BS: Favorite Band Names

Subject: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Raptor
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 12:53 PM

Even if its been done before

What band names do you Like/Find funny?

My Fave is a band that used to play In Toronto Called " Dick Duck and the Dorks"

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Raptor
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 04:17 PM

Or "Free Steak and Beer" that was a good one

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: beadie
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 04:55 PM

A few years back, there was a bluegrass outfit playing out of Milwaukee calling themselves "Grass, Food & Lodging" and using a logo patterned after the large green signs appearing alongside America's freeways.

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 11:47 PM

I like the "Flying Chaucers."

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 02:19 AM

In the 60s we had a bluegrass band in New Zealand called "Eloitious (sp?)Fingerpicks, and the Aristocratic Skillet-Lickers - with Fiddling Mother Colleen". Having spent hours practicing getting my tongue round the title, I got up on stage, and announced them - only to be told "We've just changed our name to 'Hamilton County Bluegrass Band
'!". Aaargghh...

Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 01:04 AM

I think the most brilliant band name of all time was "The Rolling Stones". You can't come up with a better one than that.

As for "The Beatles", that was a bit silly sounding, but it didn't matter, cos the band itself was superb.

And then there's "The Band". Now THAT's a masterpiece of literal simplicity, if ever there was one.

As for funny/ridiculous/gross band names, how about: Bunchafuckingoofs, Cardboard Brains, Dead Kennedys, Nazi Dog and the Viletones, the Fugs, Limp Biscuit, the Swollen Members, the Slits, and Stark Naked and the Fleshtones.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Ralphie
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 04:53 AM

Not to forget, "Half Man Half Biscuit", "Napalm Death", and "Extreme Noise Terror".
Must get out more!
Ralphie
Oh, and "God is my Co-pilot"

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Mr Red
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 06:27 AM

I think Hank Wangford on his own was funny enough considering he was a Harley St gaenacologist. But he did have a band and the lead singer (real name Melanie Hrrold) called herself Irma Seetas, sweet little thing she was.

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: zanderfish3 (inactive)
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 08:26 AM

There is a band in the Calder Valley [ West Yorkshire ] called ' Free
Sandwiches ' my current loosely knit band sometimes 3, 4. but mostly a duo is called ' Play For Ale '

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 12:27 PM

Remember that era when it was cool to give bands names like: the Shirelles, the Shondells, the Ronnettes, and that sort of thing? Now what would you call that style of band naming? It's amazing, people's search to be cool, isn't it?

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: okthen
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 02:05 PM

Mr. Red,
Hank Wangford took his psuedonym from the village he was born in, Wangford, just outside Southwold, on the north Suffolk coast........
There's not a lot of people know that...........

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 04:56 PM

A polka band under the direction of "Whoopie" John Wilfart.

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 06:30 PM

How about John Renbourn's pre-Folk rock group:
            
                     Hogsnort Rupert and the Porkestra

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 07:02 PM

1. Bloodwyn Pig
2. Kinky Freidman and the Texas Jew Boys
3. Doctor Rupert and the Wiggly Digits
4. SteelMill (Springstein's old Band0
5. The Who

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Mr Red
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 07:18 PM

okthen

Hank Wangford could not has conducted successful surgeries if his alter ego was known to the patient - the mind boggles at the scenario........

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 08:04 PM

The Rolling Stones took their name from a song by The Kingston Trio! Now were back to Folk music!

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Ely
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 08:27 PM

I thought it was from Dylan. Oh, well.

I used to dance to a band called Random Acts of Violins.

It's not actually a band, but there's a music-and-potluck group down here called Bread & Jam. Ha ha.

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Snuffy
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 09:22 PM

I never knew Suffolk had a north coast!

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 09:40 PM

"Stones" began their career about 1962, Dylan's (great) record was 1965(or 6?).

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Jul 03 - 01:41 AM

1965 is right for the Dylan song. Then the magazine Rolling Stone took its name from (most likely) the Dylan song. As to why Dylan used the phrase "like a rolling stone" in his song...just because it sounded right, I imagine, rather than that it had anything to do with Mick Jagger and the boys. In more recent times, Mick and the boys recorded the Dylan song on a live album, and did it well too.

Too bad Barry Manilow never had a band name for his sidemen. Hey, let's think up one! Someone start a thread to do that, please. I have to go to bed NOW.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jul 03 - 01:47 PM

My favorite groups have names like: "Rice, Rice, Hillman and Peterson", "Berline-Crary-Hickman", "Garcia/Grisman", "Auldridge-Bennett-Gaudreau" and :Rual, Red & Joe". Guess these guys have to rely on musicianship cuzz they shure can't sell the product by grabbing a clever handle!

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Mooh
Date: 06 Jul 03 - 05:12 PM

Once played in a band named (by fans!) Frankie And The Penetrators. Lousy, usually drunk, rock cover band, and it was a low point in our collectively mediocre music careers.

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Mothers of Invention
Flaming Groovies
ditto The Rolling Stones
Crowbar
Thundermug

Excuse me while I trip down memory lane...

