Your favorite California Band

[Vlad the Great]

What your favorite band that has it's roots in Cali?
Feel free to include rap artists, other styles, whatever you choose.

Me personally?

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are my fav.


Some serious love goes out to the Doobie Brothers too. :D

[VansTripp]

What your favorite band that has it's roots in Cali?
Feel free to include rap artists, other styles, whatever you choose.

Me personally?

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are my fav.


Some serious love goes out to the Doobie Brothers too. :D

Blink-182 that based in San Diego. :)

[CarsonCaliBrotha]

Sly and the Family Stone: Best Cali band ever.

When it comes to hip-hop:
Murs(from Mid-City LA)
Dilated Peoples(also from Mid-City)
Del tha Funkee Homosapien(from Oakland)
The Pharcyde(South LA)
Madlib(from Oxnard)
All of them are alternative hip-hop groups from around Cali.

[VansTripp]

What your favorite band that has it's roots in Cali?
Feel free to include rap artists, other styles, whatever you choose.

Me personally?

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are my fav.


Some serious love goes out to the Doobie Brothers too. :D

Some band that I like in California.

Korn-based in Bakersfield.
Green Day-based in Oakland
Snoop Dogg-based in Long Beach
Switchfoot-based in San Diego
System of a Down-based in LA
Lostprophets-based in LA
Linkin Park-based in LA

I can't said about Yellowcard, New Found Glory and Xzibit cuz they isn't formed in CA but all of band are currently live in LA.

[Vidiot]

HAH!! I was going on this board right now to make the EXACT SAME THREAD, WITH THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS as my favorite! You beat me to it.. ;)

But seriously, I love blasting the Chili Peppers cruising through LA on a hot day with my windows rolled down. No band screams the pure essence of Los Angeles like the Red Hot Chili Peppers do :D

Also, Blink 182 (another favorite) very much SOUNDS like San Diego as the Peppers SOUND like LA.

[Vidiot]

oh yeah.. can't forget about Sublime (Long Beach), and No Doubt (Orange County)

[POLA]

BECK!!!

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

Red Hot ChilliPeppers
Sublime
Tom Petty
System Of a Down

[VansTripp]

Red Hot ChilliPeppers
Sublime
Tom Petty
System Of a Down

System Of a Down is great :)

[STLSportsFan4]

Green Day (from Oakland)
Snoop Dogg (from LA/Long Beach)

[LosAng]

System Of A Down (Burbank & Glendale by way of Armenia)
N.W.A. (Compton)
No Doubt (Orange County)
Snoop (Long Beach)
Game(Compton)

[Vlad the Great]

HAH!! I was going on this board right now to make the EXACT SAME THREAD, WITH THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS as my favorite! You beat me to it.. ;)

But seriously, I love blasting the Chili Peppers cruising through LA on a hot day with my windows rolled down. No band screams the pure essence of Los Angeles like the Red Hot Chili Peppers do :D

Also, Blink 182 (another favorite) very much SOUNDS like San Diego as the Peppers SOUND like LA.

What a coincidence :D

I personally like playing Chili Peppers songs on the guitar. Some are pretty hard but once you practice it enough it gets easy ;)

[ltsmotorsport]

In no particular order:

Deftones (sac)
Cake (sac)
No Doubt (oc)
SOAD (la)
Snoop (lbc)
Dre (compton)
Game (compton)
Sublime (la)
X-Z (la)

[Haight_ST_H1PP33]

System of a Down all the way!!!!! :righton:

AFI from the Bay Area are right up there with them.

Green Day and Blink 182 are also pretty cool.

I'm not big on rap but I do like West Side Connection.

Two of my all time favorites, Marilyn Manson and Disturbed are from outside of Cali.

Oops, I forgot to add Korn. They rock big time!!

[Glick]

Guns N' Roses! Axl and the band still live there, and the first show was in Los Angeles.

