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19 Feb 07 - 05:48 PM (#1972944) Subject: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Wesley S Often I'll be listening to the news and I'll hear a phrase and say to myself "That's a good name for a band". The one I just heard was about the tainted peanut butter that was recalled. The headling mentioned: "The Peanut Butter Probe" It sounds uncomfortable doesn't it? And yes I'm guessing that this thread might easily take us to places that deserve to be in the BS section. But if someone thinks this belongs above the line - so be it. Also: "Bipolar Wife", and "Fictional Presidents" |
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19 Feb 07 - 05:59 PM (#1972953) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: GUEST,lox Did you put the BS prefix therre yourself? ... ... just wondering like ... |
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19 Feb 07 - 06:00 PM (#1972954) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: skipy Elastic. Skipy |
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19 Feb 07 - 06:18 PM (#1972973) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: katlaughing With a little editing: The Body Fighters, a tribute band to ANS |
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19 Feb 07 - 06:22 PM (#1972983) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Phil Cooper A pearls before swine tribute band: Skypeople (if you have the second ESP album you'll know the song I'm talking about). |
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19 Feb 07 - 06:26 PM (#1972990) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Ebbie When I belonged to an 'open' dance band- sometimes we had five players and other times there were 13 - I proposed that we call ourselves 'The Rubber Band'. |
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19 Feb 07 - 06:31 PM (#1972996) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Sorcha katlaugh, I LOVE yours! |
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19 Feb 07 - 07:07 PM (#1973029) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Liz the Squeak I still reckon the best one is a road sign that used to be on the A303 near Salisbury... Anna Valley and the Clatfords. I see them as a sort of bluesy, folksy, bluegrassy kind of jug band with a couple of banjos and a mule. The mule is for tuning the banjos. LTS |
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19 Feb 07 - 07:23 PM (#1973046) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: skipy I surpose that "satans cotton fingers" is out of the question. Skipy |
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19 Feb 07 - 07:37 PM (#1973067) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Kaleea "The Rubber Band" was a 60's band, originally from my hometown & called "The Rubbery Cargo." |
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19 Feb 07 - 07:40 PM (#1973070) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Rowan My recollection is the first widely known all-woman rock band in Oz was called "Hens' Teeth" while a better known but similarly constituted band started later and was called "The Ovarian Sisters". Both great names I reckon. Cheers, Rowan |
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19 Feb 07 - 07:40 PM (#1973072) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: katlaughing The Lost Planets Map Packs! Tks, Sorcha! |
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19 Feb 07 - 08:09 PM (#1973113) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: GUEST,michaelr Jesus Chrysler |
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19 Feb 07 - 08:13 PM (#1973122) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Alba 'Far Canal'...(say it with an Australian accent) A Friend of mine called his Band this and no-one 'got it' then I did..LOL Jude |
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19 Feb 07 - 08:36 PM (#1973140) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Beer Up till two years ago I had a Celtic band with fiddle, guitar, mandolin, bass and accordion so we called ourselves "4 Strings and a SqueezeBox". Beer (adrien) |
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20 Feb 07 - 02:35 AM (#1973313) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Alec The North Shields based band The Shy Tots get my vote for best name. |
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20 Feb 07 - 02:49 AM (#1973323) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Ebbie "The Rubber Band" was a 60's band, originally from my hometown & called "The Rubbery Cargo." Kaleea ? |
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20 Feb 07 - 02:59 AM (#1973329) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: The Fooles Troupe The Acoustic Scratch Band is taken, sorry.... |
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20 Feb 07 - 06:56 AM (#1973467) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Schantieman Gusto. Five of us, singing unnacompanied in harmony. Loud. Steve |
