How did you name your band?

Subject: How did you name your band?
From: Pseudolus
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 11:28 AM

I mentioned in another thread that I have been playing solo for 7 years but have recently taken on a partner. When I was solo I just booked myself with my own name. Now that we're a duet we decided to pick a name for the "group". It was long and tedious cause most of the names just didn't seem to fit. some were cute or funny but we figured people would soon tire of cute and funny. After a long search we finally came up with "Cool Change". Not sure why but that's what we came up with. Names we decided against were Beernutz, Acoustically Challenged (another local group had the name already), Frank and Chris (boring), Identical twins (we're more like Mutt and Jeff), Mutt and Jeff, Boyzil Beeboyz, etc. Anyway, how long did it take you to come up with a name and does it have any special meaning?

I realize not everyone out there is in a band so this thread could die an ugly and early death but I decided to ask. There is another thread about band names but it didn't talk about how people decided to go with what they went with so I decided to start another.

So.....why are you who you are????


Frank

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 11:35 AM

I wrote an article on this subject for Folk North West about two years ago. I had fun researching it.Why not try and dig out an old copy.

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Deni-C
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 11:38 AM

There's nothing ugly about an early thread death. Some of them deserve and are begging to die early.

That's a cool name you've got.
Worst and best name i've ever seen was 'Free Beer'. it could work for or against you.................


We were on our way to our first gig as a duo, in a Mad Rush as usual, late and nameless. The promotor said what do you call yourselves. Ned just said, we don't know, it's been such a Mad Rush we never thought of it. So he called us that and the name stuck. Only trouble is people expect us to be FAST. we're not. Loose maybe, drunk often, but never, ever fast.

Deni

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: allanwill
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 11:40 AM

We used to call ourselves "Rain" as we seemed to do a number of songs that featured that phenominen. Then, when our singer left (to join the Police Force!) we replaced her with two (rather luscious) girls. Comparing them with me and the other bloke, it wasn't hard to come up with our current name - The Ugly Butterflys.

Allan

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: An Croenen
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 12:17 PM

I haven't a clue how to name the band at present, and that's mainly because I don't know the answer to the following question: if you have written all the songs yourself and you start working with other musicians who accompany you, what do you do in terms of a name? Does gving a separate group name give the fellow musicians some kind of ownership (as in e.g. difficult to then work with other musicians on the same material etc.), is sticking to your own name on the other hand pretentious? What do you reckon? Anyway. Names suggest a style of music too, which is why it's so hard to find the right name. I can only sympathise!
An

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 12:22 PM

Three of us in our forties at the time when "thirty something" was big on TV - we ended up as Fortyodd. Printed on posters with a "Celtic" font it looked quite folky. What do we do now that we are all 50+?

Roger

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: An Croenen
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 12:25 PM

Call yourselves alfa'undred, maybe?

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Pseudolus
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 02:09 PM

Friends of mine called themselves "Angel and the Bees" cause the female singer was named Angela and everyone else's name started with a "B". Made sense until Angela left the band.....then they were "The Bees". Subsequent members had names that did not start with "B" but the name stuck.

Frank

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: C-flat
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 02:15 PM

My band was put together in a hurry to help out an aquaintance who needed a support for a C.D.launch concert. We hadn't agreed on a name beforehand but one of us had the idea of calling the band "Raised on Radio" which I though was O.K.
Owing to the fact that the headline act were behaving like prima donnas we only got 5 minutes to sound check and our preparations were a bit rushed to say the least.There was a great deal of confusion on and around the stage and some hasty instructions being fired about, which, I can only assume, is why, when the M.C. announced us, he gave us the title "Raised on Rusks"!
It really didn't matter at the time as we hadn't planned on making it more than a temporary collaboration but as fate would have it we had a storming night, much to the annoyance of the main act who was still bitching about the sound engineers and anyone else he could blame, and, as the club was playing host to a number of booking agents and other bands that night, we gained a lot of booking enquiries and quite a bit of credit for blowing away the headliners.
And so we remain "Raised on Rusks" today!

About 30 years ago I played in a trio called "Bedouin" but unfortunately a lot of people found it difficult to pronounce which led to some hilarious moments as we were announced on to the stage, so we changed it to "Penny-Farthing" for ease of use.

