Name for your band

Tony LaCroix · Post by **Tony LaCroix** » 2 May 2003 8:07 am

I once heard a promoter say you can tell your band is doing well if the bar is selling wiskey after midnight.

I still plan to use "Wiskey After Midnight" as a band name in the future.

Tony[This message was edited by Tony LaCroix on 02 May 2003 at 09:08 AM.]

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 2 May 2003 11:20 am

The Pinal Colonizers

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 2 May 2003 6:47 pm

I'm real partial to the name "Closed for remodeling"

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Ron Randall · Post by **Ron Randall** » 2 May 2003 9:07 pm

WD and the 40's

R. E. Klaus · Post by **R. E. Klaus** » 3 May 2003 6:45 pm

A freind of mine used "Free Chicken and Beer" for a short time. Seemed that some of the bar owners had a problem with that name.

Joe Delaronde · Post by **Joe Delaronde** » 3 May 2003 7:37 pm

"Catfish Country"
5 members in my group (Biab). They don't drink, smoke, swear, never late. They never complain about the pay either, and require very little equipment.
Joe

Gary Slabaugh · Post by **Gary Slabaugh** » 3 May 2003 11:55 pm

If I ever started a Hawaiian band I would call it "Gary and the Poi Boys"

Andy Zynda · Post by **Andy Zynda** » 4 May 2003 5:14 am

When I put together my current band about 3 years ago, we had practiced for about 5 months, and still didn't have a name. My wife kept saying that if we didn't find a name for ourselves, and get a playing job soon, that people would start calling us the 'spankin monkees'.
We were later asked to play for a benefit, and they needed a name to put on the posters & programs. Caught us in the middle of practice, and we still couldn't think of anything we liked. I told them to make it Andy Z & the Spankin' Monkees. (sort of a joke, this being a benefit & all...)
Well, there was around 2000 people for this benefit, and we were a big hit.
The friggin name stuck, and is serving us well. $:\$
-andy-

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 4 May 2003 9:57 am

I've put together several bands over the years that performed as "The Oahu Cowboys". Wahoo!

John Cox · Post by **John Cox** » 4 May 2003 11:43 am

I'm starting one called Numerous Complaints or somthing funnier,Bent Whiskey and hellbound?

Jack Francis · Post by **Jack Francis** » 4 May 2003 12:41 pm

Since I have been known to forget the words to songs and make up new ones, my wife once said that we should call ouselves....
ASLEEP AT THE MIKE.

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 4 May 2003 12:52 pm

Maybe Bill Dodger and the Process Servers

Skip Tracy and the Hairy Eyeballs

Those Doomed to Repeating History

Abeit Macht Frei

Resistance is Futile

Liquor Commission Sting Operation

The Eric West Show.

(That's always been my fave)

EJL

slick · Post by **slick** » 4 May 2003 12:58 pm

Skeeter cheater and the chittlin eaters.

Derek Duplessie · Post by **Derek Duplessie** » 6 May 2003 8:04 pm

How 'bout "White Thrash" (for a heavy metal band) -Derek

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 6 May 2003 8:15 pm

I always liked, "The Can't Hardly Playboys"

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 7 May 2003 1:50 am

I had a jazz standards / wedding band for 2 years called ;
Johnny, Poly, Esther and Those Fabulous Leisure Suits.
Did about 200 gigs, and some of the oddest I have ever done too.

Blackpowder doesn't resonate well with the french, so we may change it to Maison Dixon.
maison is french for house. Seems to mean more over here and still reflect the music.

Ricky0ne1 · Post by **Ricky0ne1** » 7 May 2003 7:43 am

My personal fav---- "Stringbean and the Vegatables"

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Gerald Menke · Post by **Gerald Menke** » 7 May 2003 8:43 am

Hey all,
regarding EW's list, and to put it in the mildest terms possible, naming a band Arbeit Macht Frei ("work sets one free", for all the non-German speakers) would be in EXTREMELY dubious taste...this expression achieved notoriety by being displayed above the entrances to numerous concentration camps during WWII. Ick.

Gerald

Billy Woo · Post by **Billy Woo** » 7 May 2003 10:05 am

"BRONCO BILLY" Yup right after old Clint Eastwood and his renegade troupe of convicts and misfits..actually I loved the movie and the storyline about a New Jersey salesguy wanting to be a cowboy..not to mention his love interest Miss Sandra Locke who was pretty hot at the time..Yeah day dreamin nine to fivers who holler and yodel at night.

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 7 May 2003 11:27 am

"The Can't Hardly Play Boys," is a killer.
I remember reading about some guy, can't remember his name, but the band was called
"Steve Gambrell's Cowboy Outfit."

Rich Weiss · Post by **Rich Weiss** » 7 May 2003 11:38 am

I joined a band just cause I liked their name, 'Spaghetti Western.' They were all Italian.

Roger Snively · Post by **Roger Snively** » 8 May 2003 5:50 am

The first band I played with (back in the 60s) was called Hopward Boggs and the Swingin Dogs. Some of the stuff we played kinda smelled like a wet dog, but we had funnn! And that's the name of the game. Have fun.

Joerg Hennig · Post by **Joerg Hennig** » 8 May 2003 9:58 am

Gerald is right of course. Over here, only the nazi skinheads would name a band "Arbeit Macht Frei" (and probably get in severe trouble with the law for it...)

P Perry · Post by **P Perry** » 8 May 2003 11:40 am

A local band around the Dayton, OH has one of the greatest names I've heard "Phil Dirt and the Dozers".

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 11 May 2003 5:49 am

How 'bout FARMERS ALLMANACT....pronounced like All...Man...Act, unless you've got girls in the group......JH

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