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Jeff Lampert Member Posts: 2636 |
posted 07 June 2000 04:44 PM
My band has been together for 5 years. It's name is "Hired Hands". When we were deciding on names, I suggested either "Pulp Country", or "Hillbillies from Hell". To this day I am annoyed that the other members didn't want to use my suggestions. .. Jeff |
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Bobby Lee Sysop Posts: 14849 |
posted 07 June 2000 05:15 PM
I once suggested to a bandleader that his band should be called "Country Club" because he was a tennis pro by day. He took my advice and, to his chagrin, people started calling him "Boy Joe". Be careful what you wish for. |
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Jeff Lampert Member Posts: 2636 |
posted 07 June 2000 06:10 PM
EGAD!!! |
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Steve Feldman Member Posts: 2983 |
posted 07 June 2000 06:12 PM
Could be worse. I had a band in high school called 'Fallopian Tube'. |
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Larry Behm Member Posts: 1686 |
posted 07 June 2000 06:30 PM
I was in a small band who called themselves the Goat Ropers. Not a lot of pride and you can imagine the quality of the music.  I always loved the name Ledsteton, it said a bunch about a country band that played some rock. Larry Behm |
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Don McClellan Member Posts: 882 |
posted 07 June 2000 07:02 PM
Here on Maui there is a band called Argentina Turner and another one called The Well Hungarians. |
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Jody Sanders Member Posts: 2889 |
posted 07 June 2000 08:48 PM
I was in a band called"Fig Newton And The Fig Bars", and one called "Kevin Stinson and Loaded Dice." . Jody. |
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bill dearmore Member Posts: 439 |
posted 07 June 2000 08:49 PM
On Sundays I work with a bunch called"The can't hardly playboys" Pretty neat. |
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Mike Perlowin Member Posts: 6731 |
posted 08 June 2000 12:02 AM
I think some band should name itself "Closed for remodeling." |
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Smiley Roberts Member Posts: 4424 |
posted 08 June 2000 12:11 AM
I always wanted to put a band together,either a quartet or a quintet,& call it,"Four(Five) Unknown Country Kickers",& abbreviate it on tee shirts,marquees,etc.  ------------------ [This message was edited by Smiley Roberts on 08 June 2000 at 12:14 AM.] |
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Rick Schmidt Member Posts: 1596 |
posted 08 June 2000 01:25 AM
One of the bands I gig with uses a different name almost every night. Tonight we were the "Flamin' Yawns"......er....um.....not to be confused with the Fillet Mignons..etc.... |
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John Rickard Member Posts: 839 |
posted 08 June 2000 01:36 AM
How 'Bout MEAT THERMOMETER!!!!!!! JR ------------------ [This message was edited by John Rickard on 08 June 2000 at 01:36 AM.] |
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BDBassett Member Posts: 503 |
posted 08 June 2000 05:21 AM
It seems this topic comes up from time to time and I always feel compelled to add my favorite band names. (Stop me if you've heard these before) As far as I know, these names are still up for grabs: Just drop me a note if you want to use one of these fine band names, my people will get with your people and do lunch while they cross the "I"s and dot the "T"s. I'm sure we can work something out. |
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Joe Herchel unregistered Posts: 503 |
posted 08 June 2000 05:40 AM
I once worked with a singer whose last name was Dudley. For privacy's sake I won't say his first name. (He is not famous and never recorded under his own name). For privacy's sake I'll call him ****. He asked me to suggest a band name. After much thought I really believed I had a winner. "**** Dudley and the Do-Rights". I was surpized that he did not like it one bit. He seemed offended. Oh well... ------------------ |
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Steve Feldman Member Posts: 2983 |
posted 08 June 2000 06:53 AM
Just as a short aside, I had a friend once with a little weiner-type dog that he called 'Studley'.... |
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Dave Horch Member Posts: 628 |
posted 08 June 2000 07:16 AM
