Conference napalm::guitar

I still get a kick out of "The Bloody Stools".

Wagagagagaaa...

jc

    Skinny Puppy
    Butt hole Surfers ( my favorite)
    Fudge tunnel
    Two back Yards
    Three many Dave's
    Rash of Stabbing's
    

Seen in an ad for the 8x10 club in south Baltimore:

	The Non-Dairy Screamers
	The Crazy Sacred Dogs

and in an ad for the Cat's Eye Pub in Fells Point (Baltimore):

	Banjos From Hell

    The Condo pygmies
    Bishop Desmond and the tutu's
    

    re .2:
    
    >>Three many Dave's
    
    what's wrong with that? :-)    

    "Johnny Lobotomy and the Coroners of Death".....they play bubble gum
    music.....
    
    8^)
    
    Steve

    Here's one from "the old days" (before crap like butthole
    surfers,rotting carrion and the like):
    
    Nehemiah Righteous and the Dirty Water River Bottom Blues Band

 Windodd Memorial Electric String Band

    a couple more memorables from the punk era:
    
    	The Dead Kennedys
    	
    	The Sniveling Sh*ts
    

Steve-O Dandrea...

'The coronors of death'

Yeah, he made it up to prod fun at ME (suprised ?)  when I forced him to 
listen to Coronor all the to Peltzer SC from Greenville...  Remember that 
Steve?

jc

    i was looking for such a note as well. We need a name for our band and
    our name-the-band bar-b-q was a washout. We play r 'n r, blues,c/w and
    other for parties and weekend gigs. As of now we are "The Renditions"
    but lets hear from you.....suggest a logo as well.
    

    ie.9
       didn't you forget " TORN FLESH "
    
    
       i allways liked "UPSIDEDOWN STREETCAR" MYSELF 
    
    
    
    
                   HI BOB!!!!!!!!!!
        P.S. YES I STILL HAVE THE TAPE BUT MCKAY (BILL) IS HOUNDING ME
      FOR IT. HE LIVES RIGHT DOWN THE STREET.
    
    
    
    
    
    
                        RICHIE

	I'm kinda partial to the Screaming Blue Messiahs.  What does this 
	band sound like anyways?

	Also, In our Tribe ain't bad either...

    
    
    	It's kinda silly but I like the band I'm playing with now....
    
    
    	Chunder Hive.........originally Globes of Joy (but that sounded a
    	bit too similar to the plums of love...(another bands name))
    
    
    	J
    

    Clutch Grabwell and the Hacksaw Horns

    My all time fave...
    
                    "Judy's Tiny Head"
    
    Edd

   We're still lacking a name, but some good ones have come across our
white board...

	Bonus (my idea, and still my fav. but our drummer thinks
		that we'll get these gay guys coming up to us after gigs)
	Phallic Tradegy
	<more escape me>

   Someday I'd like to put a thrash/noise band together called The Leaks.
But we'll see what happens.

					-mjg

>Steve-O Dandrea...

>'The coronors of death'

>Yeah, he made it up to prod fun at ME (suprised ?)  when I forced him to 
>listen to Coronor all the way to Peltzer SC from Greenville...  Remember that 
>Steve?
    
    I'll never forget that, Coop....I think my ears are STILL
    ringing...sheesh!  8^)
    
    Dawg

>>	Bonus (my idea, and still my fav. but our drummer thinks
>>		that we'll get these gay guys coming up to us after gigs)
>>	Phallic Tradegy
  
    .. wasn't sure which name you thought would attract gay men, so
    included them both.  Some friends and I have been working up some
    gay-positive tunes, and I've been having a great time thinking up band
    names:
    
    Homosexuals in the Workplace (still my favorite)
    The 3-dollar bills
    Unamerican Activity (not exactly gay, but kinda cool)
    
    trying to find a more positive way to point out that not everyone who
    reads and writes in this file is male and straight.
    
    Justine

    
    With the possible exception of El Grupo Sexo, this are all working LA
    bands...
    
Pygmy Love Circus
Celebrity Skin
Flies on Fire
the Frut
the Dentists
B.B. Chung King
Urban Sex Tribe
El Grupo Sexo
Barney's Bicycle
Possum Death
Bungee Chords
Alice To The Moon
Unruly Pig Farmers
Rod & The Pistons
The Bumpin' Uglys
Trostski Icepick
Nag Nag Nag
Aristocratic Trash
Ants Love It
Damnage
Black Market Elvis
Carboard Superstars
Rosetta Stones
& More
Lynyrd Skynhead
Too Many Joes
Downy Mildew
Delicious Mind Garden
    
                   How about some east coast strangeness???
    
    	P.S.  good point, Justine!
    

  The new Freddy Mercury's band :

     Condom Palace

    -1
    
    That supposed to be funny??

