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Can we have a Band Name Thread?
- Thread starter 51PRI
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Ok, here is what we did in a prior band. We looked for something totally random. Ended up being a suburb street sign, Bishop Lane.
Now the fun part with something that random is that each time someone would ask how we got the name, we would make up a story on the spot
Bishop Lane? That is the street where John Lennon met Yoko. We kind of adopted it in an ironic way.
Bishop Lane? You don’t know that? That was the street in Los Alamos NM where Oppenheimer lived when they developed the A bomb.
Now the fun part with something that random is that each time someone would ask how we got the name, we would make up a story on the spot
Bishop Lane? That is the street where John Lennon met Yoko. We kind of adopted it in an ironic way.
Bishop Lane? You don’t know that? That was the street in Los Alamos NM where Oppenheimer lived when they developed the A bomb.
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Now that's a coincidence. Your post appears just below my previous one.
A friend of mine who has been collecting records relentlessly for over 50 years sent me this link the other day,. He'd bought out another collector's holdings, and this was in there.
It's on Verve. They'd had a couple of mysterious (to the label A&R guys) modest hits with the first few Mothers of Invention albums, so they must have been signing bands with weird names, hoping lightning would strike twice.
Swollen Colon. Even catchier than Butthole Surfers, I say!
Real local band from years ago: Lightfuse Getaway. Taken from a common warning on fireworks.
Real local band from years ago: Lightfuse Getaway. Taken from a common warning on fireworks.
Some suggestions look through random years' top song and top movie lists, look for phrases in movie plot descriptions (IMDB), google movie scripts and just scan through for phrases and word pairings/groups that pop or possibly character names. A movie line example that you'll find was picked by a number of cover bands..."One Louder" (from Spinal Tap line "eleven is one louder"). It can be something meaningful or not.
You'll find that a lot of good ones from song and movie titles have been taken by major acts.
You'll find that a lot of good ones from song and movie titles have been taken by major acts.
Well, but that thread is for Accidental Band Names - What Did YOU Hear Today? 
And the other other band name thread is The Band Name Game and had 1385 pages at that time (now 1399)! 
I imagine that there wasn't a single serious usable name in that thread either.
Well, both those threads are in the Bass Humor & Gig Stories forum, ... so ... obviously, they're not supposed to be serious. And ... well ... usability is in the mind of the band manager. 
And, speaking of the band manager, this thread, you may have noticed, is in the Band Management forum! Can't get much more serious than that. And, again, usability is ... well, you know. 
