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Topic: Name for your band |
David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 2 May 2003 11:20 am |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 2 May 2003 6:47 pm
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I'm real partial to the name "Closed for remodeling"
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Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
I'm schizophrenic,
and so am I
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Ron Randall
From:
Dallas, Texas, USA
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Posted 2 May 2003 9:07 pm
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| WD and the 40's |
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R. E. Klaus
From:
Montana, USA
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Posted 3 May 2003 6:45 pm
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A freind of mine used "Free Chicken and Beer" for a short time. Seemed that some of the bar owners had a problem with that name.   |
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Joe Delaronde
From:
Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada
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Posted 3 May 2003 7:37 pm
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"Catfish Country"
5 members in my group (Biab). They don't drink, smoke, swear, never late. They never complain about the pay either, and require very little equipment.
Joe |
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Gary Slabaugh
From:
Scottsdale, AZ
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Posted 3 May 2003 11:55 pm
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| If I ever started a Hawaiian band I would call it "Gary and the Poi Boys" |
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Andy Zynda
From:
Wisconsin
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Posted 4 May 2003 5:14 am
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When I put together my current band about 3 years ago, we had practiced for about 5 months, and still didn't have a name. My wife kept saying that if we didn't find a name for ourselves, and get a playing job soon, that people would start calling us the 'spankin monkees'.
We were later asked to play for a benefit, and they needed a name to put on the posters & programs. Caught us in the middle of practice, and we still couldn't think of anything we liked. I told them to make it Andy Z & the Spankin' Monkees. (sort of a joke, this being a benefit & all...)
Well, there was around 2000 people for this benefit, and we were a big hit.
The friggin name stuck, and is serving us well. 
-andy-
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 4 May 2003 9:57 am
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| I've put together several bands over the years that performed as "The Oahu Cowboys". Wahoo! |
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John Cox
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 4 May 2003 11:43 am
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| I'm starting one called Numerous Complaints or somthing funnier,Bent Whiskey and hellbound? |
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Jack Francis
From:
Queen Creek, Arizona, USA
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Posted 4 May 2003 12:41 pm
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Since I have been known to forget the words to songs and make up new ones, my wife once said that we should call ouselves....
ASLEEP AT THE MIKE.  |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 4 May 2003 12:52 pm
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Maybe Bill Dodger and the Process Servers
Skip Tracy and the Hairy Eyeballs
Those Doomed to Repeating History
Abeit Macht Frei
Resistance is Futile
Liquor Commission Sting Operation
The Eric West Show.
(That's always been my fave)
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slick
From:
Calhoun Georgia
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Posted 4 May 2003 12:58 pm
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| Skeeter cheater and the chittlin eaters. |
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Derek Duplessie
From:
La Jolla CA USA
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Posted 6 May 2003 8:04 pm
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| How 'bout "White Thrash" (for a heavy metal band) -Derek |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 6 May 2003 8:15 pm
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| I always liked, "The Can't Hardly Playboys" |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 7 May 2003 1:50 am
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I had a jazz standards / wedding band for 2 years called ;
Johnny, Poly, Esther and Those Fabulous Leisure Suits.
Did about 200 gigs, and some of the oddest I have ever done too.
Blackpowder doesn't resonate well with the french, so we may change it to Maison Dixon.
maison is french for house. Seems to mean more over here and still reflect the music. |
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Ricky0ne1
From:
West Peoria, IL, USA
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Posted 7 May 2003 7:43 am
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My personal fav---- "Stringbean and the Vegatables"
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Rick Summers
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Gerald Menke
From:
Stormville NY, USA
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Posted 7 May 2003 8:43 am
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Hey all,
regarding EW's list, and to put it in the mildest terms possible, naming a band Arbeit Macht Frei ("work sets one free", for all the non-German speakers) would be in EXTREMELY dubious taste...this expression achieved notoriety by being displayed above the entrances to numerous concentration camps during WWII. Ick.
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Billy Woo
From:
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Posted 7 May 2003 10:05 am
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| "BRONCO BILLY" Yup right after old Clint Eastwood and his renegade troupe of convicts and misfits..actually I loved the movie and the storyline about a New Jersey salesguy wanting to be a cowboy..not to mention his love interest Miss Sandra Locke who was pretty hot at the time..Yeah day dreamin nine to fivers who holler and yodel at night. |
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 7 May 2003 11:27 am
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"The Can't Hardly Play Boys," is a killer.
I remember reading about some guy, can't remember his name, but the band was called
"Steve Gambrell's Cowboy Outfit." |
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Rich Weiss
From:
Woodland Hills, CA, USA
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Posted 7 May 2003 11:38 am
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| I joined a band just cause I liked their name, 'Spaghetti Western.' They were all Italian. |
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Roger Snively
From:
Washington C.H.,Ohio USA
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Posted 8 May 2003 5:50 am
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| The first band I played with (back in the 60s) was called Hopward Boggs and the Swingin Dogs. Some of the stuff we played kinda smelled like a wet dog, but we had funnn! And that's the name of the game. Have fun. |
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Joerg Hennig
From:
Bavaria, Germany
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Posted 8 May 2003 9:58 am
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| Gerald is right of course. Over here, only the nazi skinheads would name a band "Arbeit Macht Frei" (and probably get in severe trouble with the law for it...) |
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P Perry
From:
Lebanon, OH, USA
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Posted 8 May 2003 11:40 am
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| A local band around the Dayton, OH has one of the greatest names I've heard "Phil Dirt and the Dozers". |
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 11 May 2003 5:49 am
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How 'bout FARMERS ALLMANACT....pronounced like All...Man...Act, unless you've got girls in the group......JH
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Livin' in the Past and the Future with a 12 string Mooney Universal tuning.
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Jack Francis
From:
Queen Creek, Arizona, USA
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Posted 11 May 2003 6:11 am
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A friend has a duo with his wife and a BIB,
He wanted to call thier lil' group ...
"DOLLY AND HER JOHN" but she wouldn't go for it. [This message was edited by Jack Francis on 11 May 2003 at 07:12 AM.] [This message was edited by Jack Francis on 11 May 2003 at 07:14 AM.] [This message was edited by Jack Francis on 11 May 2003 at 09:06 AM.] |
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