[CarsonCaliBrotha]

In no particular order:

Deftones (sac)
Cake (sac)
No Doubt (oc)
SOAD (la)
Snoop (lbc)
Dre (compton)
Game (compton)
Sublime (la)
X-Z (la)
Xzibit's not from LA, he's from Detriot. And if you mean Xzibit now, he's WACK. He used to be good though.

[CarsonCaliBrotha]

System of a Down all the way!!!!! :righton:

AFI from the Bay Area are right up there with them.

Green Day and Blink 182 are also pretty cool.

I'm not big on rap but I do like West Side Connection.

Two of my all time favorites, Marilyn Manson and Disturbed are from outside of Cali.

Oops, I forgot to add Korn. They rock big time!!
But was the dude asking for bands outside of Cali? Stick to the topic.

[vid]

Green Day and RHCP.

[VansTripp]

Xzibit's not from LA, he's from Detriot. And if you mean Xzibit now, he's WACK. He used to be good though.

I'm confused at X-Z. :(

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

are you sure xzibit is not from LA

[VansTripp]

are you sure xzibit is not from LA

He's born and raised in Detroit and reside to LA in few years ago.

[POLA]

glad to see everyone here has real wide range of tastes, from rap to rap, to rap, and a little "numetal".

[Glick]

I would have other artists, but most of my favourite's are British.

The Who
The Rolling Stones
Iron Maiden
Robbie Williams

ACTUALLY! David Hasselhoff lives in LA now. So that's cool.

[GVNY]

Buckingham/Nicks of Fleetwood Mac.

[ltsmotorsport]

Xzibit's not from LA, he's from Detriot. And if you mean Xzibit now, he's WACK. He used to be good though.

Huh, didn't know he was from mo-town, but yeah, definatly his older stuff.

[ltsmotorsport]

glad to see everyone here has real wide range of tastes, from rap to rap, to rap, and a little "numetal".

the hell are you talking about. 80% of what people have said are rock/alternative bands. :|

[Glick]

the hell are you talking about. 80% of what people have said are rock/alternative bands. :|

And Gun's N' Roses are hardly NuMetal :)

[Vlad the Great]

I would have other artists, but most of my favourite's are British.

The Who
The Rolling Stones
Iron Maiden
Robbie Williams

ACTUALLY! David Hasselhoff lives in LA now. So that's cool.

My favorite bands are British too. Zep, Floyd, Who, etc.etc. etc.

But I love the California sound too. Nice, smooth, relaxed.


Oh shit, you know which other group rocks and is from Cali?

THE DOORS :D

How did I forget them?

[CarsonCaliBrotha]

You know who the best California band is? Two words:
SIMPLE PLAN!!!
:) :) :) :)
*watches the punk rockers get angry* :runaway:
hahaha.

[The Mad Hatter!!]

greenday-bayarea
red hot chili peppers-la?
no doubt-o.c.
dre-compton
blink182
i think bone thugs was either from la or cleveland but can't remember

[mark renton]

Failure and The Deftones.

[mark renton]

You know who the best California band is? Two words:
SIMPLE PLAN!!!
:) :) :) :)
*watches the punk rockers get angry* :runaway:
hahaha.

Simple Plan is from Quebec and they SUCK!!!

[Fern~Fern*]

This thread is sooooo 2005..... What gives?

[nomad997]

1990....2005....2007....

Chili Peppers are still the greatest musical product out of CA IMO.

[CarsonCaliBrotha]

Simple Plan is from Quebec and they SUCK!!!
haha it was a joke.
I love The Doors, People Under The Stairs, Silversun Pickups, Ugly Duckling(Long Beach), Slightly Stoopid, Pepper, Sublime of course, man too many to name.

[Fern~Fern*]

Agree... Sublime kicks ass!!!!

Reminds me of my summer trips down in Baja. Drinking on the road and then end up partying @ Papa's & Beer (Rosarito, Mexico) till 5am. Do you know it's legal to drink beer in a moving vehicle down in Mexico. As long as the driver is not drinking or has an open container it's OK.

