‘30 fascinating early bands from future music legends’

As I was opening a Firefox window this afternoon, I discovered that Rolling Stone had put out a list of “30 fascinating early bands from future music legends”:

1. Bruce Springsteen’s Sixties Garage Band The Castiles
2. Elton John’s Sixties R & B Group Bluesology
3. Madonna’s Post-Punk Band Emmy
4. Eddie Vedder’s Eighties Alt-Rock Band Bad Radio
5. Billy Joel’s Wild Heavy-Metal Duo Attila
6. Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham’s Psychedelic Rock Band Fritz
7. Simon and Garfunkel’s Teen Harmony Duo Tom and Jerry
8. Dave Grohl’s Adolescent Punk Band Dain Bramage
9. Robert Plant and John Bonham’s Psychedelic Sixties Outfit Band of Joy
10. Radiohead Members’ Sax-Driven Collective On a Friday
11. David Bowie’s Sixties Mod Group The Lower Third
12. Chester Bennington’s Nineties Alt-Rock Crew Grey Daze
13. Neil Young and Rick James’ Motown Pop Band The Mynah Birds
14. Steven Tyler’s Sixties Pop Group The Chain Reaction
15. Alice Cooper’s High-School Beatles Parody Act
16. Grace Slick’s Sly Stone–Produced Experimental Rock Band The Great Society
17. Michael Bolton’s Hard-Rocking Hair Band Black Jack
18. Iggy Pop’s High-School Garage Band The Iguanas
19. Duane and Gregg Allman’s Ill-Fated Psychedelic Soul Outfit The Hour Glass
20. Brian May and Roger Taylor’s Sixties Power Trio Smile
21. Future Doors Members’ Surf-Rock Band Rick and the Ravens
22. Debbie Harry’s Sixties Psych-Folk Group The Wind in the Willows
23. Ronnie James Dio’s Dreamy Fifties Pop Group The Vegas Kings
24. Dusty Springfield’s Early-Sixties “Family” Folk Trio The Springfields
25. Peter Frampton’s Teen-Idol Pop Group The Herd
26. Lemmy’s Costumed Sixties Band The Rocking Vickers
27. Bon Scott’s Australian Teen-Pop Band The Valentines
28. Carole King’s Progressive Folk Trio The City
29. Sammy Hagar’s Sunshine-Pop Duo Samson and Hagar
30. The Cars’ Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr’s Mellow Early-Seventies Trio Milkwood

I had heard of quite a few of these, though I have not listened to any. The ones completely new to me are:

• The Castiles (#1)
  
• Emmy (#3)
  
• Bad Radio (#4)
• Fritz (#6)
• Tom and Jerry (#7)
• Dain Bramage (#8)
• Band of Joy (#9)
• The Lower Third (#11)
• Grey Daze (#12, although I did not know the name and my main recollection of Linkin Park is hearing them called “stinking park” by a critic)
• The Mynah Birds (#13)
• The Chain Reactions (#14)
• The Hour Glass (#19)
• Smile (#20)
• The Vegas Kings (#23)
• The Springfield (#24)
• The Herd (#25)
• The Rocking Vickers (#26)
• The City (#28)
• Samson and Hagar (#29)

None of these seem of real interest to me, but that these musicians played in bands earlier than they did actually is.