Best Name of a Band You've Been In

[norml]

Bible Theme Park

[KitchenWitch]

1. The Too Much Fun Band

[guitar man]

2. Filet of Soul

[mitchum]

3. The Christ Figures

[johnnie]

4. Johnnie and the Commodes

[Orsino]

5. Padre and the Agnostics

The chaplain of a Christian school, another teacher and I, who performed at open mikes.

[norml]

7. We've got a religious theme going with most of the band names so far.

And I'm including Fillet of Soul on that.

[guitar man]

17. Oh no

Filet of Soul was a band I was in that did a lot of Soul, Motown, Funk and R&B. Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, The GAP Band, Earth Wind and Fire, and so on. We were hardly bible thumpers by any stretch of the imagination. ;)

[norml]

21. And my band Bible Theme Park weren't Bible thumpers either.

It was during the time that Jim & Tammy were still on TV. By the way, don't you mean Fillet, not Filet? Filet it something that's done in sewing.

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. Best? "The Pokers"... I was never the most creative band namer.

Most pretentious? "The Obscure." Yes, named after the Hardy novel. As in Jude. :eyes:

[norml]

28. "The Obscure" sounds like "The Unseen", another band I played bass in.

It was a "Talking Heads" inspired band.

[NNadir]

8. I was in a band in LA some twenty years ago that was pretty good

but I can't remember what we called ourselves. "Third Eye," I think.

The bass player was a sullen bastard though; a good musician but a sullen moody guy.

[Liberal_Andy]

9. The Near Myths

in it now

[tridim]

10. I've only been in one.. Zabida Bone Dip

We only played twice.

I like Bible Theme Park better. :)

[HeyManThatsCool]

11. Funky Dwarves With Killer Tans

[norml]

14. Hey man that's cool band name!

Funky Dwarves With Killer Tans Rock!

[sendero]

12. Froidian Slap...

... but I'm the only member :)

[HeyManThatsCool]

19. lol

:smoke:

[livinginphotographs]

13. Alter Egon and the Spooky Kids.

A Marilyn Manson cover band I was in when I was sixteen.

We actually ended up being pretty good, and it sure was fun wearing a dress and make-up.



Why's everybody looking at me like that?

[Wat_Tyler]

15. Menses Working Overtime.

[Wat_Tyler]

27. Nobody else ever in a feminist XTC covers band?

[XNASA]

33. I've always wanted to be in an XTC cover band.

I've heard that there's one in England and one in LA.

[tigereye]

51. that's good Wat

One of my bands was called Toxic Shock


that's not very clever, but it was meant to be feminist. No XTC covers though. We did cover I'm Waiting for My Man, though. ( not very feminist) ;)

[Wat_Tyler]

56. Therefore, you should form your own feminist XTC covers band.

[Magrittes Pipe]

34. My friend's roommate was in an all female Misfits cover band: The Ms. Fits

They really sucked.

[tigereye]

52. that's a great name

[dean_dem]

55. I was in a Misfits cover band too, the Counterfits.

We kicked ass and took names.

[eyepaddle]

16. Surgeon General's Warning eom

[Donkeyboy75]

18. Yahweh Malmstein.

Of course, I was only in one band.

[jpgray]

20. Caligula and His Ramrods (nt)

[Kire]

22. The Murdered

technically, I never practiced with the whole band, but the guitar player said I was in, three days before he himself quit without telling the rest of the band about me

Here's a picture of Ritchie, the singer:

[RetroLounge]

23. ICY EWE

Our business cards had a sheep in an ice cube.

For the life of me I can't remember how we came up with the name, but I am sure some good cali bud had something to do with it...

RL

[Floogeldy]

24. Stoned Age Beauty

[Taverner]

25. Nixon Bender

[HEyHEY]

26. Saints of this shithole

Well, no, but I wish

[Richardo]

29. Palm Springs High School Marching Band

OK: I admit it. I'm a band nerd.

[driver8]

30. Cesarean Rhythm Section...

Actuallly, it was my friends' band but always liked the name

[DelawareValleyDem]

31. Marinated Goat's Eyeball

[XNASA]

32. The Pirates of Monkey Island

[jpgray]

35. Dude, that's geeky

I bet you guys Le Sucked.

:D

[XNASA]

38. Everyone in the band worked for NASA.

So that would explain the geek factor.

