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Ever seen a musician perform before they were famous?

Posted on 3/22/14 at 11:44 pm
Posted by theantiquetiger
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Posted on 3/22/14 at 11:44 pm
I think Garth Brooks played at Texas Club before he was famous.

I know The Police and REM played at The Bayou in the 70's, before they were famous.

ZZ Top played at a bar across the street from "Baton Rouge Beach" on Stanford in the 70's.

If I could go back in time and see one person before they were famous, it would probably be Bob Dylan.

This post was edited on 3/22/14 at 11:46 pm
Posted by G Vice
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Member since Dec 2006
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Posted on 3/22/14 at 11:46 pm to
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I think Garth Brooks played at Texas Club before he was famous.

Yep. I was there.

Ditto Clint Black.
Posted by jmarto1
Houma, LA/ Las Vegas, NV
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Posted on 3/22/14 at 11:46 pm to
Caught Shine Down at Click's.
Posted by BeerCity
Asheville, North Carolina
Member since Nov 2013
622 posts
Posted on 3/22/14 at 11:47 pm to
Stone Temple Pilots at Tipitinas around 1991.
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
63517 posts
Posted on 3/22/14 at 11:48 pm to
Lady Gaga at Thunderbird Beach.
Posted by RebelOP
Misty Mountain Top
Member since Jun 2013
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Posted on 3/22/14 at 11:49 pm to
Dierks Bentley.
Posted by MSUmtowndawg
Jackson, MS
Member since Sep 2010
1469 posts
Posted on 3/22/14 at 11:51 pm to
Don't guess it counts, but I saw jason aldeen at ricks in Starkville the week hick town went to the top of the charts. Doesn't count now that I think about it
Posted by Zappas Stache
Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
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38776 posts
Posted on 3/22/14 at 11:51 pm to
REM and Flamming Lips at the Bayou. I saw Black Keys years before they were crazy big.
Posted by lsuwontonwrap
Member since Aug 2012
34147 posts
Posted on 3/22/14 at 11:54 pm to
My mom saw an early incarnation of the Doors in the 60's about a year or two before they were anything.
Posted by Volt
Ascension Island, S Atlantic Ocean
Member since Nov 2009
2965 posts
Posted on 3/23/14 at 12:10 am to
1987? - Clint Black at a place called the Longhorn Cafe across the road from my high school in Houston

1993 - Britney Spears at my grandfather's funeral

Posted by Dr. Rockso
Utopia
Member since May 2013
392 posts
Posted on 3/23/14 at 12:55 am to
REM - The Bayou
SRV - Chief's little club in Kenilworth
Posted by TROLA
BATON ROUGE
Member since Apr 2004
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Posted on 3/23/14 at 1:03 am to
I saw Dave Matthews at a fraternity party many moons ago.. They were damn good
Posted by Porky
Member since Aug 2008
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Posted on 3/23/14 at 1:17 am to
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ZZ Top played at a bar across the street from "Baton Rouge Beach" on Stanford in the 70's.

I saw these guys before before Billy Gibbons sported a perpetual beard.
Posted by RummelTiger
Texas
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Posted on 3/23/14 at 1:17 am to
Hootie...

I used to work at a radio station back in the day in Columbia and Hootie and the Blowfish were playing a St. Patrick's Day thing for us. They were relatively popular around town, but certainly not nationally.

About a year later - they went big time...
Posted by okietiger
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Posted on 3/23/14 at 1:21 am to
I used to follow Justin Bieber's covers on YouTube back in the day.
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
64763 posts
Posted on 3/23/14 at 1:35 am to
Watched Zac Brown Band play in the upstairs of a little bar at Five Points in downtown Birmingham. Probably was no more than 50-60 in the crowd.
Posted by genro
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 3/23/14 at 1:53 am to
Lumineers
Posted by chesty
Flap City C.C.
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Posted on 3/23/14 at 2:27 am to
Drake two weeks before best I ever had hit the radio.
Posted by AFistfulof$
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2013
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Posted on 3/23/14 at 2:27 am to
Incubus (right after Make Yourself) @ state palace theater

Black keys @ Bonaroo 2006 & HOB

Both were known but as you can tell by venues it was before they blew up.. Awesome shows
Posted by Cali-to-Death Valley
SF Bay Area
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Posted on 3/23/14 at 2:52 am to
As a young kid in 1966 tagged along with my teenaged sister and her friends to the San Mateo County Fair were we stopped and listened to a group called Blue Velvet...A month later they changed their name to Creedence Clearwater Revival
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