I would remember Kyd Barrett, and maybe Lizard King, but I think Lizard King will make too many people wonder if you’re a Doors cover band.
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does anyone like these band names
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I’ve got more!
- Wasteland Mansion
- The happily Mutilated
- Dreaming drummers
- Shark gang
- Putrid moldyman
- The Sons of Dog
- Tall Gazers
- Wizard Asylum
- Tin foil mad hatter
- Hazy maze Cave
- Hexagon kids
It's from maybe the funniest sequence in Michael Moore's film "Roger & Me," in which he talks with a roadside rabbit vendor. It was on her sign. He also used it as the title of a followup film, "Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint."
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I actually won a band naming contest held about 15 years back at The Connecticut Yankee - a very small bar with great music in San Francisco's Potrero Hill Neighborhood. The Band I named was Garaj Mahal!
GM went on to reasonable level of national fame as a jam band but regrettably broke up after years of toiling in the jam trenches.....
When I walked in the joint, the first thing I noticed was the band had a Pakistani guitarist (Fareed Haque) and a wildly skillful black bass player (Kai Eckhart) backed by an ace keys guy (Eric Levy) and at the time - my favorite local drummer (Alan Hertz.)
My story is 100% true and validated by the "our story" link on the band's website: garajmahal.us
The idea to form a new band originated from drummer Alan Hertz and his friend Christian Weyers who became the band’s first manager.
Our first incarnation was: Kit Walker on Keys, Fareed Haque and myself.
In the year 2000 a series of informal jam sessions lead to a show at the
Connecticut Yankee where 50+ passionate audience members made the band go “viral” after 800 names where submitted by our small but mighty local fan base. We each picked our top 10 favorite names and held a meeting to determine which of the 40 names would stick.
Garaj Mahal beat out names like “All purpose mayonnaise gardeners or “Pink Pony”.
The fan who submitted the name “Garaj Mahal” was later identified as Bay Area resident Ted Silvermann who received the privilege of being on the guest list for life.
GM went on to reasonable level of national fame as a jam band but regrettably broke up after years of toiling in the jam trenches.....
When I walked in the joint, the first thing I noticed was the band had a Pakistani guitarist (Fareed Haque) and a wildly skillful black bass player (Kai Eckhart) backed by an ace keys guy (Eric Levy) and at the time - my favorite local drummer (Alan Hertz.)
My story is 100% true and validated by the "our story" link on the band's website: garajmahal.us
The idea to form a new band originated from drummer Alan Hertz and his friend Christian Weyers who became the band’s first manager.
Our first incarnation was: Kit Walker on Keys, Fareed Haque and myself.
In the year 2000 a series of informal jam sessions lead to a show at the
Connecticut Yankee where 50+ passionate audience members made the band go “viral” after 800 names where submitted by our small but mighty local fan base. We each picked our top 10 favorite names and held a meeting to determine which of the 40 names would stick.
Garaj Mahal beat out names like “All purpose mayonnaise gardeners or “Pink Pony”.
The fan who submitted the name “Garaj Mahal” was later identified as Bay Area resident Ted Silvermann who received the privilege of being on the guest list for life.
Midnight Thundergun isn't bad. Thundergun isn't bad either but it doesn't sound punk.
How punk are you?
How punk are you?
Me, for most parts, no.
Someone else, possibly.
Though I actually really like Star Bird or Star-Bird, but like I written it, with a space or perhaps a hyphen between the two parts.
Kid Barrett I really only like for the reason of it being a homage to Syd Barrett, who I am huge fan of.
I imagine the name Cool Kid Garage Club would be more like a tittle to an album, perfect tittle for a Kid Barrett album for instance
Someone else, possibly.
Though I actually really like Star Bird or Star-Bird, but like I written it, with a space or perhaps a hyphen between the two parts.
Kid Barrett I really only like for the reason of it being a homage to Syd Barrett, who I am huge fan of.
I imagine the name Cool Kid Garage Club would be more like a tittle to an album, perfect tittle for a Kid Barrett album for instance
It’s final. My band is going to be called COOL KID GARAGE CLUB I’m using the stage name KID BARRETT. By the way I’m the lead singer.
A better question from a marketing standpoint is
"tell me which name makes you expect garage punk"
For me, that's Beast Man, Wasteland Mansion and Happily Mutilated
Holy crap, I always thought Garaj Mahal was a FANTASTIC band name! Good on ya!
To the OP: Band names are freakin' hard, but besides the occasional perfect gem, ones that use homonyms or are jokey almost never turn out to be good. (Garaj Mahal, Fitz and the Tantrums, those are examples where it just freakin' worked perfectly against all odds)
I don't know why the 'cool kid' thing bothers me in your newly-minted name, but I dig just Garage Club now that I've said it aloud a few times.
Here’s some more
- The Dumb Drums/The Dum-Drums
- Hobo Logan (there’s a story behind it)
- Pale killers
- La Lloyd (La as en Español)
- The Mutilated
- The bongos
- Shark Gang
Anything with Drums in it is going to make people think it's drum centric music.
Hobo Logan is good - rolls off the tongue, and anything with a story is way better than anything without.
Pale Killers might sound like a Killers tribute
La Lloyd is fun (lego ninjago movie?) but not easy to say - just ask Tom Brokaw.
Mutilated = death metal
The Bongos sounds fun, but again with the drum thing
I'll see your Shark Gang, and raise you a Garaj Mahal reference: "Poodle Factory".
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The thing with the dumb drums and the bongos is I’m thinking about possibly having two drummers or an extra percussionist in the band, just wanted to let everyone know
in the future please refer to this neural-network's procedurally-generated list of Coachella Band Names:
