Bands that are not from the places thats in.......
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Topic: Bands that are not from the places thats in.......
Posted By: Greenmist
Subject: Bands that are not from the places thats in.......
Date Posted: July 12 2022 at 13:44
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I thought id make a weird topic here, but there is a method to the madness. Lets make a list of bands that are actually not from the places that is mention in their band title. Nazzereth (Scotland) Berlin (USA) Texas (UK) The London Boys (Germany) London After Midnight (USA) Japan (UK) Asia (UK) Pangea (well....obvious lol) Ones that cant count, are Europe, because they are from Sweden which is in Europe, and as far as i know, Kansas are actually from the state of Kansas.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 12 2022 at 14:24
| Boards of Canada (Scotland) |
Posted By: Greenmist
Date Posted: July 12 2022 at 14:32
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The thrash metal band Sodom are from Germany. According to Metal Archives, there are 6 bands called Gomorrah, ones from Canada, anothers from the UK, and the other 4 are from the USA.
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: July 12 2022 at 15:31
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London Underground (Italy) Mekong Delta (Germany) Trans-Siberian Orchestra (USA) Alaska Range (Switzerland) Alcatraz (Germany)
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: July 12 2022 at 16:26
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Sun Ra is actually from Saturn, not the Sun. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: July 12 2022 at 16:58
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HolyMoly wrote:Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: July 12 2022 at 18:47
------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 00:12
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Mostly real places, some fictional: Beirut (Santa Fe) Cleaners From Venus (Essex, UK) Of Montreal (Athens, Georgia) Nile (Greenville, South Carolina) Phoenix (Versailles, France) Apollonia 6 (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Orleans (Woodstock, New York) Bermuda Triangle (New York) Atlantide (France) Cirith Ungol (Ventura, California) Zoviet France (Newcastle upon Tyne in north east England) Mouse on Mars are two Berlin based Germans ...and Portishead are from Bristol |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 00:32
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America (consisted of US nationals but was founded in the UK) Frankie Goes To Hollywood (UK) Big In Japan (UK) French TV (USA) Kensington (Netherlands) Perhaps relevant in a broader sense: "Satanique Samba Trio" is a quintet which doesn't play samba and isn't particularly satanic either. ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 00:34
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elephants of scotland (us)
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Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 00:46
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Kazachstán are from the Czech Republic Krakow and Kaukasus are both from Norway. ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: Greenmist
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 01:08
| How could i have not thought of Trans Siberian Orchestra, considering i have 4 of their albums on CD and one of them on vinyl. I didnt realise Portishead was a location. Its nice that a fair amount of others have replied. I was actually afraid that this thread idea might not have atracted genuine interest. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 02:41
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Leningrad Cowboys (Finland) |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 02:49
Nice one! As hailed by Aki Kaurismaki  I always remember the story of Flamborough Head (Ned) playing for CRS in Rotherham on the Saturday, before being taken for a day out to see FH before they flew back..
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Posted By: Greenmist
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 03:08
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There was a glam/hair metal band called London, but they were from the USA. They wernt one of the more famous glam/hair metal bands, but they did appear in an 80s documentry called The Decline of Western Civilisation: The Metal Years I tried looking up the rock band Presidents Of The United States Of America, but they cant count as they are from the USA.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 03:17
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Danzig (Lodi, New jersey) Ottawan (France) Sahara (Germany) Sahara Hotnights (Sweden)
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Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 03:23
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Antigua y Barbuda are from Spain. Arctic Plateau is from Italy. ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 03:49
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Black Sea are from Brazil. Bremen are from Sweden. ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 04:01
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The band who did my current number one album of 2022 is called Weserbergland, which is a region in Germany, and they're from Norway. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 04:08
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Plaistow were from Switzerland, although I'm not 100% sure whether their name has other reasons than the existence of a London suburb of that name. (In fact many examples could exist of band names for which one can find a small place somewhere, but let's say in this case I'd give it a subjective probability of around 50% that they called themselves after that place.) |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 04:11
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For a very short time my first band was called Athabasca, which is a place in Canada none of us had ever been to. We just took it randomly from a map, but fairly quickly for I don't remember what reason we didn't like that name anymore. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 04:38
Because of the tar sands, maybe? You remind me of the Québécois band Ungava... they were from Montréal. Same province, though. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 04:53
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Cairo (UK) Cairo (USA) - there are many towns in the US named Cairo, but the pyramid on their debut implied they mean the one in Egypt Callisto (Finland) - Callisto is one of Jupiter's moons or a nymph in Greek mythology Japanski Premijeri (Croatia) Vienna (Japan) Easter Island (USA) ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: bardberic
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 04:59
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To be fair, there are several Berlins in the United States. Maybe they're from one of them, did you check? Russian Circles are from California, if they count. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is not from Siberia. Silent Island are from Hungary, if that counts, and Hungary is landlocked - what's funny is that their imagery is all about the sea. Renaissance were not formed in the renaissance, if that counts. 1914 was not formed in 1914, if that counts. Arctic Monkeys are not from the arctic, if they count. John Denver is not from Denver, if that counts.
