But the local acts rival those more famous performers with one group music collectors.
Love and War, a hard rock band founded in Youngstown, only released one CD, but that 1994 release “War Rages On” has sold for $300 on Discogs, a website where fans can catalog their collections and buy / sell music. The asking prices for the two copies of “War Rages On” currently on eBay are $688.40 and $749.
Moore, who lives in Warren, may be the local record holder on Discogs. His 1976 funk / soul album “Maurice” sold for more than $2,000 on Discogs last May. It came in at No. 13 on Discogs’ list of most valuable albums sold that month, where “Maurice” was mixed among rarities by Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie and the Grateful Dead.
In November, the Philadelphia band released a 10-track live album entitled ‘LIVE DRUGS’ comprised of concert recordings selected from 40 hard drives-worth of show recordings that were made during the band’s past six years of touring.
Supporting the new LP with the remote performance of ‘Arms Like Boulders’, the track originally appeared on The War on Drugs’ debut album, ‘Wagonwheel Blues’, as well as the ‘Barrel Of Batteries’ EP.
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Sharing his thoughts on ‘LIVE DRUGS’, frontman Adam Granduciel said: “It puts a nice exclamation point on our touring because we’ve memorialised the performances in a way. It feels like it’s kind of a reset, to be able to put something out that’s a really good interpretation of the way we interpret our music live. There’s something cathartic about having all of it printed on a record.”