Band Name Origins

[billybigmouth]

Pretty original, huh?

But there's just something damn funny about ranchin fish.

There was also Happy Finish, an acoustic sit on the bar stools thing. You can guess where that name came from.

And White Trash Compactor, a sort of psyco-grass thing. We retired that name after 9-11 'cause everybody had already shortened it to WTC. Ooops.

And my other band from the 90's was the only name out of over 100 that no one hated. The least of evils if you will.

[fastplant]

Originally posted by BeeTL My current bands are: Punch Drunk - The drummer gets that way. He's silly.

 

 

He's a boxer?

[jannda]

I wanted to call it STD but no one besides myself liked it go figure so we just call ourselves the old guys because we are. combined age of the group is an astounding 162 yrs and it's a three piece at this point but would like to add another guitar and or keys. so if anyone in the pdx area might be interested

[BeeTL]

Originally posted by fastplant He's a boxer?

 

No. He doesn't listen.

 

(...so we punch him.)

[rastafarian_nz]

Originally posted by Texas Noise Factory as an aside, my Native American name is Runs With Scissors.

Which tribe are you from?

[RockBass]

The Andy Browning Band

See, our lead singer, his name is Andy Browning, and he has a pretty respectable solo following, so.....

[bpocall]

The first band I was in was called thirtythreeheads because the lead guitarist's home phone number was 334-3237. If you look at the buttons on the phone you can spell heads with the letters on 43237 if you're bored of stoned enough. There's also Gay Wedding, the comedy music group thing I do with a buddy. Gay Wedding got the nod because he thought Dirty Sanchez might be too offensive.

[fastplant]

Originally posted by BeeTL No. He doesn't listen. (...so we punch him.)

 

 

 

Haha

[Sensijuana]

Burning Tree comes from our love of... campfires...

[molsen]

"Kill the Rabbit"

it came from the old method of pregnancy testing. they used make a rabbit drink a girl's piss, and if it died, she was thought pregnant.

so, kill the rabbit....i guess..er, i guess that mean, um, we're...pregnant?

i dunno, we just like that name

[Texas Noise Factory]

Originally posted by rastafarian_nz Which tribe are you from?

Chickasaw.

[tylytle]

Ours came from a line in the song wildchild by WASP.
Our singer at the time couldn't sing it without laughing. I guess it stuck
Nekkid Heat Machine. We changed it from Naked. Don't know why..
As Far as Indian tribes, I'm full blooded Pokealottatwat.


Really I'm Shawnee..

[Point Blank]

We thought for weeks about a name and started a list but we couldn't agree on one. Finally the drummer was talking to his wife about a name and said we need a name that is point blank in your face. She said that's it, Point Blank. So we went with it.

[Rippin' Robin]

Originally posted by BassDemon SIXDAYWAR

 

 

You the bassist for six day war??

 

What a small world... Say hello to Will Bellerby from his fellow Trailor Thrash member...!

[the_big_geez]

I've probably told this story here before, but it's worth repeating.

For years and years there was a place on the OSU campus called the 'I.P. Lounge' which stood for 'Italian Place'. The owner later change the name to 'Apollo's Place' (which was more appropriate, considering that he was GREEK, not italian!)

Despite tha name-change, the operating basis of the business remained the same, which was in simple terms: pay-to-play, but we will take ANYBODY! You can charge $0.25 at the door (to be collected by his employees) and you got a bar tab. More often than not, we left the place OWING.

But he also ran a carry-out window from the front of the bar, and had on the marquis 'GYRO99'. (As you can imagine, he sold gyros for a buck, to any drunken college kid who walked by.)

So, owing to the fact that so many of us had had so many gigs at 'Louie's', and since the name was already up in lights, we named the band 'GYRO99'. It had a more futuristic ring to it in 1996 than it does now that the century has turned...

Of course, the band made a point of NEVER playing there! We just found OTHER campus dives to play for no money instead.

In the years since, the OSU South Campus bar district has be 'gentrified', as if that will stop collegiates from consuming copious amounts of alchohol. The business relocated several blocks north, and the building itself has been razed. Things will never be the same, but the memories remain.

and they always will!

[The Admiral]

My band is the A.A. Dropouts. We play all the time downtown New Port RIchey, Florida, and there is nothing there but bars and an A.A. Club meeting place (ironic). When the meeting would go on break all the alchoholics would smoke cigs on the porch of the place and we would sit out in front on the bar waving to them with beers in our hands. I imaganed if one of them would just figure f*** it and join us at the bar. Thus they would be an A.A. Dropout like the rest of us.

[catphish]

Honest to god, I have no idea.

[mahatma]

A couple bands in my area-

"40 LB. Head"... it seems that a human head weighs ,on average, approximately 8 pounds and there are 5 members in the band. A very popular band, probably gonna be big.

"Half a' Lemon High"... One of the dudes in this band, who lives in Lemon, PA got caught with a bag of weed by his mom and she told him to get rid of it so he threw it into the blazing fireplace and she said, " what..are you nuts ?? You'll get half of Lemon HIGH !!"

" Abusement Park"...My band....the {censored} we have to deal with in life ain't no pleasant walk in the park, no sir !!

[BeeTL]

Originally posted by The Admiral My band is the A.A. Dropouts. We play all the time downtown New Port RIchey, Florida, and there is nothing there but bars and an A.A. Club meeting place (ironic). When the meeting would go on break all the alchoholics would smoke cigs on the porch of the place and we would sit out in front on the bar waving to them with beers in our hands. I imaganed if one of them would just figure f*** it and join us at the bar. Thus they would be an A.A. Dropout like the rest of us.

 

Do you play at the Jam night down there? I went there one Wednesday and sat in on drums...

[Sensijuana]

Originally posted by The Admiral My band is the A.A. Dropouts. We play all the time downtown New Port RIchey, Florida, and there is nothing there but bars and an A.A. Club meeting place (ironic). When the meeting would go on break all the alchoholics would smoke cigs on the porch of the place and we would sit out in front on the bar waving to them with beers in our hands. I imaganed if one of them would just figure f*** it and join us at the bar. Thus they would be an A.A. Dropout like the rest of us.

 

 

My band played a show with you guys at Bourbon Street a few months back.

 

 

[the_big_geez]

Originally posted by Sensijuana My band played a show with you guys at Bourbon Street a few months back.

 

 

BOTH you guys came all the way to Columbus, OH for a gig?!!

[the_grouse_mouse]

Originally posted by rastafarian_nz That was until our drummer found our current name "Six-Gun Justice" on the side of a boat moored at the local marina. And so it stuck. To me, it associates with a kind of renegade lawlessness. I like it.

 

 

cool name!

 

"squeak"

[Sensijuana]

Originally posted by the_big_geez BOTH you guys came all the way to Columbus, OH for a gig?!!

 

 

No, it was a night club in New Port Richey.

[jon_113]

Suicide Safari... My keyboardist/ other guitarist came up with it. I told him no way, I told it was a dumb name... When I woke up the next morning I realized it was possibly the greatest band name ever...
www.myspace.com/suicidesafari