# Iron City Houserockers, anyone know them?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 7, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-city-houserockers-anyone-know-them/855186 "2020-06-07T02:04:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-city-houserockers-anyone-know-them/855186/1 "2020-06-07T02:04:19Z")

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I am rediscovering some bands tonight that I have not listened to for years.

My God, the transition from Old Man Bar to Junior’s Bar.

And the other songs on the album - Pumping Iron, Angela, Price of Love, every damn one of them. Springsteen, who I love, never wrote better songs than these in this genre.

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**Author:** ![ric62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@ric62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ric62)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-city-houserockers-anyone-know-them/855186/2 "2020-06-07T04:24:21Z")

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I remember the name from a long time ago but I can not remember any of their music.

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**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-city-houserockers-anyone-know-them/855186/3 "2020-06-07T05:03:30Z")

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As a Pittsburgh ex-pat, yeah, I remember them, but I thought they were mainly a regional band. Joe Grushecky taught my ex’s boy.

You know Joe’s friends with Springsteen, right? Bruce played on at least one of his albums, and at one of his album parties.

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**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-city-houserockers-anyone-know-them/855186/4 "2020-06-07T11:56:12Z")

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While we’re on Pittsburgh bands, let’s hear it for [Billy Price!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWBIgoPLayY&list=OLAK5uy_nC_i8naankHVF65TY0ZOSYUCx_5uyT1Xs&index=3)

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-city-houserockers-anyone-know-them/855186/5 "2020-06-10T19:48:30Z")

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I remember seeing them in Rolling Stone’s top 100 album chart for months on end ca. 1980, and when I finally got a chance to hear them, they were one of those bands that had great songs and musicianship but just didn’t do anything for me, KWIM?

Around the same time, there was an Iowa-based band called The Hawks that everyone expected to hit the big time (it didn’t) and of course The Blue Band was an event fixture for decades.