Yes, at least there is no adds on the J's, and they have more than 3 albums in their collection, which is more than can be said for some of the fm stations. They also give a lot of new acts a bit of a go.
I will also check out those other bands you mentioned.
A mate of mine saw DC live in Melb a while back, I think it may have been on "The Blues Train", and he reckoned they fairly thumped.

Hey saratoga, you may be able to help me. In the mid eighties an old squeeze of mine gave me a demo tape of a band called "The Nighthawks", they were a bluesey type band and she reckoned they were the next big thing. I tried downloading some of their stuff when Napster was alive and they seemed to have morphed into a jazz outfit.
Do they still get around? I quite liked them.

NO WAY, JOSE!!!! That's so weird!! They are from right around here. Well, Baltimore basically but they used to play Newark, Delaware at a pub called the Deer Park (famous for Edgar Allen Poe staying there) and the Stone Balloon. It's a college town. They're great and really used to cut it up. They're most recent claim to fame is doing a guest spot on the HBO series' "THE WIRE" based in Baltimore. Baltimore is a great town. Not pretentious at all, very blue collar, and real. No ****. Street Wise. In season 2, the Nighthawks play in the Port of Balt. bar where the dock workeers hang out. THey have a banner hanging in the back with there website. i think it is www.nighthawks.com but i'm not sure. Pretty funny you mentioned them.

Jose, it's www.thenighthawks.com. If you like raw blues, you HAVE to check out my favorite band, the North Mississippi AllStars at www.nmallstars.com. Their first album is their best, "SHAKE HANDS WITH SHORTY". This album just about single handedly restored my faith in new and live music. Not the bull that Nashville and the big studios put out. That schlock is brutal. These guys are the real deal. Their dad Jim Dickinson played on the Stones' "Wild Horses"--now the moderator can't get mad at me for starting this thread. LOL NMAS also have a new album that just came out, "ELECTRIC BLUE WATERMELON". It's great but a little more varied than pure blues. "51 PHANTOM" is excellent as well. Actually, the drummer, Cody DIckinson, pm'ed me one time from Australia at a festival they were playing at some outdoor venue on a bay. he said it was beautiful. THat was in 2004 and I think it was the only time they played Down Under, but with the way the kudos they keep getting, and opening for Dave Matthews, they are going to be all over the map soon. BOO!!!! (little selfish, but the small clubs are great). They are a great bunch of guys.

I have never really got into the Aussie music scene don't really know why just never was a huge fan of it, I went and saw Living End when they were playing here quite a few years back (we don't get alot of bands travelling to where I live) and Bodyjar opened for them they were awesome they did a rock cover of Hazy Shade of Winter which just blew the place apart. I didn't mind the Living End but I thought Bodyjar were evey bit as good if not better. I have always been into Metal/Rock most of the music I listen to is Metallica, Megadeth, Linkin Park, Seether, System of a Down, Creed, Live & Evanescence. I feel like one of the few Metallica fans left around these days I guess with all the crap that went down with Napster and James going into rehab kind of really destroyed them with alot of people. I have been a fan for along time and that won't change I have always loved there music and in the end that is all that matters.

Saw bodyjar a year ago and they sucked but in general i'm a fan of their recorded stuff. Huge system of a down fan, they were awesome at Big day out last year. Big fan of The Music, chilli peppers, nirvana, smashing pumpkins, interpol, the roots, dandy warhols, r.e.m, grinspoon(everything except their last album), stereophonics, slipknot, wolfmother, end of fashion, polyphonic spree, millencolin, the hives, architecture in helsinki, bloc party, green day, rage against the machine, unwritten law and heaps more that i cant remember. I like pretty much any rock/punk/heavy and some blues type stuff. Cant stand R&B and most pop is annoying.

Raw, cant believe your a Mettallica fan admitting to liking Creed.

Raw! I didn't take ya for a head banger!!! LOL!!! ROck on mate!!! I like bluesy southern rock and folk, as well as ALT-country (not that Nashville stuff--You can take that Keith Urban dude back home and let the Croc hunter walk him around a Crocky cage!!!)

why do you think keith urban went to america? we didnt listen to him! LOL

Good one, UMRUM!!! I don't think I've really even heard him..... But here is aHunch bet for us music fans today......... BOPPIN THE BLUES race 7 at Belmont (the OTHER Belmont!) will try and sting em on the lead.... Much like Stevie Ray Vaughn or Luther DickinsonCheck out GOV'T MULE for a good heavy tinged jam band lead by Warren HAynes from the ALLMAN BROS>>> and another hunch name if we come across any Mules..

Cheers Saratoga, I shall check out that Nighthawks site.
They sound like they are a great small/live venue outfit.
Funny you should mention GOVERNMENT MULE, a mate of mine swears by them, but I couldn't seem to get into them, maybe I shall give them another listen.
Yes alt country is OK too, I quite like Steve Earl, but they flog "Copperhead Road" to death on the FM stations over here, you would swear that that was the only ****** song he ever released.

Good to see a couple of old headbangers in here, I used to be right into MOTORHEAD, IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST, WHITE SNAKE, etc so maybe that is giving my age away a bit. (Actually saw MOTORHEAD live at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in the early 80's, now that IS giving my age away)

Saratoga I think the outdoor festival you speak of is the blues festival held at Byron Bay every easter, the Gov't Mule mate goes every year, reckons it's the bees knees. He has been trying to coach me down there for about 2 years now so I may have to get along next year.

Umrum Creed is just something different to listen to I guess most of the metal that comes out these days is absolute garbage so I had to tame my tastes hence that is where Linkin Park and Creed came into it. I am probably more into rock/metal bands who can actually sing rather than scream. System of a Down are probably my fav band that is really still going around (I know metallica still are but they are at the end of the line I would think anyway) There latest album is awesome I just cannot stop listening to it, The best part about them is it isn't repetitive every song is different and it has been like that with everyone of there albums.

Saratoga please keep that crap that comes out of the mouth of Keith Urban over there cannot stand any of that music. I am pretty much Rock/Metal don't mind a bit of Punk cannot stand anything else really. The part that probably got me really into Rock/Metal was playing Rugby used to really get you fired up before games listening to songs like Battery, Master of Puppets & Eye of the Beholder among others.