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 06:00
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http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1344" rel="nofollow - Ayers Rock are from Melbourne.
------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 06:15
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 06:17
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Iona are from England and Northern Ireland and not from a small Hebridean island in Scotland.
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Posted By: Greenmist
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 07:10
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Bands named after dates or ages in history, like the reneisence period do not count. How could i forget about this one??.......Hanoi Rocks are from Finland.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 07:19
I was going to mention Asia Minor, until I discovered they really ARE from Turkey. 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 07:33
Turkish immigrants in France... Group based in France. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 07:39
Arctic Monkeys, who are from Sheffield, which can get pretty cold in the winter, but not nearly as cold as the Arctic, where it's cold enough to freeze the tail, nose and ears of a brass Arctic Monkey. 
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Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 08:57
Ha! People in Portishead get really P****d off if you call them Bristolian! Mind you its only a stones throw from Bristol between Avonmouth and Clevedon.. ------------- |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:03
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Agincourt were not from Agincourt. Albion are not from Albion. Lorenzo Montanà is not from Montana. All Traps on Earth are not from Earth. Alphataurus are not from Aldebaran. Alto Palo are not from Palo Alto. The band America met and recorded their first album in London. Andromeda are not from outer space. Are Anglesee from Anglesee? I don't think Anna von Hausswolff is from Hausswolf. Argos are not, I think, from Argos. The Atlanta Rhythm Section were not from Atlanta but from a suburb of Atlanta called Doraville. And this is just the bands from the A's of my music collection! ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:09
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Babylon were not even from Babylonia. Berlin were not, I don't think, from Berlin--even from any town named Berlin in the USA. (They're from L.A.) Blue Nile were not even from the same continent as their moniker. Bombay Groovy are from São Paolo. Boston was from Cambridge (MIT), a Boston suburb. Were the Buckinghams from Buckinghamshire (or Palace)? ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:12
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Annie Haslam's Nevada are not from the state of Nevada, obviously, but American band Oregon really are from the state of Oregon.
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:22
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I don't think Caspian have any connection to the Sea of the same name. Chicago (and Chicago Transit Authority, their original name) were from Chicago. Children in Paradise are probably not from Paradise otherwise we would all know them because we'd be traveling to their home town/country for vacations. I don't think Cirrus Bay is a real place (except for in descriptions from observers from space shuttles in the 1990s). Colosseum were not from the Colosseum … perhaps another, lesser colosseum. Cucamonga are not from Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA, they're from Argentina. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:26
| The original members of Black Oak Arkansas were really from Black Oak, but the current members are not except for the singer. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:29
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Dresden Dolls were not from Dresden. Dün were not from Arrakis, they were from France. Dunwich were not from the lost city of Suffolk. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:39
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Eden may very well have been from the famous Garden of. Egg obviously came before the chicken. Ellesemere is not from the world's tenth largest island. England were definitely from Britannia. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:54
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Fairport Convention were actually from a house named "Fairport" in Muswell Hill, England. The Far East Family Band were actually from the far east: they're from Japan. Fen is actually from the Fens, in East Anglia, England--one very particular fen. Fields of the Nephilim do tend to hang out in the Hertforshire farm fields around Stevenage--where they are rumored to commune with Biblical characters. The Fifth Dimension definitely came from another dimension--we're just not sure how to prove which one. Finisterre are from Genova, Italia, not the Galician Cape. The British Prog Folk band Fotheringay are rumored to have been incarcerated in the dungeon of Fotheringay Castle for the past 50 years. From.UZ are genuinely from Uzbekistan. The Future Kings of England can be from wherever they want to be, so long as it's not Saxe-Coburg. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 14:08
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Gastr del Sol is not from the sun. Contrary to what their heavily reverbed voices might indicate, Ghosts of Jupiter are not from Jupiter. It's the Grand Trunk Railroad that the boys from Flint lived nearby, not Grand Funk Railroad. It is unknown to me whether or not any of the boys from Nick Talbot's Gravenhurst were from the Bedfordshire town of the same name. I'm not sure if the Kiwis in the band Grumblewood have any connection the parish in North Ormsby near Nottingham or not. I'm pretty sure that Guns of the Seneca have neither a connection to a place (such as the town Seneca Falls in upstate New York) or the nation that was once a member of the Haudenosaunee "Six Nations". ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 14:43
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The members of Harlem River Drive did, in fact, have a close association to the Manhattan road that ran along the west banks of the Harlem River--part of which had formerly been a Speedway. Hatfield was, in fact, related to The North. All of it. Hécénia definitely sounds like it should be a place. Apparently they collected and, perhaps, wrote scrolls. The Hidria Spacefolk are a group of executives from one of the world's leading automotive and industrial technologies corporations, based in Ljubljana, Slovakia, who were inspired to start jamming together after they encountered a particular local band while on holiday in a Finnish resort town one year (1995). (The local band was Kingston Wall.) The Hindustani Jazz Sextet did, in fact, regularly camp out in the borderlands of Kashmir (northern India) and southern Pakistan during their twice-daily meditations and psy-travels in 1966. Their "peace-keeping missions" were later sublimated into their challenging forms of East-West jazz musics which used very odd time signatures like "two-thirds/four" time (11/8). ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 14:57
