Band Names

[Pt]

What are some of the band names of bands you have been in or band
names that you like?

Pt

[JustWait]

Back in '72 we had a local band called "Hot Head Slater"... They had a
band truck with a painting of a rock dude, big hair, all looking like
fire and stuff. It was done well, pretty cool. The band was one of the
biggest draws in the area for years, and was made of some of the best
local players at the time...

Anyway, the story behind the name (as it was told to me) was when the
band was first getting together they were all in a bar, sitting in the
back, heckling the band that was on stage... I guess it got ugly at one
point and after the bouncers were throwing them out, one of the guys in
the other band yelled, "Yeah, we'll see you hot heads later". Laughing
about it that night, probably half drunk, it came out as "Hot Head
Slater", and somebody in the room thought it might make a good name for
a band. Nobody in the band was named Slater.

[RichL]

"Pt" <pea...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> What are some of the band names of bands you have been in or band
> names that you like?
>
> Pt

Best name of a band I was in -- "Mother's Little Helpers" (1964-1968).

If you don't get the reference, you're too young :-)

[Les Cargill]

It's a Simpsons reference, right? The dog?

--
Les Cargill

[OscartheGrouch]

This isn't good, it was never good and never will be. The first band I
was in of any consequence (I was in 11th grade) was The Pulsating
Organism. And I thought it meant like a jelly fish or something. One
night some girl called me to hire us for a school dance and told us we'd
need to change our name because of the double meaning. I all but called
her stupid for thinking there was some double meaning sexual innuendo
going on. Turned out I was a bit thick.

[Derek Tearne]

Pt <pea...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> What are some of the band names of bands you have been in or band
> names that you like?

One of the first bands I was in was called "The Children of the One
Vibration".

It didn't seem at all unreasonable at the time.

That band was born of a 'band' called 'The Om', which never played a
gig, and rehearsals were more to do with non-musical activities than
playing music.

--- Derek



--
Derek Tearne - de...@url.co.nz
Vitamin S: improvisation from New Zealand http://www.vitamin-s.co.nz/
d'Groove: 12 piece party/covers band http://www.dGroove.co.nz/

[JD]

On 3/2/2012 6:05 PM, Pt wrote:

I wouldn't necessarily say "like" but there was a
band named The Smeeder Torts Boo-Bots Band in the
DC area in the '70's.

[BW]

Or you were too involved with your own Mother's Little Helper(s)...

[BW]

You were "a bit thick"? Still, with the double entendres?

[BW]

A friend of mine was in a band called "Easy On The Tuba". Still makes
me chuckle.

[eadg]

"Pt" <pea...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Too many bands to list on here, I'd bore you silly.
My favorite name would be 'cradle' but only in a specific
genre of live music...

--
SR
[last month's gigs included; 'swingology' (gypsy jazz combo),
'easy street big band', 'freddie smith big band', 'main
street' (yes, another postal band name!) - which is a 7 piece
vocal harmony thingy (think man tran) and half a dozen
theatre dates on a musical under my own name (for once!).

[geoff]

The Sphinctones
Roland Flickett and his Bogeymen
Jismatics
The Focs (= Fat Old, um, Chaps)

geoff

[fourstring]

"Pt" wrote in message
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>What are some of the band names of bands you have been in or band
>names that you like?

Pt

'Brass Roots'...a disco/covers show band tops my list as the biggest
earning band I ever played with...top corporate and private gigs.

'Extension'...a rehearsal 21 piece big band that ended up backing
some big names and doing TV and radio. Did wonders for my reading!

'MSQ'...jazz funk fusion. When asked what MSQ stood for we said
either Music School Quitters or Missing Six Quid when actually
Mark Sanderson Quintet....as it said on the posters.

'Dance like yer Dad'...an ex-colleague's band...great name!

OK...I'll mention 'Matt Vinyl and the Undercoats and
Buster Hymen and the Penetrators...someone had to.

-C-
Anything is possible if you don't
know what you're talking about

[Desk Rabbit]

That's Santas little helper.

[Desk Rabbit]

Back in the 70's I formed a school band and we named it after a new
clothes store called "Impact". We then proceeded to convince all the
girls that the store was named after us :-)

[Oci-One Kanubi]

On Mar 3, 1:49 pm, JD <jdblackwe...@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't remember "Smeeder Torts", but I liked the names (and the
music) of two early '70s DC bands: "Babe", which stayed together a
long time and had a good following, and "Snake", which fell apart from
internal strife before it really got off the ground.

