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04 Aug 11 - 04:09 PM (#3201856) Subject: BS: Best Band Names From: DrugCrazed Last night I heard a band called "Dr Butler's Hatstand Medicine Band", and wondered if you lot knew any bands that are called similarly silly names. I did want to call my folk band "Feedback On The Banjo" after a comment someone made to a sound engineer during a sound check. |
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04 Aug 11 - 04:18 PM (#3201861) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Jack the Sailor I don't think you want to ask for feedback on the banjo during a gig. It seems like an invitation to heckle to me. Led Zeppelin comes to mind. Dr Hook and the Medicine Show Pink Floyd was supposedly named after a sex toy. There are hundreds. |
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04 Aug 11 - 04:25 PM (#3201870) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: DrugCrazed It was the singer saying "Fred! There's feedback on the banjo!" which made me think "Man, that would be a good band name". |
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04 Aug 11 - 04:26 PM (#3201871) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Smokey. (leaping at a chance for pedantry) Pink Floyd were named after Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, as any fule kno. The 1910 Fruitgum Company. |
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04 Aug 11 - 04:36 PM (#3201879) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Jack the Sailor Two eminent dildos no doubt. ;-) You know, taking two random first names from a blues album is about as dumb a way to name a band as I can imagine. |
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04 Aug 11 - 05:08 PM (#3201901) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Becca72 I was always fond of "Zodiac Mindwarp And The Love Reaction" |
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04 Aug 11 - 05:15 PM (#3201905) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Bobert Bloodwyn Pig... B~ |
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04 Aug 11 - 05:21 PM (#3201908) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Jack the Sailor Humphrey and the Dumptrucks |
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04 Aug 11 - 05:23 PM (#3201912) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Bobert Well, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention my 70s country rock band, "Doctor Rupert (me) and the Wiggly Digits"... B~ |
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04 Aug 11 - 05:42 PM (#3201929) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Smokey. You know, taking two random first names from a blues album is about as dumb a way to name a band as I can imagine. Having spent much time in early 70's rock bands, I can tell you there are far, far dumber ways.. They started as a blues band and Anderson and Council were heroes of the guitarist, Syd Barrett. |
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04 Aug 11 - 08:16 PM (#3202067) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: michaelr The sex toy was Steely Dan, a chrome dildo featuring in Burroughs' "Naked Lunch". |
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04 Aug 11 - 08:41 PM (#3202077) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity String Cheese Incident...(great group!) GfS |
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04 Aug 11 - 09:35 PM (#3202090) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: DrugCrazed I remembered a good one and rushed to the thread to post it. I just forgot it. All I can remember is that it was 6/7 words long and ended with Orchestra. DAMN YOU ALCOHOL!* *which is the name of my Pogues cover band. Nailed it. |
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05 Aug 11 - 03:47 PM (#3202188) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: MGM·Lion The Electric Light Orchestra |
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05 Aug 11 - 03:56 PM (#3202193) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: fat B****rd Haven't we done this before? Machine Gun Felatio (that's the band name - not me) Achilles and his Heels |
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05 Aug 11 - 04:39 PM (#3202226) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Little Hawk The Band The Rolling Stones Nazi Dog and the Viletones Stark Naked and the Fleshtones Bolt Upright and the Erections The Voidoids Teenage Head Amazing Disgrace |
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05 Aug 11 - 05:35 PM (#3202272) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Smokey. The best band names are short. That way you get bigger lettering on the advertising material. |
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05 Aug 11 - 05:41 PM (#3202281) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Jack the Sailor "Gnu" would be good name for a band. Think of the album titles. "Gnu Wave" "Gnu Kids on The Block" "What's Gnu?" |
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05 Aug 11 - 06:28 PM (#3202322) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Smokey. Annie Get Your Gnu. |
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05 Aug 11 - 09:43 PM (#3202415) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: JohnInKansas I've always sort of liked the "Creatures from the Black Saloon," but a more local band that tried "It Came From Outer Pawhuska" wasn't really good enough to satisfactorily test whether the play on bad movie titles has any inherent value to contribute to a band's success. A regional favorite for several decades was billed as "The Exlax Symphony" with considerable success; but a lot of people seeing the name for the first time without the customary "Music to Make You Move" footnote had to have it explained. John |