:cheers: with some ice cold Corona Beer*


Check this Vid out, this is common down there!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2_kTklr09M

[kidA]

Deftones have been my favorite band since I was in the 4th grade.

[Overground]

Personally, I feel that GNR was the last really good band to come out of California, Chilis aside. There were/are good ones like STP, Metallica, Black Rebel Motorcyle Club but it's GNR for me.

I'd put in order for my favourite California bands....easily......

The Doors
Guns N Roses
Jefferson Airplane
The Eagles

[solongfullerton]

No one has mentioned Bad Religion, straight out of the SFV. They have been making good music since forever, atleast 20 years anyways. Also, even though many of the guys aren't from here, Weezer formed in LA. A couple of the guys from NOFX are from the Fairfax district. Offspring and Social D are both from Orange Country. SoCal definitely has a lock on "the best place to start a rock band", period!

[Inkdaub]

My favorite is Mike Patton. Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom, Fantomas...all Bay Area bands with Patton in common.

[future_trance011]

Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beck, No Doubt, Sublime, ICE CUBE, Snoop Dogg, Eazy-E, Warren G, Mack 10...

[Overground]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned The Grateful Dead or Santana.

[future_trance011]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned The Grateful Dead or Santana.

I'm certainly not a "Dead Head"... but I agree Santana is great. He's a maestro with the guitar! How'd we leave him out? :nuts:

[Elsongs]

My favorite California band is my own :D

[surfnspy]

band mostly from L.A.--at least this is where they formed and "made it."

The Go-Go's

I know, I know. Send me flack, but can't we have a guilty pleasure?

[Elsongs]

band mostly from L.A.--at least this is where they formed and "made it."

The Go-Go's

I know, I know. Send me flack, but can't we have a guilty pleasure?

Nothing wrong with the Go-Gos. I know Belinda Carlisle is a native as well as a few more of them. They're a bunch of really talented chicks and wrote some great songs. Without them there would be no Bangles, no No Doubt and they influenced countless other bands as well. Plus they filmed their first video at the Mulholland Fountain in Griffith Park!

[trojans14]

Incubus and Red Hot Chili Peppers :banana:

[ArchiTennis]

#1 BABYLAND!!!! :banana: :cheers:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b43/samceb/bbland.jpg

[solongfullerton]

X is pretty awesome

[LAX 777]

-Creedence Clearwater Revival
-The Doors

[bruin787]

what, i'm the only one who liked Rage Against The Machine????

[Fern~Fern*]

oh look it's the two Airbus guys above ^^

[bruin787]

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f269/janus020/580080040030_l.jpg

[chicagogeorge]

CCR, The Doors, and GnR for sure. Metallica was out of L.A. as well right?

[LAX 777]

oh yeah, I almost forgot...

-Van Halen,

with DLR of course

[Samuel64]

Tool from LA

[Elsongs]

CCR, The Doors, and GnR for sure. Metallica was out of L.A. as well right?

Metallica is from Frisco.
CCR was from the Bay Area as well. Anyone who would write a song about "Lodi" had to be from NorCal! :)

[Elsongs]

oh yeah, I almost forgot...

-Van Halen,

with DLR of course

The original VH with Diamond Dave was from LA; but even Van Hagar was still a California band as Sammy's a NorCal dude.

[Fern~Fern*]

Would ozomatli be consider an Angelo Band?

[Elsongs]

Would ozomatli be consider an Angelo Band?

If you looked in Webster's Dictionary for "Los Angeles Band," you would see a picture of Ozomatli.

[CITYofDREAMS]

Maroon 5...

[Fern~Fern*]

^^ I thought they were from the some Midwest Town..... Interesting!

[trojans14]

what, i'm the only one who liked Rage Against The Machine????
O i forgot about Rage Against the Machine. Words can't even begin to describe them.

[nygirl]

Da pharcyde. Dj Quik, Lil Hawk, RCP..

[phattonez]

I can't believe only one person mentioned Ugly Duckling. If you've never heard of them I highly suggest getting some of that music.

And of course, The Doors.