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| bassman10096
Senior Member Username: bassman10096 Post Number: 632 Registered: 7-2003 |
Brother Paul TBO suggested a thread on the above subject. I have the following to contribute: I've personally never been in a band whose name I thought was funny (always felt I had missed something there...). However, my 17 year old son has, for 3 years, been part of a band with an odd and (I think) clever name. The band's name is "I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel...". This name is certainly NOT typical of the way we generally use use words to name a band. That makes life a bit confusing as people often do not "get" that the words they heard refer to a band. In practice, using the name sort of insists on a discussion. My son and his colleagues have not often wavered from their (straightfaced) insistence that people get the name straight in print, etc. They don't often concede to requests to shorten, abbreviate or change the name ("IALDAR" was tried once, but was generally observed to be no fun at all). The band's name is like a running joke, with predictable conversations that recur as the unwary become indoctrinated. It is also very clear to my son and his friends that the wider world of commercial music will probably prove unwilling to accomodate the band's awkward name. But I think that's less important to them than the fact that the joke has been fun so far... For those who care: "I'm a loner, Dottie - a rebel." is a recurring line in dialog from the closet-classic movie, PeeWee's Big Adventure (starring the equally odd Paul Reubens). If you have never seen it, I highly recommend the movie. For those who have, I won't explain - just recall that "Dottie" is PeeWee's girlfriend. Bill | ||
| bigredbass
Advanced Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 280 Registered: 9-2002 |
There's a terrific list of 'Extra Band Names' on Tony Levin's terrific website, www.TonyLevin.com. (Not to mention the terrifying cover pic of the man at work with his NS upright STRAPPED ON!). My favorite funny band name were some friends of mine from Austin, who called themselves "Wade Rivers and the Can't Hardly Playboys". J o e y | ||
| jet_powers
Intermediate Member Username: jet_powers Post Number: 182 Registered: 2-2003 |
Perhaps our Southern contingent can vouch for this one.... In the late 80's, early 90's a bass player for a band in Atlanta suffered an accident where he wound up losing his right hand. He had a prosthesis fitted so he could hold a plectrum and resume his musical activities. The name of his new band? The Outta Hand Band. JP | ||
| trekster
New Username: trekster Post Number: 7 Registered: 7-2004 |
Well, I just got into a band, and when we were thinking up names, the clear winner among us wicked-humor men was "Flithy McNasty". However, that name got tossed when the spouses objected. We settled for the milder "At Large". --T | ||
| lbpesq
New Username: lbpesq Post Number: 10 Registered: 7-2004 |
Some years ago I was in "The Half-Fast Band", as in "we're not slow, we're not fast, we're half-fast". You may need to say it out loud to get it. | ||
| alembic76407
Advanced Member Username: alembic76407 Post Number: 330 Registered: 5-2002 |
how about "Stud Rooster and the Rockin Cocks" but nobody was up for the job of Stud Rooster then we changed to "Swingin Beef" it must have been a animal thing back in the 70s and 80s David T | ||
| hollis
Advanced Member Username: hollis Post Number: 341 Registered: 11-2003 |
Funky Bubbles and the Hot Tub Band, The Melismatics, The Homo Safety Pins...... However, I still think that Mike's band: Pickled BEATS is one of the best names I've ever heard..... | ||
| fmm
Junior Username: fmm Post Number: 44 Registered: 6-2002 |
I was in a band in college called "The Kid & The Blue-Toungued Skinks. We played exactly 1 gig. We wore sombreros & ponchos. I have no idea why. | ||
| jacko
Junior Username: jacko Post Number: 17 Registered: 10-2002 |
when I was at college in the late 70's we used to call our band firefly (after rufus t in duck soup) but then we found out that there was already a disco band of the same name. With a gig at newcastle polytechnic imminent and no name, our drummer told the entertainments officer we were called' the wessex chucklecopters, more fun than a balloon and an ice cream'. God only knows where that came from but we were the wessex chucklecopters for about 4 years after that. | ||
| jacko
Junior Username: jacko Post Number: 18 Registered: 10-2002 |
and here's a photo of me and the guitarist from our royal wedding gig 1981 (i'm playing my old precision with rickenbacker wiring & pickups). He's now bald, I'm now slightly overweight ;-)  | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1572 Registered: 9-2002 |
Brother Jacko, ooooooooh how I understand you taking weight in 24 years. I think I "won" 1 kilo a year in the last 25 years ...I REALLY have to start "to die with a t". Anyway ...I think this thread just SCREAMS for pictures by itself ...so I don't start yelling for it (and certainly don't start banging empty bottles on a table ...the problem is not in the banging but in emptying the bottles to bang HA). I don't have funny names yet. The only story -it's not funny or weird- is how we got on the name of our band DRIVE. The drummer and I were thinking of forming a band that would play music that, if you heard it on radio while driving, you AUTOMATICALLY will drive faster. So ...well ...DRIVE ...got it. I think "Vuile Mong en de Vieze Gasten" (how would I translate it to let you "get" it ....oh ...uhuhuhuhuhuh ... mmmmmm ...."Sleezy Edmond and the Pornmates" ....***sigh*** languages) will not say much to anyone! Brother David (T ...the LOUD one) those groupnames remind me some XXX -pictures you were reluctant to post on this site. Was it THAT period????? HA!!!! Paul the bad one | ||
| paulcissa
Junior Username: paulcissa Post Number: 21 Registered: 7-2004 |
Currently in a band named "Sirloin Pattie and the Electric BBQ Trio". And yes, our lead's name is Pattie. -Chris | ||
| mrfunkwool
New Username: mrfunkwool Post Number: 5 Registered: 7-2004 |
"The Scrotums of Joy" This was the name of a mock band in my fraternity. Sigma Tau Gamma. No one in the band knew how to play an instrument. In fact, they literally had toy balloon guitars and just did air guitar w/ a stereo playing Metallica or Zep... w/ a strobe light. Now, the really funny thing is that people at the parties really got into this. People would seriously cram into the room and watch these four guys basically play air guitar. It was insane. brings the phrase "The more you drink the better we sound" to an entirely new level. -J | ||
| smokin_dave
Intermediate Member Username: smokin_dave Post Number: 193 Registered: 10-2002 |
Stark Naked and the Car Thieves used to play the Hollyoke Taveren when I was a boy here in Indy. | ||
| dean_m
Advanced Member Username: dean_m Post Number: 337 Registered: 7-2002 |
Last night's gig.... It was a throw together band. Being the biker out of the bunch, we were calling ourselves Dino M and the Assless Chaps. Oh boy did I just put myself in a whole new world of jokes. Nothing is sacred!!!! Peace, Dino bptfo | ||
| mrfunkwool
New Username: mrfunkwool Post Number: 6 Registered: 7-2004 |
Here's a link to all sorts of funny band names. http://www.brainwashed.com/bandnames/ Dino, I'll be sure to keep an eye out for you at the "Blue Oyster Bar"...  | ||
| dean_m
Advanced Member Username: dean_m Post Number: 338 Registered: 7-2002 |
HEY NOW!!!!!! | ||
| wideload
Junior Username: wideload Post Number: 49 Registered: 6-2003 |
A classmate of my wife's had a band in vet school called LD50, from the term used in drug trials notating the Lethal Dose to 50% of the test population. Cool name, and they earned their title! Larry |