All I can say about picking band names is, go for something short and simple and once you've got it, don't worry about it too much. They all sound daft or affected if you think about it and hopefully your music will say who you are!

Good luck with your band whatever your name is!
C-flat.

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 03:31 PM

Every group I've ever played in has borrowed its name from the title of a song or tune. "Bitter Creek", a song from The Eagles "Desperado" album. "Early Rising", just the name of a tune or song on an LP that happened to be on the coffee table when we were looking for a name - I've never even heard it - the name was just cool. "June Apple" after one of our once-favorite old-time fiddle tunes - we wore the tune out long before the name.

Bruce

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 04:13 PM

Was once in a band called "The Goodrich Blimps". The B.F. Goodrich tire company did not have a blimp, so we gladly assumed the role for them. We never even got a thank you from corporate on that one. An awful, awful band. But loud, very loud.

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 05:02 PM

We called ourselves Hissyfit because we are both loud woman of a certain age and easily riled!

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: BanjoRay
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 05:21 PM

It's a while since I was in a band with a name. We used to have sessions in a pub in Mexborough, purely for our own amusement, until one of the regulars told us one day he'd pulled us a gig in a posh golf club in Sheffield. After a total panic attack, we thought we'd go for it. Since it was the sort of place none of us would normally be seen dead in, we thought we'd have to have an unsuitable name. One of us wanted "Frank Wank and the Floorboards". After a few more outrageous suggestions we settled for "Balls, Banquets and Functions". Because there were three of us, people kept asking me which one of those I was.
It was a surprisingly good gig, and led to a few more.
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Musicman
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 08:20 PM

i saw the name that i use one a boat.. a sail boat.. and i liked it.. so i stole it... :)

(one day hope to approach the owner of the boat and see if we can take some band pictures on the boat....


Copper Sky

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Kudzuman
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 08:43 PM

My wife just stuck together a couple of words she liked and we became "Gingerthistle". We later heard that this might have connotations of a person who likes one of his on gender in England. Anyone know if this is true (not that we care as we like the name and have no prejudice that way!)? We play mostly Celtic and Old Time Appalachian.

Kudzuman

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Merritt
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 09:21 PM

This last round, for an acoustic guitar/vocal duo, we went through a cerebral process involving three layers of analysis:

1. How might one describe our material, approach, etc.?
~ unique
~ eclectic - across musical genres, time zones
~ melodic
~ acoustic
~ ?

2. And then, based on 1., >>how<< are we unique, etc.?
~ our music is unique in that we have a swing/ragtime flavor, emphasize fingerstyle guitar playing, have a large % of vintage music back to 1870s in our mix, ??
~ our music is eclectic in that we include swing, folk, ragtime (in the old piano-style guitar sense), pop, blues, ???
~ our music is melodic, etc.....on and on

3. Band/Duo names chosen tend to focus on a) being descriptive, b) trying to be funny, c) creating contrasting images, d) trying to be hip or claim/express some value in popular culture, e) using actual names of those involved, f) sounding cool, i.e., the name sounds cools when you say it, e.g., The Dropkick Murphys, g) - z) some other reasons...or some combo of name types.

So, based on 1. - 3., the names we targeted were:

Vintage Acoustic - vintage implies higher-quality old stuff
Ragpickers - evokes images of early junkmen, ragtime music, finger-picking
One Big Note - blending, genre-bending,..

Then we chucked the whole process and called ourselves Home Brew. Because we just felt like it.

- Merritt

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 09:24 PM

I picked the name ShoreGrass because we're from the shoreline area of Connecticut and we play bluegrass - so it's where we're from and what we do. Everything around here is named Shoreline Plumbing or Shoreline Deli or Shore Whatever, so it's clear to locals what it means. Plus the image of shore grass along the coastline is nice.

I couldn't convince my husband to change our last name to Shore. That would have made the name work on several levels.

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 04:51 AM

Some friends of mine had a band, but could never decide on a name. At one gig, when it was way after closing time, the Landlord called out "Are you lads still drinking ?" - "Yes", they answered. After that they were always called "Still Drinking".

