BS: Band names

Subject: Band names
From: Bagpuss
Date: 15 Jul 00 - 08:46 AM

I always wanted to call a band I was in: "The Folkin' Band". Others in the band seemed to think this was a bit inappropriate. Given that I have a compilation album of Scottish folk music called "Folk in Hell", who thinks the name is a bit much???

Bagpuss

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 15 Jul 00 - 10:14 AM

not at all. though it might limit airplay
after hearing the audience joining in with the chorus "happy as pigs in shit" at a folkie event last week little surprises me anymore.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: GUEST,tinkerbell
Date: 15 Jul 00 - 10:16 AM

Here in Melbourne we had a band called Tiddas (all women), they named a tour 'Show us your Tiddas', another band (rock/punk) are called the f@#$ @#$s - anything goes.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Jul 00 - 10:31 AM

I think it all depends on whether or not you actually want to go somewhere or just have some fun. I can't think of too many groups who ever hit it too big like that. All talent aside, I doubt that the Stones would have gone far as "The Drug Addicted Flaming Assholes."

I thought at first you might be looking for a name and I was reading thread titles and thinking a lot of them would be funny......"Sacred Cows and Sponsorship" and a few others.........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 15 Jul 00 - 10:41 AM

oh I see now
bit slow today Tinkerbell and was going to ask you to explain

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: dwditty
Date: 15 Jul 00 - 10:43 AM

I once heard a group called the Masterbeats. Then there was Jeffery Frederick and the Clamtones out of Boston.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Bagpuss
Date: 15 Jul 00 - 11:10 AM

I think I just liked the idea of someone saying "who's playing tonight?" and someone else answering "The Folkin' Band!!!"

Bagpuss

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Susan from California
Date: 15 Jul 00 - 12:57 PM

Bagpuss,

I don't know if this info will please you or not, but your cd is currently in my car and it's a lot of fun to listen to. I wondered about the name, tho.. I just didn't get the joke because I never said it in my head with anything but an American accent and it just doesn't have the same impact ;-) Since I teach teenagers, you might have thought I'd have figured it out a while ago....but now I will always "say it in my head" with the right intonation!

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Bagpuss
Date: 15 Jul 00 - 01:01 PM

Susan!!!!

So thats where its gone! You thief!!

Great album isn't it?

Bagpuss

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: john c
Date: 15 Jul 00 - 01:36 PM

I´ve always thought that The Orgasmics would be a great name for a band. Strangly I´ve always been alone in that opinion. Cant understand it. J.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Susan from California
Date: 15 Jul 00 - 04:08 PM

Bagpuss, maybe I'm especially dense during summer break, but I thought you meant that you had a hand in putting the cd together, not that it was simply one that you owned :-) Sometimes the printed word lacks the needed nuances, particularly when I have to fight family members for computer time and consequently sometimes read to fast to make up for my slow and laborius typing!

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: sophocleese
Date: 15 Jul 00 - 04:16 PM

In university when I went there was a local women's band called THE Word Of Mouth Band, they usually made sure that all of the first letters of the band name were especially visible.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 15 Jul 00 - 08:06 PM

I've been having a bit of fun with group names. I've had my friend Andrew Kerth backing me up a couple of times at our wee circle of folk clubs and have taken to announcing ourselves as a new duo each time, which is news to Andrew. Keep in mind that I am short and (quite) round, while Andrew qualifies in the "lean and lanky" category. The first time I announced us as "Beauty & the Beast" which confused everybody and had me giggling for days thereafter. Next time (keep the image in mind) I claimed we were now "The long & the Short of It" and finally we're gonna call out loose association "Short Stories & Tall Tales".

Too much fun!

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 15 Jul 00 - 11:13 PM

In the "not going anywhere" category, I did an Irish pub gig with another fiddler and a bouzouki player/piper, calling ourselves "Senseless Violins." Strictly for the occasional pub gig, though. On the other hand, since the "Dead Kennedys" got known...

