Best Name for a Band

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:05 am

I'm kind of partial to the name, "Anal Fistula"

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:52 pm

The Steve Miller Band was originally called the Steve Miller Bluegrass Experience, if I recall.

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:46 pm

The Doomed Crew of the Pequod (first band I ever played in)

Names with Potential:
Vine Ripened Tacos
Shards of Narsil
Boot
Childe Harolde

Worst band name I've ever been associated with:
The Potential Statistics.

While trying to come up with a better name, we decided to open up a field
guide to native plants, all of us being fairly avid outdoorsy types, and
name the band after the first plant we pointed to. It came up "Clustered
Broomrape."

The band broke up soon after.

T

Rod Sprague · Post by **Rod Sprague** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:59 am

I just tried that and came up with Black Sanicle.

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:08 pm

I always liked "The Free Radicals" too. Has anyone used that one?

crookedtune · Post by **crookedtune** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:48 am

WyoBadger wrote:I always liked "The Free Radicals" too. Has anyone used that one?

Outstanding! Glad I started this thread. Well, I'm off to eBay with my new band names.....

Post by **Dale** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:13 am

Fun thread.

A short-lived band in the early 1990s:

Bob Hope to Die

There's a guy who has recordings released by Fat Possum records named Bob Log III. I understand he performs with a motorcycle helmet on his head with a microphone inside it.

Friend of mine saw a band called "Oyster Boy Retrieval Unit" in a bar in South Carolina. He swears that the band was about to go onstage, having just formed spontaneously, and one of the them said "what are we going to call the band, y'all?" and they made the last minute choice. They were also considering Britney Spares the Condemned. I think they made the right choice.

Some adolescents in my neighborhood formed a band and are calling it "Struggling with Ed" which I think is fabulous.

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:07 am

"Struggling with Mr. Ed" would be even more fabulous...

Anybody remember Deathtongue?

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:03 am

Oh, man, I loved "Let's Roll Over Lionel Ritchie With a Tank." They keep pulling it off of YerTube, but the hearty faithful keep putting it back up somewhere, so don't give up if you can't find it on your first attempt. It will be back again soon.

djm

Dominic Allan · Post by **Dominic Allan** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:39 am

How about a Flintstones style prehistoric AC~DC tribute band........
AC~BC.
As far as I know they don't exist, but should.

Domhnall · Post by **Domhnall** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:44 am

ectophonic wrote:How about a Flintstones style prehistoric AC~DC tribute band........
AC~BC.
As far as I know they don't exist, but should.

Thats fantastic. I'm thinking of an early music consort playing hells bells - with handbells and recorders of course!

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:25 pm

I just got back from busking with some fellows on Nicollet Mall. A passerby asked what we called ourselves, and I replied, "Oh, my goodness! What in the world?".

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:42 pm

Well Trained Ferrets?
Wet Toenail Fans?
Wide Tongued Fetishists?

djm

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:35 pm

Well-Tuned Fipples.

Why not.

BTW, a listener complimented us, qualified with "But the accordion is much too loud."

He hastened away (a most prudent man, that), and the boxplayer shot me a look and said, "Don't even start."

Too late; I was already laughing my butt off.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:47 am

Anyone here remember a Washington DC area band of the 80's called Root Boy Slim?
Just wondered.