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 06:53 AM

My shanty singing friends have used the name The Roaring Forties since they started in 1988. The oldest turned 60 just before Christmas, the youngest is 52. Charley Noble met 2 of them when he was here in 2001, and I hope that we can all get together when he comes back sometime this year.

The 40s had their origin in a group of male & female singers who got together once a year in the early 80's to sing shanties, and sometimes called themselves The Fat Bearded Shantysingers (even tho not all of them fitted this description). Some of these singers got together with a few other singers in 1998 as The Bilgewater & Fishing Tackle Ensemble.

The Roaring Forties are winds in the Indian Ocean, famously used by sailing ships from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

sandra

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 07:15 AM

Vic and the Vapor Rubs, McKamikazie Highlanders, J. Arthur and the Rankers, Willie Cutts and the Circumcisionists, The Two Rhett's, Feck That, Young Gifted and Fat.......

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: GUEST,Ritchie
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 07:21 AM

I think the name "Shy talk" has a certain ring to it. The band I was in many moons ago were called "the Night" we always started with the old Van Morrison/Them classic ...well here it comes .....here comes the night.

good luck

Ritchie

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Green Man
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 08:28 AM

We never practised, we never sounded bad and always reckoned that bands that did sounded contrived so we became 'Unspoilt by Practice'.

Largely a session singaround band of occasional Morris Men, layabouts, techies, and drunks.

:-)

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: jimmyt
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 08:49 AM

My group is a revival of a group tht began in 1962. After forty years of not playing, they were asked to open for the Platters in a newly renovated theater's grand opening. I got a call from one of them explaining that they needed an acoustic upright bass player for a gig in three weeks time. We got together, rehearsed nightly for three weeks and got enough music ready for a half hour opening. We were much more popular than the Platters were and we opened twice to sold out houses of 1200 people. We call ourselves the Brookwoods. I asked why the Brookwoods?   The guitar player said, "when we got together in 1962, we were seeking a name, and we decided on the name given to the wonderful new subdivision, Brookwood!" (now a mature sort of down in its luck part of our town) So Brookwoods it is! Makes a good story for when we are performing. THree of the original four, all in high school in 1962 are still performing Kingston Trio, Limeliters, TOm Paxton. PP&M music. It also makes a good bit of conversatioon when say I am the new kid, they only change members every 40 years!

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Sam L
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 09:42 AM

One way to approach the songwriter+band situation is to be Your Name and the Somethings. Some people I knew were considering Jennifer and the Voids, because Jennifer worked in an art gallery and could not master voids on the cash register. But it would work best if the other members never showed up.

On a long drive we once tried to think of the bands named for every color, which is pretty easy, there are a lot. We finally got stumped on ochre. Til I thought of the Ochre-idge Boys

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: An Croenen
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 11:31 AM

Thanks, Fred.
Blending your first and second paragraph I come up with 'Snowwhite and the seven', but I'll keep on searching...
An

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: DADGBE
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 11:45 AM

Naming bands is a game at my house but my wife is beginning to resent being waked at 3 AM with another suggestion. It shows the limitation of her usually game spirit.
When it actually comes down to giving a name to some new configuration things get considerably more difficult. The present band, 'Stump Tail Dog' was named for an old-time tune after weeks of cogitation and hundreds of suggestions. Another short lived ensemble got the name 'Rarin' To Go' at our first contra dance. After weeks of not finding a name, The caller announced, "Take hands four, the band is rarin' to go." Eureka! The name was found.

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 12:19 PM

Kudzuman, 'fraid it's true: ginger beer = queer in rhyming slang. Not that use such offensive terms myself ...

Back in 197* Barrie Roberts, Nina Szifris and I teamed up briefly as "Riotous Assembly": three being the minimum number required by law for that kind of thing; when Nina moved on we went back to just being trouble-makers.

In the late 80s (or early 90s?) I teamed up with Celia Burton; being both computer whizz-kids, we settled on "Wysiwyg". I did think "what you hear ..." might have been more acurate, but we couldn't pronounce it ... I did hear of another outfit using the name a few years later, but we thought we'd wait and see if they became rich before we sued 'em.

