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How bands go the names
This is not
realy how they got there names, this is just a joke
AC/DC - It is
said that
one of the band member saw it on an appliance thought it had something
to do with power. (It does mean "alternating current / direct
current"). The band used it not realizing it was also slang for a
bisexual- if you believe they were that stupid or naive! The band
claims NOT to be bisexual.
ANTHRAX - A dangerous bacteria that used
to infect many cattle in Europe & could be used for terrorism.
THE BLACK
CROWES - it was
originally named
Mr. Crowe's Garden, after a favorite children's book. They sang under
that name until they signed with Def American Records in 1989. They
renamed themselves at the suggestion of a producer.
BLACK SABBATH - from a 1960's cheap
horror movie starring Boris Karloff , suggesting a holy day of
witchcraft.
BLIND MELON - slang for an out of work
hippie (Weren't they all?) - they were called that by Shannon H's dad -
also sounds like a old blues singer Blind Lemon.
BLINK 182 - Blink 182 used to be just
"Blink" but was threatened by a lawsuit from a little known Irish band
with the same name, so they added the 182 which is the number of times
the f-word was said in one of the members favorite movies.
CASSANDRA
COMPLEX - an allusion
to Greek
mythology; Cassandra had the gift of prophecy with the curse of no one
ever believing her.
CHUMBAWAMBA - In a band member's dream, he
didn't know which door to use in a public toilet because the signs said
"Chumba" and "Wamba" instead of "Men" and "Women".
COLLECTIVE
SOUL - a term used in
the
popular novel "The Fountainhead", by Ayn Rand.
THE CRANBERRIES - originally called
Cranberries Saw Us ( a joke on Cranberries SAUCE) they changed it to
the shorter form later.
DOOBIE
BROTHERS - a doobie
was 60's slang
for a marijuana joint.
THE DOORS - named after a line from poet
William Blake: There are things that are known and things that are
unknown, and in-between, there are DOORS. Author Aldous Huxley referred
to the same line when he titled his book on drug experimentation The
Doors of Perception.
DURAN DURAN - named after the villain in
the Jane Fonda movie Barbarella.
BOB DYLAN - His real name is Robert
Zimmerman - he liked the poet Dylan Thomas.
THE EAGLES - originally called TEEN KING
AND THE EMERGENCIES , they liked the American sound of Eagles and the
way it was aligned with THE BYRDS who had a great influence on them.
FOO FIGHTERS - a term used by World War
II pilots to describe strange flying fireballs they sometimes saw.
FAITH NO MORE - named after a race horse
they saw listed on a racing form.
GARBAGE - Lead singer Shirley Manson's
father yelled down to the band at one of their basement practice
sessions, "Play more quietly - you sound like garbage."
THE GRATEFUL
DEAD - originally
called The
Warlocks, Jerry Garcia found out that another band had the same name.
Supposedly, he looked in a reference book at random and found a folk
tale about a troubled soul who is put to rest by a traveler. The spirit
then helps the traveler with his own quest.
GREEN DAY - the story goes that when they
dropped out of school to be musicians, their principal said "it'll be a
green day in hell before you make anything of yourselves". Some say
that in drug slang if you smoked pot and goofed off all day, it was a
"Green Day".
GUNS 'N' ROSES
- original name ideas
included L.A. GUNS and HOLLYWOOD ROSES.
HOOTIE AND THE
BLOWFISH - from the
nicknames of two friends of singer/guitarist Darius Rucker - one with
owl-like eyes (Hootie), another with the puffy "Blowfish" cheeks.
JETHRO TULL - popular 70's band that is
named after the rather obscure inventor of the farmer's seed drill.
JUDAS PRIEST - originally a mild curse
said to avoid saying "Jesus Christ" - also from the Bob Dylan song "The
ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest".
LED ZEPPELIN - THE WHO's drummer, Keith
Moon, told Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones that their new project would
go over like a lead balloon, hence, Led Zeppelin. Another story is that
Page stole the name from a band "Lead Zeppelin" that Moon and John
Entwistle almost started in the early 60's.
LYNYRD SKYNYRD
- Named after Leonard
Skinner, an annoying gym teacher/coach some of the members had in high
school. Leonard is said to have moved on to sell real estate in
Jacksonville, Florida.
MEGADETH - Dave Mustaine was inspired by
a
government pamphlet he saw after leaving METALLICA. A Megadeath is a
military term for one million dead (making World War II an 80
Megadeath).
METALLICA - Lars Ulrich was helping a
friend think of a name for a metal fanzine. The choices were Metal
Mania and Metallica. Metal Mania was chosen for the magazine and he
used Metallica for his band.
MÖTLEY
CRÜE - A friend
said
"What a Motley
looking Crew" - motley meaning "of great variety" and once describing
the appearance of a court jester. The re-spelling was their own
invention using the umlauts (those funny dots over letters) came to
them while they were partying & drinking Lowenbrau beer.
MOTORHEAD - British slang for a drug user
who uses a lot of speed.
PANTERA - Spanish for Panther and a
pretty cool car.
PEARL JAM - Eddie's grandma supposedly
made a peyote (hallucinogenic drug) jelly/jam , which as kids they
called pearl jam... believe it or not.
PINK FLOYD - taken from the names of two
Georgia bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council - from the early days
when the band saw itself as a blues band.
REO SPEEDWAGON
- the name of a pickup
truck made by Oldsmobile in the 1930's. "R.E.O." was the initials of
Ransom Elliot Olds, the founder of the Oldsmobile Car Company.
SILVERCHAIR- A combination of "Sliver" by
Nirvana and "Berlin Chair" by You Am I. They were requesting the songs
from a radio station and the name was inspired by notes a band member
made to himself to remember the song titles while he was calling the
station.
SKID ROW - Slang for a rundown inner city
neighborhoods where alcoholics, junkies, street people can afford to
live.
U2 - Three possibilities: A type of
spy
plane used by the United States in the 1960's - U2 as in "you too."
meaning the audience and its role in the musical experience - OR - a U2
is an unemployment form in Ireland.
URGE OVERKILL - The name of a Parliaments
funk song.
VAN HALEN - Supposedly named after Alex
Van Halen - you'd guess it was Eddie, wouldn't you?
ZZ TOP - taken from the name of a Texas
Blues man ZZ Hill. Though a rumor is that they got their name by
combining Zig Zag and Top, two well-known brands of "cigarette" rolling
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