When I do my one-man-band recording stuff, I play everything on the record. So the "band" name for this output is "Shameless Dave and the Clone Tones". |
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Mark Tomeo Member Posts: 400 |
posted 08 June 2000 08:05 AM
Try these: Aesthete's Foot Atlas Frugged Brother, Can You Paradigm? Dude, Your Mom is HOT! Fartin' Sartre Five Guys Who Formed a Band And Still Can't Get Laid The Four Horsemen of the Disappointing Ending Go Foucault Yourself Hava Negilah, No, Have Two Hungry Hungry Hypocrites I Don't Think Presumptive Means What You Think It Means If 6 Was 9, That'd Be Just Wacky If You're Ready to Rock and Roll, Press 1 Now Inscrutable Crouton It Came From Burl Ives' Goatee Lao-Tsu-Tsu-Tsudio Leg Humped By Quakers Mack The Naif Mangione...Or Astromangione? MC Escher (I tried listening to his album, but I'm not sure where it begins or ends...) The Men Who Funk Forgot Nebbishes With Attitude New Riders of the Gulag Archipelago No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You To Plotz Oh, There's Godot Okay, We'll Throw The Girl In Too The Other White Meat Ophelia Self Our Name Is Self-Referential! The Putra Faction Schroedinger's Cat Scan Single Mullet Theory Sisyphus is a Pusher Sociopath of Least Resistance Spy In The House of Pancakes Tastes Nothing Like Chicken Three Chords And a Legally Accurate Representation Of the Events As They Transpired On the Night of September 14, 1997 Watch It or We'll Give You an Indian Burn Weasels Who Drive Zambonis We Vishnu a Hare Krishna What The Hell Happened to the Cat? When People Were Shorter and Kept Things on Much Lower Shelves And finally... The Dot-Coms Aren't Hiring Anymore Because The NASDAQ Is Tanking, So We Were Going To Make An Indie Film, But Then We Saw Blink-182 On MTV And We Figured, Hey, If They Can Do It, Any Idiot Can Do It, So We Formed This Band |
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Chris DeBarge Member Posts: 811 |
posted 08 June 2000 10:20 AM
There's a band around here, though I've never seen them they seem to get a TON of gigs. They're call "To Be Announced". They must have a good following, sometimes they're just listed as "TBA". Another way to get people out to see you: |
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Dan Tyack Member Posts: 3552 |
posted 08 June 2000 11:41 AM
I read an interview with an engineer who had been in a band called "the Original Artists". And yes they put out albums of cover material by, you guessed it, 'The Original Artists'. ------------------ |
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Patrick Smith Member Posts: 747 |
posted 08 June 2000 11:57 AM
"Bootie and the Ho-fish" is my favorite name...but they wouldn't go with that one either...ha! PMS |
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Dave Horch Member Posts: 628 |
posted 08 June 2000 12:28 PM
Chris wrote: quote: Actually Chris, there was at least one band by that name perhaps 20 years ago. They even had an obscure record out. I remember seeing one of those banners towed by an airplane at the MD/DE beaches announcing that they were playing at a certain club that evening. Really, a band. But they might have fizzed out by now... They sounded kinda flat. Burrrrp. Another free beer band has been brewing up in the Detroit area... See http://www.freebeernet.com/ . Rats, no steel. I've always wanted to name a band "Naked Women"! That would pull, IMO. [This message was edited by Adolph Coors on 08 June 2000 at 12:29 PM.] [This message was edited by Dave Horch on 08 June 2000 at 12:29 PM.] |
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Joe Herchel unregistered Posts: 628 |
posted 08 June 2000 01:10 PM
I've heard of a band name, dedicated to the leader's incarsarated father. "Pop The Hood"
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Rodney Shuffler Member Posts: 593 |
posted 08 June 2000 01:35 PM
My fave: The Electric Aunt Jemima. Rod ------------------ |
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Greg Booth Member Posts: 31 |
posted 08 June 2000 01:46 PM
The other day I was eating some "Cherry Garcia" ice cream and I thought, how about a band named The Grateful Jed? (If Jed won't Clampett, Ellie May.) |
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RJP Member Posts: 126 |
posted 08 June 2000 01:58 PM
My former band was called Papa Whiskey, the military alphabet code for the letters P & W (real genius, eh?). We named it in honor of a former drummer who was extremely henpecked. I'm sure you've figured out what P W stands for by now based on that description. |
