Unusual ways you found bands

So we all have stories that sound similiar about how we found some of the bands we enjoy - concert for another band and they opened, compilation/sampler albums, stuff like that.

But what's an unusual way you've discovered a band?

For me, I stumbled onto Emery by listening to the Bad Christian podcast. A former friend (we've since parted ways, somewhat amicably) sarcastically suggested I listen to the podcast. I started and still listen (although I'm 4 episodes behind!). After a few weeks  I went to their website and found out 2 of the 3 guys is in the band Emery. I checked them out and love them! I have a couple of their discs in the mail from swapacd.com but I've been listening for a couple weeks thanks to youtube.

Yeah, I have no interesting stories lol.  I found most of my bands sampling cassettes in the Christian bookstore (back when that was a thing, uh oh my age is showing), or searching the internet. Oh and there were a couple Christian pop/rock music video shows I'd watch.  One was a local one called Rockbound when I was VERY young (we're talking Geoff Moore, Russ Taff, Amy Grant young), and then there was Real Videos I think was the name of it, hosted by Matt Crouch on TBN.

I discovered Sometime Sunday because I was at a Nailed concert.  My sister actually went to highschool with the lead singer of Nailed, so I went to see them in Knoxville because they were opening for Sometime Sunday.

^^ you say your age is showing, and you refer to your age while listening to Russ Taff and Amy Grant as young!!??

Deepfriar wrote:

...and then there was Real Videos...

The lamest video show ever!

Hey, Real Videos played Tourniquet I saw it once!  I lived for those rare moments when they'd play some heavy music.

Out of the maybe 4 vids they would play per episode, one was usually good and they talked the rest of the time.  There's only 30 minutes, so shut up and play the video!

I have discovered bands through radio, the internet, magazines, word of mouth and just taking a chance and buying a cd or album or cassette because t looked like it rocked...

Keeping with the thread- I'd hafta say one unusual way I discovered a band was by someone trying to witness to me in the mid 80s. He knew I was a full on metal freak and so he gave me a cassette copy of Warriors of the Son by Saint.  I thought it was Armored Saint, until I played it and was a little tripped up by this band that kinda rocked pretty hard but sang about Jesus... I thought just Stryper did that back then. I didn't fully appreciate the album until I came to faith a couple years later.  

Then I was teaching youth group around 91, 92 and the niece of a band member in CrystavoX who was in my class knew I loved Christian rock, so she gave me a new tape of their 2nd release.  I popped it in my truck and was blown away !!!!  Kind of an unusual way to discover one of my all time fav bands.  :-)

Savage Amusement wrote:

I have discovered bands through radio, the internet, magazines, word of mouth and just taking a chance and buying a cd or album or cassette because t looked like it rocked...

That's it for me exactly.

I love going to thrift stores and pick albums up from bands i've never listened to. Even for the sake of exploring my musical boundaries.