Overused band names

Clyde Mattocks · Post by **Clyde Mattocks** » 23 Mar 2008 8:28 am

The topic "Stage names you'd like to use" just made me ponder this. In no way reflects on your band's
name, but I see a lot of the same or similar on marquees. I nominate:
The Entertainers

Any combination of: Silver, Whiskey, Bullet, Thunder,
Rebel, Tradition (You get the idea).

Chris Bauer · Post by **Chris Bauer** » 23 Mar 2008 8:47 am

I noticed someone in the stage names thread is in a band called the Ken Hardly Playboys. I've actually been in two bands with that name at different times in different states.

I always loved it when someone would come up to the bandstand and ask who Ken was. (In the first band, the lead singer finally caved and started to go by Ken Hardly on stage.)

Sonny Priddy · Post by **Sonny Priddy** » 23 Mar 2008 9:01 am

The Frist Band I Was In Was Hank Ray And The Drifters. SONNY.

Larry Beck · Post by **Larry Beck** » 23 Mar 2008 9:01 am

A name that gets over done around here is midnight, ie.
Midnight Posse
Midnight Riders
Midnight Crossing
Midnight Creek
Midnight Drifters

One band wanted to use "Midnight Cowboys" until someone pointed out the potential ramifications (double pun) of that name. Sad to say I have played in "Midnight" bands, but I wasn't on the naming committee. I think they used midnight in the name because the audience turned into pumpkins and went home early on.

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 23 Mar 2008 10:16 am

Anything that has "Country" as part of the name.

"Boys", similarly. "Cow-" or not.

Been in a few bands that had both.

Ending one of the names with "-casters" unless there's someone that can PLAY one.

More I guess as they come to mind.

HAppy Easter.

He is Risen.

EJL

Randy Phelps · Post by **Randy Phelps** » 23 Mar 2008 10:45 am

geography themes

River
Canyon
Desert
Hill
Mountain
Valley

The perfect name would be the Desert River Canyon Mountain Valley Boys featuring River Hills on steel guitar.

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 23 Mar 2008 10:45 am

anything ending in "fever."

Marc Friedland · Post by **Marc Friedland** » 23 Mar 2008 10:56 am

Only once in my 43 year history of performing with over 70 bands, has a name repeated, where it was actually a totally different band, and not just basically the same band but with some different members – and that name is
Wild Card

Marc

John Steele · Post by **John Steele** » 23 Mar 2008 11:10 am

To add one more term to the geographically overused terms:

Creek

-John

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 23 Mar 2008 11:10 am

Anything ending in the word "Band".

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 23 Mar 2008 11:13 am

I think we should all form a band consisting of nothing but steel players and call ourselves the "Silver Whiskey Midnight Creek Mountain Fever Posse"

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 23 Mar 2008 11:29 am

Randy Phelps wrote:geography themes

River
Canyon
Desert
Hill
Mountain
Valley

The perfect name would be the Desert River Canyon Mountain Valley Boys featuring River Hills on steel guitar.

Hey Randy,
Don't forget about directions. Like western, southern, northern.....

The ones I've never cared for are the "and the ---- Band". As in "Blah Blah and the Blah Band"

Edward Meisse · Post by **Edward Meisse** » 23 Mar 2008 11:59 am

Mike, that would be the Silver Whiskey Midnight Creek Northern Mountain Fever Posse Playboys Band.

Charles Davidson · Post by **Charles Davidson** » 23 Mar 2008 12:04 pm

Sometimes simple is best, THE BAND,DYKBC.

Joe Miraglia · Post by **Joe Miraglia** » 23 Mar 2008 12:16 pm

www.willowcreekband.com

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 23 Mar 2008 12:21 pm

Edward Meisse wrote:Mike, that would be the Silver Whiskey Midnight Creek Northern Mountain Fever Posse Playboys Band.

I don't know Ed. Posse and Band redundantly repeat themselves and mean the same thing over again.

Hey, in the interests of showing how versatile we are, Do you think we should we allow a b***o player to join us?

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 23 Mar 2008 12:55 pm

Mike Perlowin wrote:I think we should all form a band consisting of nothing but steel players and call ourselves the "Silver Whiskey Midnight Creek Mountain Fever Posse"

Mike.... You forgot BAND !!! Also Ramblers should be in there somewhere.

Randy Phelps · Post by **Randy Phelps** » 23 Mar 2008 1:34 pm

Mike Perlowin wrote:Hey, in the interests of showing how versatile we are, Do you think we should we allow a b***o player to join us?

yes but only if the band is something like

Outlaw Chance Watters and The Southwestern Silver Creek Canyon Riders featuring Pluckin' Pinky Rivers on the banjo.

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 23 Mar 2008 5:23 pm

Down here, it's "Southern."

Olaf van Roggen · Post by **Olaf van Roggen** » 24 Mar 2008 5:05 am

I noticed it's mostly the European(and i am not saying you're a pee on)bands who uses terms like:"lone star,Panhandle,Texas,Black Hills,Highway,Ranch House,Hillbilly,Dixie,Renegade,Redneck,etc......

Jim Mitchell · Post by **Jim Mitchell** » 24 Mar 2008 7:30 am

At lest Country bands don't use BUG NAMES

The Beatles
The Crickets
The Byrds
The Frogs
The Zombies
The Who
The Blowfish
The News

And I guess there are more

And how about the bands called

THE [ somthing brothers ]

No more Brother bands

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Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 24 Mar 2008 7:58 am

My pet peeve for band names would be any group where the band leader uses his name and adds the word "SHOW" after it. In California I worked with the "Clark Rohn Show" for a while. He was a nice guy but I always felt like the band had no identity. Since I moved to Virginia there's been the "Tee Meroney Show" and the "Jerry Lee Scott Show"....... What show? These guys just play the joints and lodges for dancers like everyone else does. I worked with an Elvis impersonator for 9 years and we actually did some big shows and concerts but he used the name "Sterling Riggs and the TKC Band so we actually had a name for the pickers. TKC stood for "The King's Court"........JH in Va.

Ben Jones · Post by **Ben Jones** » 24 Mar 2008 8:23 am

great thread and you know this happens in every genre of music....so much so that you can often tell the bands genre from their name alone.

I'm not partial to any band that has the actual genre IN their name:
METALlica
SKAtalites
ROCKpile
etc.

If I started callin out the country names....I'd be sure to hit on one of your bands eventually so I'll just let that one go

Worst are the emo band names that are more like sentences than band name....
"and you will know us by the trial of dead"
"as my bride lays dying"
"every sunday I die a little then cry"-okay that ones made up...but you get the idea

Al Vescovo · Post by **Al Vescovo** » 24 Mar 2008 9:51 am

I once played in a band" Keith Van Dyck" pronounced dick. "Keith Van Dyck and the Dyckaroos" Keith also had a soul band called "Keith Van Dyck and tne Dyckettes" He was an actor and had a lot of props in his show. Very entertaining. He dressed like a cowboy with a 10 gallon cowboy hat. Funny to look at. The gigs were a blast.

Andy Greatrix · Post by **Andy Greatrix** » 24 Mar 2008 9:56 am

I always thought "The Average White Band" was a great name, so extending that mind-set, I thought that a bunch of pickers who had been fired by big name artists (for being too old or too fat etc.) could form a band and call themselves
"The Insignificant Sidemen".

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