

Trocar - Kalamazoo

"I don't care if a few joke bands get in there, but Phil A. Sheo, sheeeeesh!"

Aw come on, Useless. Phil A Sheo were a good time party band but they were legit.  

1. There was a band based in Kzoo called the Gore Gore Girls before the Amy Gore version (Detroit). Or maybe they overlapped a bit, I don't know, but they were totally unrelated. The Kzoo version had J. Livingstone, Jeremiah Kitchen, the Zuidema Sistahs. That was circa 1993, I remember because I was at a basement show when I was about 40 months pregnant and Jeremy almost kilt my baby with his "stage" antics. 

2. And it's LAPD Riot Midgets (plural).  

(P.S. I only know this because of a journalism assignment I had at WMU a thousand years ago and because this shit's important to remember: There once was a band on the Soda calendar called Fat Amy. I think it stuck with me because the name is SO BAD. Seems to me that I knew they were local, I cannot confirm, though.You can pretend you didn't read this.)  

A couple of the Bone China guys were from Battle Creek, but I think they were pretty much a Kalamazoo band. The Guitar player grew up right across the street from my house in Springfield. He was in some country covers band when he was like, 10 years old. We used to sit in his front yard playing Buddy Holly songs. That guy was a total Buddy Holy NUT! Mickey woulda loved him.

The Covingtons - ?

The Dazzle Heads - Kalamazoo

The Vantrells - Kalamazoo? GR? I dunno.

Blue Ribbon Brothers - ?

Freddie and the Forgone Conclusions - Detroit (2000-ish?)

Ann B Davis (Ann Arbor?)

Fireside Poets - Battle Creek

Love Pump - Kalamazoo

Planting Bombs With Nita - Petoskey/Kalamazoo

LollyGore - Kalamazoo... ? I think *scratches head, can't remember*

Big Richard and the Large Hungarians - Kalamazoo

*edit*

Orgasm Death Gimmick - Kalamazoo

Man, I wish we could do a wiki and cross-refference lineups, that would be sweet. 

"Dude... The Verve Pipe. Anyone remember them?"

The Verve Pipe? OH, yeah... the Verve Pipe. I always thought they were called the Butt Wipe.

here are two that dont get their due

Rare Earth

The Flaming Ember

here are more

SRC

The Fugitives

The Pleasure Seekers

for more on the 60's garage scene check out a comp Norton put out called Friday At the Hideout.  The Hideout was a spot in Detroit where a lot of these bands played and was a local label ran by Dave Leone who started the club.  Also that Fenton Records box is a good source but damn its almost $60 for three records.

In all fairness to the list of bands that I'm trying to compile, I'm looking for Kalamazoo bands (1 list) and Michigan punk/hardcore/wave bands (2nd list) from the past 30 years.  Not sure if I'm up to the challenge of doing a Detroit based rock list.  Motor City Rock already exists and they've got some good info there for the 80's and 90's bands.

Kalamazoo bands are the most fun anyways. Like:

One Hundred Million Dollars. 

This is very nice.  I am very honored that the Port Wine Lads are listed right next to Purple Dave.

Here are some others:

Triple Nipple/Stunt Cops - Kalamazoo Punk "featuring" John Livingstone, Chris Monsma, Dee Ewing, John Barneveld,  Scott Towne.  1993-5

Arnold, Rock, Kalamazoo

Edisons Fault - New Wave?, Kalamazoo

Rumpleforeskin, Kalamazoo dorm band, late 80s.  Just the name should live on.

Dingey - Dizweema!  thanks for giving the initial props to the Muskegon bands, I'll check that list out and see what I remember.  BREMENS CRYING ON STAGE... hilarious.  I saw that happen. 

Covingtons, that was Hugh's band right.

Most punk rock, 1980s

Port City Bastards (PCBs)

Premature Babys

Shades of Grey

born without a face......big rapids/grand variety

verve pipe were formally known as water 4 the pool..lansing actually.....verve pipe claimed kazoo as their stomping grounds....but were actually kooks from lansing....probably nice guys though...

what was the metallish band that had a cd with a rubber chicken flying through the air on the cover of their cd???.......

memories of tomorow...kalamazoo....

super computer.....only discussed.....kalamazoo

panic button....kalamazoo.....

broken hearts are blue....kalamazoo....

jim cherry....kalamazoo..fuckin one man band

ordination of erin?..aaron?....fuck.....kalamazoop

sun of man...kalamazoo/south haven

fat sack....kalamazoo

K College Bands- '81-'87 

The Harmones

The Cheswicks

Our Sister From Minnesota

Chen Edict

Joey Division

Two Fine Young White Boys

I Heart Kalamazoo Singers

Short Term Effect

The Bendy Things

Timpopo.

Yes indeed... Charlie Cheswick. "This is Dr. Cheswick, Dr. Babbitt, Dr. Scanlon---the FAMOUS Dr. Scanlon---Mr. Harding...."

Everyone in the band was named Steve Cheswick.

This is not an actual band, but a name I came up with recently:

The Earnest Beard Generation

Also:  Black Uncle Sam and The Tax Times.

D*ck and the Balls

Brian Benson and The Buttplugs of Blues

Homo Picnic

Sum 1

Two Chicks Who Can Sing

The Screamin' Leads

F*cked Up The Ass and the Enema Bandits (only played in Philly)

Barney Fife Gonzorama (also Philly only)

Joey Division and Homo Picnic are fucking killing me!

I can't seem to put the Verve Pipe on there.  I remember when I moved to Colorado with crappor for a hot minute and we were watching MTV in 1996 and the VP came on some show and Brian said that they were from Detroit.  Fair enough, they just can't be on an esteemed list with Rob Cooley's Pants. 

Christmas round my TV.  I still listen to that cassette every December.  Happy times.  My favorite is the Twister song....

Joey division is a great name.  Smart asss KCollege kids.