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03-13-2008, 02:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | | Naming a band is frustrating
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We've been trying to come up with a band name for my Top 40's rock cover band, one that is short, sharp, sweet, and NOT TAKEN!!!!
From over 80 suggestions (most of them mine), we've whittled it down to, oh none!
The guitarist constantly wants to use names that are in use in other countries. I say I don't want to risk the hassle down the line and he replies "I'd like us to get big enough to have those kinds of hassles" and keeps saying he likes them.
The drummer keeps suggesting the same name repeatedly, regardless of the fact others don't like it or how times we ask him what he likes.
[sarcasm]I never knew this part of building a band would be so much fun[/sarcasm]
Rant over, back to reading lists of lists of things 
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03-13-2008, 02:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | | call it stereoiron
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03-13-2008, 02:25 AM
|  | Working on successful. Got the first syllable... | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huddinge, Sweden | | | Booster.
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03-13-2008, 02:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | hey bro,
first of all... don't call it PROOF - cause there's another coverband in perth with that name 
second.. i actually don't see a problem with calling it the same name as somebody is using overseas - as long as nobody knows who they are over here. if it's a cover band you're quite simply never going to get "big" enough for it to be a problem IMO.
thirdly.. let me know when you get gigging and i'll come check ya out.
all the best,
Andy. |
03-13-2008, 02:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | Haha! Found ya: http://www.ppes.com.au/perth_local_e...ands_proof.htm
We're considering going through PPES once we're up and running actually...they any good?
I've read a lot of the legal mumbo jumbo about band names and cease and desist orders etc etc and I guess I got a little scared about it
And yeah, I'll let you know. You can come throw things at us
Cheers,
D_C
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03-13-2008, 04:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Finland | | Sounds familiar. Finding a good, catchy and unique, name that is easy to remember is one of the hardest things to do after finding rehearsal dates that fit everyone in the band... 
I know a good rock cover band here named "Trr Trr Trr" that is fairly popular. The name means absolutely noting, but it's quite easy to remember. Perhaps you could try something similarly stupid?
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03-13-2008, 05:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Loughborough, UK | | Call yourselves 'Brilliant Band'!
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03-13-2008, 05:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Long Island Ny | | | Its tough, no question about that. We found our name after a promotional picture was taken. We took it outside of our singers house on the corner in front of a street sign. When we looked at the picture we realized what to call ourselves. Before that we wasted a lot of time. |
03-13-2008, 08:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | | It's easy to find a band name. Ask me or Bard.
I say "Pink Unicorn Horsey."
Someone is going to use it. Someday.
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03-13-2008, 08:22 AM
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The Polymer Matrix. |
03-13-2008, 08:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Houston | | I've always been partial to "Captain Pickle Pants and the Hot Sauce Orchestra"  |
03-13-2008, 09:00 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | | How about:
Low Fat Cake
Easy Street Gang
Bad Debt
Going Down Under |
03-13-2008, 09:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: California | | | "Sticky Flesh Guns"
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03-13-2008, 09:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: My Old Kentucky Home.... | | | Just think of something memorable and stick with it. I was on the road last year and stopped in at a little local bar. The headliner band was "The Turds" and they put on a great show and everyone loved them. I had my doubts at first, but had to stick around to check them out...You know, with a name like that.
Good luck though, I've been there a few times. Looking back, some of them were just plain lame.
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03-13-2008, 04:29 PM
| | | We went through a couple hundred names before we found ours.... and actually the drummer was the only one that didn't like it... no more drummer and viola! Band name!
It's hard and frustrating  yep.
We had a couple brainstorming sessions......it'll come to you.
I do agree with the not using one someone else already is knowingly. Find your own....... and keep in mind, would you want to see it on a sign? On someone's shirt? Could you tell it to your grandmother?
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03-13-2008, 04:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SF Bay Area North CA | | http://www.bandnamemaker.com/
Should give you plenty of band names :-). Now, writing good songs, that's hard. --Kent |
03-13-2008, 05:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | Thanks guys. Quote: |
Originally Posted by ksandvik Now, writing good songs, that's hard | We're a rock n roll cover band so there is a world of great songs to choose from!
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03-13-2008, 06:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | hey mate i just sent you a pm re: agents. hope it helps
andy
ps. the band website is www.prooftheband.com.. that info is rather old on that site! |
03-13-2008, 07:25 PM
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Deer Of The Clandestine Mood
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03-13-2008, 08:05 PM
| | Something about gumption | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Napa, CA | | Yeah we tried to name our band for over a year.
End result.. Epic Legend.  
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