Which band was formed first, John Popper's band, Blues Traveler, or Rob Parissi's band, Wild Cherry?
Rob Parissi Robert "Rob" Parissi is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, perhaps best known as frontman for the American funk group Wild Cherry, best known for their 1976 Parissi-penned chart-topper "Play That Funky Music". He was born in 1950 and raised in the steel mill town of Mingo Junction, Ohio. He graduated from Mingo High School in 1968. Rob formed the band Wild Cherry in 1970 in Steubenville, Ohio, one mile north of Mingo Junction along the Ohio River. The band played the Ohio Valley region, Wheeling, West Virginia and the rest of the Northern West Virginia panhandle, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Vintage Trouble Vintage Trouble (sometimes abbreviated as VT or ¥) is an American rhythm & blues band. The band formed in Hollywood, California in 2010. They have released three albums, "The Bomb Shelter Sessions" (2011), "The Swing House Acoustic Sessions" (2014) and "1 Hopeful Rd." (2015). Their sound has been described as "retro", reminiscent of a number of late 1950s and 1960s blues and rock artists, such as The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry and The Animals. One of their more well known songs called "Today is Pretty Great" was featured in a Honda Civic commercial with the artists seen at the very beginning for a few seconds.