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| Performer | Description | Sumbitted By | ||
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| Free | The record company wanted to call them "The Heavy Metal Kids", but they hated that, and wanted "Free At Last". In the end they stuck with "Free". | Tuna Sunrise | ||
| Pixies | It refers to the old Christian definition. The souls of unbaptized dead children residing in Limbo. | Pat | ||
| MC 5 | Rob Tyner named the band the MC 5 because it sounded like the name of a car part - the Motor City part of the name was a coincidence after the fact. | Chris Gansz | ||
| System of a Down | Daron calling the group's name from the poem he had written called "Victims of a Down". Shavo objected to the word "victims", for it's narrow personal qualitation, so Daron came up with a broader, ambiguous "system", which suited everybody and left room for thought and subjective interpretation... System of a Down, were born. | Emz Valore (a.k.a- spazz) | ||
| Three Dog Night | The three lead singers in the band slept in a friend's garage when they were struggling artists. The garage was cold and damp. When asked how the accomodations were, "It was a three dog night". | Chris Gansz | ||
| A Certain Ratio | Before they became an incredibly annoying funk band with Stevie Wonder leanings, they were an incredibly unpopular band from Manchester England, on the legendary Factory Records label. You will find the lyric "Looking for a certain ratio" in Brian Eno's song "The True Wheel (circa 1973). In 1994, the band - then still together but LONG past its prime - paid homage to its roots by compiling a sampler CD on the Creation label, and titling it with that phrase. | Carl | ||
| SUM 41 | SUM stands for Sodomized Underaged Males, and 41 is half the year (1982) one of the integrants was born | sdikblack | ||
| Gorillaz | after 2-ds (frontman, lil hottie that he is) lil...accident...he started walking somewhat like a monkey, russel (drummer) resembled a gorilla mainly in his bulk and muscle, and murdoc (bass and self proclaimed band leader) couldnt spell...plus it looks better according to the well educated russel there fore the band named their selves Gorillaz and theyre alterego band was Space monkeyz...but das another story | Audra Oppenheimer | ||
| Jewel | That is her real name - Jewel Kilcher | David Pratter | ||
| Beck | That is his real name - Beck Hansen | David Pratter | ||
| Simon & Garfunkel | The last names of the two members - Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel | David Pratter | ||
| Wilson Phillips | The last names of the band members - Carnie and Wendy Wilson are the daughters of Beach Boy Brian Wilson. Chynna Phillips is the daughter of John Phillips from the Mamas and the Papas. | David Pratter | ||
| Hoku | That's her real birth name, Hoku Christien Ho. (Born June 10, 1981 in Oahu, Hawaii.) She is the seventh of former Hawaiian pop star Don Ho's 10 children, but the first of Ho's two children with Patricia Swallie Choy, also a former singer. | David Pratter | ||
| Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young | The story in here from "Joeseppi Verdi" is funny but total fabrication. ... | Greenbeer | ||
| Led Zeppelin | I read in the book "Hammer of the Gods" (biography about Led Zeppelin) that Keith Moon came up with the name when they were at a bar drinking beer because he was joking around saying that Robert plant and his band were going to crash and burn...like a Lead Zeppelin. (Plant took out the "A" in Lead so people wouldn't get confused with the word Lead (leed) | Kara Goldstein | ||
| Bone Thugs N Harmony | Bone started out called B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e. This stood for three things - Buddah'd Out Niggaz Everyday, Brewed Out Niggaz Everyday, and Beating on Niggaz Everyday. They then took the BONE and added it to Thugs N Harmony, because they are thugs with a harmonic rap style. | Nemesis | ||
| Toto | Lead man Bobby Kimbal's real name is Robert Toteaux - pronounced Toto. | Spacemuse | ||
| Fugazi | The band Fugazi got their name from the album and song of the same name by the band Marillion (late 70's early 80's). The band Marillion got the name for the song/album during a european tour. Fugazi is Italian for Pizza! | Chris C | ||
| Travis | The band are named after legendary British DJ Dave Lee "Hairy Cornflake" Travis. | Fletch | ||
| No Doubt | "No Doubt" was Eric Stefani's (keyboardist on the early albums and founder of the band,not to mention Gwen's brother ) favorite saying, popular in southern California in the late 80s early 90s | maffa | ||
| The Stanley Louis Band | This small time indie band is named after 2 characters that lived in the downtown of Madison, WV. Both were considered mentally simple , but very interesting in a sort of twisted way | Jeff | ||
| Green Day | they chose this name because they could not fit any marijuana in there shoes to get past custom officials therefore they didn,t have a green day | johnfan | ||
| Jethro Tull | In the history of Tull vid Ian points out that "Jethro Tull" was the name of the inventor of the contour plow. This device allowed people to plow over terrain that had not been leveled, and America went wild with it, plowing everything in site....and leading to the "Dustbowl of the 1930's", when giant duststorms savaged the country because nothing was left to hold the topsoil in place.... | Too Old to Rock and Roll... | ||
