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| Performer | Description | Sumbitted By | ||
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| The Porkers | Porkers were once called the 'Pork Hunts' They had to change the name because it was simply too offensive. | Marlon | ||
| UB40 | UB40 is Märklin´s (German model railroad manufacturer) product code for a transport train than was commonly used in Britain when the band was formed. The trasport train symbolizes the bands willingness to travel in time and space, and go trough all kinds of trouble (symbolized by the often hash weather conditions a train has to cope with). | Ian Amaliar | ||
| Killing Heidi | In literature, Heidi is the archetypal sweet and virtuous young lass, while 'Killing Heidi' represents the end of innocence. | Trevis | ||
| Dire Straits | The original name of Dire Straits was "Cafe Racers", not "Cafe Runners". Yet the rest of the story is correct. | Tim | ||
| David Bowie | Bowie comes from the infamous bowie hunting knife. Bowie, real name Jones, didn't want to be confused with the other Davey Jones, who was lead singer in the Monkees. | Brett | ||
| Twisted Sister | When Twisted Sister didnt really have a name and they were performing, a drunken old man at the end of the show came up to them and said "You guys look like a bunch of twisted sisters", because of the way the members were dressed in drag. | JE$$IE R. | ||
| Def Leppard | The lead singer, Joe Elliot, drew a picture of a leopard holding some kind of an instrument to his ear because he had a hearing problem. Thus the name Def Leppard came from Deaf Leopard. | JE$$IE R. | ||
| Dio | Lead singer Ronnie James (whose real last name escapes me) Changed his name to Ronnie James Dio. Why? Dio is Italian for "God". Nope, no ego problems there. | Blaze Phoenix | ||
| Insane Clown Posse | orginally called inner city posse shags 2 dope and violent jay from that band where the only ones left after the orginal members left because of a oncoming gang war while in jail 2 dope and jay saw a vision and told them to spread the message about a dark carnival the only better way to do this was to become clowns hence the name insane clown posse | hatchetryda | ||
| Grinspoon | These Aussie rockers got their name from a Dr. Grinspoon, who supports the use of marijuana. | Clare | ||
| Sugarcult | The guys of Sugarcult used to live next door to a group of lesbians. The girls next door had a name for themselves, The Sugarcult. So, the guys took the name from them. | RioT | ||
| Coldplay | they took their name from a book of poems...that's it | Courtney | ||
| Slayer | It used to be "dragonslayer" after the movie , then it got shortened | Scot Sacks | ||
| Herman's Hermits | In a BBC radio interview, one of the band members blamed their name on the promoter for their first successfuk tour. Their original name was Sherman's Hermits, but the promoter left the initial "s" off the signs advertising the tour, and since that tour was what finally got the band up into the "big time," they were stuck with the truncated aliterative name. | Rex Brocki | ||
| Gin Blossoms | The named themselves after "Gin Blossoms" or Rosacia, Zit like bumps you get from drinking to much. | Krinnky | ||
| Dave Matthews Band | The band did not actually pick the name.. At one of their first gigs, they had not chosen a name yet, but Dave Matthews himself was already pretty well known around the area. So the flyers were supposed to say Dave Matthews and band.. but because of a typo or whatever.. the flyers ended up saying The Dave Matthews Band. The name stuck, and eventually they lost the "The" and are now known as Dave Matthews Band. | Hunter | ||
| Blue Oyster Cult | They figured that by naming themselves after a local bar "The Blue Oyster", the owner would let them play there regularly. | magic will | ||
| Sevendust | Sevendust used to be called Crawlspace until another band called Crawlspace threatened legal action, so they had to change their name. One of the band members used to be an exterminator, and he used a chemical called Sevindust, so he brought the name up, and they changed "Sevin" to "Seven" because they thought 7 was a lucky number. | Chris | ||
| The Eagles | Glenn Frey liked because it sounded like a motorcycle gang. | Dave | ||
| Clash | 'Two Sevens Clash' a 1976 LP by reggae band Culture, whose title tune refers to the upcoming Apocalypse in 1977 | clash | ||
| Ball Hanks | The singer, Frank Foo liked eating chocolate balls while watching Green Mile. So he combined. | paget | ||
| Good Bad Johnny | the late and great calgary, alberta punk-rock/cover band g.b.j were named after a comic book character created by drummer jesse locke's 9 year old brother | pumpkin patch | ||
| Soft Machine | From the book by William S Burroughs. | Old Bill Lee | ||
| FFH | This Christian band picked ' Far From Home' for two reasons; First, they are far from their physical home from a lot of touring, second, they are far from their home in eternity with Jesus. | Roger | ||
| The Smiths | The non-fiction book "Beyond Belief" (1960's I think) about the Moors murders contains a chapter entitled "The Smiths" (a family name). I have never heard this cited as the origin of the band name, although it does ties in with the song "Suffer Little Children" and Morrissey's well known early fascination with the subject. | Angus B | ||
| Blink-182 | The guitarist for the band, Tom, just picked out blink because he likes short verbs. Then there was this irish-techno band with the name Blink, too and they said that if blink(182) didn't change their name within the next 3 motnhs or something they would sue them, so the guys picked out 182 at random, and they have a good time when they get interviewed making up stories for the meaning of the 182. | chelly luvs blink | ||
| Noshiwano | Damon, the bass player, was watching the video "Live Tonight Sold Out" by Nirvana, when Dave Ghrol said "My Sharona." Damon didn't know what Dave had actually said, and thought it was "Noshiwano" so they called the band that. It is a totally made up word. | Dana | ||
| Soundgarden | Soundgarden got their name from "A Sound Garden" -a pipe sculpture that stands in Sand Point Park in Seattle. Sounds are produced when air blows through the pipes. | Luthien | ||