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jul 03 - 05:42 PM

Lord Invader and the Penetrators was the origional calypso group. Late 1940"s if you can beleive it. Kingston Trio, bane of Folk progressives, spread "The Zombie Jamboree" far and wide. May their tribe increase.

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Deckman
Date: 06 Jul 03 - 06:04 PM

My all time favorite band name came from a Seattle group ... "SWEATY NIPPLES!" Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Raptor
Date: 06 Jul 03 - 07:52 PM

Tha stones got thier name from a muddy Waters song I dought they'ed heard of the kingston trio!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jul 03 - 08:28 PM

Ol' Mick made that up that story much later (as cover) when the Kingston boys became the epitome of un-hip!

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Jul 03 - 08:35 PM

Deckman (Bob) might like 'Sweaty Nipples', but for groups who really 'get down to basics' you'd have to go a long way to beat '10cc' & 'The Loving Spoonful', both of which (apparently) refer to the average quantity of male ejaculata during sex

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Raptor
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 10:21 AM

Guest Where did you get those facts?

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 11:24 AM

Radio interview with ol' Mick back in the 60's. If wrong, sorry 'bout that. I really do not like the Stones anyway. I like more positive music.

Can you name the Muddy Waters tune?

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: MikeofNorthumbria
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 12:35 PM

As a youth, I fantasised about calling my first proper band "The Same".

Our debut album would be entitled "The Same to You!", quickly followed by "Same Again", and then "More of the Same". After a period of rest and re-asssement, and some changes in the line-up, we'd release "Same Difference".

Disappointed by critical hostility and lukewarm audience reaction, the new band would disperse for about ten years, before re-forming once more to cash in on the nostalgia market with "The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same". Then we'd do a lucrative farewell tour and disband for good.

Well, it never happened, and now it never will. If anyone wants to borrow the idea, they're welcome.


Wassail!

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Raptor
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 12:43 PM

either "mannish boy"

or "I'm a Man"

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 01:10 PM

If you are certain, OK. It is your Thread. Official retraction!

By the way, are you a Haliaeethus leucocephalus? Maybe a Falco sparverius?                        (no italics on this rig)

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Deckman
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 05:09 PM

Or ..."Same old ... same old!" Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Deckman
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 05:11 PM

To Nigel Parsons: Hmmm, I wonder who I should ask? CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Cluin
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 05:55 PM

The Very Men

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 08:51 PM

There's the Butthole Surfers....

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Cluin
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 11:41 PM

She Stole My Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 09:15 AM

MikeofNorthumbria is the clear winner!

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Raptor
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 10:55 AM

I'm not saying I'm right (I'm married so I'm always Wrong!). It's just that I'd never heard that and I can't imagine Kieth and Mick ever listening to the Kingston Trio!

But I don't know them I just can't see it! I know that they loved the blues and the Muddy Waters thing makes more sence.

Respectfuly Raptor (the Plagerising Ahole).

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 11:49 AM

A guy I knew back in Richmond in the 60s was going to call his band "The Walham Green Steam Beating Carpet Cleaning, and Rodent Exterminating Association" It looks like Tim never made it!!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 11:55 AM

Please, no self-flagellation! I did not say I was right or wrong, I just retracted my statement. I love peace. Time to move on. I just like the Kingston Trio and feel they are not well-treated anymore. Please listen to the song if you get a chance.

PS: nice thread

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Raptor
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 12:15 PM

Self what?

Whats the name of the song?
I'm not as familiar with the as I'd like to be. And can you recomend a K Trio record to buy please!

Raptor (the add on from my last post was a joke from another thread)

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 05:07 PM

Thanks for answering. This could be a fun place.

It was their first record. Red cover. Not sure, my turntable is defunct.

I bought "Live at Newport" last year. First-time release of 1959 concert. Atleast it shows how well they could connect with their audience.

Won't touch the bird names?

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 05:31 PM

Oops. Forgot name. A spin-off of the Grateful Dead called "Too Loose to Truck". Paints a great picture, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Gray D
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 08:06 PM

There's a local crew called "The Love Handels".

Maaaahvellous,

Gray D

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 09 Jul 03 - 10:12 AM

While a band name like "Free Beer" might draw a crowd, I think a name like "Closed for Repairs" might have an opposite effect...

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Raptor
Date: 09 Jul 03 - 10:18 AM

Theres a band playing around north of toronto call the "Sweater Puppets"

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Cluin
Date: 09 Jul 03 - 12:37 PM

There used to be a bar band in Toronto called "Bunch of F___in' Goofs".

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jul 03 - 04:42 PM

How about the "High Level Ranters". British I think, but probably a major influence on the Mudcat Forum!

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names
From: Renegade
Date: 09 Jul 03 - 05:20 PM

Not to beat a dead horse, but if memory serves me
Muddy Waters recorded "Rolling Stone" or "I'm A Rolling
Stone" in the early 50's. Pre-Elvis 50's.

The Stones were enamored with the whole blues sound; they covered
a lot of blues material on the early albums, and named one of those albums after Chess Records' address in Chicago. Maybe recorded
some of it there. I'm sure it's on a web site somewhere.

Bill