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Herb Steiner Member Posts: 6119 |
posted 08 June 2000 02:23 PM
My vote for best band name: Call Club For Info There was a rock band from San Antonio back in the 1970's called Free Beer, incidentally. It didn't help their draw. ------------------ |
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Smiley Roberts Member Posts: 4424 |
posted 09 June 2000 03:06 AM
I guess nobody liked my idea. Let me put it this way: Four Unknown Country Kickers ------------------ |
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Mike Perlowin Member Posts: 6731 |
posted 09 June 2000 03:21 AM
I once saw a poster advertising a band called "Pig Vomit." I didn't go see them. |
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Tommy Mark Member Posts: 139 |
posted 09 June 2000 04:03 AM
Wasn`t there a band out of L.A. called Little Johnny Two Fingers and The Blasting Caps? ------------------ |
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Dave Van Allen Member Posts: 5369 |
posted 09 June 2000 05:35 AM
When I do my one-man-band recording stuff, I play everything on the record. So the "band" name for this output is "Shameless Dave and the Clone Tones". |
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Dave Van Allen Member Posts: 5369 |
posted 09 June 2000 05:36 AM
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Bud Harger Member Posts: 540 |
posted 09 June 2000 05:38 AM
"BAD LIVERS" is a great band around Austin, Texas. |
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Don Discher Member Posts: 359 |
posted 09 June 2000 05:53 AM
There used to be a band up here called "Lost Stetson And The Frozen Cattle Band". |
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Chuck Martin Member Posts: 259 |
posted 09 June 2000 05:58 AM
I used to play in a band called "Lucky Stiff" |
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Dave Van Allen Member Posts: 5369 |
posted 09 June 2000 07:54 AM
there was a bar band in DC area for a while that used the monikker "The Swingin' Johnsons" and nobody in the band had that last name... [This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 09 June 2000 at 10:27 AM.] |
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Bob Craven Member Posts: 54 |
posted 09 June 2000 08:04 AM
I'm currently a member of Dave Todoran and the Mobile Home Wreckers. |
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Chris DeBarge Member Posts: 811 |
posted 09 June 2000 09:24 AM
That's great, like Robin Steele and the Housebreakers. |
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Jerry Hayes Member Posts: 3306 |
posted 09 June 2000 10:08 AM
Ol' Sleepy John and I play some with a band called FiddleStix which is pretty cool! Some of the bands I've played with over the years are: Farmer's Almanac Some cool and not so cool band names I encountered (mostly in So. Calif) are these: The Aborted Fetus ------------------ |
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Ric Epperle Member Posts: 1490 |
posted 09 June 2000 10:17 AM
I'm trying to re-name our band to"Ric and the Redeye Review".. My brothers don't think so, but I'll eventually convince them... |
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Michael Johnstone Member Posts: 2535 |
posted 09 June 2000 10:23 AM
I played in a rockabilly trio around L.A.in the early 80s which was also Billy Swan's backup band when he did live gigs.We called ourselves "Buddy Hollywood".For a couple months before that,we were "Dancing,Sandwiches" because one night we showed up to our beer joint gig to find the rotating marquee sign that normally had our name on it changed to: "Appearing Nightly-Dancing,Sandwiches" Outside that club,nobody got it,so the band leader later had an independant label called Dancing Sandwich Records.It was on that label that Buddy Hollywood released the infamous jukebox single "It's Hard To Say I Love You When You're Sittin' On My Face" Other Band names that should be considered might be "Pink Floyd The Barber" and my favorite: "The Rhythm Midgets" In a similar vein,you got the "Tribute" bands who,man for man and song for song,emulate the look and sound of some famous band from days of yore.The stupidest one I know of was "Jim Dandy" not because of the name-but because they picked the absolute lamest band to emulate....."Black Oak Arkansas" AND they were at LEAST as lame,dull and tedious as their idols. -MJ- |
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