More recently, Julie B and I have gone bu thename "Julie and Steve": not the most imaginative name, I suppose ...

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Pseudolus
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 12:47 PM

WYSIWYG is kinda famous around here, you might have to sue Susan!!!! *BG*


Frank

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 01:14 PM

When poeple ask me why our music group is called "Roll & Go" I usually answer first that it's in honor of a Chinese Take-Out place in Lansing, Michigan. A half hour later if they're still not satisfied, I mentioned that it's a nautical term for hauling on a long line, peeling up when you get to the end and running back up to the front, and what we mostly sing are nautical songs. Then I might add that one of the early sea music collectors and editors, Joanne Colcord, entitled her sea songs book ROLL AND GO, and that one of my early mentors, Bill Bonyun, did a recording of sea songs entitled ROLL AND GO. Apparently, other people are interested in our registered name because we get periodic inquiries from international transport companies asking us to sell it to them. No way! We'd rather get rich singing sea songs.

Roll & Go was one of the first names we tossed into the pot when we got started, and the make-up of "we" has changed over the last 12 years but the corporate entity sails on!

Sandra- our best to "The Roarin' Forties."

Cheerily,
Charley Noble
www.rollandgoseasongs.com

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: skarpi
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 01:37 PM

Well we had a proplem with the name but one of the member was watching the spiceshell at my kitchen and saw Aromat spice so he turned the name around and we got the name " TAMÓRA " that was a good name .
All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: GUEST,Sharon G
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 03:16 PM

My current band - Round the House- took on the name of our guitar player's former band. It is not super catchy as a name, but a nice connection to an Irish dance figure, and works for a group that plays Irish music and for dancers.


However Round the House doesn't get near the reaction of the name of the first band I joined: The Hot Desert Love Toads, which was corrupted from some other name long before I became rotated into the band as one of a long series of fiddlers.

And it isn't nearly as much fun conceptually as the name of the 2nd band I was in: Corned Beef and Couscous- which combined Irish and middle eastern music, sometimes at the same time. (It all started with the belly dancer said- "I could dance this to an Irish reel...."). A fun band that dissolved when the drummer moved away and the joke got old.

Sharon

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Shonagh
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 03:32 PM

I play in a ceilidh band from scotland. Our cello player came up with this name: Gled tae be Glaiket. Its a pretty doric name, so it probably only appeals to those around the north east! hehe. We always come on stage crying "Evenin! We are Gled tae Be Glaiket!" quite amusing really. I also play in another group of fiddlers from around the area of stathspey, aptly named The Strathspey Fiddlers!

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Schantieman
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 03:41 PM

I used to sing with four friends in an unaccomplished harmony group. Incessant suggestions, rejection and panic when we were about to perform. We eventually came up with 'Gusto' which I thought was pretty damn good. Even though we haven't sung together for years people still talk about singing with us.

Then my soon-to-be-ex-wife and I and another nearly-ex-couple sang together and called ourselves 'Vicious Circle' coz we stood like that to practise and kept arguing.

S

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 07:14 AM

LOL

"called ourselves 'Vicious Circle' coz we stood like that to practise and kept arguing." Steve, that's the funniest thing I've heard (read) today! #8-D

Mizz El

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 01:00 PM

Had a group with 8 of us in, called it Octamerous (it's a botanical term for something having having eight parts). When that group folded, 3 of us continued singing together. We called ourselves Triangl, really imaginative aren't I. The Triangl bit is also a play on the three of us being from England in Bilingual Canada, that's why there is no "e" on the end.
JohnB

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: GUEST,Les the thread jumper
Date: 15 Mar 03 - 03:09 AM

I once played in a group with the working title The Dog shit three. My son plays in a number of rock bands and we have discussed the naming problem off and on. It occurred to me that all the good names have been used and people need to search in other naming genre. Football teams have some good names: Locomotive Moscow for a start. Here in Manchester Gorton Tank was a famous Steam Engine and a brilliant Dance Band.Teams from small places often tack on 'Town'. A group from Scunthorpe could be Scunthorpe Town or better FC Scunthorpe! Chemicals have millions of names and puns run wild: Al de Hyde and the Ketones is prety awful for a start. Herbs have been pretty well decimated but the world of rocks and minerals is waiting to be mined.

