Post your past/present band names

[jpgray]

The shittier the better.

I've been in:

The Oracles :puke:
Caligula and his Ramrods :D
The Shoeshine Boys :shrug: :think:

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. As far as my Acid Planet projects go:

1. Ivan Drago Project: my first handle. I really didn't want to be associated with the second worst film in the Rocky franchise, but it sounded cool and European. "Project" was cliche, though.

2. evil.otto- my favorite. Named for the lead villain in the old arcade game "Berzerk." He was that bouncing smiley face that was impossible to kill. Sadly, there were three other bands with that name.

3.pack108- my old Cub Scout pack. But number names are cliche, too.

4. Spamhammer- my "industriodeathcore" offshoot. Posted three songs: "Avril," "I am Ratboy," and "35-Pund Front Loader." Oddly, Spamhammer was also taken.

5. Beware the Beast Man- my current title. The first song I ever composed in Acid was "March of the Silverbacks," which heavily sampled "Planet of the Apes," including the "beware the beast man" soundbite. Not taken by anyone, so it's mine.

[XNASA]

2. In Reverse chronological order

Vendooza
The Pirates of Monkey Island
The Hendersons
Sons of the Beach (we had this name before the TV show)
Jones Gang
One Love Lost
Ministry
Cat's Cradle

There were a few others, but I only counted the ones that played out more than just a couple of times.

[LifeDuringWartime]

3. boxes of squares

present

boxes of squares
no name for the other one

past
architecture (boxes of squares before i joined)
The Manhattan Project
The Advocate

[aquaman]

4. Okay....

Grub Worm
Alcohol
Gravel
and my personal fav: Biscuit Head Love Train

[no name no slogan]

5. Okay here goes:

Unfortunately, many of these never made it past the concept/first jam session stage, although two actually played gigs-- and then promptly disbanded.

* Joshua's Sword (Christian death-metal, very Old-Testamentish fundy-rock, smiting sinners, etc. Big tune was "Repent Or Die".)
* Oedipus Scrunt (badass alt-KuntRock, Stooges meet the Eagles)
* Rub The Buddah (just plain old ugliness by a bunch of guys in their 30s with beer bellies. Light-n-Breezy SoCal pop w/ obscene lyrics.)
* Meat The Beatles (A college one-off for an Earth Day gig. We did a truly badass cover of "Crazy Horses" by the Osmonds.)
* Kwik Dik -n- EZ (Another kollidge one-off with me on gtr, a pal on bass, and an old Sequential Circuits Drumtrax on percussion. Known for our cover of "Cowboy Bob" by the Butthole Surfers.)

REAL bands I've actually been in:

* Risqué ('new romantic' 80s pop, named after a record by Chic)
* The Statues (80s Doom-N-Gloom, a la Bauhaus, Joy Division, early Cure)
* Mr K's Dream (an older version of my current group, once described by a magazine critic as "The Cure on Prozac".)
* (as yet unnamed) (Me, the other two guys from MKD, and a 'mystery' fourth member, as yet to be named.)

Either way, the worst part about putting a new band together is trying to come up with the fscking name, IMHO.

[PittPoliSci]

6. here we go:

The Haggard Backwoods Experience (it was the story of our lives)
The Communist Neckties (we weren't communists, but we wore neckties and shouted like communists.

Current band name: Fire in Your Hole. Because it's disgusting.

[BlueEyedSon]

7. Static 13, Plutonium, Huff Saucer, Weird & Gilly

[ronzo]

8. Greeks without Diners

[Wat_Tyler]

9. Insects of Doom, When Seagulls Attack!, We are the Dead, Fishcoteque,

The Obscuritan Puritans, Chester Melville's Fishcake of Death!

[XNASA]

11. Some one should use 'Phishcoteque'.

I think that Phish/Disco might be the next big thing.

And the word 'insects' doesn't get used enough. I was in a loosely structured Open-Mic sort of band for a while called 'The Insect Overlords'. Thank you Kent Brockman.

[jpgray]

12. Was your first album called "Before or After Seinfeld"?

:P

[mitchum]

10. Manwich andRoger Mudd and the Witches are two

[Angry Girl]

13. One band, four changes...

Jake's Dog - when we were a blues band)
Mystyx - nobody could spell it)
Nightweed - we got tired of it)
The Simian Report - nobody knew what "simian" meant)
Nightweed - to hell with it, there we are!