It was just a open-mic, rehearse only when absolutely necessary cover band. It's really not the best name of any band I've ever been in, but it was the name that was most likely to get a response in this forum.

The actual best name of any band I've ever been in is probably the obvious one.

[Richardo]

42. MY favorite?

That one?

[XNASA]

43. Nine Inch Tent?

No doubt the funniest one.

Also, "The Ten Commandoes" or "The Sons of the Beach" which preceded the Stern produced TV show of the same name by several years.

God. There's been so many. I really need to start writing them down.

[Richardo]

44. Bwahaha!

Love it!

[Floogeldy]

36. A buddy of mine was in Animal Child

I thought that was a great name.

[Squeech]

37. Tim Mungenast and his Pre-Existing Conditions

I've done better on titles of songs or CDs.

"Teapot Tectonics" (my Daevid Allen pastiche)

"The ENDorphinS Justify the MEANderingS"

We're working on one now with the proposed title "Making Scary New Gods out of Corn Husks."

[bobbobbins]

39. The Beatles

[norml]

49. So, are you Paul or Ringo?

Or are you one of those who played with the Beatles, but were not one of the Fab Four?

[bobbobbins]

50. Sadly I'm only Ringo

[norml]

53. I wouldn't say "only". Welcome to DU Ringo!

We're glad you made it!

[Geekster]

40. The Ironics

[semillama]

41. The Combs, The Warren Commission, Subshine -take your pick

We were a weird little group. Within a couple months of moving back to Houghton, MI, in 1995, I joined a band my old friend Shawn was putting together. I originally came in on bass, but soon switched over to guitar (my primary instrument) when my younger brother joined us on bass. Shawn was the core songwriter and played an acoustic guitar through a small amplifier. Adam was the singer, a tall bald guy who smoked good pot and drank choice microbrews, and wrote odd lyrics and danced like a shaman. His brother Aaron played drums, a woodworker who had recently sat behind a drum kit for the first time and started playing like he was born to it.

The music was weird, like nothing I or anyone else had ever played or heard before. Shawn's major influences were old-school industrial and punk rock, but he was teaching himself jazz guitar at the time. I was heavily into punk, ska, and Irish music at the time. Adam listened to everything. My brother, Mike, was a jazz player, getting ready to go off to college to study it full time. Aaron just played like the spirits told him. We ended up sounding like a folk band that had got stuffed into a blender with Black Flag and the essence of '70's prog-rock, then liquefied.

After this line-up solidified, we had a gig booked at the local underground (literally) music venue, the Suburban Exchange, opening for the Pounding, then still a noise outfit. This gig happened to be our singer's birthday, and was also two weeks away, so we decided to write some songs. In those two weeks we wrote six tunes and were at a loss for a name. We bowed to pressure from Emily, who ran the Sub-X with Bernie, for a name and told her and my fiend Justin to come up with a name, then stick it on the poster. Justin came up with Six Hundred and Sixty Six Chirping Chipmunks. Emily selected the moniker of The Combs, which fit on the poster, and sothat's how we got the name.

My next band was The Warren Commision, without a doubt the stupidest and loudest band I have ever played in. The style of music couldn't be much more different than the Combs: Gothic-industrial rock with an emphasis on volume. was asked to join them after their first show, originally on guitar but before my first practice with them I was switched to bass. The songs were simple, usually one or two different riffs. I saw my role as adding complexity within the confines of just two riffs. I played syncopated rhthyms and odd arpeggios in an attempt to spice things up.

The last band I was in was called Subshine. Forming this band allowed me a degree of input and creative control over the music I was playing like never before. Although we never got to play as many gigs as we wanted to, I think we struggled through the loss of a friend and the illness of a band mate to be one of the best bands of that time in the Houghton music scene. I played guitar and wrote most of the music.

Strangley, after I finished graduate school and started my career, I never found anyone to play with again, and I've lost a lot of desire to play music since leaving that little music scene.

[KurtNYC]

45. 25-Cent Drafts

Put that name outside the club and watch the crowds come in. Of course when they find out that beer is $5 and that is the name of the band...

[jswordy]

46. SLAB

Acronym for

Seven Loaded American Boys

[auburngrad82]

47. Baumholder American High School Marching Band

Baumholder, Germany, 1972-1976. We rocked!

[mr_hat]

48. The American Beatles.

[WMliberal]

54. Peg 75

It's an ingredient in hair gel.