I still like the name of the best band I was ever in, "Whetstone",
also out of DC (though in the summers we played the Carolina beach
towns) and I still like the name of the first band I was ever in: "The
Five Dimensions", on the University of Maryland extension campus (for
service dependants) in Munich Germany (this was in '64-'65, before
"The Fifth Dimension" broke out with "Age of Aquarius" and whatever
other hits they might have had).

One name I always liked, but could never get any band to agree to use,
was "One SIlver Boot." It doesn't mean anything, but I think it has a
nice sound to it, and the punters would remember it. The drawback is
that it has a bit of a C&W sound to it.

My current band is named "Ten After Ten" which also doesn't mean
anything. The drummer's wife collects old clocks, and they sit all
over their house, all set to 10:10. I don't think it's an especially
good name, but I don't think it's an especially bad name, and if it is
not especially bad I really don't care what we call ourselves, as long
as we get the call!

-Richard, His Bassic Travesty

[JD]

Don't forget "Grin", Nils Lofgren's band before
Neil Young and Springsteen found him.

[JustWait]

On 3/5/2012 1:24 PM, JD wrote:

>
>
> Don't forget "Grin", Nils Lofgren's band before Neil Young and
> Springsteen found him.
>

My bud called his band "the Snaps", cause all five had snapped at one
point and/or been otherwise institutionalized...

[Pt]

Sounds like a crazy band.

Pt

[Jay S]

"Pt" <pea...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> What are some of the band names of bands you have been in or band
> names that you like?
>
> Pt
>

I've still got my high profile gig going, (nominated for a Juno this year!)
but in my downtime I do a bunch of fun gigs.

One named "4 Our Souls"
and another named "Tropical Hot Dog Night"

One of my favorite band names I've been involved with was from somewhere in
the mid nineties. I was in an instrumental shred rock band called "The
Wankin' Family" (another favorite of mine)
We had just released a CD and where getting fairly well known in our area.
This lead singer was after us for what seemed like forever to join his band
(!?) and when he came up with some gigs we did it.
First show was a 7 nighter (remember those?)
Turns out the guy has a huge case of LSD. By the second night we couldn't
handle the David Lee Roth like attitude this guy was putting out so we
canned him from is own band and finished the dates as a trio under the name
"MINUS ONE"

Jay S

[Oci-One Kanubi]

Yeh, to my regret, I never heard Grin play. I heard Nils' little brother's band (I think his name is/was Tommy) but they never amounted to much. I think I'd call Grin a late '60s or very early '70s band. I didn't move to DC until 1969, with no gear, and it was a couple of years before I acquired a bass rig and started paying attention to the local scene.

-Richard, His Bassic Travesty

[ebassist dot com]

Current favorite name: We Were Promised Jetpacks

All time fav: The Hogs Ate My Uncle Ed

I did a web seach for that last one and the only thing I found was a
thread where I had said it before. :dunno:


--
Groutt

[Pt]

The band I'm in now is 'Train Wreck'.

Pt

[JustWait]

Wow, then I must be hanging with you guys now;)

[Sam Wilson]

In article <tc45r.120829$ZT6....@newsfe23.ams2>,

"fourstring" <fours...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> OK...I'll mention 'Matt Vinyl and the Undercoats and
> Buster Hymen and the Penetrators...someone had to.

Matt Vinyl and the Decorators were an Edinburgh band - I hadn't realised
someone else had had the same idea, but it's fairly obvious.

Sam

[Sam Wilson]

In article
<83213152-029e-44fb...@k29g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,

Pt <pea...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> What are some of the band names of bands you have been in or band
> names that you like?

A friend toyed with calling a band The Sausages of Doom, but he went on
to have some success with a band named after a Steely Dan song.

I've been in White Dwarf (there must have been hundreds of those),
Caedmon, Under The Sun (later Disaster Movies), Cahoots, The Bill
Stickers Band, Catch a White Spider, Flaming Nora, davesnewbike and ...
ooh I don't know, probably a couple of others.

Sam

[Plausible Denial]

One of the times I saw Grin, somewhere on the Georgetown U campus, he
played while doing flips on a trampoline for a song or two. I was
impressed!

[Sam Wilson]

In article
<593c4ba1-0866-4ed1...@s13g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,

Oci-One Kanubi <rho...@earthlink.net> wrote:

> My current band is named "Ten After Ten" which also doesn't mean
> anything. The drummer's wife collects old clocks, and they sit all
> over their house, all set to 10:10. I don't think it's an especially
> good name, but I don't think it's an especially bad name, and if it is
> not especially bad I really don't care what we call ourselves, as long
> as we get the call!