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: GUEST,Ely
Date: 16 Jul 00 - 05:40 PM

There's one down here called "Jes' Playin' Folk". Ha, ha. And I know one from the Midwest called "Senseless Acts of Violins" (see Chanteyranger's post above).

I participated in a band scramble one time and the name we picked out of the hat was "the Big Rubber Band". Nobody else seemed to think it was off-color so I didn't say anything.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Naemanson
Date: 16 Jul 00 - 05:55 PM

Wsn't there a band or group called the Mother Folkers? Seems I heard them on a radio (college radio) station.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Jul 00 - 06:23 PM

Love the Big Rubber Band........oooooo, such possibilities. Shut it, spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 16 Jul 00 - 06:50 PM

Naemanson, yes indeed the Mother Folkers are a group of women folk musicians from good ol Boulder Colorado, who guarantee a great folkin' time every time.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 17 Jul 00 - 04:51 AM

There were a few women Irish musicians in the 80's, in the SF bay area who thought of calling themselves "The Wandering Menstruals" but decided to keep that just as a joke among themselves and a select few others.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Kim C
Date: 17 Jul 00 - 11:28 AM

We have a great little bluegrass band here in Nashville called the Cluster Pluckers. Friends that sit in with them are known as Them Other Pluckers.

I always wanted to call a band Youth in Asia.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Wesley S
Date: 17 Jul 00 - 11:52 AM

My band keeps rejecting the name "The Rhythm Methodists". I don't know why. However we sometimes appear as "Matthew, Mark, Luke and Bubba".

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Mooh
Date: 17 Jul 00 - 12:08 PM

Bagpuss. Great name! Use it! I once played electric guitar for "Frankie and the Penetrators", a ruder band than their name. Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: L R Mole
Date: 17 Jul 00 - 12:52 PM

Well...Hyperactive Catatonics has too many syllables.The Catatomics? Too 50's sci-fi.Fallen Liberaces?Phil Acorns?Kosher Dyll'n the Gherkins? Liberace Bunker? Rod, Reel, and Debate? LRM,who always gets thrown out of these meetings

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Jul 00 - 04:35 PM

Anyone read Dave Barry? He always has good suggestions, like Maryslesis and the Miami Relatives, or something...

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 17 Jul 00 - 04:43 PM

I (jokingly) suggested to the folks that the new band we're forming be called Uncle Bad Touch... That way our first album could be "Show Me On The Dolly"

LOL!!!!

Fortunatly, the other 3 shot it down pretty quickly, but U.B.T. is the cause of much hillarity at rehursal...

{~`

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Turtle
Date: 17 Jul 00 - 05:24 PM

My favorite band name so far was that of a little-known Vermont band with a slightly-better-known lead vocalist: Peg Tassey and Proud Of It. To get the true Yankee flavor you have to emphasize the "of", as in "and proud OF it!".

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Callie
Date: 17 Jul 00 - 08:01 PM

Bagpuss: I was in a jazz band who wanted to call itself "Funkin Jazz" or "Funk n Jazz". The (seemingly) obvious joke had to be explained to me. When it was explained, I didn't really see the humour. (I thought "Sax and Violence" was better).

Call me square - dunno, "Folkin Band" just doesn't raise much a laugh for me. Nothing to do with the expletive, just not hugely hilarious.

Sorry to be negative, but you asked!

Callie

PS: Them Other Pluckers!!! LOL!!

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: GUEST,Quixote
Date: 17 Jul 00 - 08:05 PM

On the same note as "Senseless Violins," a friend of mine is in an all Saxophone group called, "Unprotected Sax" I know it's not Folk, but it's kind of funny.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Callie
Date: 17 Jul 00 - 08:14 PM

An all saxophone group: wow! I'm jealous! Do they have recordings?

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 12:49 AM

I always thought that the first room in Hell would resemble a pub, and the house band would be called Nine Bodhrans and a Whistle. No pun there, it's just, like, the concept, you know?

Aloha,
Mark (sorry, too much rain, losing it...)