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20 Feb 07 - 07:19 AM (#1973487) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Jeremiah McCaw Because much of my performing is at folk clubs & open mics, and I sort of acquire impromptu accompanists, I refer to them as my "Band du Jour". One friend & I, of similar 'rounded' body shapes have discussed the formation of a duo to be called "Rotunda". Best one I've heard lately was on the CBC, a group with the wonderful name "Max Galactic & the Cloud of Evil" |
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20 Feb 07 - 08:06 AM (#1973528) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Mooh Anna Rexia Aunty Dote Top Of The Hour Peace, Mooh. |
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20 Feb 07 - 08:08 AM (#1973530) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Alec A friends husband formed a rock band with a group of friends who were all in their forties. They named the band Midlife Crisis. |
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20 Feb 07 - 08:18 AM (#1973538) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Trevor For years I've thought that a road sign on the way from Shrewsbury to Oswestry ought to be a bluegrass duo - Wilcote Butler and Felton Marsh. Either that or they are the baddies in some melodrama. |
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20 Feb 07 - 08:46 AM (#1973563) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Hawker There is a band down here or at leats there was, called Walter Shortage and the Hosepipe Band! I did like that one. One of the groups I play with are called Tisdag - norwegian I believe for Tuesday, but for us, it is an anagram of sad git! Regal slip is pils lager backwards! Cheers, Lucy |
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20 Feb 07 - 09:39 AM (#1973620) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Scrump I think The Rolling Stones is a good name for a band. ...huh? ... really?... ah... maybe I'll have to think of another name then. :D |
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20 Feb 07 - 09:47 AM (#1973629) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Alec Paradoxically,I have always thought The Band is a boringly unimaginative name for a band. |
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20 Feb 07 - 11:22 AM (#1973749) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Liz the Squeak Didn't 'Eastenders' have a band called 'The Banned' in it a few decades ago? LTS |
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20 Feb 07 - 11:37 AM (#1973773) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Alec I do remember the DeadEnders storyline in which Sharon et al formed a band (The Horror,The Horror) but I don't remember what they called it. "The Banned" sounds horribly plausible though. |
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20 Feb 07 - 11:45 AM (#1973785) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Liz the Squeak I think it was that, because they were banned from the pub and had to practice in the community centre. LTS |
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20 Feb 07 - 11:53 AM (#1973788) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Bee Years ago, a friend and I invented an imaginary serious folk-rock band called Heavy *Timothy. We figured some of their albums could be named 'Thick Stubble''Frogs in the Field', 'Haying Time', etc. When the band broke up, the imaginary lead singer formed a new band: 'Heavy Timothy and the Balers'. *For urban types: Timothy is usually the tallest and most common grass species growing in a hayfield. It leaves a sharp thick stubble when mown that's very hard on bare feet. |
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20 Feb 07 - 11:57 AM (#1973793) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Wesley S Fron the "Use for the UN" thread: Gravity Tractor |
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20 Feb 07 - 03:15 PM (#1974025) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Big Al Whittle I've always fancied being in a surrealist r&b band - called Salvador Diddley |
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20 Feb 07 - 03:19 PM (#1974028) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Gizmo When I was at a music course a couple of years ago, there was a program on telly which gave the idea to a couple of us a great name for a band.... "Parasitic twin" We couldn't decide what sort of band this would be though. An alternative name for Smashing Pumpkins could be Squishing Melons. |
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20 Feb 07 - 03:29 PM (#1974041) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Alec "Parasitic twin" would be a good name for most "tribute" bands irrespective of whom they are supposed to be a "tribute" to.:0) |
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20 Feb 07 - 03:49 PM (#1974070) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: lilly I remember there was a band in Bournemouth called-Cliff Lift and the Zig Zags. Anyone knowing the town will understand. I favour Panic the Cat !! |
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20 Feb 07 - 04:36 PM (#1974113) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Joybell We've got "The Bluegrass Souls" here in Aus. Another one to say quickly. |