| At The Drive-In | Named after a line in the chorus of "Talk Dirty To Me" by Poison | Pawn Scum | ||
| Adema | One night, a friend of the band (who was working at a morgue at the time) mentioned the term edema (medical condition - swelling of the skin.) The band changed a few of the letters in the name to ADEMA and they kept it as the band's offical name. | Tijana | ||
| Ayre | Ayre was the last name of 3 of the 4 members. Originally it was The Ayre Brothers but their drummer Mike Armstrong protested strongly and said that he wasn't related and didn't want to be in a family band like the Osmans or Partrige family. | Flex | ||
| Ronny Morris Band | Before Ron Wood played with the Rolling Stones he owned a club in Miami. Jim Morrison of the Doors used to come in and party with Ron, when they would get loose enough they would join the band on stage and jam. Sometimes they would tell the patrons that they were locking the doors at closing time and jam until daylight and anyone that wanted to leave better go now. Everyone always stayed. Donny's father who worked as bouncer for a while, used to tell that story and they decided to call the band the Ronny Morrison Band. When Bill Spell fell ill from drug abuse in 1995 and Chicago Ed joined them, they shortened the name to Ronny Morris Band. | Debbie | ||
| Orb | From the orb used as a kind of drug in the Woody Allan film "Sleeper". | R m B | ||
| 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 | ||
| Jethro Tull | Jethro Tull was an actual peson, famous in British history for having invented the mechanical seed-drill, a kind of proto-tractor. Since Ian Anderson's lyrics often evoke Englan'd pre-industrial past, the name resonates with nostalgia. | Khalil | ||
| Heaven Seventeen | In the book "A Clockwork Orange" the droogs hang out in a bar. The house band is called "The Heaven 17." | Darby | ||
| Steely Dan | In 1973, a Windsor Unimax 5000 computer system came up with 9,087 different names for Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, who were then performing under various names. They came up with a list of 50 before narrowing it down to the name 'Steely Dan.' | Larcen Tyler | ||
| PinMonkey | The band was gettin ready to do a concert and they had forgot to pick out a name. When this occured to them they were watching an episode of "The Simsons" where Homer quits his job to go to the bowling alley and pursue his childhood dream of wanting to be a PinMonkey who sets up the pins back before they had machines to do it automatically | Derico | ||
| Silverchair | Originally called 'Innocent Criminals' which Ben Harper's backing band is called, when they released their first EP they changed their name to 'Silverchair' which actually (whether continuing with the 'criminal' theme) represents the stainless steel toilet in Australian jail cells. | saintan | ||
| Riddlin' Kids | They were orginally IGMO (ignorant motherf*cker) but when the brother of one of the members left, he took the name. They then became Ritalin Kids and would get up and act like they needed Ritalin. When they didn't want to face law suits due to the fact Ritalin is copyrighted, they changed it to Riddlin' Kids, which sounds like the old one and works | megan | ||
| Chicago | Chicago's origins are varied and interesting. The band was created by Walter Parazaider, from Chicago, and accomplished clarinet player, who had a band called The Missing Links. Fellow band members, also from Chicago, included Lee Loughnane on trumpet, Danny Seraphine on drums, and Terry Kath on bass. Later, with the addition of James Pankow on trombone, and Robert Lamm on keyboards and vocals, the band's name was changed to The Big Thing. An Italian friend of Walter's said, "You know, everybody is saying "Thing, Thing this, Thing that. There's a lot of you. We'll call you the Big Thing." A friend of Walter's, named Jimmy Guercio, became the band's manager and later its producer. It wasn't long before Peter Cetera was added to the group for bass playing and high vocals. Guercio lobbied for gigs in Los Angeles, because that was believed to be the best area to become "discovered". They believed in their concept of rock and roll with horns. The band, now renamed Chicago Transit Authority by Guercio in honor of the bus line he used to ride to school, was in a creative fervor. (To the delight of the poor folks who have to put up the letters on theater marquees , the group shortened its name simply to Chicago during its first year as a national act, by December, 1969.) | M Linq | ||
| Los Amigos Invisibles | when they were little, they played a game of superheros, calling themselves los amigos invisibles,hence the name in english,'the invisible friends. | hannah jude | ||
| Insane Clown Posse | at first they were inner city posse and then d-lyrical and the misfits dropped and then it was violent j and shaggy 2 dope so they changed they're name to Insane Clown Posse becuz of the visit from the dark carnival and everyone elso dropped like wusses and thats how ICP came to be known | Raven | ||
| Mott The Hoople | Named After The Character Norman Mott In the Willard Manus novel " Mott The Hoople ". | Andy Boyd | ||
| L'Arc~en~Ciel | The head of the band, Tetsu, saw a french movie with the same title and liked it so much that he decided to use it for a band name. Translated to English it means 'rainbow' (literally 'ark in the sky'). | Lyme | ||
| Foo Fighters | Foo Fighters was a name given to UFOs which flew alongside German bombers in WW2. After the war a group of scientists proved that they were really balls of lightning which were attracted to the metal of the aircraft. | Bedhanger | ||
| Depeche Mode | 'Depeche Mode' translates colloquially as 'latest fashion' | Ron Thomson | ||
| Avril Lavigne | It's her name. | Scary Guy | ||
| Led Zeppelin | They called their band 'Led Zeppelin' because one of the guitarist's friends said the band would go down like a led balloon, and a type of a balloon is also called a zeppelin. | Yahwingy | ||
| Frenzal Rhomb | Frenzal Rhomb is Australian for "Friends of Animals" | Loomisk |
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