Angry Girl
nightweed.com

[livinginphotographs]

14. Here goes....

"Alter Egon and the Spooky Kids" (Marilyn Manson cover band when I was sixteen)

"The Spooky Kids" (we tried to reduce the number of words in the name)

"Burning Chrome" (what the Spooky Kids turned into when we started writing our own songs)

"Mentat Assassins" (an industrial/ambient project with my friend from Burning Chrome)

"Solstice" (solo project)

"The Plight" (solo project after someone stole the name Solstice from me)

"The Repeats" (Short-lived band with my brother and two friends of mine)

"Living in Photographs" (current project, replaced the Plight after someone stole that name from me again)

None were too bad, I think....

[Pepperbelly]

15. Richard Peter Johnson's Rock and Roll Review featuring ...

Mike Hunt.

:D

Seriously.

[RandomKoolzip]

16. Chicks with Dicks, the Giant Rats, Father on Fire, Fistful of Ugly.....

Norman Bates and the Showerheads, The Groins, The Apes, The 8th Grade, MegaSuperUltra, Gabe and the Zambonis.......of these, the 8th Grade was the best band. MegaSuperUltra is my current band: look for us to stink up a club in the Chicagoland area rill soon!

[Beware the Beast Man]

17. Welcome back!

:toast: hope your sabbatical was productive!

[RandomKoolzip]

18. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Happy Birthday to you.

I know it's not your birthday, but I guessed correctly that you need someone to say something nice to you. (Just agree with me, dammit)

If by "productive," you mean "back-breakingly busy and painfully dull, flecked with pools of depression, hopelessness, and resentment," then "yes."

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

24. Um - hello!!!! The fucking TRANQS

Do you hear the same asshole shit I do?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

25. Fistful of Ugly

[jdots]

19. stupid names and worse

1st. band the Goobers ,really embarrasing " Fort Mudge Memorial Dump " some shmucks are selling that album for 60$
i would pay 60$ to not listen to it....the colt 45s,,,,too many band names i was in alot of bands that would have opened for Spinal Tap that lame.

[Ramsey]

20. Nerve Circus

Was the name of the longest running band I was in.

Others include:
Final Call
Eleventh Hour
Biblia Negra (yes, a suburban white girl sang with a revolutionary Spanish heavy metal band)
February's Burning

And, my current proiject is called Versigh

[RedTail Wolf]

21. OK

"The Skeltones" first garage band
" The Kudzu Brothers"
"The Ash Branch Creek Band"
"The Fried Bologna Band"
"Clay Phoenix"
"Grease The Strings"
"Dark Blue"


Magazine writer now


RedTail Wolf

[0rganism]

22. ah... band names...

Just the funny ones, tho...
High School bands:
"The Jakes" (first garage band)
"Headrush" (mostly-Rush cover band)
"The Toxic Twins" (mostly-Aerosmith cover band)

Later experiments:
"Adorno's Wardrobe" (ultra-prog funkedelic jam band)
"Pigmy Marmoset Lovechild" (all the funkedelia, none of the prog)

[ProfessorGAC]

23. In Order

Exile, 1973 - 1974

Cadence, 1974

THC (initials of the 3 guys in a coffeehouse trio), 1975 - 1976

Middle Earth, 1977 - 1979

Seahawk, 1979

Crystal, 1980 - 1982

Cinema, 1982 - 1985

Toys (sideman, not a band member), 1985

Route 1 (sideman, not a band member), 1985

The Trend/The Apollo Project. 1986 - Present (Yup! Same guys for 18 years!)

BTW: This is the same band, but when we're three piece and i'm the bass player, we're the Apollo Project, and when i'm the keyboardist, 2nd guitarist, we're The Trend.)
The Professor

[opiate69]

26. My resume....

Current band: Desired Response Theory

Former bands:
Holloh
Before Christ
Mister Grinch

[paulk]

27. bands that did live public performances

architects office
the functional replacement of the ear
fever rationale
room 291 (current)

and my favorite band that never played out but recorded some really strange stuff -

mario rubinski and his fabulous garlic croutons

[rbnyc]

28. porridge, george bailey

86 Pig
Bourbon and Clorox

[leftofthedial]

29. Stiff Kitty

Bob and the Buttholes (still in that one occasionally)

Spawn of Santa

[Bonhomme Richard]

30. How about Little Clark and the Aliens....LOL

We had a hard time coming up with a name and when I was a kid all my brothers friends hanging on the corner called me Little Clark because they called my older brother Clark since he was always going down to Bandstand trying to get on the show (yeah, I'm from Philly). The guys in the band thought it would be a good name but we added Aliens to it so it was a bit goofier.

[DeepGreen]

31. Can't remember them all,,,

There was Grey Haven, Pandora's Baux, one that didn't last long -
Phallus - clubs didn't want to publish it in the newspaper, and others
that escape me now.