Comments on: Question of the week: Your favorite local acts http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/ Thu, 16 May 2013 22:34:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ed Tam http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-235 Ed Tam Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:36:45 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/27/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-235 OK…Triscale,
Black Rain
Ben Hurt Band….Not Bad

Not Bad at All…
See these Bands perform at our local club and get your EMO satisfied.

However my hands down / up and coming favorite club band is “Five Minutes Later”..See Em Play everyother weekend @ The Coffee Pot from now till Christmas.

Check out their new songs on
Myspace.. Five Minutes Later Roanoke.. This Band is going places…

PS Boys…can I still Drive the PREVOST XLII? ET

]]> By: Robert Montgomery http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-234 Robert Montgomery Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:46:41 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/27/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-234 My vote goes to Chuck and Troy from TK… still my favorite local band…
R.

]]> By: RP http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-233 RP Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:57:08 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/27/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-233 One more vote for http://www.triscaleband.com!

]]> By: Another Player http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-232 Another Player Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:24:15 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/27/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-232 Troy from TK421
Chuck from TK421
Jason Litz from Steam Shovel
Chris Rakes from Drivn
Robert Montgomery from Ademption
Jason from TPR
Karanga from True Sound
Kenny from Burning Bridges
Richard Jesse
No particular order but they all f*&^ing rock out!

]]> By: Erin http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-231 Erin Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:48:51 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/27/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-231 I love Switchblade Suckerpunch. How can you beat a bass player that stands on his own bass to play!?

]]> By: Amy Hanek http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-230 Amy Hanek Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:06:16 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/27/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-230 Living in Franklin County, you would guess I don’t really catch much of the latest in the way of cool music (do they even say “cool” anymore?).

Well, that’s true. My 3 kids keep me home at night too.

Keeping this in mind, the best band I have seen (and one of the only bands) has to be Rock Lily.

I can’t find a website and don’t know too much about them, but I rocked out a little on July 3rd last year, at the Franklin Co. HS. It was a good thing.

Yeah, I know. Sad, isn’t it?

]]> By: Animal http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-229 Animal Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:46:18 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/27/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-229 I can not believe nobody has added the great local band, Crowbar Cane.!!! Please, check them out at your first chance.!!!!!

]]> By: BLS Hottie http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-228 BLS Hottie Sat, 31 May 2008 16:17:08 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/27/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-228 Black Rain

ORIGINAL rock, all local, all homegrown. The singer has some of the strongest vocals in Roanoke, the guitars are flawless, the drumer is on key and the keyboard/bass are heavy grooves that make you want more…..

]]> By: the other Pete http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-227 the other Pete Fri, 30 May 2008 18:36:42 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/27/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-227 Speaking from the geriatric ward, several of these bands sound interesting (is “TK421″ a reference to something, like the way “BR549″ was taken from HeeHaw?), but my tinnitus causes me to miss most loud rock shows nowadays. So I mostly know the semi-acoustic acts, and since I prefer the instrumental side to singer/songwriters, the names would include Stacy Hobbs, Scott Perry, and Be-Bop Hoedown. Tom Ohmsen and Al Coffey are fine players who float among several groups.

Lenny Marcus, Bernard Hairston, Kelly Gravely, the Pace brothers, and Flip Shoemaker are all dependably fine jazz players, and there are still some fine longtime players like Ray Wilkes and William Penn who are still going. There are really too many good bluegrass musicians to name, and some really significant names, like Hershel Sizemore and Shirley Hunter, can still be heard locally on occasion.

Plus, I must mention David Wiley’s RSO, for both their symphony and pops work. This week’s show even includes some rock&roll tuneage, and their soloists and section leaders, like Wallace Easter, are consistently good. Wiley has open ears that bring Rke. maybe better than its’ variable support warrants.

And, admittedly going offtopic, but there are area musicians whose musical work I enjoy, but that is done off the bandstand, such as ex-funk/jam band bassist and booker Dylan Locke, banjo and tuba playing DJ Seth Williamson, symphonic composer and DJ Steve Brown, mando picking studio boss Tom Ohmsen, and a certain drummer for whom the phrase “press rolls” now means a deadline. (Wednesday night, he wasn’t the second best drummer at Awful Arthur’s, according to Wayne Newton fans.)

]]> By: Todd http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-226 Todd Fri, 30 May 2008 18:09:37 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/2008/05/27/question-of-the-week-your-favorite-local-acts/#comment-226 Great rock vibe: http://www.triscaleband.com

Nice heavy tunes: http://www.tk-421.net

You can catch em both at Awful Arthur’s

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