Let’s jump right in here and pick up where we left off Friday. We’re taking a look at the bottom of the JM’s Region today. Vote early, vote often. We’ll keep the polls open until we post the next match-up later this week.<\/p>\n
\u00a0#3\u00a0Fighting\u00a0Gravity\u00a0v. #6\u00a0Gibb Droll [polldaddy poll=5137453]<\/strong><\/p>\n Fighting Gravity – <\/em><\/strong>I\u00a0was a poser ska fan <\/em>throughout much of high school, so this band really appealed to me when I first heard them my freshman year at JMU. At the time they were known as Boy O’ Boy, but they changed their name to Fighting Gravity a short time later.\u00a0The rumor was that they\u00a0had some sort of dispute with another\u00a0\u00a0band who claimed to have the rights to that name. If true, they learned nothing about trademark law from the experiences because\u00a0searches for “Fighting Gravity”\u00a0exclusively return pages about some weird Blue Man Group meets Cirque du Soleil type performance troup from America’s Got Talent.\u00a0It’s kind of a bummer, because I was hoping to find some music of theirs to link to. I\u00a0also\u00a0Googled Boy O’ Boy, but thanks to a rather unfortunate typo there is a good chance Chris Hansen<\/a> is going to come knocking on my door.\u00a0So, we’re just gonna wrap this one up.\u00a0Good band though.<\/p>\n Gibb Droll <\/strong>– <\/em>Is it just me or were this guy and his band virtually inescapable in the mid to late 90’s? I’m not saying\u00a0that their music was universally adored or even widely known. It’s just that it felt like you couldn’t go see any band play without some random dude wandering up rambling on and on about Gibb Droll. It sucked. Tailgating at a Phish show? Some dude selling devil sticks\u00a0was bound\u00a0to\u00a0spend 3 hours\u00a0explaining why Gibb Droll was a better guitar player than Trey.\u00a0Checking out an open mic night over winter break? Big mistake. Someone was bound to try to play a Gibb Droll song, fail horribly, claim the sound guy screwed up, and then lambast you and the audience for not appreciating the blues.\u00a0I’m telling you, his fans were the 1990 college campus equivalent of hipsters. If you could ignore them though, you’d realize the guy was (and still is) a pretty amazing guitarist.<\/p>\n #\u00a02\u00a0Everything vs. #7\u00a0Shannon Worrell [polldaddy poll=5137455]<\/strong><\/p>\n Everything\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 <\/em>My senior year of high school some friends of mine took a trip down to JMU for the weekend. I’m not sure why I didn’t go with them. I think it was either because I had a lacrosse game or because they didn’t like me and weren’t really my friends. In any case they returned with an Everything tape (yes, a\u00a0tape) and stories about how\u00a0all the students\u00a0on campus were listening to the band. So when I decided to go to JMU, I somehow believed that\u00a0every weekend the entire student body\u00a0just went to one big party where Everything played. I also had equally realistic expecations about how successful I’d be with woman, because one of my friends (who eventually became my roommate at JMU) told us all that getting girls at JMU was “just like catching a frisbee.” This was either 1. the worst analogy ever or 2. evidence that I really suck at frisbee. Anyway, if you were on campus in the early to mid\u00a090’s, you probably think it’s an outrage they’re not the #1 seed in this ridiculous little bracket. And if you didn’t, then please trust those of\u00a0that did when we tell you that\u00a0Hooch<\/a><\/em> is no Soulfish<\/em>.<\/p>\n Shannon Worrell<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Let’s first say that she had an absolutely beautiful voice. Her fans however, largely fell into one of two camps. They were either people who were way too into to Dave Matthews Band and liked her because Dave sang back-up on Eleanor<\/em> on her first album, or they were guys with no game who thought that\u00a0being a Shannon Worrell fan would make them seem sensitive and more attractive to women.\u00a0If you fell into the first category, girls were probably freaked out by the way you reacted when your roommate accidentally lost your tape of Dave’s 1994 show at\u00a0The Flood Zone\u00a0with the 8 minute version of Two Step. <\/em>If you fell in the second category, you probably had a lot of fun hanging out\u00a0with girls all night\u00a0at parties, before they abruptly left to go sleep with their boyfriends when the night came to a close. If you were unfortunate enought to fit into both categories, then you were me. Again, she had a absolutely beautiful voice.<\/p>\n