    I didn't see the humor either ...

    re -1,-2
    
    Ok men, i don't want a new desert storm...
    Sorry for bad joke and God save the Queen(s).
    

      <<< Note 2448.18 by LENO::GRIER "mjg's holistic computing agency" >>>
                           -< Some working names... >-


>	Bonus (my idea, and still my fav. but our drummer thinks
>		that we'll get these gay guys coming up to us after gigs)
>	Phallic Tradegy
>	<more escape me>

    
    Bonus!?!?!  Come on... You've come up with better than that!  And I 
    thought Brian Baby would love those guys!?!?!
    
    Phallic Tradegy - We need to talk...
    
    Personally, I always liked Fear of Theory!  It just brings back
    memories of Jay (Ex-Bassist) and I trying desperately to figure out
    what key the chick from Tribe was in...  And it also brings back
    memories of me sitting in front of my VAXmate playing Popstar (A very
    cool game from Ireland about playing in bands and stuff!), eating
    monster amounts of popcorn (Because My finance' got me this Huge
    tub-o-popcorn for x-mas)!
    
>   Someday I'd like to put a thrash/noise band together called The Leaks.
>But we'll see what happens.

    Reminds me of past practices... 8^)
    
    
>					-mjg

    
    	sms
    

    when I was in school I was in a punk-like band called the Chunx.
    Guess where that came from :-)
    
    When I lived in New Jersey I was in a band with 2 guys from 
    Keansburg, which at that time was getting a lot of press for
    being the home of a hit man named Donald Nash. This guy was
    killing somebody in a parking garage and 3 TV crew technicians
    saw him, so he killed all 3 of them. So the name of the band 
    was going to be Donald Nash and the Dead Technicians. But we
    wimped out and changed it to Silent Witness, which was a pretty
    good name for a band.

Re: .20:

   Lighten up.  My roommate/drummer's homophobia isn't mine, although
it does stop us from using an interesting name.  (He's not worried about
Phallic Tragedy for that reason, more because they'll think he's the
tragedy...  sigh, it seems like every interesting name offends someone.
I like that, personally.)

   On that note, is "Unamerican Activities" used?  I rather like it...

					-mjg

RE: .28
    
>My roommate/drummer's homophobia isn't mine, although
    
    Then maybe you should leave it off the net altogether??
    
    
    Buck, who thought Justine had a good point in .20

    
    I thought my response was pretty light.  
    
    I plan to use the "Unamerican Activity" name for a band someday, but if 
    someone else wants to grab it first, I say go for it.  
    
    Justine
    
    ps  Another name I've thought of for an all woman group is
        "The Eligible Spinsters"

I've recently been thinking of using, "Live Nude Girls".  Doesn't matter if
there's any women in the band or not, but it'd look great on the marquee of
any place we got a job!  :-)

(And yes, I know Setzer used "Live Nude Guitars" as the name of an album, but
mine's different enough to be interesting...)

-- Sam, who played on stage last night for the first time in about 5 years...

    Speaking of the marquee, how do you think the name "FREE CHICKEN AND
    BEER" would affect the draw? 
    
    "sakman"

There is a band here in 'The Springs' called "Free Beer".
It's an oldie, but a goodie.

jc

    If you wanna draw a crowd with your band's name on a marquis, I suppose
    "Money for Nuthin' and Chicks for Free" would work ok.....
    
    8^)
    
    Steve (obvious and possibly cliche, but true...)
    

    how about this one for a country band:
    
    			Billy Bob & the Beer Bellies

    Always makes me smile:
    
    Attilla The Stockbroker
    
    The band I'm currently forming has the working title of:
    
    Maurice Oxford And The Shooting Brakes - probably won't mean much to
    you if you're American.....anyone care for an explanation?
    
    Phil

    
       ...when you're ready to SHAKE -
    
    
              7-POINT-7
    
       This isn't up for grabs! It's my latest band, ready with a new 
    name, logo, and material.
    
    							-B()()M-

    
    
    i came across these on the University station:
    
    School of fish
    
    Born again pagans
    

    Re Maurice Oxford and ....
    
    Okay, I know a shooting brake is a vehicle to go hunting animals in,
    but who-the-hell is Maurice Oxford?

        Since Phil's probably long gone, I'll explain...
        
        The (Austin)  Morris  Oxford  was  a  shooting brake aka estate
        car, aka station wagon type vehicle.
        
        Hence...

    Re -1
    
    Long gone? Well, I went home for the weekend.........
    
    Yep, the Morris Oxford is an old BL car and the shooting brake is what
    we Brits used to call estate cars (station wagons).
    
    Phil

        's what I meant by 'long gone' Phil (for the weekend).
        
        Andy
        

    	How about a couple from north of the boarder  (The Great White
    North):
    
    	The Bare Naked Ladies (all guys...)
    