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06 Aug 11 - 12:40 AM (#3202478) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Big Ballad Singer One of my 'characters' I have performed with is called Doggy Num-nums. I once named a punk band the Maniac Ketchup Bottles. I even had an idea to marry bleak poetry with hardcore country music and present a band called Edgar Allan Cash. Sort of a gothic/folk-blues thing. Might still. ;) |
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06 Aug 11 - 01:39 AM (#3202485) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Neil D "Dr. Sir Warrior and His Original Oriental Brothers International Band" |
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06 Aug 11 - 03:14 AM (#3202505) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: MGM·Lion The Who |
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06 Aug 11 - 03:26 AM (#3202509) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: MGM·Lion ---Haven't we done this before?--- === Yay; searched 'band names' & found several, one of which I OPd in Feb 2010 as "Favourite band names, any genre"; another back in 2002.+++++++ Still ~ wotthehell archie BUT in what conceivable way is this a "non-music thread, eh? ~M~ |
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06 Aug 11 - 04:16 AM (#3202528) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: GUEST,banjovey Spinach For Norman Beachy Headbangers |
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06 Aug 11 - 07:43 AM (#3202581) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Les in Chorlton The Beech Band We play in The Beech Inn, Beech Road, Chorlton, Manchester M21 9EG Oh and we are a band of who ever turns up plays L in C# |
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06 Aug 11 - 08:18 AM (#3202592) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Jack the Sailor Gnu are my Sunshine |
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06 Aug 11 - 11:49 AM (#3202698) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: Jack the Sailor Wailin Jennies is a cool name. How about Humpback Wailers? |
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06 Aug 11 - 12:57 PM (#3202724) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: GUEST,999 Tommy Underwear and his Elastic Band |
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06 Aug 11 - 02:24 PM (#3202793) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: DrugCrazed It's BS because it's stupid band names that we've heard - the actual band itself wasn't the point. |
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06 Aug 11 - 02:26 PM (#3202797) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: gnu JtS... you must be on vacation... and very bored... hahahaha. 999... ditto! I like that one. |
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06 Aug 11 - 02:59 PM (#3202816) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: BTNG Mabel Greer's Toyshop. Personnel: Jon Anderson vocals Peter Banks guitar Clive Bailey guitar Chris Squire bass Tub Thumper(John Cymbal) drums |
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06 Aug 11 - 04:15 PM (#3202871) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: MGM·Lion DrugCrazed ~~ you asked for *Best* band names. If you had wanted *stupid* ones, why didn't you say so? Or don't you know the difference. Perhaps it's the drugs? ~M~ |
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06 Aug 11 - 05:01 PM (#3202891) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: DrugCrazed But the stupid ones are the best! |
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06 Aug 11 - 05:42 PM (#3202917) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: gnu Ooooo... corn flakes a bit soggy? Say... Soggy Corn Flakes. How's that? |
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07 Aug 11 - 12:47 AM (#3203094) Subject: RE: BS: Best Band Names From: MGM·Lion No, they are not. Ingeniously multi-punning ones [work out all the various implications and references subsumed in 'The Electric Light Orchestra' ~ electric; electric light; light orchestra] are the best. 'The Beatles' isn't stupid; it's a goodish pun. ~M~ |
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07 Aug 11 - 04:25 AM (#3203130) Subject: : Best Band Names From: GUEST,Oldtimer In the early 70s there was a three piece Rock band in Ferbane , Co Offaly ROI calling themselves" The Cunning Stunts" |
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07 Aug 11 - 01:45 PM (#3203369) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: GUEST When I went to UT Austin a few decades back, I saw three band fliers on one phone pole; Liquid Mice, Bouffant Jellyfish, and Childbearing Hips. --Nonie |
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07 Aug 11 - 02:22 PM (#3203400) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: Rusty Dobro My own loose and slightly raffish ensemble, the Trembling Wheelbarrows, (deservedly Suffolk's best-kept musical secret)were named on the spur of the moment when our extremely loose and raffish front man, Mr Doc Cox, was being interviewed over the 'phone by Mojo magazine for a 'where are they now?' article charting his progress since his careers as TV presenter and instigator of several rude but funny CDs. Back in those days, his band went out as Ivor Biggun and the Red Nose Burglars. |
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07 Aug 11 - 02:26 PM (#3203407) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: GUEST,Bored Sultans of Ping FC Lawnmower Deth The Normals The Voice Squad Elmer Fudd Support Garbage Johnny Moped The Archers of Loaf The Butthole Surfers Enough. I'm bored again. |
