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Rejected Band Names
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During my ill spent youth, Punk bands all had provocative names, (Sex Pistols, Stranglers, Slits, Vibrators etc) and we decided we'd be...
Hitler's Lesbians.
Band was all for it, but the first place who booked us on a multi band bill (we only had 5 songs ready) refused to put it on the poster. We played as "The Noise Idiots."
Hitler's Lesbians.
Band was all for it, but the first place who booked us on a multi band bill (we only had 5 songs ready) refused to put it on the poster. We played as "The Noise Idiots."
Jim Carr
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Sadly, no, but I have worked hard to recover from playing in bands with names like those.
Who in their right mind rejects Teflon Skillet Lickers, though? Skillet Lickers was one of the best band names ever. Teflon adds the perfect contemporary touch.
in Syracuse?
threadjump! I would absolutely want either of these for band names, and I know in advance that they would be rejected immediately.
There are some fantastic band names in here. Not joking. especially the "x and the y's" names. Hey there's another good one!
Jim Carr
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Yeah. I especially liked "No Friends at the Courthouse," "Disturbing Bumperstickers," and "Teflon Skillet Lickers."
However, Calef Brown, an amazing poet, gave me permission to use "Biscuits in the Wind," which I still adore. It comes from one of his poems in Flamingos on the Roof, a terrific book of his poems and illustrations.
We also rejected these:
Boones Creek Brethren
Nik-0-teens
Unshaken Sinners
Pleasant on the Porch
Monkey Island Revival
Walk to the Wind
Worked Up and Down
Engine 143
Roundhowze
No Deeper Well
Mah SPEWN!!!
Faux Faux
Brought my Pistol
The STRANGS
One more busted headlight
Lee-of, ann Lay-ette Lee-of (Live, and Let Live in N. KY dialect)
Shakey Spokes
trout fisherman’s haircut
Clays Ferry
Fontaine Road
Ashland
Mr. H and his Chaw-Chillin’ Pickers
I think we revised "Lee-of, ann layette Lee-of" to "Leehuff Anne Layette Leehuff," but it was still rejected.
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Jim Carr
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Oops, missed a few:
Mud FlapJacks
Nicotine Sisters
Healed Alright
tryin' to git a chaw on you
twist the burley
Tornados and Tears
Moonshine not sunshine (is, and, or, beats, from, over, by, etc.)
Sunday Drivers
Dead Beanie Babies
Foreign Girlfriends
Hardworking Sleeping Pills
Manly Muffins
Lazy Toasters
A distant pulpit
You have got to love "Foreign Girlfriends," and "Hardworking Sleeping Pills," which my nephew Andy suggested.
Mud FlapJacks
Nicotine Sisters
Healed Alright
tryin' to git a chaw on you
twist the burley
Tornados and Tears
Moonshine not sunshine (is, and, or, beats, from, over, by, etc.)
Sunday Drivers
Dead Beanie Babies
Foreign Girlfriends
Hardworking Sleeping Pills
Manly Muffins
Lazy Toasters
A distant pulpit
You have got to love "Foreign Girlfriends," and "Hardworking Sleeping Pills," which my nephew Andy suggested.
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Pig Fister
Ordered Delusion
Bacon Flaps
Different bands in different times of my life. Would use Bacon Flaps though.
Ordered Delusion
Bacon Flaps
Different bands in different times of my life. Would use Bacon Flaps though.
Of course. There's no sweeter sound than bacon flapping in the breeze.
A friend I used to (and still do) play music with was a fellow industrial electrician. One day we were changing a machine component called a proportional valve, and he was reading the names of the small adjustments on the circuit board. And he came up with the band name "Max Dither and the Spanpots." It was good for a laugh.
Believe it or not -- don't ask me how or why -- but I remember hearing that band name back in the 80s.
The guys in my band have previously performed under the names Kamelto, Thrust, and Sweet Thunder.
Whenever I've been in a band needing a name I've always suggested "Lash and the Replaceables".
It has yet to be used.
My favorite band name was when in college I was part of a 3rd wave ska band called Ludicrous Speed. We put out an EP called "They've Gone Into Plaid" and did an extended tour of California. Years later a coworker realized he went to see us when we were part of a festival in San Diego. Funny. I'm sure there have been a number of people who've used that name since.
It has yet to be used.
My favorite band name was when in college I was part of a 3rd wave ska band called Ludicrous Speed. We put out an EP called "They've Gone Into Plaid" and did an extended tour of California. Years later a coworker realized he went to see us when we were part of a festival in San Diego. Funny. I'm sure there have been a number of people who've used that name since.
Way back in '96 I was in a very short-lived cover band. At some point we had to come up with a name for the group; the only one I can remember from the list I compiled is "Liver Damage Soundtrack". To this day, I think that's an awesome name for a bar band...
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