BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 10:03 PM

Whew...Allen, before I saw the picture, I was assuming the guy wore the gas mask on his face ! Not that it isn't pitiful enough as is, but...whew.

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 09:23 PM

Wow, Alan...

That reminded me of an early 60s band in Richmond called "Titfield Thunderbolt"... They played, ahhhh, a card table and an old AM radio...

Never mind...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 09:19 PM

My memory seems to have been playing tricks. It was Vernon Vomit, not Vick. And it was King George - not King Edward.

Anyway he's a picture of the gasmask:-

http://www.angelfire.com/band2/brownsville/from1977.htm

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 09:10 PM

Probably my my favourite band of all time were a Bolton outfit called brownsville banned who played the UK folk circuit in the 1970's.

There were two mainstays the mad professor who used to dance round the stage wearing mothing but a gas mask with a very penile tube coming out of the nose. And King Edward, who played the banjo.

The other member was Doc. Who wore a doctors white tunic, apart from the times he took on his alter ego King of the Working Mens Clubs Singer - Norman Mills. Norman used to sing Spanish Eyes - every few lines there would be note so ludicrously out of tune. that the whole audience simply exploded with laughter.

Towards the end of the 70's they recruited a fourth member, who worked under the name - Vic Vomit, King of the Punk Rockers.

just the best act i ever saw, anywhere. Sadly i started gigging myself so i started missing their gigs. then one day i looked, and they were gone.

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 04:05 AM

The rock band of some fiends of mine features

HRH (when he's not around) or "Rockstar" on drums,
formerly "Gu" on lead guitar
formerly "the Reverend" aka "the Preacher" on keys
"Boris" on bass

oh and "the Leader" on vox.

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 03:35 AM

We had a banjo player called ' that twat on the banjo '

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 01:03 AM

Bass player from New Jersey, (a REALLY good one, too!) 'Alleyway Slim'.

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: J-boy
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 12:39 AM

How can you tell if the stage is level? The drummer is drooling out of BOTH sides of his mouth. My brother is a drool..er drummer and loves that joke.

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 07:27 PM

Thanks, Eb... Don't have any choice 'cause my mom is still around and she never passes up an opportunity to remind me that I'm not too old to spank!!! And she has always had class... I loved the picture in the Washington Post that came out around '63 of her at a Civil Rights demonstration and she had her "pink" gloves on... Now that is class!!!

Me??? Okay, never pink gloves at any demonstrations but...

Oh, never mind...

B~

BTW, seeing as this is about names of band-mates, I figured that I'd throw in a little band-name trivia... One of the most popular bands in DC in the late 60s was a band by the name of "Claude Jones", who was not only their equipment/sound guy but also the 1st person busted in California foe possession of LSD after it was made illegal...

End of side-bar...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 06:25 PM

Frogprince, I don't know that guy really well- I suppose you could be right.

Naaah. Our Beaubear has class.

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 05:17 PM

haha...

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 01:03 PM

Ebbie, wasn't that the guy whose girlfriend wrote that song about him that goes, "one o' these days these boots are gonna walk all over you"?

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 12:40 PM

And I know a band that has a singer/bluesman who goes by the name of 'Sidewalk Bob.' Imagine that! :)

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: Mooh
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 10:52 AM

Silver (sometimes Sliver)...drummer.

Rat...multi-instrumentalist.

Bud...guitarist.

Bub...guitarist/singer.

Gutty...drummer.

Cruiser...drummer.

And lots of temporary names like Slick, Smiler, Greasy, and Coonhound.

Remember the Animal House scene where Belushi names the frat boys? Flounder always cracks me up.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: EBarnacle
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 10:36 AM

What's in a Nane?
A musician by any other nane would play as sweet...
But then he'd not be available for the gigs to greet.

My friend Spook would agree with that.

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 08:44 AM

Useta be in a band with a guy whose last name was Lopez.

Lopez was fond of tokin' the herb. When he'd overdo it, he was Dopez.

Promptness wasn't exactly one of Lopez's virtues. When he was late for practice or a gig, he was Sloplez.

And every now and then, Lopez just wouldn't show up at all, in which case he was Nopez.

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 08:11 AM

Actually, f-prince, it is unreleased... That's all I think I can say about it at this point in time...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: frogprince
Date: 31 Mar 11 - 10:47 PM

Bobert, which song by "999" didja do? Somehow my nickle bet would be "I Can See You Now" Whichever, would have loved to have heard it.

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Mar 11 - 10:33 PM

Hey, insanity...

Speakin' of band, I recorded a geetar track on a real sweet GUEST 999's original that was gonna be on the next Mud CD and somehow it got the Xs & Os messed up on the trackin... I donno... But I also recorded one of my blues originals, "Buttermilk Blues" an' I reckon it's gonna be on the CD...

Better than the last stuff I gave 'um which was like, ahhhhh, 30 year old 70's folkie crap... Hey, it was okay fir 70s...

LOL...

Also had a drummer, "Lathan Leonidos Thigpen, III"...

Hey, I don't make this shit up... I mean, I couldn't...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 31 Mar 11 - 10:00 PM

'Dick-Wad'...blueser from.....oooops , Hi Bobert!

Wink,
GfS

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Mar 11 - 09:59 PM

And I knew a Sousaphone player named "Bob"!!

Subject: RE: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Mar 11 - 09:58 PM

Well, some of my fellow trumpeters were called "Joe," "Mike," "Mary Agnes," and "Jim."

Talk about your weird names!

Subject: BS: StrangeNanes for Band-mates???
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Mar 11 - 09:54 PM

Don't know why I thought of this this evening but over the years I've had some strange band-mates and then I've had a couple with some very strange band-names...

A couple jump out fir me:

"Fuzz-bat": bass player

"Chicken Baltimore": also a bass player

How about ya'll??? I'm sure there are some doozies out there...

B~