OK, I will go now.

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Mar 03 - 08:09 AM

I always thought "Further Ado" would be a great name for a dance band. You know, "We're celebrating our wedding anniversary with Further Ado!"

Well, my last dance band didn't go for Further Ado and is still known as the Sea Slugs. I think they thought it made them sound like a punk band, the kind of band that has a few strongarm persons with crowbars guarding the stage.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: brioc
Date: 15 Mar 03 - 08:33 AM

We play Irish music. But because we are international, and living and playing in Switzerland, we call ourselves the Keltones. -celtic - - tones!!!!

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: mutineer
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 04:46 AM

Well my band tried to decide on a name, which ensued into an argument of some sort. Half of us wanted mutiny the other half wanted overboard. We settled on overboard, but found that was taken by a punk band in New York. The name Mutiny was taken by a local rock band. So, we put them together to come up with 'Mutiny Gone Overboard'. It's kind of a 'different' name but lots of people have told us they like it because of its uniqueness...lol
Slainte,
Paddy

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: vindelis
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 06:25 AM

When we 'started out', so to speak, four members were living in what is known as the 'Underhill' part of Portland. (Yes you've guessed it, the other is 'Tophill'); the two being divided by a steep rise of about three hundred feet. Getting from one to the other is by means of 'Old Hill' (now designated a footpath) or 'New Road', (built at the turn of the last century). Anyway I digress, we play a fair bit of folk/bluegrassy music, so we decided on the 'Underhillbillies'.

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: pavane
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 08:00 AM

Various bands overe the years

a) 1978 WOFE (White Oryx Folk Ensemble) from the name of the pub in Dubai where the folk club met at the time

b) 1980 Ratcliffe Highway
A street in London which became so notorious that it had to be renamed (just like the band). Same lineup though, all from Dubai-Sharjah Morris

c) 1981 Unadopted Woad (Not MY choice!)
Same culprits again, because we sang the Woad song

d) More recently, 1995 in Wales, 5 Bar Gait
Totally different line-up except Mr & Mrs Pavane. Name came up in a brain-storming session (starting at Gas Mark 5, woud you believe.)
Neat double pun on a relevant theme (we thought).

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Bruce
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 08:23 AM

Doing a small coffee house gig with a musical partner, playing a double fiddle arrangement of Cottage by the Sea as I recall. Someone asked "who plays second fiddle?" We argued about that for awhile, and since we did not have a name, started calling ourselves Second Fiddle.

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Tam the bam fraeSaltcoatsScotland
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 09:04 AM

We call ourselves Rumplefyke, which is an old Scottish word meaning "Itchy Arse'
And that's what we are a bloody irretent.

Tom

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 10:02 PM

We took the name Steel Ice Band because I thought for years that that's what people were saying when they talked about the Steeleye Span.

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Bsondahl
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 10:32 PM

One band I'm in I dubbed Musicians Anonymous because it grew out of weekly jam junkies deciding to play in public for a change, and we're sort of a self help group.

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 17 Mar 03 - 03:34 AM

There's a band from Birmingham (UK) way, from (presumably) Gravelly Hill (thoe old name for Spaghetti Junction) called "The Gravelly Hillbillies", which always tickles me.

Steve

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 17 Mar 03 - 03:39 AM

The road (Gravelly Hill) still exists thou' it merges into the Aston Expressway at Spag. Junction.

RtS
(useless info at no extra cost)

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Pseudolus
Date: 17 Mar 03 - 10:35 AM

There is a group of folks that occasionally got together to jam on wednesday night at a local bar that decided to give themselves the name "Whirled Peas". So every week they play for Whirled Peas!!!

Frank

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 17 Mar 03 - 10:49 AM

And how could I forget Milton Keynes' own Concrete Cowboys? (Expanation on request!)

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: GUEST,Foe
Date: 17 Mar 03 - 12:20 PM

I always thought if remnants of the Beatles and Eagles got together they could be the Beagles. During the time of the New Lost City Ramblers there was a Queens, New York, group that named themselves after a street where they lived -The New Lots Avenue Rumblers.

