Rejected Band Names

[yodedude2]

DAMN!!!

okay, this one looks open, as long as you use the exclamation points.

 

[AgressivePassiv]

My first band had some great rejected band names. My two favorites were.

shagubus

cào nǐ māde bī(F--- your mother's c--- in Chinese) our drummer was Chinese and he squashed this one.

 

[AgressivePassiv]

My first band had some great rejected band names. My two favorites were.

****ubus

cào nǐ māde bī(F--- your mother's c--- in Chinese) our drummer was Chinese and he squashed this one.

First name rhymes with sucubus and starts with F

 

[REV]

I was in a band once and the drummer proposed " Postcard Pretense" as a name. He was insulted that I didn't like the name.

 

[Medicine Man]

I wanted to name my jam band in 1992 "deadbeat dads" but my guitarist didn't think it would help him with his legal trouble. Lost our PA to the settlement, no lie.

 

[ii7-V7]

solid. effing. gold.

Yep, it's my favorite. It would limit the number of venues for us. So, we decided against it. But, I love it.

 

[Black Bart]

Lycallottapus. Like the dinosaur. Megasoreass.

 

[ferdinandstrat]

Merkava after my favorite tank.

The Number Station after one of the most fascinating and eerie things in the world.

Both got turned down.

 

[Space Pickle]

slagwagon is too much like lagwagon

 

[Freightshaker]

Disexic Flux. Would have been better for a punk band but we were making a cover band at the time.

 

[MegaSwing]

Furry Crank

 

[eyeballkid]

The Strokers

 

[flojob]

Flojob and the reservoir tip
nunhumper
Louis and the Armstrongs
"Finnish Hym!"
A funny thing happened on the way to the bar
Apologies in advance
Girl, I done told ya

We went with
The Deep Down and
Sympathy of Clocks
I really like both of those.

 

[Zoomaster]

Hey Gabbs, I did free beer back in the '90's. It was awesome, we had a sign for the bar to put out front on the sidewalk that said "Tonight only... Free Beer!" Yes we really knew how to pack 'em in! And the band did buy everybody in the bar a drink.

 

[ThaCoast]

The guitarist in an indie rock band i played bass for couple years ago suggested "The Tweeds" due to him & I having tweed guitar cases.
I stayed with them from summer to fall, but they didn't last long after i left due to education & work.

 

[Mike Sorr]

*Wild Pansey Extract
*Beef Ramp
*The Corpse of Mussolini

Beef Ramp almost made me wet myself.

 

[Jay2U]

Drainbow
Zed Leppelin

 

[Mike Sorr]

Names of bands members suggested and I refused to be involved with:

Purple Helmet

Diarrhea Death Spasm

Mono Mongolico (******** monkey)

 

[Mike Sorr]

I was in a band that changed it's name for nearly every gig. We started as a two-piece by the name of 'Dick Splash and Wank Breath' (not our own choice - we hadn't come up with a name, so that's what the band we were supporting named us), became a four-piece and changed to 'And Then There Were Seven', next we were 'The Nicholas Parsons Experience', then 'Cassius Clay Pigeon Shoot' (my personal favourite), we did a few gigs as 'Pope Sandwich' before finally settling on 'The Cursed' whereupon we did one gig and then split up.

EDIT: And in answer to OP's actually question, the best name we turned down was 'Paul & The Pumpkin Pirates'.

I was in a band in the 90s that used the names of porn stars for gigs. We played as Rocco Siffedi, Peter North and the Randy West Band to name just a few. The guys thought it was hilarious. The girls thought our singer's name was Randy, Peter, Rocco or which ever name we were using that night.

 

[Humbled]

Barbie-Q Gorillas and Mailbox-Daddy are a couple suggested by a drummer that I can remember rejecting.

He was a dang good drummer though.