| Tenacious D | They picked this name after listening to a football commentator talking about how "Tenacious this teams D is." | Brandon | ||
| Lovin' Spoonful | A "lovin' spoonful" is a slang term for the approximate amount of semen in the typical male ejaculation. | Tim | ||
| Pantera | in all actuality, they took the name from the 1970's exotic sports car... and i know this how?!? just ask Phil when your band opens up for him...lol | Brett Mohler | ||
| The Coral | I was watching this band do a photo shoot in Hoylake with a fake petrol bomb, anyway, I asked one of them how the thought of the name, they said they named it after a mouthwash called "Oracle" God knows how they got Coral from that but hey, it figures | jammy | ||
| POD | POD stands for Proof Of Death; as in a death certificate. I've heard the band say this in interviews on two separate occassions. | Momus | ||
| The Tea Party | From "The Mad Hatter's Tea Party" in Alice in Wonderland. | Momus | ||
| 10cc | Dear Ed, The original meaning was indeed refering to the average amount of semen in a human ejaculation | Petrol | ||
| UB40 | UB40 is form number for the unemployment forms in the UK. | maggie | ||
| T.A.T.U. | T.A.T.U. are the initials for the Russian words that mean "This Girl Loves That Girl" | Chad Mosher | ||
| Mest | The band was getting drunk in Tony Lovato's (lead singer/guitarist) garage one day. They were drinking Milwaukee's Best. They took the M from Milwaukee and EST from Best and got Mest. Its also thought that one of the members tried to ask for another beer and slurred the words together to get MEST. | fuctupgrl | ||
| Better Than Ezra | When BTE started out in New Orleans, there was a local band here called Ezra. While BTE wasn't all that good yet, they were at least better than Ezra. | Paula | ||
| S Club 7 | It is a little known but certainly true fact that S stands for Satanic, as most of the band are satanists, however they didn't want to frighten off their target audience (understandably) so they kept this under wraps and simply used the initial S. | Jennifer | ||
| Backstreet Boys | The band was disgusted by the state of society when Brian from the band came across a group in the back streets of New York who performed abortions on women who couldn't affort a professional clinic. They had been nicknamed the "back-street boys" and the band took this name as their own to make a statement that would shock the public and awaken them to the tragedy surrounding them in day to day life. | Pippin | ||
| Green Day | Tre Cool has been a member of Greenpeace for many years now, and he reads the monthly magazine the organisation sends out. In one issue there was a poem called "Green Days" which he liked so much he wanted the band to be named after it. | Meriadoc | ||
| Papa Roach | Coby Dick has a vast collection of pet cockroaches. He used to joke about himself being the "papa roach" as he took care of them. Unfortunately, Jeremy, the first (and oldest) of the collection died only last week from old age. | Anduril | ||
| Queens Of The Stone Age | Josh Homme and Nick Olivieri were strolling through the Scottish town of Ayr, when they walked into Nirvana, a freak shop that has a non-electric time machine, according to VD's Sean Graham. The dynamic duo were transported back to the Stone Age, where they were made queens. This may have been a flight of fantasy | Uncle Charlie | ||
| Creed | at first they called themselves Naked Toddler, after a newspaper clipping Tremonti had, but then they decided that name sucked,so they went back to a band one of them had previously been in, Marshell's Creed, and decided to shorten it to just plain Creed! \m/ | sandi | ||
| Good Charlotte | It's just a children's book and they thought it was a cool name for a band, no deep meaning or anything. | killtheteenies | ||
| ZZ Top | Someone else on here said they combined two rolling paper names. Zig-Zag and Top. I heard it was a combo of Top the rolling paper and the design on the front of barn doors since they first played in barns. | Alex Hall | ||
| Fugazi | F***ed Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In. | hgr | ||
| Sevendust | Sevendust is the brand name of a once popular fire ant poison. It comes in dust form and contains seven deadly poisons. | Alex Hall | ||
| Iron Maiden | An Iron Maiden was a medieval torture device. The kings of NWOBHM picked up the name for their band. | Rocker75 | ||
| Phish | Actually, all of them are wrong. Fish is taken from the name Jon Fishman. They changed it to PH because they all have PHd's in music. | Eliza | ||
| Grateful Dead | Actually, The old name was The Warlocks. But They changed it because "The Grateful Dead" Was an old Egyptian prayer he found in the dictionary. Trust Me, I know, I wrote a 19 page speech on them. | Eliza | ||
| Dexys Midnight Runners | Midnight Runner is a condom... | jim | ||
| Stone Temple Pilots | The one origin one someone did up there about just going with STP cuz they saw it on some STP motor oil is correct. I remember watching a special after they did unplugged and what STP originally meant was Stereo Temple Pirates.... | Peter | ||
| 311 | It is a police call for indecent exposure, but from Omaha, Nebraska, where the band is from, 311 is not from Florida. | Kipp McCarter |
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