Grex Music2 Conference

Item 50: Quest for the West(boys)

Entered by krj on Tue Jun 17 18:28:48 1997:

I ran searches on Alta Vista and Yahoo for Westboys, and west boys 
as two separate strings.  The only musical match was the Oak Ridge 
Boys, who are in the Country and WESTern genre.  All the other 
matches appear to be for school sport teams.
 
This is alarming; I can't recall the last time I did a web search 
for a musical performer and turned up *nothing*, not even a 
fan who mentioned them in a list of favorite artists.
 
Give us some more clues, jiffer!
9 responses total.
#1 of 9 by jiffer on Tue Jun 17 22:54:34 1997:

well... they are celtic!  Sorry, I will talk to a few friends about it.

#2 of 9 by krj on Wed Jun 18 04:28:11 1997:

Are the Westboys an American Celtic band, or from one of the British 
Isles countries?  Were their CDs self-released, on a small label, or on 
a major label; label name?  When were they released?  When and 
where did you get them?

#3 of 9 by senna on Wed Jun 18 06:50:57 1997:

Alta Vista tends to confuse things, and Yahoo only shows registered sites.
The site I use for bands is www.ubl.com which gives *large* listings of bands
I've never heard of, and all the ones I have.

#4 of 9 by krj on Thu Jun 19 04:13:45 1997:

www.ubl.com was pretty cool, but they didn't have anything either.

#5 of 9 by jiffer on Thu Jun 19 06:38:00 1997:

okay, here is the information i got from my friend Bryan.  Westboys no longer
is together.  He was introduced to them about 6 years ago when he was
stationed in England, and they only produced one CD. Which they had made
themselves and only made like 100 of.  Seems that what my freind Bryan has
is a rarity, and was totally made when they broke up.  They never really made
anything of themselves, and from what he says, the band broke up due to
finaicial reasons.  (he also mentioned something about them all being students
at the time as well). Oh well. SO, now i am not surprised that you can't find
anything. sorry  =(

#6 of 9 by orinoco on Thu Jun 19 19:11:38 1997:

Wow...that would qualify as a rarity, yes...

#7 of 9 by senna on Thu Jun 19 20:31:17 1997:

Hmm, that's odd.  A band that the UBL doesn't have anything on.  Weird :)

#8 of 9 by jiffer on Thu Jun 19 21:48:01 1997:

but steve, if they band went and paid for their own cd's being produced, they
usually don't have any backing.  from what bryan has told me, they had some
spare time and money and used up both.

#9 of 9 by senna on Fri Jun 20 22:39:03 1997:

The UBL isn't a label driven page.  Anybody who wants to put a band homepage
on there can.  It has nothing to do with success.  The successful bands
(anything from Fionna Apple to Pearl Jam and Nirvana) get bold type to help
people pick them out.  but those are few and far between compared to the sheer
volume of unheard bands on there.

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