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20 Feb 07 - 04:48 PM (#1974119) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Rowan When they were all in their forties, a bunch of Sydney singers into marine repertoire formed a group called "The Roaring Forties"; more than a decade later they still have the name. Cheers, Rowan |
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20 Feb 07 - 07:47 PM (#1974359) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Jim Dixon Once there was a promotional contest going on for a certain brand of pop/soda. If you found a certain message printed inside the cap, you won a prize. I unscrewed a cap and read "Play Again Soon." I thought, "Hey, that would make a great title for an album!" |
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20 Feb 07 - 09:03 PM (#1974438) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: GUEST,.gargoyle |
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20 Feb 07 - 09:26 PM (#1974449) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Scoville Old-time bands: The Black Hairy Possums (Get it? "Blackberry Blossom") Talking Fiddleheads Random Acts of Violins and I once got stuck in a pick-up band that named itself, thankfully only for one night, "The Cheese Stands Alone" in honor of the Farmer in the Dell rhyme. I once borrowed an old-time album from a friend that was entitled "We Might as Well be Dead", which I thought was pretty clever. |
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20 Feb 07 - 09:33 PM (#1974452) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: bobad Inspired by Gargoyle: INTESTINAL PARASITES |
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20 Feb 07 - 10:09 PM (#1974473) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Uncle Phil From American history, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys would be a great name for a country band. - Phil |
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21 Feb 07 - 01:31 AM (#1974542) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Jim Lad "Free Beer" "Happy Hour" "Two for One Night" All guaranteed to fill a pub. Still, "The Bare Naked Ladies" took the best name and probably for the same reason. |
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21 Feb 07 - 01:44 AM (#1974546) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Little Robyn I wanted a band called Black Velvet. And her eyes they shone like ...... Robyn |
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21 Feb 07 - 02:28 AM (#1974558) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: The Fooles Troupe "Sweet Violets" ... and you have yer theme song - right there... |
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21 Feb 07 - 03:06 AM (#1974567) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: GUEST,DrWord weelittledrummer LOL! |
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21 Feb 07 - 03:28 AM (#1974577) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Ruth Archer Back when I were a wife and my husband worked on a regional tabloid newspaper, one of his colleagues formed a post-punk/gothy band. This occurred while they were working on a very long-running story for the paper. In a moment of inspiration, the journalist named his new band after the headline that consistently apeared with the story: Pregnant Coma Girl. |
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21 Feb 07 - 03:41 AM (#1974584) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Declan If it was pregnant comma girl, it might lead to a pregnant pause. I always fancied a band name of "Many More" as it would get a lot of work at festivlas, although it would be unlikely to get top billing. |
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21 Feb 07 - 05:23 AM (#1974657) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Scrump Jim Lad, a bunch of us at uni once formed a band during rag week, called "Free Beer" for the very reason you suggest, i.e. it got people into the bar to see us (and raise money for charity). |
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21 Feb 07 - 05:28 AM (#1974664) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Jean(eanjay) Leatherback |
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21 Feb 07 - 05:45 AM (#1974671) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: treewind The Hosepipe Band exists (not sure if it's the same one as mentioned earlier) Years ago I was in a band that didn't dare call itself "Four Play" but it's been done recently (and many times, for all I know). We were actually called Cobblers Last which I still think is a good name, especially for a mainly dance (ceilidh) band. One of them also liked the idea of a lineup that we could call "Sax and Violins" Anahata |
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21 Feb 07 - 05:49 AM (#1974674) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Scrump I used to know a folk duo (around 1970-71) who called themselves Folk Off. Does anyone remember them, or know what happened to them? One guy played guitar, and the other played tenor banjo. |
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21 Feb 07 - 06:45 AM (#1974693) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: GUEST,Valmai Goodyear Bryan Creer and I have been known to cause mild annoyance in Sussex under the name Drooling Concertinas. Valmai (Lewes) |
