I think musically we have this in common? Do you guys go to any of the small venue shows that these acts from the 80’s are probably playing? A friend of mine asked me to go to a Bob Mould (Husker Du) show yesterday but I was traveling. Plus I wasn’t much a fan. But I’m thinking I should start paying attention to some of these types of shows and start hitting some of them. Is there a site that aggregates all of these small bars/clubs and their schedules?
I'm not aware of any site that details this kind of stuff.
Yeah I travel to Cleveland pretty often so that’s another place I’d like to keep an eye on.
I wouldn't consider them punk. More like a more acoustic U2. If I'm lumping them in any genre, I'd put them with U2, the Waterboys, Midnight Oil (although they were Australian), Big Country & Simple Minds. Likely influenced in equal parts by Bob Dylan and Slade with little touch of The Beatles and the Sex Pistols. "Rain in the Summertime" was probably their biggest "hit" in the US. They clearly wrote that one with the idea of making $ in mind. If you listened to "alt-rock" before Nirvana, you would probably know it. Top 40 rarely played them though.
