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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<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Tony LaCroix on 02 May 2003 at 09:08 AM.]</p></FONT>

The Pinal Colonizers

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

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<I>Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
I'm schizophrenic,
and so am I</I>

WD and the 40's

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.

"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

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

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-

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

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

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.

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

Skeeter cheater and the chittlin eaters.

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

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

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.

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

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Rick Summers

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

"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.

"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."

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

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.

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...)

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

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

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