I dare you to name a rock band with a better name than.....

[NightWatcher]

[EastTennesseeDem]

1. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

[SoxFan]

39. No, that's just trying a bit too hard

[HopeHoops]

2. Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen

[Richardo]

12. for the win

:thumbsup:

[phasma ex machina]

53. +1

[abq e streeter]

3. The Fugs

[abq e streeter]

4. The Self-Righteous Brothers, The Velveeta Underground

[mitchum]

28. The second one is the name I will use for my act that plays kid-friendly versions...

of Lou Reed songs - "I'm waiting for my mom..."

How can it miss?

[old mark]

5. I once played with a band briefly known as "The Fucking Shits".

Always liked that name.

mark

[abq e streeter]

6. well fuckin' A , I like that...my best band name was probably Idiot

although my rockabilly band of about 10 years ago chickened out on The Swingin' Johnsons

[old mark]

18. Was also considering Foot Long Hot Dogs, in that Johnson vein....

That's still a great name - the Swingin" Johnsons....

Need and old guitar player/singer?


mark

[abq e streeter]

25. I wish I still was doing rockabilly; there's lots of very good guitar players

who still can't quite do it right...just from your obvious musical knowledge that I can see in your music related posts, I'm guessing you understand how to do it right... I'd also really love to do a political band, with influences including Springsteen ,The Clash and Rancid, Rage Against The Machine, The Doors among others, before I'm too old to rock ( and based on how much my back hurt after my gigs this weekend, that day may be in the process of arriving). I really do wish sometimes that I was in an area with enough radical musicians to put a great political band together, doing both covers and originals, and ideally including players of various ethnic/racial identities,ages, genders, etc... That's one thing I've always wanted to do and it looks like it probably will never happen. Oh well.....:headbang:

[old mark]

44. Yeah my days are pretty much done - I used to play bass, and my fingers

took a real beating over the decades. I play mostly guitar now, but just in my home.....

I have been thinking about doing some recording, but that's a long way off - but it might be an answer to your wants - record instead of forming a stage band.
Just a thought.

Good luck, old timer.

mark

ADDED: Les Paul played on stage 1 night every week in NYC till a few months before his death at 93. He had a lot of players in his audience, and used to greet some of the older(40's or 50's) rockers by asking , "Still playin', huh?"

[WCGreen]

7. I remember when I was working at a Radio Station and we got this

record record called....

Fucking Shitass...

[Canuckistanian]

15. Beats the "Butthole Surfers"

Although not by much.

[old mark]

19. They had the sound, though......nt

[Ikonoklast]

8. Disaster Area.

From the work of Douglas Adams...

Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the history of the Galaxy, but the loudest noise of any kind at all.

Regular concert-goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.

Many worlds have now banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic reasons, but most commonly because the band's PA system contravenes local strategic arms limitation treaties.

[kayakjohnny]

9. Well not sure if they were rock but they had an intriguing name anyway...

JFKFC

Always thought that was on the quirky side, even ten years later.

[Canuckistanian]

10. Cinema Face

Popular in Toronto in the 1980s.

[AsahinaKimi]

11. How about: 54 Nude Honeys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu1MPM8pi2o

[martymar64]

13. John Cougar Concentration Camp

and my other fave, Jody Foster's Army

[DBoon]

29. Thelonius Monster Mellenkamp (nt)

[arbusto_baboso]

54. John Cougar Menstrual Cramp

I kid you not. They're a small, local band.

[Initech]

14. Scary Kids Scaring Kids

[av8rdave]

16. The Tuff Darts, The Good Rats, The Embryo Patrol, Bodacious Ta Tas

That was too easy!

[Cush]

17. Butthole Surfers

edit: damn, already mentioned

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

20. The 5,6,7,8s

[MSchreader]

21. Oedipus and the Mama's Boys

:evilgrin:

[KamaAina]

22. AC/DShe

you got it -- an all-fenmale AC/DC cover tribute band.

[SoxFan]

40. Hayseed Dixie

[KamaAina]

41. Earl Hickey would've appreciated that

from "My Name Is Earl". He often wore an AC/DC T-shirt. As for the hillbilly part, well...

[seemunkee]

23. Vincent Price’s Orphan Powered Death Machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfNULGAXwf8

[hippywife]

24. Pure Prairie Dog. LOL n/t

[gmoney]

26. I believe they got that from the Shirley MacLaine/Gene Kelly movie...

"What a Way To Go" -- Kelly's character rises from obscurity to stardom, and when he's a hotshot, he makes a movie called "Flaming Lips" -- I think you just see and hear references to it, not the actual "film" itself. The whole thing is kind of a farce.

It's a pretty good movie... also has Paul Newman (whose character is Larry Flint), Dean Martin, and Robert Mitchum. Shirley wears some pretty far-out outfits, but does have a memorable bikini scene or two -- she was in great shape back in the day.

[Ptah]

27. The Band nt

[DBoon]

30. Scraping Foetus off the Wheel

Jim Thirwell's project

[Martin Eden]

31. Bare Naked Ladies

I wonder if that name enticed people (men) inside to see the band during their early days.

[Danger Mouse]

32. Satan's Nipples

[stewartcolbert08]

42. Are you serious!!!

If thats real then that is the winner! ROFL:rofl:

[BOSSHOG]

33. Zorro and the Blue Footballs

Fayetteville Arkansas circa the 70's!

[begin_within]

34. Jesus Chrysler

[mitchum]

35. Creme de meth...they are a Motorhead cover band

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

36. Toad The Wet Sprocket

[Bennyboy]

37. Widespread Panic.

Best. Name. ever.

[Capn Sunshine]

38. Sarah Palin's dirty thong

sorry for the mental image
I'm just makin' them up , donchaknow

[jobycom]

43. Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark.

[Heidi]

45. Mojo Nixon and the Toad Liquors.

Doing "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIWgazfaYJs

[Tommy_Carcetti]

46. Post-Apocalyptic Ant

No, wait, I just made that one up. Sorry.

[Locrian]

47. butthole surfers

[LynneSin]

48. RUSH

nuff said!

[bif]

49. Trashcan Sinatras, also

Park the Kharma and Walk the Dogma

[arbusto_baboso]

50. The Revolting Cocks

[MilesColtrane]

51. The Joint Chiefs of Shaft

(©2009 all rights reserved)

[edbermac]

52. Insane Clown Posse

[Cassandra]

55. Godz

My brother was a member.

[abq e streeter]

56. The Quarrymen---(and this interesting note from wikipedia)

Lennon and McCartney continued to write songs together, but as no engagements were forthcoming, Harrison asked to join Storm's Tornados, but Storm's mother refused, saying Harrison was far too young. Harrison then joined The Les Stewart Quartet with Les Stewart, guitarist Ken Brown, and a young man known only as Skinner.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

57. The Dropkick Chihuahuas. Blind Lemon Pledge.

The Sheetrockers (I once saw their guitarist playing bottle neck with a douchebag -- I kid you not -- in public. I have seen everything, I guess.

The Judys of Pearland TX were on the best label ever "Wasted Talent Records".