Chapter 57.1:

 

THE ULTIMATE UD BAND LIST

 

Hey, if you don’t consider this list “ultimate,” I won’t be offended. I tried. Really though, what kind of list like this can be 100% complete? Newark, Delaware is actually pretty well known for having an active band scene (or at least it used to be known for that), and with the tendency of bands to form and evaporate, well, you just do the best you can to be comprehensive.

 

What we have here is a list of bands (or solo artists) from 1987 to 2007, that didn’t necessarily originate in Newark, but absolutely played the bars, fests, or even the Scrounge. Nope, this isn’t about, “Hey, Jane’s Addiction played the Balloon.” It’s about the bands that were / are based locally -- or reasonably close -- and you’d associate with your years at UD.

 

Yes, I know some purists consider grouping original and cover bands together as sacrilege, but with many bands known for both, it didn’t make sense to split the list. So, here we go, and hopefully this will bring back some memories for you…but hold on for a second! Did I say 2007 above? Yes, this list needs years’ worth of updating and your help. Just do me a favor and send in legit bands for the list, and not stuff you just made up to see if I’d add it. Thanks in advance, and here we go…

 

3 Can Sam

5 Shot Limit

61 North

84 Lumber

Adam Beck

Adam Brodsky

Adam Kruger

Alex and Nich

Alms to Sots

Amanda Kaletsky

Ampere

Amy The Rat

Ant Farm

Antje Duvekot

Apex Watson

Arms of Orion

Attic

Azure Drake

Backwoods

Bad Cop No Donut

Bad Hair Day

Bag of Nickels

Barabas

Bare Essentials

Batz Without Flesh

Beat Clinic

Bellefonte

Belly Up

Ben Lewis

Beru Revue

Big Idea

Big Meat

Big Orange Cone

Bill Kintzer

Black Market Flowers

Black Throat

Blue Miracle

Bohemian Sunrise

Bombs Away

Boy Sets Fire

Breakerz

Brian Kirk & The Jirks

Brill

Brother / Sister

Brother’s Past

Bruce Anthony

Bullets

Bullette

Burnin' Thousands

Burning Bus

Burnt Sienna

Butternut

Caltrop

Caravan

Caterpillar

Cease The Day

Cecil’s Water

Charming Arms

ChaseHer

Chatter Band

Chester River Runoff

Chorduroy

Chowderfoot

Chris D’Esposito

Chris Delusso

Chris Morrow

Chubby Buddha

Chucky

Clevinger

Clobbersaurus

Club Phred

Clubber Lang

Comet vs. Planet

Contraband

Copious Load

Cordalene

Cosmic Funk Orchestra

Count Von Count

Crazy Planet

Crazy Saints

Crushing Day

Cubane

Cure for Pain

Dandelion

Dark Star Transit

Daze Alone

Delaware Rag

Delfumo

Delirium Theory

Diatribe

Dice Productions

Dickswinging Kids

Disco Biscuits

Don't Call Me Francis

Donkey Punch

Dorian Gray

Dr. Dog

Dr. Longwood

Drake

Drunk on Sunday

E. Shawn Qaissaunee

Eldrich Annisette

Elk-Tones

Endless Mike Jambox

EPH Tradition

Epic Squid

Every Wednesday

Everything

Farmer's Daughter

Fat Apple

Fat Daddy Has Been

Fever Dog

Fig and the Goodtime Buddies

Fighting Gravity

Final Chapter

Flash Grenade

Flip Like Wilson

Flower Soup

Flying Plain

FM Kill

Forfeit

Four Souls On Fire

Foxy Moon Baby

Foxy Ole

Free Beer

Freudian Slip

Full Minute of Mercury

Funnel

Fuzzy Bunny Slippers

Gangster Pump

Gelner

General Electric

Gentle Jones

George Thorogood & The Delaware Destroyers (Formed in the early '70s, but had to include them!)

Giant Panda

Gingham Shmuz

Good Girls Don’t

Great Train Robbery

Green Eggs and Spam

Greenberry Woods

Grinch

Groove Palace

Hallowed Cain

Harsh Reaction

Headless Mantis

Healthy Doses

Hekyll & Jive

Herbie

Here & Now

Hidden Hand

High Karate

Holy Fucking Spirit

Homegrown

Honour Society

Hot Rock & The Heatstrokes

Huffamoose

Hurt

HyJinx

Hyperactive

HyperMaru

IKE

Impulse

Inflatable Dates

J. Arthur Band

Jaetna Hose Hook

Jah Roots

Jamie & The Hot Rocks

Jamnation

Jaundice

Jealousy Curve

Jefe

Jeff Barbas

Jimmy Smooth

Joe Daphne

Joel Rakes

Johnny Duke & The Aces

Johnny O and the Classic Dogs of Love

Juliet’s Wishing Well

Jupiter Green

Kobayashi Maru

Kristen and The Noise

Labor Day Saints

Ladder Company

Lake Trout

Larry Roney

Larry Unthank

Lash Larue

Laura Lea & Tripp Fabulous

Lead Boots

Lean

Lefty Groove

Leslie Cary Band

Lesson One

Lexicon of Bad Words

Life Groove / Push

Lima Bean Riot

Lime

Liquid A

Little Invisibles

Lolita Nation

Long Walk Home

Los Hombres Mas Mucho Del Mundo Rock!

