List of bands from Las Vegas

1950's
El Rancho Vegas
* Sam Butera and The Witnesses "...Prima telephoned saxophonist Sam Butera and instructed him to pick up a few musicians and go to Las Vegas in time for Prima's debut "(active early 50's - )
* Lloyd Ellis Quintet, Featuring Carl Fontana, Club Black Magic Paradise at Bond (Tropicana)
* Ted Fio Rito (Las Vegas) Orchestra (he had many orchestras prior), Hotel El Rancho Vegas (active 1950-1956)



* Harry James (Las Vegas) Revue Hotel El Rancho Vegas, Highway 91 at San Franciso Ave., (active 1950's)
* Mary Kaye Trio, Featuring Mary Kaye, Norman Kaye and Frankie Ross, Hotel El Rancho Vegas, Hotel Last Frontier, et. al., (active 1950-1970's)
* Sam Melchionne Trio/Quartet, Hotel El Rancho Vegas, "The longest consecutive-years music group run on the Las Vegas Strip" (Courtesy Deanna DeMatteo, copyright, www.lvstriphistory.com) (active 1950's-1980's)
* Vido Musso Jazz Band, Nevada Club, Fremont St, (active 1957 to mid-1960's)

1960's
Years Formed: 1960-1965
* The Baracudas,Featuring Fred Cole, (Jr. High School)
* The Checkmates, Featuring Larry Chernoff, Rancho High School
* The Little Red Roosters, Featuring Fred Cole, Western High School
* Helen Long and The Long Shots, (high school unknown)
* The Lords, Featuring Fred Cole Western High School
* The Nevegan's,Featuring Larry Chernoff and Don Frassa, Rancho High School
* The Present Tense,Featuring Christopher Michael HallmanValley High School
* Scatter Blues,Featuring Piers Munro and Bill Rosevear, high school graduates
* Sioux Uprising,Featuring Gregory A. Waller[http://www.indiana.edu/~cmcl/fmsw/facultyprofiles/gwaller.html]Clark High School
* The Teenbeats, Featuring Larry Chernoff, Don Frassa, Rancho High School
* The Weeds, Featuring Fred Cole[Western High School
* Misty Souls
* Nobody's Children

Years Formed: 1966-1969
* The Glass Door
* East Side Kids
* Kentucky Blue Grass
* The Little People, Featuring Michael Friedman, Valley High School
* The Living End
* People of Time
* Roger Conway's Band, Valley High School
* Smallville Mail Truck, Featuring 'Amarillo' Terry Fleetwood, Valley High School
* Thumbs Up Seven Up Jug Band (Featuring whoever got up to play), at The Dungeon, (formerly Kip's Drive-In) Maryland Parkway across from Nevada Southern University (UNLV), April - August 1967
* Zig-Zag Jug Band


Please categorize by decade when your band formed Thank you

1970 to 1979



1980 to 1989



1990 to 1999



2000 to 2010

* The Killers
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* Escape The Fate
* Nr Ceiye
* The Cab
* The Higher
* Water Street
* YouInseries
* Forget Mccarran
* The Stript
* Magna-Fi
* Love it or leave it
* Verbatym
* Ashbury
* bydeathsdesign
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* The Black & White City
* A Penny for Jane
* The American Cinema
* Camden
* Color MeGrey
* Eyes Like Diamonds
* Fletch
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* Hang Em High
* Happy Campers
* The Harbor
* Hung By Halos
* Indigo Kid
* Jacob Smigel
* Left Standing
* Lips Like Morphine
* Random Eye
* SearchLight
* Shatterance
* Stone Dead Roses
* Navy Jets Collide
* Otherwise
* Radio Fire
* The Underground Rebels
* Urchin
* Valentine
* Kid Deposit Triumph
* The Science http://www.myspace.com/thesciencelasvegas
* Las Vegas Club official site
* Last Letters Home
* Last Years Forecast
*The Novelty Act
*Secret Tapes
*Big Friendly Corporation
* (In Shadows Embrace) (http://www.myspace.com/inshadowsembracelv)
*Love Pentagon
*Action Cat
*Black Camero
*Crowd of Small Adventurers
* The 7th Plague
* 7th Son
* Hemlock
* The day after...
 
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