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Hairless Apes
|    | 7 | 12.73% | |
Super Nice Guys
|    | 12 | 21.82% | |
Parabolic Wave
|    | 15 | 27.27% | |
Funky Paws
|    | 21 | 38.18% |
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11-28-2011, 02:57 PM
|  | Gettin' medieval on yo' bass... | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: new hampshire | | | Band name?
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OK, since the naming threads are back; I'm actually just fishing for reactions here. I've recently been outvoted on a band name. It's a 4-piece (drums, 2 guitars, me on bass) cover band which leans a little more toward R&B and a dose of reggae more than straight rock. There's some alt-rock/pop in the list (some Franz Ferdinand, Weezer, a Raconteurs tune), but stuff like "Use Me" (Bill Withers), "Superstition" (a little more Stevie Ray Vaughn than Stevie Wonder), Joss Stone's take on "Fell in Love with a Girl," some Sublime and Bob Marley tunes. I think I posted a thread on the current state of the setlist somewhere on TB a while back. Hope that gets the idea across. All guys in their 30s-40s with wives and families and all that but wanting to gig regularly.
So nominations for the name included:
Hairless Apes
Super Nice Guys
Parabolic Wave
Funky Paws
Which do you all think has the most appeal?
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11-28-2011, 03:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Santa Cruz, Ca. | | | That's like trying to decide who the best republican presidential candidate is!
They all suck! |
11-28-2011, 03:07 PM
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11-28-2011, 03:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Massachusetts USofA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hrodbert696 OK, since the naming threads are back... | Says who? |
11-28-2011, 03:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Cary, NC | | | There is a universal law that says you must create and consider 200 crappy band names before coming up with a good one.
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11-28-2011, 03:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DBCrocky There is a universal law that says you must create and consider 200 crappy band names before coming up with a good one. | The last band I put together I had a name for before anyone else was in the band!
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11-28-2011, 03:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Cary, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MatticusMania The last band I put together I had a name for before anyone else was in the band! | Therefor, it must have been a crappy one. 
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11-28-2011, 03:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | Maybe so, but I liked Ugly Ape.
Ive never had a hard time naming one of my bands.
My current band, and agreeing on an album title, is a whole nother story, though.
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11-28-2011, 03:42 PM
| | | | Here's one for ya!
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11-28-2011, 03:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Cary, NC | | I've been in so many projects where an attempt to name the band resulted in 15 minutes to 3 hours of laughing at increasingly stupid band names, entertaining but unproductive.
But it's true, if you name the band before anyone joins, it makes it easy!
Of course, getting folks to join a band called the Ugly Apes might be challenging... 
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11-28-2011, 03:52 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Medford, MA | | | I like Funky Paws, and think the rest are pretty bad. |
11-28-2011, 04:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | I prefer the Apeless Hares. |
11-28-2011, 04:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Fort Wayne, IN | | | None of those names do it for me.
The Naked Apes would be better than Hairless Apes, because "Naked" sounds dirty.
The Naked FORNICATING Apes would be better still.
The Naked FORNICATORS would be better still.
Funky Paws makes me think of ice cream for dogs, and no way were you serious with those other two names.
I don't know why no one ever uses "Flesh Glove."
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11-28-2011, 04:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Normandie, France | | Given the reggae/RnB content and the fact it's it's a cover band, I voted for the "Super Nice Guys".
It has a positive ring to it, just sounds like a good time. Would look good on a flyer too 
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11-28-2011, 04:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Portland, ME | | | If forced to pick one of those..... Um.... Suggestions, I say super nice guys. Naked apes is good too. |
11-28-2011, 04:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DBCrocky I've been in so many projects where an attempt to name the band resulted in 15 minutes to 3 hours of laughing at increasingly stupid band names, entertaining but unproductive.
But it's true, if you name the band before anyone joins, it makes it easy!
Of course, getting folks to join a band called the Ugly Apes might be challenging... | No, no, not The Ugly Apes... simply "Ugly Ape". And getting people to join was easy, they seemed to just show up, sometimes when we didnt want them to!
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11-28-2011, 04:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Cary, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MatticusMania No, no, not The Ugly Apes... simply "Ugly Ape". And getting people to join was easy, they seemed to just show up, sometimes when we didnt want them to! | Yes, I've heard women tell me things very similar to this.
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11-28-2011, 04:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: West Warwick, RI | | | I liked Funky Paws. It had a nice simple ring to it.
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11-28-2011, 04:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Los Angeles | | | I'd go for Funky Ape.
Maybe he just smells bad?
Or Hairless Paws?
Better yet, Hairless Pa.
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