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 17 Mar 03 - 12:33 PM

Oh, man...

We have had so many names, it's scary. We were simply "The Pirates" for a lot of years. We tried on "The Singing Seadogs" for a time, and even bandied about the idea of "The Salty Seamen" (funny thought it may be, it would not have washed at many venues). We tried on a few Celtic sounding names, but, as we are not a strictly celtic group, they were all abandoned (though we still will haul out "The Hooligans" from time to time for some gigs).

In the end, we came back to our mostly nautical roots, and the one name that we had the longest, "The Pirates". We decided to put a bit of an historical spin on it by spelling it with a Y (Pyrates), and sliced a little from "Port Royal", a well known hang out of Caribbean pirates, and voila, "The Pyrates Royale" were born.

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: CraigS
Date: 17 Mar 03 - 08:29 PM

Some suggestions:

Dodder, Dither, and Haver

Flip and Flap (the Polish names for Laurel and Hardy)

Dinkum Bunkum

Gwladys

Scrapyard Sailors

PMT (What's that about?    DON'T ASK!)

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 18 Mar 03 - 03:12 AM

Foe: they could have been the Eatles...! And if Whoopi Goldberg had married Peter Cushing ... Is Blue Peter related to Hanging Johhny?

And somewhere along the A5 is a signpost that says:
      WOLVEY
      WILLEY
   which always sounds like it should be an affliction that was common among 18th century sailors.

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Peterr
Date: 19 Mar 03 - 11:52 AM

Used to be a band around the W Midlands rejoicing in the name Hog Snort Rupert and his Good Good Band. I like Green Man's Unspoilt by Practice. On our pub Morris side's cards and posters I have a little bit at the bottom 'Unspoilt by professionalism and unencumbered by talent'

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: PeteBoom
Date: 19 Mar 03 - 03:03 PM

OK - Used to sit in with a band playing Irish trad stuff... called themselves Ceoltori Gan-am - they couldn't think of a name...

Used to play in a band called The KWILS - took the first letter of the last name of the members and - schazam! a band name!

Currently play in a pipe band from Windor, Ontario, made up traditionally of members of Windsor Police Service or RCMP. They decided to allow civilians in to broaden the depth of ability and help the band be more competitive - and generally put on better performances. They are, and do. It is, logically, the Windsor Police Pipe Band.

BTW, membership in that band makes it a bit less of a hassle when ya tell the border guards you're on your way to, or coming back from, pipe band practice... returning from a performance, still in uniform, also is remarkably easy.

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: tar_heel
Date: 19 Mar 03 - 11:27 PM

we have been ,"the hemrick family singers"for over ten years now,but the kids(now 40 and 42 years old)do not perform with peg and me anymore...we appreciate their desires to live quiet lives at home with their own families now...so not long ago,peg and me have picked up a couple of young fiddle and banjo players...one afternoon we were getting in some great practice together on a creekbank near our homeplace...
i think the idea hit us both about the same time as i was looking at the Maple tree that we were standing under for shade out of the hot sun...she looked at the cool waters of the creek below us,we almost drew the same concusion at the same time...henceforth,the name,"maple creek,old-time band"was born...so now,it's chuck and peggi hemrick and the maple creek old-time band...

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 20 Mar 03 - 03:13 AM

How about "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac", as I believe they were first known?

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: alison
Date: 21 Mar 03 - 01:57 AM

I started this thread in mudcat in 1998...


and we're still playing now, (different lineup though)

Celtic Dreamtime

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: How did you name your band?
From: Washboard Wiggle
Date: 21 Mar 03 - 11:47 AM

I am currently in two groups:
1. Acoustic/blues/folk/americana, we are all in our late 40's & 50's. Came up with "One Foot In the Grave" but it was already being used for a old punkers group. So we use "One Foot In".

http://one-foot-in.com/

2. This group does cowboy, jug band, and Hawaiian tunes. So, "Kahuna Cowboys Jug Band" seemed to work well.

http://kahunacowboys.com/index.html

I suggest the name of a group should somehow have something to do with the group. But, then again your name means nothing. Let your music talk for itself.

Russ