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21 Feb 07 - 07:54 AM (#1974759) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: GUEST,JeremyRs Two I've always liked, from opposite ends of the spectrum, are Jerry Garcia's bluegrass band, Old And In the Way, and a covers band from Oxfordshire consisting of men of a certain age who call themselves the Sad Dads. |
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21 Feb 07 - 08:06 AM (#1974779) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: the lemonade lady I think 'Frisky' would be a good name. S |
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21 Feb 07 - 08:26 AM (#1974802) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: RTim I've always wanted an Irish Trio so I can call it the - "Tree Fellers", And one late night at Pinewoods I came up with the band name of "Phil the Void" Tim Radford |
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21 Feb 07 - 08:43 AM (#1974823) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Dave Roberts Alec (o8.o8am), Did 'Midlife Crisis' play at The Boar's Head in Middlewich? I ask because the name used to appear on the 'What's On' board outside the pub when the Salt Town poets still existed, and everyobe kept asking if it was us! |
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21 Feb 07 - 09:19 AM (#1974861) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Leadfingers Hatfield and The North were a very good London Pub rock band , and I recall meeting an interesting cross over R&B / Irish band who were called 'Bo Diddley Diddley'! |
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21 Feb 07 - 09:20 AM (#1974863) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: jiva Performed in a duo many years ago - for a bet we told the club organiser at one venue we were... Norfolk and Good And yes, he did introduce us with that name! |
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21 Feb 07 - 09:21 AM (#1974865) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Geordie-Peorgie Ower the years aah've played in loads of bands (mainly due to the RN moving me on rather that 'musical differences' among them have been... Take The Shilling Still, Novak & Goode Loose Stools (Punk band who only ever did one gig - we thought punk meant playing crap all of the time - never got booked anywhere ever again) Shaughnessy (Pronounced Shagnasty) and currently Phatt-B'Stards (We have a tribute band caaled 'The Dapht-B'Stards') Nettlies & Lief Nine Mile Ride Blo na Gael If yez think some of these are daft - HAve a look at the Phatts website at some of the pearls of wisdom in the various biographies |
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21 Feb 07 - 10:08 AM (#1974920) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Fidjit There's a gang going the rounds in Norway as the "Belfast Moslems." Play Irish celtic of course. Our gang is called would you believe ! Now there is a rock group in Chicargo with the same name. Chas |
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21 Feb 07 - 10:09 AM (#1974923) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Stephen L. Rich I'm in the process of putiing a band together. I'm going to call it "Wild Mountain Thymeshare". Stephen Lee |
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21 Feb 07 - 11:38 AM (#1974994) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Jean(eanjay) 3 more Full Flavour Don't Ask Under the Seats These 3 were inspired by a Garfield joke! Garfield, Jon and Odie were in the cinema. Odie was chewing. Jon (knowing that they didn't have anything to eat with them) asked "What's Odie chewing?". Garfield replied "Don't ask, and don't look under the seats". It reminds me about a teacher I knew who had a group of difficult year 11 pupils. The desks in the room had loads of chewing gum stuck underneath. One of the lads used to come into lessons and take a piece of the gum from under the desk, pop it into his mouth and then say something like "Hmmmm beech nut". |
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21 Feb 07 - 11:42 AM (#1974999) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Jean(eanjay) Beech Nut |
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21 Feb 07 - 11:48 AM (#1975005) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: JulieF Always fancied calling a band - junction diode and the semi coductors ( see it as a sort of skiffle band) Know people who have gigged as - 'the old foggy duo' J |
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21 Feb 07 - 11:52 AM (#1975008) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Ruth Archer I once went out in a duo called the Armitage Shankers. When we got on stage and introduced ourselves, the guitar player said, "And yes, it is rhyming slang..." |
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21 Feb 07 - 12:47 PM (#1975065) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Fidjit I have also be known to go by the name as, 'a one man celidh band' called, "Left Leg Over" Well people kept asking me how I was getting on. Chas |
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21 Feb 07 - 01:08 PM (#1975086) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Scoville Oh, I forgot the String Beings (from North Carolina), No Strings Attached, Jes' Playin' Folk, and a local semi-club called Bread-N-Jam (they do music and potluck suppers). |