    	Three Dead Trolls in a Baggy
    
    
    FJE
    

    
    
    Some other ones from north of the border
    
    Crash Test Dummies
    
    Tragically Hip
    
    

	Some for now, I'll have to come back to the real good ones later.

	On a similar note I get a kick of of band names that are sometimes
	so similar that they confuse even the best of us.  Not so much
	the ones of the type that have say a UK distinction but for 
	instance if you don't confuse Monster Magnet with Bitch Magnet, etc.
	then you're all right!  Clawhammer, Jawhammer, etc.

	Also, what about names that don't imply the style of music played
	by the band at all, not that it matters but...

	I can't think of one example at the moment but assume someone by
	the name of the Psychefunkapus, who I have yet to hear but it
	would be funny if they weren't some form of psychedelic or
	at all funky but a barber shop quartet.  Not that there's
	anything wrong with barbers but maybe you know what I'm babbling
	about...


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The New World Orderlies

    There used to be a new wave/punk band in the Colo. Spgs. area some
    years ago by the name of "The S.I.D.S." -- Sudden Infant Death
    Syndrome.
    
    Punk bands always had the strangest monikers!
    
    Scotty

    There was one in Boston a few years ago: Smegma and the Nuns
    
    Dave

When I was a kid, I used to be in a band comprised of 2 guitars, a bass and
drums that did Ventures and Shadows stuff (this was a *long* time ago). One
day we were practicing at the drum player's house, and we got to talking to
his old man about how we couldn't think of a good name for our band. He 
thought for about 10 seconds and piped up with "Well, how about '3 Picks
an' a Pair o' Sticks'?"  We were acutely embarressed.  After noticing that
we were all staring glassy eyed at the walls he said, "OK, just 'Picks 'n
Sticks' then". 

After replaying this scene in my mind many times over the years, I've de-
cided that this name is so incredibly, devastatingly, gawdawfully bad, that
it's actually pretty good. I still go into an immediate stupor whenever I
hear it.

Oh well, talent does what it can, genius does what it must.

Myself and some friends put together a band to do a few Working Men's Clubs
gigs (UK readers may be familiar with these establishments), for the money
of course.
Bands which do WMC gigs are renowned for their cringingly awful names (amongst
other things), so we set out to try and think up the worst name we could (to
take the maximum p*ss).

We went on the road as "Ebony Moonbeam".
*DC

    re. "picks and sticks"
    
    Well, I probably wouldn't go for that name either, but I like the
    thought. Its something that sorta makes sense as opposed to some of
    the other names that have been mentioned here. I like names that imply
    something. Like Justus Brothers. Another example is my pool league
    team's name. We consist of 4 guys and a girl. Our name is "8 Balls and
    a Pocket".
    
    In one band that I started, we were thinking about a name and what we
    did was go thru albums to look at titles to get ideas. It only took a
    1/2 hour from the very first mention of "we got to get a name" until we
    settled on one - "Bootleg".
    
    "sakman"  Who laments over Bootleg at just the thought. It was the best
    band you'll never see and the best group I've ever been a part of. We
    "coulda been contenda's".
     

    I was briefly in a band called Wreak Havoc and the Bundletwitchers.
    Fortunately, we never played out.
    
    Dave

    
    
    From a Saturday Night Live thing with Gilda Radner as Emily Latella
    (spelling approximate):
    
                             Endangered Feces
    
    

    I was in a band called the MindErasers.  Don't use the name though, we
    still get together and play everyone once in an age.
    
    Greg

    I was in a band that couldn't think of a name, but our first gig was on
    December 7, so we called ourselves Daze of Infamy.
    
    Dave

I hear the name "Milly Vanilly" isn't being used at present. 8^)

    The group I was in from '72 to '78 was called "Group Therapy"...it
    always got mixed reactions, but people remembered it!
    
    Steev

    Hey sakman, I was also in a gigging band called Bootleg for a couple
    of years.  Then again, maybe a lot of folks were.
    
    /rick

    I played in a bluegrass band when I was 17,and at that time there
    was an ad on British TV for the gas company whose slogan was "High
    Speed Gas",so we changed it to call ourselves High Speed Grass....
    we were too naive to realise there were *THREE* drug connotations
    in there for the price of one! (or was it only me who was naive??)
    	Lost a lot of potential gigs thro' that name,but we attracted 
    a hell of a lot of people who wouldn't have gone to see a bleugrass
    band in the first place!!
    				Jim.
    

    Leather Toys

Two of the more famous german band names:

Einst�rzende Neubauten 	(new buldings falling down)
Die Toten Hosen		(The dead trousers)

A few band names from the Zurich/Switzerland area:

Swinging Zombies	
Ladyshave
Shakin' Piranhas	
Neon Babies
Toxic Shock
The Shy Guys

FeliX.