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The Soulful Mr T
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1287
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 10:18 am: | 
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I always like to make up band names, usually from snippets of conversation and other funny wordplay.... among my favorites:
Fillet of Soul
When Stools Float
The Snapperwhippers
Got any made-up band names of your own?
Wondering if your made-up band name is really original? Check the "Ultimate Band List" to see at www.ubl.com
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Oldstone
Citizen
Username: Rogers4317
Post Number: 515
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 11:53 am: |
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when i was 10 my band was called "the crystal cloud". it was hard doing the artwork to fit on the front of the paper bass drum on gino's fake drum set.  |
SoOrLady
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Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 2905
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 12:26 pm: |
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My kid's band when he was in HS went through several variations, but one of my favorites was Nearly Spent.
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Arnomation
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Username: Arnomation
Post Number: 458
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 1:39 pm: |
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My two imaginary hard rock band names were
THE ANVIL CHORUS & THE CRUSHING GRIP playing on a double bill :-)
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mem
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Username: Mem
Post Number: 5662
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 2:31 pm: |
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My brother's old band:
Willy Bo Bo and the Meat Men
My ex-boyfriend's band:
Barbeque Bob and the Spareribs
http://www.bbq-bob.com
(Yes! I was Bob's girl - for four years!) |
buhinc
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Username: Buhinc
Post Number: 112
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 3:17 pm: |
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I had a great band in High School called Tequilla and the Worms |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5142
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 3:57 pm: |
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I used to see Barbeque Bob in the city from time to time, mem!
My favorite band names, although I had nothing to do with the names...
friends in high school started a punk band...Arthur Kill and the 22 Toxic Chemicals
a local bar band in Staten Island years ago..The Space Between Your Ears
and a local Maplewood band that I havent heard of lately, but were fun to see...The Swingin' Johnsons |
mem
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Username: Mem
Post Number: 5666
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 4:08 pm: |
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Hank,
Bob's still at it - what a great guy - I met so many cool people with him, including Pinetop Perkins - one of my favorite people, and another cool name too...
http://www.pinetopperkins.com/ |
The Soulful Mr T
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1290
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 7:15 pm: |
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Not a made-up name, but there used to be a Boston band that played in NYC pretty often called "Joey Miserable & the Worms." |
doulamomma
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Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 814
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 8:06 pm: |
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Also not made up: mr. doula was in a band called "Prince Josepha & The Hawaiian Review"... |
Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 4969
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 8:42 pm: |
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Back to made-up names ...
A couple of years back, there was a news story about a spill and fire at a Kentucky distillery.
A friend of mine was trying to come up with a name for his band, and based on that news story I thought I came up with the perfect name -"Flaming Rivers of Bourbon" He didn't use it, but I still thought that would make a good name for a band. |
AlleyGater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1083
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 9:09 pm: |
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When I was in high school I dreamed of having a band so I could name it Vicious Fishes. I thought it was such a dreadful name that I desperately wanted to use it. Many years later, I did a google search on it and found out that someone named their design firm that name and the magic was instantly gone. Now the name means nothing to me. |
yabbadabbadoo
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Username: Yabbadabbadoo
Post Number: 294
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 9:57 pm: |
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Hunky Dory and the Puerto Ricans
FF
actually the the name of my trivia team in college |
ML
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Username: Ml1
Post Number: 2910
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 10:33 pm: |
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I was in a band called "Plaster Cast of Thousands." Jim, the bass player in my current band, was in a group called "Brave New Squirrel."
anyone who's ever been in a band knows what a pain it is to agree on a name. I was in a band once where we went weeks trying to decide what we'd be called. eventually out of frustration, we called ourselves "13" after seeing a box from an old 13" TV in the corner of the basement we rehearsed in. |
buzzsaw
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Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 3579
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 10:06 am: |
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brave new squirrel is by far the best band name I have ever heard. |
Shanabana
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Username: Shanabana
Post Number: 123
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 8:06 pm: |
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There was a band called FF, my brother in law was in it. |
upondaroof
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Username: Upondaroof
Post Number: 520
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 8:40 pm: |
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Back in the mid '90's, I was involved with a short lived project that played obscure blues covers. We were looking through the yellow pages and came up with "Concrete Consignment" as a possible name for the group. The words were the headers on opposing pages. The name never flew and we ended up as "Hardluck & Trouble" and that too fizzled out.
Back in high school I was in "The National Debt", and since the early '90's, "Feedback", which is shortened from "The Lake Parsippany Feedback Blues Band" |
bets
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Username: Bets
Post Number: 22675
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 11:39 pm: |
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Dirty Sneakers, local band of some repute in the mid-80s, were pretty good. Can't remember whether my brothers' band (2 brothers, so correct possessive apostrophe, I believe) at one time was named Those Amazing Heads. Or was that their softball team? All I know is I had a shirt. |
Brick Pig
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Username: Brick_pig
Post Number: 52
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 8:49 am: |
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Brick Pig *is* my made-up band name. It's something a friend and I came up with shortly after college. It is now the name I use any time I write, record, and/or play music. It still makes me laugh after all these years.
When I lived in Pennsylvania, I also played in a friend's band called Frankie Big Face. My wife came up with that name when we were having dinner one night with the friend, whose name is Frank. We were discussing The Sopranos, and then talking about mob names.
Shameless self-promotion, for anyone interested:
http://brick-pig.com
http://frankiebigface.com
(Almost every song is free for downloading on both sites.)
Slightly off-topic:
When I originally registered for this forum, I tried over and over to use my actual name, or some variation of it, but I got an error message every time. Eventually, I entered Brick Pig and it went right through. Interesting... |
Mummite
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Username: Mummite
Post Number: 205
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 5:17 pm: |
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We used to do this at college. Get people to name any two words and then link them into a band name.
My all time favorite was Pumpkin Whisk
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AlleyGater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1104
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 11:06 am: |
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I just saw on the TV that there is a band that goes by the name of Test-Icicles which made me laugh VERY HARD!!! |
Kiba
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Username: Radical_kiba
Post Number: 21
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 12:03 pm: |
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Philabuster bandits is my made up band name. I thought of that years ago...
or invertibrae. haha. |
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