What city has produced the best bands?

Pixies
Throwing Muses
Belly
The Breeders
Blake Babies
The Lemonheads

 

I've never heard of any of those bands....

 

Ti Tuesday
Donna Summer
J Giles
James Taylor
Susan Tedeschi
Dropkick Murphys

 

Widespread Panic

 

Other cities have had bigger bands, but few cities have had as many influential bands/solo artists as Minneapolis- Bob Dylan, The Replacements, Husker Du, The Jayhawks and Prince.

 

City, or greater area ?? As if you don't know lol

Metalica
Jefferson Airplane
Santana
Tower of Power
Green Day
Moby Grape
The Tubes
Primus
Grateful Dead
Neil Young
Chris Isaak
Van Morrison
Sons of Chaplin
Steve Miller
Janis Joplin Big Brother
Doobie Brothers
Boz Scaags
Tom Waits
Steve Kimock
Zero
Journey
Quicksilver Messanger Service
Charles Brown
Bing Crosby
Hot Tuna
John Lee Hooker
Huey Lewis
Blue Cheer
Country Joe & the Fish
Counting Crows
Third Eye Blind
Kingston Trio
Beau Brummels
Hoodoo Rhythm Devils
Robert Cray
Graham Central Station
Joe Satriani
Joan Baez
Charles Ford Band w/ Robben Ford
The Youngbloods
Electric Flag
Elvin Biship
Sammy Hagar
Sheila E
Commander Cody
Greg Kihn
Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks
Pointer Sisters
Smashmouth
It's a Beautiful Day
Cold Blood
Eddie Money
Montrose
Pablo Cruise
The Charlestons
New Riders if the Purple Sage
Jefferson Starship
Mr Big
Bruce Forman
Steve Kimock
Charlie Hunter
Bonnie Raitt
Sly and the Family Stone
Mimi Fox
Randy Vincent
Julian Lage
Paul Desmand
Dave Black
Bennet Friedman
Mel Graves
Vince Geraldi
Cal Tjader
Stan Getz
Gerry Mulligan
David Grisman

and many, many more,,,

 

Two obvious odd one's out in that list

Van Morrison
Neil Young

 

And they aren't bands
Neither is Robert Cray (Georgia) or Joan Baez (NY)
Carlos Santana was born in Mexico

 

Seattle is no slouch either: The Ventures, The Sonics, Heart, Queensryche, Hendrix, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Bing Crosby, and of course the '90s bands: Soundgarden, Alice, PJ, Nirvana, Mother Love Bone, Duff McKagan is from Seattle, so could throw a good chunk of GnR in there.

 

Are you saying Neil Young from Ontario, Robert Cray from Georgia, Van Morrison from Florida, and Santana from Mexico didn't front bands in S.F. and call the bay area home. This thread has nothing to do with where they were born. Santana has lived in San Francisco since the early 60s, he's even a US citizen. Now, Jerry Garcia was born in S.F.

Joan Baez was a slip up, but she has called the bay area home.

 

Hey, I'm claiming Bing Crosby for the bay area. He lived many years in Hillsburough on the bay area peninsula. So ba ba ba boom.

 

Not mentioned from NYC

Blood. Sweat & Tears
The Lovin Spoonful
Blues Magoos
Steely Dan
The Blues Project
Dreams
And from the greater NYC area,
Vanilla Fudge
The Rascals
Mountain

 

Leaving out about 100 bands here's a list of more well-known bands formed in London:

The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
The Who
Queen
Yes
Deep Purple
Motorhead
Iron Maiden
The Kinks
The Police
Cream
Fleetwood Mac
The Clash
The Sex Pistols
The Yardbirds
The Faces
Roxy Music
Dire Straits
Procul Harem
The Pretenders
Suede
T Rex
Whitesnake
Coldplay
Status Quo
The Eurythmics
Public Imaged Limited
UNKLE
The Alan Parson Project
The Damned
Madness
Bush
Squeeze
Blur

(Left out The Jimi Hendrix Experience, who were formed in London in 1966)

 

Perhaps we need to define the word "band".....

 

Woodie Guthrie
Jay McShann
Chet Baker
Barney Kessel
Lee Hazlewood
Wanda Jackson
Hoyt Axton
Lowell Fulson
Tom Paxton
Barry McGuire
Jimmy Rushing
Jimmy Webb
Dwight Twilley
Gap Band
Hanson
Flaming Lips
Kings Of Leon

 

And they'd only sing this:

 

And yet all Cuzzy Bros are Kiwi's !!

 

You mean you detest the beautiful Birdland tones howling out of a stack of super twins that can blow the sack off a charging rhino at fifty paces? I don’t get it!!!

 

ahem....suck....ahem....poseurs.....ahem....blow.....ahem....just.....ahem....kidding......ahem....