My two music partners and I are getting requests to play at parties and such, but we don’t even know what to call ourselves yet.
I want a name that plays with language and attracts attention.
The fiddler would prefer to name us after a tune.
The guitarist wants our name to reflect the region (desert Southwest)where we play.
We play mostly Irish tunes but don’t claim to be Irtrad. We want the guitarist to sing his originals that are kinda cowboy but with jazz chords in between sets of reels and jigs.
Fiddler likes the name Gravel Walk, but the guitarist and I just don’t see how that makes a band name.
Last time we played open mic, the guitarist called us Penny Missile because I had been explaining how I needed more teflon tape to keep my instrument from flying apart. Biased, I like that name, but the other two don’t really for longterm.
A friend said that going by our last names would make us sound too much like a law firm.
Yesterday I snidely suggested In the Desert on a Band With No Name…
Help!
Lisa
[ This Message was edited by: ysgwd on 2002-08-10 19:38 ]
[ This Message was edited by: ysgwd on 2002-08-10 19:52 ]
Aaron Automatic
Ace Tones, The
Acetone
Acing Nearer
Acrobat Down
ANOTHER PENGUIN
Anti-thing
Atomic Chicken Ranch
Bad Mamma Jamma
Bee Movie
B-Gas-Rickshaw
Big Black Sneakers
Bill Veeck’s Wooden Leg
Blonde Redhead
Bloodhound
BLOOPTY PRINZEN
Boy Sets Fire
Boy’s Life
Brushy Center
Bumblyberg Bards, The
Bughouse Outlaw
Bushel Hawker
Busta Twain
Canadian pesos
Canted Befog
Cap’n Jazz
Celtic Calamity
CHASING ICE
Chiffy the Wonder Possum
Christmas on the Isthmus
Cleft Bass & The Treblemakers
Cocktails
Compound Red
Crow Wanders
Curly Mo’ Shemp
Days in December
Dentin Gecko
Digital Zippo
Ditzy
Doll Cynics
ECHO AND NO MORE
Ethel Meserve
Factory Second
Falling Forward
Flying Pets
Four Chrome Legs
Free Beer
Garden Variety
Gee Baby Gee
Giant’s Chair
GRATEFUL CREW
Guitar Beat
Heat Dish
Hey, Mo!
Homeland
Homesick Angel
Hot Water Music
International Operator
Invasion Of The Taxidermists
Jazz June
Jets to Brazil
Jimmy Eats World
Joan of Arc
June of 44
Klink
Lacking Salon
Land Foggy
Limp Britney
Lost Ridge Drifters
Lost Trail Boys
Lovetones, The
MAIDS OF PRINZEN
Mariner Nine
Meteor Storm
Mid Carson July
Modest Mouse
Mojo Man
Mojo Workout
Nesta’ Bees
Nine Inch Bacon
None Of Your Business
ONE BAD PROSPECT
One Ugly Child
Ono Short and the Hip-huggers
Paddy O’Furnature
Phenix
Pierced Fish
Piranha Salad
Plastic Yard Flamingos
Poor, dumb guitar player in a rock & roll band
Pop Unknown
Prozac Memory
Rage Against the Resin Five
Rainer Maria
Reverend Leo Gibson and the Hip Top Reformation Church
Roadside Monument
Rye Coalition
Scales Of Justice
Searching
Sense Field
Seven Story Mountain
Shipping News
Shoddy Madness
SHUDDER TO WEASEL
Side 1
Side 2
Sided Lyre
Silver Gravel
Silver Scooter
Sky Gazer
Smegmatron 88
Smokey Washboard Gentlemen
Sofa Kings
Sonic Syndicate
Sonicals, The
SPANKY’S POP
Stargazing
STYLINGS OF HIJINKS
Sunday’s Best
Sweater Weather
Teenage Jailbreak
Tenant Clean
Texas is the Reason
The Adventures
The Archers of Loaf
The Backstreet Bizkit
The Backstroke
The Bell Bottoms
The Blacktop Cadence
The Calhoun Surf
The Carsons
The Farewell Bend
The Flatted Sevenths
The Fuzz Tones
The Gargantuans
The Get Up Kids
The Gloria Record
The Hangers
The Intravenous Burritos
The Juliana Theory
The Lennytones
The Lounge Lizards
The Mariachi Surfers
The Promise Ring
The Pterodactyls
The Punkadelics
The Surfoids
The Tazers
The Thing
The Wrong Guy(s)
Them & The Giant Ants
Tight turn
Tone Zone
Traditional Divide Travelers
Twelve Midget Red Heads On Skateboards With Their Hair On Fire
Twinkie Lee
Ugly American
Watershed
whooda thunk it
Zone of Distortion
A good source for band names is also those passwords on the free AOL CDs.
(Edited to add more names)
[ This Message was edited by: Gary on 2002-08-12 10:00 ]
[ This Message was edited by: Gary on 2002-08-15 14:19 ]
It’s funny my band has sort of the oposite problem-we have so many names we don’t know what to call our selves. Here’s a list of some of our names (feel free to steal one if you like it):
Lhiannon Shee (means Blood sucking vampire or Muse of Poets)
Cabin E
Peacocks and Weedwackers
Molly’s Toe Foo Dogs (Take off of an all guy band Molly’s Revenge)
Put the Banjo Down (guitar player learning banjo-not a pretty sound)
The Damn Banjos
The Shamrockers
Dublin Ghetto
Six Potatos
Sex Potatos (don’t ask. Sex is Latin for six)
And our latest and greatest name:
Tiwanese super lucky sex potatos from the Dublin Ghetto
Peerie Hoose Ahint the Burn (that’s a tune name)
Across the Moor (Celtic… and deserts could be a moor in a way…)
Gaelic Geckoes
Conglomeration
Miles from Nowhere
Road to Nowhere
Dry Chicken
Celtic Cacti
The Mutant HotDogs… (Cooking fiasco… need I say more?)
Egg-Fryin’ Hot
The Marfa Phenomenon
okay… that’s all I can think of.. no matter how stupid they are or how hilarious they are… lol
[ This Message was edited by: The Whistling Elf on 2002-08-10 23:12 ]
Someone on the board used the phrase ‘whacking beehives with a stick’ to suggest something risky. I thought Whacking Beehives might be a good group name but maybe too Smashing Pumpkinsish? And the word ‘whacking’ might be problematical…
How about Marfans Syndrome ( a rather rare medical condition causing tall, thin stature, hyperflexible joints, long fingers and toes, occular problems, etc-- Abe Lincoln and the violinist/composer Paginini are thought by some to have had this condition: actually useful for a fiddler).
What a wonderful surprise to log on this morning and find so many possibilities! When the group gets together I’ll have a great list to submit for discussion. Every suggestion listed above so far has merit and is worthy of consideration.
Thanks so much to everybody for the attention!
After I launched the thread yesterday, I went surfing for funny Irish English expressions or proverbs but I didn’t find much except for blarney, beyond the pale, etc. I’m taking this pursuit for a funny name very seriously.
Lisa
vaporlock: I’m going to have to organize a band just so I can use the name Philip’s Head.
bassoonistling: yes, and they’re as addicting as a TX beer! There are dozens of vehicles at the viewing park every night.
[ This Message was edited by: ysgwd on 2002-08-11 10:45 ]