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07 Aug 11 - 02:54 PM (#3203426) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: Les in Chorlton Before we had a "proper name" between ourselves we were called The Dog Sh*t Three.This joke had been shared with Jen's dad. This came undone one night when the other two found themselves having tea with Jen's mum & dad and a nun. Jen's mum was proud of her daughter and her voice and explained to the nun that she sang in a group. Oh, said the nun, what is your group called? Under his breath but slightly too loud Jen's dad muttered The Dog Sh*t Three. On hearing this and much too the nun's surprise Dave lost his tea across the table. L in C# |
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07 Aug 11 - 02:54 PM (#3203427) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: MGM·Lion I used to like Nick Barraclough's Telephone Bill & the Smooth Operators ~~ US readers will probably not appreciate that a 'telephone bill' here is an account for payment from the telephone company: what you call a bill we call a [bank]note... ~M~ |
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07 Aug 11 - 03:14 PM (#3203439) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: Smokey. Jennifer Short & the Abbreviations. |
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07 Aug 11 - 05:42 PM (#3203520) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: GUEST,Wombat The Nicaraguan over eighties nudist leapfrog troop. |
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07 Aug 11 - 08:32 PM (#3203615) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: DrugCrazed I had a friend who wanted to make a band called "Drinks On The House", for the simple notes on the doors that would say "Tonight: Drinks On The House!" that could entice people in, expecting a free drink. |
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07 Aug 11 - 09:17 PM (#3203631) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: GUEST,bige http://www.pacific-gas-electric.com/bio.html |
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08 Aug 11 - 05:31 AM (#3203745) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: GUEST,zalby57 myself and 2 colleagues did a charity gig at works social a couple of years back, we went under the name of "Thruppence Short Of A Euro" |
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21 Apr 14 - 03:59 PM (#3620903) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: Vic Smith As a member of The Sussex Pistols I have always been a fan of silly and punning band names, so I was delighted to receive the regular e-mail circular - Folk music news from York and the surrounding area - and to read about a concert headlined by The Grand Old Uke of York |
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21 Apr 14 - 07:24 PM (#3620977) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: GUEST,eldergirl Heard a band last month called the S Pub Four, they've been going a few years now, they are Steve, Sally, Sally and Sue. Unless it was Steve, Sally, Sue and Sue.. I was once part of a band which the leader and main songwriter wanted to call Windrush, but the bass player would have none of it and threatened to walk. |
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22 Apr 14 - 03:11 AM (#3621047) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: GUEST There used to be a band in Harrogate called MROR (Money for old Rope) |
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22 Apr 14 - 03:52 AM (#3621059) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: Dave Hanson 60s folk band, Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra, and a local [ Bradford ] band, Denny And The Howling Whippets. Dave H |
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22 Apr 14 - 04:22 AM (#3621065) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: Leadfingers Group of young lads at Siddders a few years back , doing a mix of R&B and Trad Irish , called themselves B0 Diddly Diddly |
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22 Apr 14 - 04:26 AM (#3621066) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: Musket Years ago at a festival, a band I was in followed The Hot Pot Belly Band on stage at a festival. I thought they had a cool name. When I was playing punk, we changed the name of bands all the time, mainly to get repeat bookings at a venue that wanted to give priority to first timers, (The Ship in Worksop.) We went through everything from The Raving Gingers to the "I'm not putting that on a poster!" Masturbating Malcolm and the Arsehole Lubricators. In folk, a duo using our own names, we got a booking and they asked us what we called ourselves. Trying to be a smartarse, I said Norfolk and Goode. An old joke but one he obviously hadn't heard, as we saw on the posters when we got there....... I don't know how many expected comedy but we played jigs, reels etc interspersed with Scottish ballads where everybody gets massacred. |
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22 Apr 14 - 04:41 AM (#3621074) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: LesB Deaf Shepard, although when I play some tunes in a floor spot at the folk club & I get all & sundry up to play along I jokingly refer to us as The Gastric Band. Cheers Les |
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22 Apr 14 - 05:28 AM (#3621095) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: Brian Peters I seem to remember a 1970s Manchester band called Wayne Kerr and the Right-Hand Men. |
