Members blue2blue Posted May 22, 2008 Members Share Posted May 22, 2008 I was in a "band" in high school called The Silver Rolling Stones. (Beatles fans will apparently recall the Beatles were orginally the Silver Beatles.) We played skiffle/jug band music that had absolutely nothing to do with the Rolling Stones and, IIRC, we only played one gig, an extremely irony drenched pep rally at my hi skool. Actually, most of the pep rallies were irony drenched. It was the height of the Vietnam War and the "pep commisioners" were both friends of mine. One was the guy who turned me on to Captain Beefheart and much later, in early '76, the Pistols when their first singles came out.* In one such pep rally, a skit featured a beloved cartoon character (I forget which) getting drafted, sent to Vietnam, shot in the head, and returned home in a box. And, yet, somehow, we got to be league champions, anyhow. (It was the steroids. Now it can be told. Friggin' coaches had all the athletes on them. No wonder all the jocks broke out in bad acne every fall when training started.) Anyhow... yeah... the Silver Rolling Stones. I played maracas or something and the pep commisioner's GF of the moment, who was just about nodding off from a good slug of seconal ("reds" -- a barbiturate popular at the time) played washboard. We had a stand up bass, slapped. Some guys played guitars. We sang "Give Me That Old Time Religion" -- which really ticked off a lot of people. Good times. * The same guy put together another special event band to play UCLA Law School's talent show. (It was the end of the Viet war and all the commie lawyers who would soon get high paying corpo gigs were feeling a little ironic, themselves.) We had two tap dancers (with gold-sequined hammer & sickle logos on their red cheerleader type sweaters), a fire eater/sword swallower who set a fat lawbook on fire. Too many guitars, of which I was one (I started playing in college a few years before. I wasn't any good but the bar was low.) Our lead guitarist was the sound guy for the just-about-to-blow-up-big-again Fleetwood Mac and we got to use their travelling PA. The same guy became a very powerful mover and shaker in the music biz, heading up a half billion dollar startup label at its inception. (I won't say which one, but let's just say they were a little surprised when the very first artist they signed, with a contract portentially worth something like 40 million clams turned out to be very, very ill and passed before the band could do any new work. Fortunately, they bought the back catalog, too. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sonic Jedi Posted May 22, 2008 Members Share Posted May 22, 2008 I've been in: Shocking Bad Mountain (my high school band), and Something Fierce. My current band is Pink Noise. We're one of 6 or 7 bands in the world with that name (about half of which are Pink Floyd cover bands). Chose that name right before a gig and before we could do an internet search on the name. Oh well, it's what we're known as now. Other names we were going for were ZZYZX (a few bands in Cali have that name) and The Geddup Sound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarpkr76 Posted May 22, 2008 Members Share Posted May 22, 2008 Fire in Salem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hubberjub Posted May 22, 2008 Members Share Posted May 22, 2008 The Second Class Citizens. We all hate it but after six years and three CDs we're kind of stuck with it. There are at least two other bands with the same name out there but we have the rights to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members eddieboston2 Posted May 22, 2008 Members Share Posted May 22, 2008 I always thought "Bang" would make a great band name. Simple, short, has lots of possible meanings. Except it would be spelled ! (For those who don't know, an exclamation point is pronounced "bang" when reading aloud programming code, the same way a period is pronounced "dot.") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SilenceFriction Posted May 23, 2008 Members Share Posted May 23, 2008 Rock Formation - '67 - '73 Star - '73 - '75 - Roadie mostly - A few gigs and once in the studio. The Fallen Angel Band - '76 - '82 (not Gram Parsons - Fallen Angels) Freerange - '01 - present The Weak Enders - lately If you don't have a name, here's a few: Chuck Wagoner & The Hungry Horsemen (country) Ahead of Let Us (pop) The Bucking Fast Turds (punk) Yo Mama Been Loggin' (middle east rap) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted May 23, 2008 Members Share Posted May 23, 2008 Speaking of internet "originality searches" -- I did a fair bit of looking to make sure there wasn't another one blue nine around back in the 90s when I adopted the name. But that was in the bad ol' days of searching when we though Yahoo was the bee's meow. One of the first things I did the day I discovered Google (switching to it that day, it was so much better) was search on "one blue nine"... ... and found a band called Blue Nine... (Kind of a bluesy, 'adult alternative' band. Looks like they're gone now.) By that time I'd already had around 8 or 10K DLs under the one blue nine name. I contacted them and sheepishly apologized for not having been able to find them (they'd been around for a couple years before). They were cool about it but it always bothered me. I mean... I was trying so hard to come up with a band name that hadn't been used. (Got it 2/3 right, anyhow. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted May 23, 2008 Members Share Posted May 23, 2008 Nads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BrianKeesy Posted May 23, 2008 Members Share Posted May 23, 2008 As Of Yet The Crown Marbles Experiment The Watchmen Currently:Mark Stephen & Friends an undecided on name band I want to start a band called "Billy Badass and the {censored}offs" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted May 23, 2008 Members Share Posted May 23, 2008 Speaking of internet "originality searches" -- I did a fair bit of looking to make sure there wasn't another one blue nine around back in the 90s when I adopted the name. But that was in the bad ol' days of searching when we though Yahoo was the bee's meow. One of the first things I did the day I discovered Google (switching to it that day, it was so much better) was search on "one blue nine"... ... and found a band called Blue Nine... (Kind of a bluesy, 'adult alternative' band. Looks like they're gone now.) By that time I'd already had around 8 or 10K DLs under the one blue nine name. I contacted them and sheepishly apologized for not having been able to find them (they'd been around for a couple years before). They were cool about it but it always bothered me. I mean... I was trying so hard to come up with a band name that hadn't been used. (Got it 2/3 right, anyhow. ) In the future, all band names will be taken for fifteen minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members eddieboston2 Posted May 24, 2008 Members Share Posted May 24, 2008 When I searched Google for Eddy Boston, I would just get tons of links for Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science religion. Apparently, she was the most famous person from Boston named Eddy. Here's a funny story about how my stage name went over when I lived in Rome for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members desceneisvals Posted May 24, 2008 Members Share Posted May 24, 2008 one's i can come up with quickly. i've been in nowhere fast other left gunmetal grey bladwin, starke; 10 miles jackie suarez (cool ass name) alligator shoes all i can think of for now. more to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TomCTC Posted May 24, 2008 Members Share Posted May 24, 2008 The Small City Saints.You've never heard of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bryer M. Posted May 24, 2008 Author Members Share Posted May 24, 2008 I havent been in a real band yet:cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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