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Name | Origin | Submitted by: | ||
| Eve 6 | Their name was actually going to be "Eve", but that name already existed, so they chose to add a number, and all agreed on 6. | Kewlio | ||
| Eve 6 | The guys in Eve 6 are huge X-files fans. In one eposide about cloning the talk about different women they cloned as Eves. Eve 6 was the one that got away, I think. So it isn't just letters and numbers. | Nyla Howell | ||
| Eve 6 | Max, Tony, and Jon of Eve 6 are huge X-File fans. They were watching the episode "Eve" and the 6th Eve was in a mental institution, was really crazy, and chewed the guards eyeball out, or something like that. Anyway, Max thought that was a really cool twist and when he saw the plaque above Eve 6's door he thought that would be a cool name for their band, which was originally Eleventeen. | Aly | ||
| Everclear | Everclear is a brand name of bottled grain alcohol distilled and sold commercially by David Sherman Corporation. It's best known by the 190-proof (95% alcohol) version beloved by fraternities and despised by hospital emergency rooms, but also comes in a 151-proof variety. | baudtender | ||
| Everclear | They named themselves after an alchohol drink that looked like water but had the "secret evil" of alchohol and they though that they were like that. | Copper | ||
| Evergreen Terrace | It's the street the Simpsons live on. | Brian C. | ||
| Every Wednesday | The name came from the night they would get together and rehearse. | Bob A | ||
| Everyday Sunday | This Chirstian band felt that a Christian should live like every day was Sunday, hence the name. | Kal | ||
| Everything | The band combined elements of jazz, funk, rock, ska and Latin music for their sound. When asked about the music they played, one member said, "We play everything." | nothing | ||
| Everything But the Girl | Tracey Thorn lived right down the street from a furniture store called Turners, whose slogan was "everything but the girl." The store was in Hull, England, and has long since been demolished | jacksonu4ia | ||
| Everything But The Girl | Apparently, the place that Ben went to study had a shop there called 'Everything But The Girl' which boasted of selling anything and everything newly weds would need, everything.....but the girl. | TrailBlazer | ||
| Everything But The Girl | From a second hand furniture shop in the small town of Kingston-Upon-Hull, England | Ferg | ||
| EVOL | Effective Voice of Ladies | Robert D. Arndt Jr. | ||
| Ex-Vivian | Krysten Ritter's supposed ex-girlfriend/lover... (spec) in interview b/c her parents would be reading it. Ex is definately HER ex and it's a girl's name. Krysten Ritter only sings about her life and her experiences with this band she put together... | Robert D. Arndt Jr. | ||
| Example | His real name is Elliot Gleave, his initials are E.G., which many people like to refer to as "for example". | Dongquan | ||
| EXID | Stands for EXceed In Dreaming... | Robert D. Arndt Jr, | ||
| Extreme | Singer Gary Cherone and drummer Paul Geary had been in a band named "the Dream" together. When "the Dream" broke up the were 'ex-Dream' members, thus "Extreme" was born. | Anne | ||
| Extreme | Unconfirmed origin: some of the members which formed Extreme were from a band called The Dream. Ex-Dream. Extreme. | fondu | ||
| Eyeless in Gaza | British group after the novel "Eyeless in Gaza" by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1936. The title originates from a phrase in John Milton's Samson Agonistes. | jose | ||
| E[East] 17 | E17 is not a street but the London post code of Walthamstow. Where the band members came from. Walthamstow is east of the center of town. | buttercup |
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