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Topic: Interesting Names of Bands, Real and Unreal |
Richard Wilhelm
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Ventura County, California
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Posted 20 Jun 2015 10:13 pm |
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"The Spahn Ranch Boys" a real band just a few years back, from my neck of the woods.
"California Grassfield" who were close friends of mine. Early band of Pat Flynn (New Grass Revival and much Nashville session work) and Colin Kiffin (who later played steel in the house band at the Palomino. Red Rhodes became his close friend and protege, lent him my first Fender 400). They covered songs like 'Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing' which was the first single by the Buffalo Springfield.
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"Be Kind to Animals, don't eat Them"
"If you know music, you°ll know most everything you°ll need to know" Edgar Cayce
"You're only young forever" Harpo Marx
Fender 400, Fender FM212, G&L ASAT.
Was part of a hippie-Christian store in Cotati, California (circa 1976) called THE EYE OF THE RAINBOW. May God love you.
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 4:49 am
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California Grassfield
New Grass Revival
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Tim Herbert
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 5:57 am
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Three Musicians and a Drummer
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Tim Herbert - Wisconsin |
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Tom Wolverton
From:
Carpinteria, CA
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 6:51 am
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Nine Pound Hamster
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John Peay
From:
Cumming, Georgia USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 10:08 am
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| For awhile we went by "Saint Joe & the Sinners"...we did a mix of country and gospel ! |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 10:37 am
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Mouse And The Traps, a one hit wonder with a Dylan impersonation, which I can't remember the title of.
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Scott Duckworth
From:
Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 10:59 am
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The Four Ministers Quartet...
We recorded once only for a local presentation play put on at a local theater... four gospel singers that happened to be ministers...
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I may, in fact, be nuts. However, I am screwed onto the right bolt... Jesus! |
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Bill Sinclair
From:
Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 11:44 am
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| Question Mark and the Mysterians (96 Tears) was a pretty crazy one. |
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John Booth
From:
Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 1:35 pm
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"The Groove Weasels" (Don't ask me why) 
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"The Band of Large Shoe Sizes"
and one we tried for one weekend: "Free Beer" (It looked great in the paper)
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Doug Clark
From:
Maine, USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 1:40 pm
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| Bill Sinclair wrote: |
| Question Mark and the Mysterians (96 Tears) was a pretty crazy one. |
Yep; the Sixties, man. According to Wikipedia, "[Rudy] Martinez, who went under the moniker, '?', quickly cement[ed] himself as the group's creative force." They were still around in 2012, minus one member who passed away the year before. http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2012/10/fifty_years_later_question_mar.html
I don't know if the Beatles played off the Crickets' name, but then we had the Byrds and the Tyrtles. (I forgot why they later changed it to the Turtles; maybe to avoid confusion.) I think the Electric Prunes' name came about because they were clowning around while thinking up a name, but they kept it. In 1970, Camel cigarettes had an ad parodying "Mod" groups, using the name "Electric Plums."
I might look up old Dave Barry columns where he uses the phrase "that would make a good name for a rock band," and name my band after something Dave came up with. (Dave also happens to be a guitarist with the Rock Bottom Remainders.) But we're probably just going to be the "Three-Chord Commanders."  |
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John Booth
From:
Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 1:42 pm
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Oh, and we must not forget
"Karl Malden and the Noses"
and out of Seattle" "Mary Tyler Morphine"
And out of Salt Lake : "The Morbid Tavern Apple Choir"
and out of Detroit: "REO Speed Dealer"
out of LA: "Rodney King and the Nightsticks"
out of San Francisco: "The Spastic Colons"
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 2:02 pm
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Free Beer
Vito and the Del Velcros
White Guys With Glasses |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 2:19 pm
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I played for while for a band called "Live Music". The leader of the band told me that he named his band that because most clubs had signs that advertised live music. Free advertising.
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Dave Hopping
From:
Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 4:27 pm
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| I wanted to name my band "Jack Ketch"but that's a little dark for country............ |
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Brett Lanier
From:
Hermitage, TN
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Posted 22 Jun 2015 6:01 pm
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Couple of VT bands...
Phil and The Blanks
The Whisky Dicks (flacid rock) |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 22 Jun 2015 6:28 pm
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I recently played a jazz gig in which everyone else in the band was named "Dave". No lie. I knew I had to do something with this unusual factoid, so I named the band (for one night only), "Jim Cohen and the Daves of Wine and Roses".
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Jim Cooley
From:
The 'Ville, Texas, USA
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Posted 22 Jun 2015 7:57 pm
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| Wade Thruitt and the Big Ol' Nekkid Dudes |
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Ken Pippus
From:
Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 23 Jun 2015 9:25 am
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| Used to front Stark Naked and the Car Thieves, which was predictably shortlived. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 23 Jun 2015 9:51 am
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| The Consultants of Swing |
Sounds like a trumpet playing band
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Doug Clark
From:
Maine, USA
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Posted 23 Jun 2015 10:56 am
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| Joachim Kettner wrote: |
| Jim Cohen wrote: |
| The Consultants of Swing |
Sounds like a trumpet playing band |
In suits. Carrying briefcases. 
Jim's other post, about the guys all named Dave, reminded me of a bunch of guys who played a couple of times at the weekly "hoot night" in a place where I hung out years ago. They called themselves "Everybody's Neil." (Could have been "Neal." I dunno.) I never found out if that was meant as "everybody is," or the possessive form. I don't remember them doing any Neil Young songs, but they seemed to be having a lot of fun with it.  |
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Chuck Stowe
From:
Sycamore, Illinois, USA
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Posted 23 Jun 2015 4:41 pm
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We had a lead singer named Judge Fletcher so we became Judge Fletcher and the Hung Jury.
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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