Groups and/or Bands with a Nation/State name...

[kingzoso]

What I mean is any group or band (regardless of the type of Music They Play) that are named after any Town/City/State/Nation/Continent, etc... from anyplace around the Planet Earth.

I will start with an easy one: Asia. Boston... I am sure you get the meaning.

If you want to back up your answer with some interesting tidbits about Your choice, I am open to all replies.

[DAS]

Kansas, Alabama, America, Chicago, Europe.

Of all the location-named bands Kansas has always been my favorite.

[Strider]

They all suck.

[DropDown]

Blind Boys of Alabama.

[toutpleindamour]

Waterloo. It's an ABBA tribute band and obviously I don't like them much.

[weslgarlic]

NEW YORK Dolls ,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLmiE_jL5Cs

Portishead ,

E Street Band ,

[DropDown]

British Sea Power

[weslgarlic]

another cuba

bob wills and his texas playboys

[Sagittarius Rising]

Yes Wes, those are all great bands. Now Strider, what's with the hate on Chicago? Sure, they turned into a shite band but the 1967 - 1977 stuff with guitarist / singer / writer Terry Gath was pretty good. I considered them a jazzier, less Mowtown inspired Blood, Sweat & Tears, another band I really like.

Kansas is also a fantastic band and Steve Morse is one of the most underrated and best guitarist of all time. Saw Morse in 85' opening for Rush and he played part of the bow snippet from D&C simply by using volume swells.

[weslgarlic]

Grimethorpe Colliery Band

ukulele orchestra of great britain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjvf_uz9I5o

uk subs

mississippi sheiks

[tomloge]

Atlanta Rhythm Section

[Reggie29]

Black Oak Arkansas, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Split Enz (enz = New Zealand).

[slave to zep]

australian crawl

[hecube]

Oak Ridge Boys

Manhattan Transfer

[Deborah J]

Black Country Communion :-) Nazareth,Orleans...

Edit to add: Buffalo Springfield

took out as :tomloge already mentioned Atlanta Rhythm Section

[DropDown]

Borneo Horns

[zepscoda]

Texas Hippie Coalition

[Ady]

Buffalo

A simply awesome Australian band with an amazing vocalist.

[The Only Way To Fly]

Oingo Boingo?

[Reggie29]

Hi Deb!

They were actually named after a rifle, but they are still place names.

Black Country Communion :-) Nazareth,Orleans...

Edit to add: Buffalo Springfield

took out as :tomloge already mentioned Atlanta Rhythm Section

[Deborah J]

Hi Reggie!!

I know, but since it had the names... :-)

[kingzoso]

Memphis Minnie:

http://youtu.be/y2m0ROgy5WY

[Strider]

Now Strider, what's with the hate on Chicago? Sure, they turned into a shite band but the 1967 - 1977 stuff with guitarist / singer / writer Terry Gath was pretty good. I considered them a jazzier, less Mowtown inspired Blood, Sweat & Tears, another band I really like.

Kansas is also a fantastic band and Steve Morse is one of the most underrated and best guitarist of all time. Saw Morse in 85' opening for Rush and he played part of the bow snippet from D&C simply by using volume swells.

That's Terry Kath.

I liked the early Chicago, too...my parameters are a bit narrower, from 1968-1973/74. After that, snoozeville as Peter Cetera took over. Terry Kath is on my list of the most underrated guitarists of all-time. Even more than Steve Morse, who at least was written about thousands of times and featured on the cover of Guitar Player magazine.

Steve was great in the Dixie Dregs and while he may still be great, I cannot stand Kansas, so don't care to hear him playing "Dust in the Wind", "Point of No Return", and the rest. To my ears, Kansas was the epitome of the soulless corporate FM rock that plagued the land beginning around 1975-76. Kansas, Foreigner, Boston, Styx, Eagles, Journey..you know the playlist; "Classick Rock Radio" plays them to death every day. That's why I welcomed the punks in 1976-77.

On the topic of these bands, I'm mainly thinking of the one-name bands named after a place, not bands like New York Dolls or UK Subs or Memphis Minnie, where a place is just part of the name as a whole.

Nope...the bands I had in mind when I said "They all suck" were Boston, Kansas, Berlin, post-74 Chicago, and the like. As to the worst of the worst, it's a battle between continents: Europe vs. Asia for the title of Worst Geographically Named Band of All Time.

[Anjin-san]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXb8ZDuICCs

[the chase]

Europe

Utopia... (sue me).

Ozark Mountain Daredevils