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21 Feb 07 - 01:09 PM (#1975087) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: open mike "string theory" has this one been used.. it seems it might have been...dozens of times... |
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21 Feb 07 - 01:35 PM (#1975112) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Little Robyn Back in the 70s at a Wellington Folk Festival concert, the MC introduced a small group of shanty singers as Mike Stanley and the 4 Skins! |
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21 Feb 07 - 01:51 PM (#1975127) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Leadfingers Scratch band at Cmbridge Fest some time back was Larry driver and the Truckers !! |
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21 Feb 07 - 02:10 PM (#1975139) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Geordie-Peorgie And when aah wez on HMS Ark Royal (Aircraft Carrier with Phantoms, Buccaneers & tested the first ever Harrier) we put a rock 'n' roll band together caalled 'Jet Blast & Te Deflectors' |
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21 Feb 07 - 02:15 PM (#1975141) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: GUEST,Frug Amongst the bands I played with were Dickie Drippin and the Drops and my personal favourite............... Sarah Bernhardt's Wooden Leg. Have also appeared on bills with the Four Mustgetbeers !! |
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21 Feb 07 - 02:20 PM (#1975144) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Dave Hunt Always fancied 'The Titanic Band' (Always goes down well) whose first CD could be 'A Band On Ship' I was once in bands called 'Ducks on a Wall' and 'Happy Daze' Friends of mine play in the wonderfully , and aptly, named band 'May Contain Nuts' |
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21 Feb 07 - 03:14 PM (#1975194) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: GUEST,pattyClink I just read of a (marching?) group in a Mardi Gras parade. Only New Orleans women could appear (with weapons, in nuns' habits) as "The Angry Little Sisters of the Apocalypse". What a great name! We have two quartets going to competition this year, one is called "In the Mood". The other was formed later and is called "Note Tonight". |
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21 Feb 07 - 04:28 PM (#1975250) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: GUEST,ib48 THE BEEF CURTAINS,OR THE MORE CLASSIER LE DRAPIER BOEUF |
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21 Feb 07 - 09:52 PM (#1975599) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Padre Once played in an old-time band which kept changing its name between tunes [Harpers Ferry Porcupine was our first name] - at the end of the gig, we settled on "None of the Above" |
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22 Feb 07 - 06:05 PM (#1976389) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Rowan In my town tomorrow night, I'm told, there'll be a dance played by "Paterson's Curse". I suspect none of its members knows that the name was used by a red hot band from Albury in the late 70s, and I know that band didn't know of another, earlier, band that made effective play on the name. I forget the species name but Paterson's Curse is the common name given in NSW to a plant that covers the Murrumbidgee floodplain with its purple flowers; in NSW it is regarded as a noxious weed. In South Australia, where they have less choice about grazing, the same plant is commonly known as Salvation Jane, as stock have used it to get through severe droughts. In Kyneton (Victoria) in the mid 70s, there was a band formed by a group of teachers at the local schools; when the males in the band outnumbered the females, they played as "Paterson's Curse" and when the females outnumbered the males, they played as "Salvation Jane". Cheers, Rowan |
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22 Feb 07 - 06:41 PM (#1976425) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Jim Dixon This topic has been explored before. See Great band names. One of the band names you'll find there is The Testostertones. After reading it there, I suggested it to a friend of mine who actually used it, for an all-male band. |
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22 Feb 07 - 09:03 PM (#1976567) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: GUEST,cmt49 One that amused me in Birmingham in the 70's - "Brent Ford and the Nylons". Damn good band too. How about the Country & Western / Punk band called Johnny Clash? (That one courtesy of Badger). |
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23 Feb 07 - 05:43 AM (#1976830) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: GUEST,banjoman How about the ultimate band name "Dis Band" Would promote some sort of quip such as "Dis Band Should Dis Band" |