Lost Boys

Love Seed Mama Jump

Love Syndicate

Lower Class Citizens

Lowercase Blues

Lucky

Mad Sweet Pangs

Mango

 

Marchitect

Marcus Hook

Marmalade

Mary Arden Collins

Mass Movement of the Moth

Melissa Cox

Melodius Funk

Mia Johnson Band

Middle Earth Blues Band

Mini Band

Minos Conway

MoFaux

MojoHand

Montana Wildaxe

Monterey Popsicle

Moonshine Mile

Mos Eisley

Mother Nature's Blacklight Rainbow (previously FireTribe)

Mother’s Garden

Mothers Magilicutty

Mr. Greengenes

Mustard Seed

Mutha Load

My America is Watching Tigers Die

Mystery Machine

Network 34

New Direction

New Potato Caboose

Nice Trick Liar

Nick Everett

Nimbus

Nine

No We Are Not Food?

NRG

ONE

One Too Many

Origami For Addicts

Overise

Paint It Black

Paypack

Peters Cathedral

Phantom Limbs

Phatboddum

Pilot Round The Sun

Piper Down

Piss and Vinegar

Plastic Parts

Plow

Porch Chops

Portable Folk Band

R.O.G.

Raccoon

Radiowhore

Rai Nation

Railhed

Raymond Listen

Red Alert

Red Handed

Reflex Blue

Regular Size Monster

Rick Fusco

Roark

Robot Monster

Royal Palm Steel Band

Rubber Uglies

Ruder than You

Rup Dupa

S/he

Schleigho

schroeder

Sevender

Sex Doggee and The Mistood

Shannon Penn

Shooting Ropes

Sin City Band

Skip Castro Band

Smashing Orange

Smiley Disaster

Sofa Kings

Soraia

Sorry About Your Daughter

Soul Creation

SOULoh

Sound Asleep

Space Vipers

Speaker City

Spindrift

Spitshine

Spontaneous Underground

Stargazer Lily

Stealing December

Steamroller Picnic

Steph Hayes & the Good Problems

Steve Pepper Band

Stone City

Stone Groove

Stranded on Third

Strange as Angels

Streetsweeper

Stucco Lobster Breadbox

Stygian Veil

Sugar Daddie

Svingali

Sweet Briar

Sweet Shock

SYP

Teen Men

Tequila Mockingbird

The 49ers

The Absurd

The Armadillos

The Band

The Barnaby’s

The Beat Clinic

The Bessemer Process

The Bridge

The Bub

The Capitol Years

The Catalyst

The Catalyst

The Caulfields

The Cocks

The Collingwood

The Conowingo Homeboys

The Crash Motive (formerly Omnisoul)

The Dharma Bums

The Fabulous Greaseband

The Feel

The Fiction Department

The Funatix

The Houseplants

The Jam

The Jeff Barbas Project

The John Faye Power Trip

The Kaitlin Sweeney Band

The Kelly Bell Band

The Kill Quota

The Knobs

The Lenny Pierro Group

The Little Kings

The Look Machine

The Mental Custodians

The Nazarites

The Nerds

The Outriders

The Procretaors

The Punky Brewsters

The Red Oranges

The Relay

The Rising

The Sauce

The Scenic Route

The Scott Harris Project

The Skatologists

The Sky Drops

The Snap

The Spinto Band

The Venturas

The Verge

The Vybe

Theory

Third World

Three Legged Fox

Thumper

Thunder Brew

Tin Pan Alley

Tisra Til

Tokin' White Boy

Tom Scherr and Pat Downling

Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers

Tony Mowen

Tony Travalini Band

Townhall

Trailor Park Riot

Tree of Life

Tribal Instinct

Tribes

Underground Cartoons

Virginia Coalition

Von Hayes

Walleye

What Mama Said

Whitebread

WillaPark

Woolly Mammoth

Xenophon

XFusion

XOL

Y-Not

Yolk

Zane Campbell & the Gravel Pit Ramblers

Zelazowa

Zen Guerrilla

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