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Who uses Stage Names?
- Thread starter thombo
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my nickname with all my friends and to the audience is and always will be Beans, at work I only let people call me by my real name, the nickname ive had before i even started on bass so i guess its not realy a stage name.
Really!?! Seriously!? Everyone who uses a stage name is a "pretentious tool?"
OK, that's very sophisticated and worldly.
I am starting a new band with some friends and it will be called "Dick Sniffles and the Onion Rings" so our singer will be Dick Sniffles.
Needs to be a single name. Not a first and last name. Those sound extra pretentious. Unless you use initials. Then you can use a surname.
Actually, I sometimes play with a drummer who uses a stage name. Before I knew him, I thought it was ridiculous. But he's one of those rare people who can wear one with credibility.
Your reasons for establishing an alter ego seem legit to me. See if you can make it stick.
Actually, I sometimes play with a drummer who uses a stage name. Before I knew him, I thought it was ridiculous. But he's one of those rare people who can wear one with credibility.
Your reasons for establishing an alter ego seem legit to me. See if you can make it stick.
Fix the Facebook and social networking part of the equation with filters and preferences which you can control. And if kids are going to try to flout that, beyond your ability to exercize reasonable precautions and safety measures, then this seems like a parent problem, rather than a teacher problem. Right?
And if they're old enough to be rooting around on FB and on the internet and looking for you, beyond that which you are able to control, they should certainly be able to understand every word or comment that is mentioned in association with you by people other than you, isn't from your mouth or is your opinion.
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valid point about the filters, but i also don't want to limit the exposure of any projects i play in, especially because it is unfair to the other musicians. i am leaning toward a pseudonym, as suggested by agreatheight and aka trent, instead of a true stage name like Grundle or Slice.
i used to share the opinion joey3313, but it seems that this is a necessity of my career. i wonder if sting adapted his terrible name for this same reason, wasn't he a teacher?
i do use a pseudonym for certain projects mostly because of crazy ladies in the crowd having a tendency to stalk me, no lie.
once i had a girl become some kind of megafan of the group and used one of those people search sites to track me down. she then left all kind of suggestive messages on my phone and would call my house, causing no end of drama between me and my wife. so i decided that in order to protect my family life and keep it apart from my professional life i adopted a stage name. its also why i refuse to post pictures of my kids on any even semi public forum (facebook etc) i have other ways of sending those to my loved ones. my family is my business not anyone else's
once i had a girl become some kind of megafan of the group and used one of those people search sites to track me down. she then left all kind of suggestive messages on my phone and would call my house, causing no end of drama between me and my wife. so i decided that in order to protect my family life and keep it apart from my professional life i adopted a stage name. its also why i refuse to post pictures of my kids on any even semi public forum (facebook etc) i have other ways of sending those to my loved ones. my family is my business not anyone else's
My parents gave me my stage name 50 years ago, Kenny Lee Lewis. Due to legalities & such I can't go by this "stage name" as it's being used by a more famous musician in the Steve Miller Band. Can't knock him, he's an excellent musician. Timing is everything.
I hope that my current bandleader is not misrepresenting the actual personnel in the band, but it wouldn't surprise me if he did.
If "the" Kenny Lee Lewis is a TBer please feel free to PM me. We've got a lot more in common than a name.
Wish you well.
-KLL
I hope that my current bandleader is not misrepresenting the actual personnel in the band, but it wouldn't surprise me if he did.
If "the" Kenny Lee Lewis is a TBer please feel free to PM me. We've got a lot more in common than a name.
Wish you well.
-KLL
I'm Phalex Von Porklipps on stage and on my bands web page. Too many wierdos out there for me to let them know that I'm not going to be home Friday and Saturday night between the hours of about 8:00 till 3:00am.....
It worked a whole lot better before FB came along, and kinda screwed with it.....
It worked a whole lot better before FB came along, and kinda screwed with it.....
Like John Paul Jones?
I have no need for a pseudonym myself, but several on here have already given valid reasons for wanting to do so.
In the past I've worked with one or two people who have stage names - "normal" stage names, meaning if they hadn't told me they weren't their real names, I wouldn't have known.
Generally this was because they thought their real names were either not cool, or didn't have didn't have that "ring" to them. For example, Joe Jackson's real name is David, he thought "Dave" was too normal so he changed it - he knew nothing about the Baseball connection at the time - I assure you.
Rick Buckler's real name is Paul, but they didn't want two Pauls in the Jam.
(I was once in a 5 piece band and 3 of us were called Peter).
Joe and I once worked at a Playboy Club - where all the Bunny girls had stage names!!.
Finally, how about the actors Maurice Michaelwhite and Marion Morrison? (that's Michael Caine and John Wayne to you!!).
Generally this was because they thought their real names were either not cool, or didn't have didn't have that "ring" to them. For example, Joe Jackson's real name is David, he thought "Dave" was too normal so he changed it - he knew nothing about the Baseball connection at the time - I assure you.
Rick Buckler's real name is Paul, but they didn't want two Pauls in the Jam.
(I was once in a 5 piece band and 3 of us were called Peter).
Joe and I once worked at a Playboy Club - where all the Bunny girls had stage names!!.
Finally, how about the actors Maurice Michaelwhite and Marion Morrison? (that's Michael Caine and John Wayne to you!!).
I'm 45. I teach high school orchestra. I play in a pop/rock cover band, a jazz quartet and a funk/R&B horn band on occasion. My kids know. Some have seen me at gigs - where appropriate. Some have played with me at the open jam night for jazz.
We keep band pages on Face Book, but it's basically dates and stuff. Nothing crazy. We're all old and married and boring.
So far no issues. I certainly don't feel the need for a stage name. It wouldn't make a difference anyway. Kids, like teachers, have ways of finding things out no matter what you do to cover your tracks.
Play and have fun. It's good for kids to see that you are enjoying music as part of your adult life. Life long learning.
We keep band pages on Face Book, but it's basically dates and stuff. Nothing crazy. We're all old and married and boring.
So far no issues. I certainly don't feel the need for a stage name. It wouldn't make a difference anyway. Kids, like teachers, have ways of finding things out no matter what you do to cover your tracks.
Play and have fun. It's good for kids to see that you are enjoying music as part of your adult life. Life long learning.
