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I was curious to know what bands everyone was big fans of and listening to before the start of their TBK-fandom. I would have to say I was most into Ben Harper with perhaps Wilco close behind.

er stereophonics, the verve and all the old usuals you know the ones, pink floyd, rolling stones etc etc!

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Wilco
Modest Mouse
Interpol
Ween
Gorillaz
Radiohead (still am, always will be)

I can take this back pretty far.

2001 - 2004: Lots of punk.

2005 - 2007 : Backpacker hip hop ( Brother Ali, Aesop Rock, Sage Francis, El-P, etc.)
2008: QoTSA

Then came TBK, then I went through a stoner rock/metal phase and now I've been getting into electronica/dubstep/shitty club trash music.

"Kings of Leon, but like the old Kings of Leon when you didn't understand a word they were saying" -Colin Geddis, Northern Irish comedian puts it perfectly for me.

I've been thinking of this since you posted the question misa. I'd have to say no one band in particular consumed my time. More like the typical classic rock stuff: Stones,Beatles, J. Geils Band (early stuff) ect. And anything blues related has always been in my rotation: Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Snookie Pryor, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Lightning Hopkins...

The only comparible "band crush" I had before TBK was with a small unknown (at the time) Chicago "punk" band called Alkaline Trio. I listened to lots of different stuff but if you're talking mega "band-crush" level of fandom... then yeah, Alk3. I found out about them from a Johann's Face Records comp called Marc's a dick and Gar's a drunk or something like that. It had the Alk3 song "97" on it and I was blown away. I lived in the suburbs at the time (I was still living with my parents and a freshman in high school), so me and my buddies would come up to Chicago all the time to see them play this shitty little bowling alley venue called The Fireside Bowl. They released an EP called For Your Lungs Only and then they got bigger and bigger and bigger and now they're fairly well known.
I never ever listen to them anymore but I still have all the albums and the tattoo. They were amazing back then when I was a high school dude, but don't do much for me nowadays.
The shows started selling out and getting bigger and then I had that old familiar feeling like when TBK got so big that we could no longer see them in clubs and bars. Although TBK has blown up way bigger than Alk3 ever did.
If you're interested in checking them out, their first two EP's and first three LP's are all really good. After that... not nearly as strong.