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Famous musicians from the same high school.

  • Steel Valley Football
    I was reading something on Stephens Stills the other day and it struck me as odd that these four below all knew each other as kids so I thought I'd look for some more. I tried to exclude California schools, NY City schools, and the like. Chicago might have a bunch at one school too. It's pretty hard to research actually, but here's a few. The last one in LA I just threw in as an example. There were multiple CA schools with a bunch.

    Gainesville HS (FL)
    Don Felder (Eagles)
    Bernie Leadon (Eagles)
    Tom Petty
    Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills, & Nash)


    Firestone HS (OH)
    Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders)
    Dan Auerbach (Black Keys
    Patrick Carney (Black Keys)
    Dan Patrick? Not sure ;)


    Robert E Lee HS (FL)
    Lynyrd Skynyrd
    .38 Special
    Hoyt Axton


    University HS (Los Angeles,CA)
    Randy Newman
    David Cassidy
    Jan & Dean
    Nancy Sinatra
    Danny Elfman (Oingo Boingo)
  • Steel Valley Football
    I expected at least eight dozen responses to this thread by the end of the day lol.
  • 2kool4skool
  • THE4RINGZ
    Wouldn't some of the members of Molly Hatchet have attended that same Gainesville, FL school?
  • Speedofsand
    Molly Hatchet was from Jacksonville.
    Sister Hazel's Andrew Copeland and My Chemical Romance drummer Bob Bryar are from Gainesville High.
  • Curly J
    Ross High School - Mike Estes (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Brave New South, Skinny Molly) and Greg Dulli (The Afghan Whigs, The Twilight Singers)
  • Steel Valley Football
    THE4RINGZ;1135818 wrote:Wouldn't some of the members of Molly Hatchet have attended that same Gainesville, FL school?
    Both Skynyrd and .38 Special helped Molly Hatchet get their start, but that's it. There's no HS connection.
  • THE4RINGZ
    Steel Valley Football;1135965 wrote:Both Skynyrd and .38 Special helped Molly Hatchet get their start, but that's it. There's no HS connection.

    So they were flirting with disaster?
  • Steel Valley Football
    THE4RINGZ;1135969 wrote:So they were flirting with disaster?

    Hatchet certainly Beat the Odds in becoming successful. ;)
  • THE4RINGZ

    Very ghey link.
  • Steel Valley Football
    I wouldn't include that NY school on my list. It skews the statistics because it's not an average public school.
  • Steel Valley Football
    Speedofsand;1135865 wrote:Molly Hatchet was from Jacksonville.
    Sister Hazel's Andrew Copeland and My Chemical Romance drummer Bob Bryar are from Gainesville High.
    I saw them both, but didn't really know who they were. That makes their list even more impressive.
  • GOONx19
    The five guys in Radiohead all went to school together.