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23 Feb 07 - 06:03 AM (#1976835) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Scrump Reading that old thread, I realise there have been several bands including my own, called Free Beer. What amazes me is how you very rarely seem to get band names used by more than one band. I can think of an example where it has: Nirvana (1960s 'psych' band and more famous 1980s/90s band with Kurt Cobain). I'm sure I know more but I can't remember them for the mo'. Can anyone else think of examples of 'reused' band names? |
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23 Feb 07 - 08:51 AM (#1976940) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Gulliver Skid Row, popular in Dublin in the 60's, later was used by an American(?) band. |
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23 Feb 07 - 09:00 AM (#1976943) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: GUEST,Sue A A friend of mine used to play in the Shudby Band. (I don't think I made that up - unless he did!)And another friend who played crumhorn and assorted early reed instruments, has always wanted to get together a band with sax, concertina and melodeon players and call it Vibrating Tongues. Unfortunately he no one has yet been persuaded to join him in that. |
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23 Feb 07 - 12:56 PM (#1977130) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: GUEST,English Jon One of my current projects is called Medieval Knieval...don't ask. Jon |
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23 Feb 07 - 01:34 PM (#1977159) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Schantieman Geordie Peorgie......when you were on the old Ark, did you know a Chief Aircradft handler by the name of Bob Temple? He was famous, apparently, for falling off the deck at sea. Steve |
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23 Feb 07 - 08:17 PM (#1977526) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Rowan After some years with Flying Pieman, a Melbourne 'bush' band named after a traditional Australian dance with a certain amount of 'galloping around repidly' and thus named after a Sydney character famous in the 1840s, I moved to New England (the Australian one) and, when playing formally, did so as "Cockies' Joy". This is the bush nickname for "Golden Syrup" a product of the refining of sugar that is not as thick or as dark as treacle (and an essential ingredient of Anzac biscuits). At least two other bands in NSW have subsequently used their version of the name ("Cocky's Joy") to good effect. Cheers, Rowan |
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30 May 07 - 07:34 PM (#2064452) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: GUEST,green girls drummer HEY peeps whas up well i have a band named the green girls and do u approve are name plz post me back dawg |
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31 May 07 - 03:50 AM (#2064676) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Gurney I was once a member of a trio called 'Tiddly-Pom-Pom-Pom.' Makes sense in Godzone and Oz. |
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31 May 07 - 04:23 AM (#2064693) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: Richard Bridge My university band - Wandering Hands and the Jailbait. |
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31 May 07 - 04:57 AM (#2064711) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: JohnInKansas As reported previously at Favourite Swing tune? "A still (somewhat) active mostly Western Swing band in the Texas Panhandle used to be called by the leader "The ExLax Symphony - music to make you move." Kind of a western version of what swing was about." Additional: Frankie McWhorter apparently plays currently with a group called the "Ranch Dance." He's seemingly still playing at least locally/regionally after a career with Bob Wills and others, so a person could ask if the tag was ever ® or ©. [disclaimer: the "Cooper Ranch" mentioned in the bio is backdoor kin of Lin In Kansas.] A band called "Viagra" would be one to "get you up." Or maybe "The Emetics" - playing "whatever comes up." Or "The Paregorics" playing "tighter music." John |
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31 May 07 - 05:01 AM (#2064713) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: TheSnail When I was a student in Brighton, the boarding houses where we lived had ancient cast iron toilet cisterns with the name Burlington moulded into the front. A classical group I knew called themselves. The Burlington Chamber Orchestra. On the folk scene I've come across an Ozzie led band called A Band Like Alice and a filk group called The Nearly Music Consort. |
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31 May 07 - 10:16 AM (#2064897) Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band...... From: The Walrus I've been know to get involved in the odd 'Sod's Opera' with some scratch groups with equally inpromptu names, so Ican claim to have appeared with "Norfolk & Goode"; "Pondlife" (I'm sure that's been used before), "Nelson, Kepple and Beatty" and "Motorheadache" - we used the name because there had been a particularly noisy generator near us at one show - I've since seen it as the name of a Motorhead tribute band. Speaking of tribute bands, I've sometimes thought that "Sissaphous" (or "Sissaphous's Burden") would have been a good name for a Rolling Stones tribute band. W |