Not 10:08?

<http://androidforums.com/android-lounge/306846-htc-advertised-time-10-08
-why.html>

Sam

[Sam Wilson]

In article <2fa5r.19956$_63....@newsfe19.iad>,

"Jay S" <jayst...@NOTshawFUcable.com> wrote:

> One of my favorite band names I've been involved with was from somewhere in
> the mid nineties. I was in an instrumental shred rock band called "The
> Wankin' Family" (another favorite of mine)

I'm not sure you'd get many dates in UK-speaking areas... :-)

Sam

[Gregory Rochford]

On 3/2/2012 8:05 PM, Pt wrote:
> What are some of the band names of bands you have been in or band
> names that you like?
>

> Pt
Absolutely worst name: Last Call

Why we thought this was a good name, I don't know.

best
gr

[Pt]

On Mar 6, 8:22 pm, Gregory Rochford <gregory_rochf...@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

That's not a bad name.
It fits with the bar scene well.

Pt

[Les Cargill]

Announcer: Lady and gentlemen, Last Call!

<bar empties out>

--
Les Cargill

[Oci-One Kanubi]

On Monday, March 5, 2012 1:24:39 PM UTC-5, JD wrote:

Yeh there was a lot of good stuff happening then in DC. I used to see Buchanon at the Crossroads, Gatton downtown, and the Nighthawks just about everywhere.

If you were Emmylou's bass player you probably knew "JB & Liz" ("Liz Meyers and Friends" after she split with JB). They were friends of mine, and friends of Babe. I would go see "JB & Liz"/"Liz Meyers and Friends" as a gesture of support; I wasn't wild about the country rock they played, but they played it well. I did play for a couple of pure country singers, though, when I was desperate for work -- can't remember their names (one of them was blind) -- gigging in places like Hagerstown, Front Royal, etc.

"Emmylou Harris" looks great on your resume, doesn't it!

-Kanubi

[dabassguy1]

"Gregory Rochford" <gregory_...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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My first gigging band at Va Tech in 1986 was called Last Call. I'll never
forget the board that said, "Last Call 9 PM". It's a wonder anyone came.
We soon morphed to Crossfire.

J

[JD]

There was a band in DC call "Free Beer". They'd
draw a crowd but it wasn't a happy one.

[Gregory Rochford]

Or at the end of each set:

Band: Ladies and Gentleman we are Last Call, we'll be right back after
this short break.

Customers: What? Last Call?

Bartenders and waitresses: Stupid f'n band!

best
gr

[OscartheGrouch]

On 3/4/2012 7:15 AM, BW wrote:
> On Mar 3, 3:33 am, OscartheGrouch<tonda...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>> On 3/2/2012 6:05 PM, Pt wrote:
>>
>>> What are some of the band names of bands you have been in or band
>>> names that you like?
>>
>>> Pt
>>

>> This isn't good, it was never good and never will be. The first band I
>> was in of any consequence (I was in 11th grade) was The Pulsating
>> Organism. And I thought it meant like a jelly fish or something. One
>> night some girl called me to hire us for a school dance and told us we'd
>> need to change our name because of the double meaning. I all but called
>> her stupid for thinking there was some double meaning sexual innuendo
>> going on. Turned out I was a bit thick.
>
> You were "a bit thick"? Still, with the double entendres?

Yeah I was a bit thick. I didn't get it. What?

[dabassguy1]

>
> There was a band in DC call "Free Beer". They'd draw a crowd but it wasn't
> a happy one.

I've heard a couple of live tracks back in the day (98-00) from a band Free
Beer and Chicken. I wonder if that is the same band.

J

[SotR]

On Friday, March 2, 2012 6:05:59 PM UTC-8, Pt wrote:
> What are some of the band names of bands you have been in or band
> names that you like?
>
> Pt

I'm kinda digging the name of my current band, DEAD SHOT OUTLAWS. It was basically just blurted out by one of the guitar players during a band name brain storming session and we were all, yeah that sounds cool.
Another one I liked was my band back in the 90's named ZYMURGY. I picked that one by doing a take on the story of how the Grateful Dead came up with their name which was randomly opening an encyclopedia. But what I did was look up the last word in the dictionary. And then upon reading the definition which is "The branch of chemistry that deals with fermentation processes, as in brewing" I thought, boy does that fit this beer guzzling bunch and everyone agreed LOL.