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22 Apr 14 - 05:52 AM (#3621103) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: Nick Always liked "The Jimmy Shandrix Experience" I used to play in a band called Box of Goats which people seemed to find slightly odd but which makes perfect sense if you use a random band name generator |
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22 Apr 14 - 05:54 AM (#3621104) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: Nick Sorry, wrong spelling - Jimi Shandrix Experience |
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22 Apr 14 - 09:57 AM (#3621197) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: meself I've said it before and I'll say it again: The Cheap Suit Serenaders has never been topped as a name. |
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22 Apr 14 - 10:11 AM (#3621203) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: GUEST What kind of folkers are you? Getting this far without any mention of the Donzo Dog Doo Dah Band... |
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22 Apr 14 - 10:26 AM (#3621214) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: Vic Smith I once called a dance with a pick-up band from Southampton that had never played together before or since. What's the name of that river that flows into Southampton Water? What's another name for a 'pick-up' band? T |
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22 Apr 14 - 10:29 AM (#3621216) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: Vic Smith Whoops! Continued from previous post.... That night I worked with the only ever performance by the Itchen Scratch Band |
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22 Apr 14 - 10:34 AM (#3621219) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: GUEST That goes back - Warsash? |
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22 Apr 14 - 10:37 AM (#3621221) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: MGM·Lion Guest 1011 ~~ I presume you mean the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band? |
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22 Apr 14 - 01:27 PM (#3621287) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: JHW The Butter Mountain Boys Albatrosity |
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22 Apr 14 - 03:49 PM (#3621329) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: Tattie Bogle Ceilidh band called Ceilidh Minogue. Bagpipe, guitar and drum band called The Red Hot Chilli Pipers. I play in The X-tet (where x = any number as we never know who's going to turn up), and there's also "The Occasionals". |
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23 Apr 14 - 02:08 AM (#3621418) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: PHJim I played in a bluegrass band where the Dobro player was named Reg Buck. We called ourselves "Buck & Loose Change". Another roots band was called "Late For Dinner". We said, "You can't call us anything, but you can all us Late For Dinner." Right now I play in a jug band. One of our members' father played in a dance band called the Merry Land Collegians and they had black velvet music stand banners with MLC embroidered in gold. We used one of those banners and called ourselves the MLC JUg Band for our first couple of gigs. We asked the audience to try to think up a good name for the band. They came up with some interesting ideas: "Mamma's Little Cuties", "Meat & Livestock Commission", "Misery Loves Company" and a dozen or so others. We finally decided on The Maple Leaf Champions Jug Band, since there hadn't been any Maple Leaf Champions since 1967. |
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23 Apr 14 - 02:47 PM (#3621678) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: meself Luther Wright & the Wrongs (Canadian rock band). |
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23 Apr 14 - 03:49 PM (#3621690) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: Richard Mellish Then there was The Otterby Band, so called because they oughta be banned. |
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23 Apr 14 - 05:25 PM (#3621727) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: GUEST,disillusioned folkie Jinks' Stack comes to mind, not because of the name but because they were introduced once by Martin Wyndham Read as 'Jack Stinks' and also by Les barker as 'Josephine's Socks'. Great days they once were! |
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23 Apr 14 - 06:59 PM (#3621746) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: GUEST,DTM Back in the 60's there was "Fred Walking Stick & The Electric Wireless Orchestra" covering Eden Kane's "Well I Ask Ya". Whenever someone asked us for the name of our band we would jokingly say "Bobby Brief & The Y-Fronts". |
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24 Apr 14 - 06:25 AM (#3621873) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: Vic Smith Older contributors may be able to raise a chuckle at a one-time Glasgow band - The Govan Spoonful. |
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24 Apr 14 - 11:30 AM (#3621968) Subject: RE: Best Band Names From: PHJim Four members of a folk club I belonged to in the late eighties formed a group and were rehearsing for a summer festival. I had just attended an organisation meeting for the folk club and when I arrived at the rehearsal I was asked, "What did you get accomplished at the meeting?" I answered, "Dick all," and the other guys figured that would be a good name for our group, even though none of us were named Dick. We played one gig with that name and when we were told that some folks might be offended by the name, we changed it. The bass player had just had a tape recorder returned from the shop with a ticket that said, "Beyond Repair," so that became our new name. |