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Notinyourbushes t1_j1r4x8t wrote

Had a group of friends that I can say without hyperbole were as good, if not better, as any major act out there. I've seen easily 500 live shows in my life and I count their performances up there with any group I saw on a label. They were making a name for themselves and did a short tour with a major act.

There motto was "we're going to prove a Texas based band can make it."

You've never heard of them because of that.

Big problem was they went with local, indie labels starting out and while they went into the studio at least 3 times, none of the Texas producers were good enough to capture what they were doing live in the studio.

Do some bands make it out of Texas? Yeah, a few but not many and usually not until they relocate. Outside of Spoon, the Old 97s were one of the biggest bands out of Texas in decades and I'm willing to bet more people hadn't heard of them than had when watching the Guardian's of the Galaxy holiday special.

You can start in Texas, but you're going to want to relocate eventually anyways. Just far more opportunities to get discovered on the west coast than by the gulf coast.

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Sweet_Bang_Tube t1_j1s606a wrote

No way! Pantera, Butthole Surfers, ZZ Top, Willie Nelson, Beyonce, The Toadies, Polyphonic Spree, The Mars Volta, Nora Jones, Kelly Clarkson, Usher, The (Dixie) Chicks, Barbara Mandrell, just to name the ones I know, all came out of Texas. I'm not sure if you're talking about a particular era, but all of those musicians were/are wildly popular. And there's many more than that.

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Notinyourbushes t1_j1s73ol wrote

You're talking dozens of bands that made vs thousands that tried - and that's not even getting into how many were born and/or started in Texas but relocated to a different scene. Outside of Spoon, name me 10 new Texas bands on major labels from the last decade.

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Sweet_Bang_Tube t1_j1s8b6a wrote

I just listed some musicians from this decade, and you just blew them off as not mattering because it wasn't enough. No, I'm not going to waste my time on naming even more, because you'll say you haven't heard of them or find another way to discount it. Calling a record label "major" is also a pretty ambiguous descriptor that would need to be better defined (such as, brings in a certain amount of money per year? Or has a certain number of artists?)

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