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Topic: Overused band names |
Clyde Mattocks
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Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 8:28 am |
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The topic "Stage names you'd like to use" just made me ponder this. In no way reflects on your band's
name, but I see a lot of the same or similar on marquees. I nominate:
The Entertainers
Any combination of: Silver, Whiskey, Bullet, Thunder,
Rebel, Tradition (You get the idea).
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Chris Bauer
From:
Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 8:47 am
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I noticed someone in the stage names thread is in a band called the Ken Hardly Playboys. I've actually been in two bands with that name at different times in different states.
I always loved it when someone would come up to the bandstand and ask who Ken was. (In the first band, the lead singer finally caved and started to go by Ken Hardly on stage.) |
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Sonny Priddy
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Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 9:01 am band names
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| The Frist Band I Was In Was Hank Ray And The Drifters. SONNY. |
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Larry Beck
From:
Pierre, SD
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 9:01 am Another over used name
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A name that gets over done around here is midnight, ie.
Midnight Posse
Midnight Riders
Midnight Crossing
Midnight Creek
Midnight Drifters
One band wanted to use "Midnight Cowboys" until someone pointed out the potential ramifications (double pun) of that name. Sad to say I have played in "Midnight" bands, but I wasn't on the naming committee. I think they used midnight in the name because the audience turned into pumpkins and went home early on. |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 10:16 am
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Anything that has "Country" as part of the name.
"Boys", similarly. "Cow-" or not.
Been in a few bands that had both.
Ending one of the names with "-casters" unless there's someone that can PLAY one.
More I guess as they come to mind.
HAppy Easter.
He is Risen.
EJL |
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Randy Phelps
From:
California, USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 10:45 am
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geography themes
River
Canyon
Desert
Hill
Mountain
Valley
The perfect name would be the Desert River Canyon Mountain Valley Boys featuring River Hills on steel guitar. |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Marc Friedland
From:
Fort Collins, CO
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 10:56 am
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Only once in my 43 year history of performing with over 70 bands, has a name repeated, where it was actually a totally different band, and not just basically the same band but with some different members – and that name is
Wild Card
Marc |
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John Steele
From:
Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 11:10 am
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To add one more term to the geographically overused terms:
Creek
-John |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 11:10 am
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| Anything ending in the word "Band". |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 11:13 am
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I think we should all form a band consisting of nothing but steel players and call ourselves the "Silver Whiskey Midnight Creek Mountain Fever Posse" 
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Alvin Blaine
From:
Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 11:29 am
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| Randy Phelps wrote: |
geography themes
River
Canyon
Desert
Hill
Mountain
Valley
The perfect name would be the Desert River Canyon Mountain Valley Boys featuring River Hills on steel guitar. |
Hey Randy,
Don't forget about directions. Like western, southern, northern.....
The ones I've never cared for are the "and the ---- Band". As in "Blah Blah and the Blah Band"
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 11:59 am
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Mike, that would be the Silver Whiskey Midnight Creek Northern Mountain Fever Posse Playboys Band. 
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 12:04 pm
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Sometimes simple is best, THE BAND,DYKBC.
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 12:21 pm
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| Edward Meisse wrote: |
| Mike, that would be the Silver Whiskey Midnight Creek Northern Mountain Fever Posse Playboys Band. |
I don't know Ed. Posse and Band redundantly repeat themselves and mean the same thing over again.
Hey, in the interests of showing how versatile we are, Do you think we should we allow a b***o player to join us?
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Jim Bob Sedgwick
From:
Clinton, Missouri USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 12:55 pm
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| Mike Perlowin wrote: |
| I think we should all form a band consisting of nothing but steel players and call ourselves the "Silver Whiskey Midnight Creek Mountain Fever Posse" |
Mike.... You forgot BAND !!! Also Ramblers should be in there somewhere. |
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Randy Phelps
From:
California, USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 1:34 pm
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| Mike Perlowin wrote: |
| Hey, in the interests of showing how versatile we are, Do you think we should we allow a b***o player to join us? |
yes but only if the band is something like
Outlaw Chance Watters and The Southwestern Silver Creek Canyon Riders featuring Pluckin' Pinky Rivers on the banjo. |
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 5:23 pm
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| Down here, it's "Southern." |
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Olaf van Roggen
From:
The Netherlands
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Posted 24 Mar 2008 5:05 am
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| I noticed it's mostly the European(and i am not saying you're a pee on)bands who uses terms like:"lone star,Panhandle,Texas,Black Hills,Highway,Ranch House,Hillbilly,Dixie,Renegade,Redneck,etc...... |
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Jim Mitchell
From:
Phily,Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 24 Mar 2008 7:30 am BUG NAMES
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At lest Country bands don't use BUG NAMES
The Beatles
The Crickets
The Byrds
The Frogs
The Zombies
The Who
The Blowfish
The News
And I guess there are more
And how about the bands called
THE [ somthing brothers ]
No more Brother bands
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 24 Mar 2008 7:58 am
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My pet peeve for band names would be any group where the band leader uses his name and adds the word "SHOW" after it. In California I worked with the "Clark Rohn Show" for a while. He was a nice guy but I always felt like the band had no identity. Since I moved to Virginia there's been the "Tee Meroney Show" and the "Jerry Lee Scott Show"....... What show? These guys just play the joints and lodges for dancers like everyone else does. I worked with an Elvis impersonator for 9 years and we actually did some big shows and concerts but he used the name "Sterling Riggs and the TKC Band so we actually had a name for the pickers. TKC stood for "The King's Court"........JH in Va.
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 24 Mar 2008 8:23 am
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great thread and you know this happens in every genre of music....so much so that you can often tell the bands genre from their name alone.
I'm not partial to any band that has the actual genre IN their name:
METALlica
SKAtalites
ROCKpile
etc.
If I started callin out the country names....I'd be sure to hit on one of your bands eventually so I'll just let that one go 
Worst are the emo band names that are more like sentences than band name....
"and you will know us by the trial of dead"
"as my bride lays dying"
"every sunday I die a little then cry"-okay that ones made up...but you get the idea |
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Al Vescovo
From:
Van Nuys, CA, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 24 Mar 2008 9:51 am
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| I once played in a band" Keith Van Dyck" pronounced dick. "Keith Van Dyck and the Dyckaroos" Keith also had a soul band called "Keith Van Dyck and tne Dyckettes" He was an actor and had a lot of props in his show. Very entertaining. He dressed like a cowboy with a 10 gallon cowboy hat. Funny to look at. The gigs were a blast. |
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Andy Greatrix
From:
Edmonton Alberta
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Posted 24 Mar 2008 9:56 am
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I always thought "The Average White Band" was a great name, so extending that mind-set, I thought that a bunch of pickers who had been fired by big name artists (for being too old or too fat etc.) could form a band and call themselves
"The Insignificant Sidemen". |
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