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Some members of the Invisible Opera Company of Tibet have actually been to "the rooftop of the world." Dævid Allen did, in fact, own yaks. Island unto themselves. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 14:59
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Jackie DeShannon was not even of Irish decent. Jardín de la Croix guitarist Pablo Rodrigues' mother has a cross-shaped aisleway in her garden. JazzComputer.org is an actual address for one of Yves Potin's websites. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 15:09
| Jeff Berlin was born in Queens NY. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 15:12
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The members of Katatonia are actually fully-conscious. The members of The Kentish Spires are all very tall people. When Ken Ayers was holding auditions for his Whole World band, they were open to anyone … in the whole, wide world. The Knight Area is rather vast--but also rather exclusive and anachronistic. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 15:12
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L'Estate Di San Martino is a real place. The members of L'Estate Di San Martino really do come from L'Estate Di San Martino. The Left Banke were neither French or bankers. Loonypark is neither a real place nor is it a place you'd want to go. (Probably.) The Lost World Band does, in fact, return to their 1992 homeland between the release of their albums. Contrary to popular demand, Lunar Dunes is not from the Moon. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 15:15
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After all this I feel I can mention that Ostzonensuppenwürfelmachenkrebs are not actually from the Soviet Zone or Eastern Germany (GDR), Ostzone in German (slightly derogatorily), but from Hamburg. The band name doesn't suggest otherwise anyway, it says "stock cubes from the Ostzone cause cancer" (which surely they wouldn't have said had they actually lived there). |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 15:17
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 15:29
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Magyar Posse have no connections to Hungary. Chip Davis is not from Mannheim. (Nor does he own a steamroller.) Midlake don't really know where Midlake is; three of the band members think that it's a clever acronym using letters form the band members' names. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 15:49
| John Denver was born in Roswell New Mexico. |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 15:50
| The Atlanta Rhythm Section is from Doraville Georgia. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 15:52
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From Völklingen, the members of the band Neuschwanstein chose to name their collective musical effort after an expensive castle made by a 19th Century regional king in central Europe. The band members probably romanticized about the romantic Romantic Era's art, music, and architecture by gravitating to the creation of symphonic prog of the Genesis-ELP nature. No Man's Land are very careful to tip-tow around wherever they are, wherever they're from. North Sea Radio Orchestra have a very interesting yet unstable aqueous base. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 15:52
| The members of the LA Express were not all from Los Angeles. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 16:37
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Members of the band Oregon met in 1970 in Oregon--at the University of Oregon. Two of the members were actually from Oregon and, thus, Oregonians. Like their music, they are very unoriginal thinkers. Øresund Space Collective tried to come up with a band name that would express their effort to form a bridge between members from different nations. Members of Orphaned Land aren't quite sure where they're from. Members of Our Solar System are quite certain where they come from. Cosmic Corn Cob & His Amazing Ozark Mountain Daredevils were from Springfield, Missouri, very near to Ozark, MO, the Ozark chain of lakes, and the Ozark Mountains. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 17:04
| The Nashville Teens, who are from Surrey in England and have no connection with the country music capital of the world. |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 19:05
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The Louisville Symphony Orchestra has many members not from Louisville, likewise the New York Metropolitan Opera has many members from outside New York City. The SF Jazz Collective has many members not from San Francisco and no one in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is from Lincoln Center. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 20:01
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Dukes of the Orient include former members of Asia, but alas I don't believe any of them are from the Orient.
French TV is as American as Apple Pie and Chevrolet. And for that matter Apple Pie is from Russia.  Alaska is from Pennsylvania. And there is an AOR band also called Alaska that is from the UK. ------------- 
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Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 20:51
| Cissy Houston is from Newark New Jersey. |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: July 14 2022 at 02:40
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Kayak; I've never seen them in one... ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 14 2022 at 02:49
| Nantucket: a Southern Rock band from Jacksonville, North Carolina |
Posted By: Greenmist
Date Posted: July 14 2022 at 03:53
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I think some people have gone too leftfield in this thread and have gone astray from the criteria i put forth. It doesnt matter if John Denver is not from Denver, you choose a band name, you dont choose your surname. If a band is called Egg, the band doesnt have to consist of non mammals. Buildings and landmarks dont count (like colosseum). Im sure Eifel 65 didnt live in the Eifel tower of France. Only continents, country names and town names count. |
Posted By: Greenmist
Date Posted: July 20 2022 at 03:12
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How could i have missed this one Utah Saints............ They certainly aint from the US state of Utah, their from the UK
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