BS: Band names

Subject: BS: Band names
From: GUEST,bluesjuls
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 10:51 AM

Ok for the ultimate quandry for a new band....name suggestions...we are what I like to call a rock-n-roll blues band. We have 2 guitarist, a sax player, a female lead, (but I don't do lead on all the songs), 90% covers such as Pride and Joy, Feeling allright, crossroads, red house, etc. My last band with a simlar song list was shadowcasters...I loved that name, but I'm the only member remaining in this band of that band so nobody's real hip on that....my drummer, who's a little anal, picked azul monster and the rest of us are luk-warm on that as was a couple of other forumns I posted to.....anybody have any thoughts?

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 11:02 AM

Azure Hear
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 05:23 PM

Baby Jump
The Small Roll Band
Equivox
Rythm'n'Grease
Skillet
32-20
3-Rooms
Uncle Red
White Boy Fuller
Minder
Contenter
Mars and Venus
Meathook
Roots
The F and M
Crossover
Studio Paul

Both Shadowcaster and Azul Monster suck bigtime.

The first one sounds like Cliff Richard meets Tolkein meets Fender, and the second sounds like new age hippy prog-rock.

Give us a clue on ethnicity and age-groups, gender apart from yourself: all play a part. I think there are some band-name-generator sites out there that may help, but the last two bands I know that used them got wishy-washy crap.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 06:27 PM

I have a LONG list of band names that I've/others have come up with, for various projects that have and haven't come together...

I'm keeping ALL of them

:-P

But... when you DO come up with one you think you like, google it... I'll wager there's already a band out there using it....   If not, then it's probably not as good an idea as you think it is.....

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 06:34 PM

'Kazbah'

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: bobad
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 06:42 PM

Young Jung

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 06:51 PM

The Walham Green Steam Cleaning Carpet beating and Rodent Exterminating Association.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: michaelr
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 06:53 PM

I wanted to call a band I started The Curbfeelers, but got voted down. It's yours if you want it.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 07:04 PM

Along the same line of thinking as Giok - just this morning after being passed by one of our local furnace vans, it struck me that 'Plumbing and Heating' is a good name for a band. Fans can always ask if they're curious about which one of you is which.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 17 Mar 06 - 02:31 AM

Fred's tool and pipe works

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Sooz
Date: 17 Mar 06 - 02:35 AM

I was always intrigued by "Seamus O'Blivion and the Megadeath Morrismen"

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 17 Mar 06 - 02:53 AM

There are 2 names I have devised for musical projects which didn't work out.
One was a relatively recent but failed attempt to form a Folk Rock band to be called "The Beat Roots Band" you are welcome to that one should you wish to use it.
The second dates from the early Eighties when excessive Cannabis use led me to misread the zeitgeist to the degree that I decided the time was ripe for a Psychedelic revival.
I established a (short lived) embryonic group to participate in this.
I called that group "Purple Foxx" but I later found an alternative use for that particular name.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 06 - 04:21 AM

Azure Blues Band... Asur Blues Band. Eeewww. I am still asleep. When I wake up, I won't be back.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Brass Monkey
Date: 18 Mar 06 - 03:48 AM

Heyday
Oblivion
Spore

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 18 Mar 06 - 03:56 AM

From vague memory both Oblivion and Spore have already been used by metal/death metal bands.

The advice above to do a google is sage.

However I think we have been taken in - it looks as if the OP has never come back, so was this thread genuine or not?

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Mar 06 - 06:15 AM

I still say Anna Valley and the Clatfords would be a great band name, but I suspect not for your kind of music.

It was a road sign near Salisbury, Wiltshire (UK) but when the local council replaced all the roadsigns, they left out the 'and'.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: David C. Carter
Date: 18 Mar 06 - 11:57 AM

Have been in 2 Bands:
Unpetroled Lead

The Black Enamled Stench

I didn't join a band since!

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Tam the man
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 12:57 AM

I belong to a group called Rumplefyke which is Scottish for itchy arse.

what about 'the group'

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: number 6
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 01:01 AM

A friend of mine in Windsor calls his band Bananasnout and the Big Johnsons.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 01:57 AM

Salvador Diddley's Surrealist Blues Experience

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 12:33 PM

Blues + Rock:

Blue Gravel

Blues, with little bits of rocks...

Obviously, I'd prefer the emphasis on the blues

John

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Severn
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 01:53 PM

How about "Not Just Another Blues Band"?

...Then all you gotta do is live up to it!

or "Paying Dues Til We Make It" if you're just starting out.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 02:29 PM

Open the telephone book to random pages in the business section until you see a name that appeals to you. Pick a name that can be altered to prevent legal hassles.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: jonm
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 03:19 AM

Have in the past past played in scratch bands under the names of Free Beer, Surprise Guests and To Be Confirmed.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: wordfella
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 06:51 AM

Players to be Named Later

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 08:47 AM

TBA

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 09:09 AM

Hard Time

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Snuffy
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 09:32 AM

The Bull's Hitters

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Arnie
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 11:07 AM

Have you thought of looking at an OS map and choosing a local name? I used to be in a folk group called Three Barrows Down - great name we thought, and also the name of a field (or 'down') opposite the pub where we started out - the barrows of course are pre-historic burial sites. Trouble is, there were 4 or even 5 of us, which used to confuse the audience - maybe that's why we folded!! So the Three Barrows are still there, but we ain't....

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: shepherdlass
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 05:31 PM

A band I was once in was nearly called The Big Cheese, which I still think is a great name. We couldn't use it, though, because the lead singer got paranoid because he thought we were referring to his ego!

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: lady penelope
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 05:40 PM

Local name eh? There's a place near Luton called Tyttenhanger (I kid you not.....)

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 03:38 PM

You say you play blues. How about "Bourbon Street"? Neil

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 03:44 PM

Sadly this one is already in use.
There is a band in my area called The Shy Tots.
Try saying it quickly.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 04:18 PM

I recall a scratch Band at Cambridge Fest being Larry Driver and The Truckers ! And me and my mate were No Turn Unstoned for a couple of years !!

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: closet-folkie
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 04:23 PM

"Marmoset Facial". Maybe not.

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 06:51 PM

Where is the OP?

Subject: RE: BS: Band names
From: GUEST,jts
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 07:41 PM

Blues crew