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| Performer | Description | Sumbitted By | ||
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| Led Zeppellin | (from VH1): Jimmy Paige and Robert Plant were at a party telling someone about the band they were going to form, and the person told them they were told that they were going to do about as well as a "lead balloon". | JoCo | ||
| Dashboard Confessional | Taken from a song on Chris Carabba's first album | me | ||
| O-town | they were given the name cause the band came together in orlando (orlando is also called o-town) | christina | ||
| Our Lady Peace | yeah it's the poem "Our Lady Peace" by Mark Van Doren but the poem is about World War II, not the Civil War | mwheeler | ||
| Nickelback | Where the band members worked, I think Starbucks, they would give change saying 'Here's your nickel back.' | cmor | ||
| Sunny Day Real Estate | From a discussion about how everything is bought and sold, and how people will soon be trying to sell sunny days. Hence, "Sunny Day Real Estate." | RexHowland | ||
| Pearl Jam | Originally, they were called Mookie Blaylock, but "Pearl Jam" is a combination of two things: The oft-mentioned peyote jam gives us "Jam," but "Pearl" comes from another basketball player, Earl "The Pearl" Monroe | Mikey H | ||
| Dave Matthews Band | Dave matthews is the name of the singer and former of the group; beeing this true, the rest of the members were reffered to as "band". | Carlos | ||
| R.E.M. | On a VH1 documentary, I heard that Michael Stipe and the band were big fans of TV Personality Dan Rather. I'm not sure how they arrived with the rest of the meaning. But the name is actually short for Rather's Eel Mongers. | flaming pie | ||
| Silverchair | They actually were going to be called something else but Chris (one of the members) accidentially wrote "silverchair" on the contract & it stuck | Mel | ||
| AC/DC | Matt is the closest so far. On KZOK they had a special in which AC/DC played Hells Bells(I believe) live, they also answered a few questions, one of which was about the name. When the band was started, it had no name so Angus' sister said why not AC-DC? Angus commented that he didnt know what else it meant at the time. | KOFT | ||
| The Offspring | Bryan Holland (vocals) and Greg Kreisel (Bass) were in a band called 'Manic Subsidal'. However, two members dropped out and the duo picked up Kevin Wasserman as guitarist and Ron Welty as the drummer. When they came to record their first CD, they were asked what the name of the band was. It wasn't until then that Bryan and Greg realised they couldn't be called Manic Subsidal. Anyway, while thinking about it, someone yelled out "The Offspring" and since then the band stuck with that name. | No Hero | ||
| Striknyne | They got their name from a friend of the Guitarist and the Lead singer after she was joking around about the name of the band and she said "call yourself striknyne" little did the band members know the name was rat poisoning, and the name stuck | K-MEN | ||
| Erasure | Erasure recorded a lot in germany where 'erasure' means recording tape | phil b | ||
| Def Leppard | Lead singer Joe Elliott grew up in England, and was a big fan of Led Zeppelin. In school, he drew pictures on a folder of an imaginary album cover for a band named "Deaf Leopard." When he joined the band that eventually became Def Leppard, the band members changed the spelling, to make it appear more like Led Zeppelin | TC | ||
| Youngstown | they were named after their home town of Youngstown Ohio | Micki | ||
| Led Zeppelin | Jimmy Page met bassist John Paul Jones while the two worked on Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" in April of 1968, and the two discussed the potential of joining forces. That summer, Page traveled to Birmingham to see and potentially recruit a young singer named Robert Plant, who was fronting his own group, Band of Joy. The trio was now lacking only a drummer, and Plant recommended his Band of Joy bandmate John Bonham. In September of 1968, the four played their first rehearsals in London, and, billed as the New Yardbirds (to honor a pre-existing contract), embarked on a short tour of Scandinavia. They took the name Led Zeppelin at the behest of the Who's Keith Moon, who joked that Page's new project "would go over like a lead balloon." | Golem | ||
| N'sync | one of the guys moms put the last letters of their names together and it spelled nsync. Justin, Chris, Joey, Lansten, & J.C. | Alisha | ||
| Dinosaur Jr | J Mascis named the band Dinosaur, but the threat of a lawsuit from a California band made of members from Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape and other remnants of the psychedelic scene, called the Dinosaurs, made mascis add the jr designation | TK | ||
| Bidston Moss | They picked it out of a John Pilger book - it's a small town in England, and was mentioned in the book because of it's rubbish dump. Romantic, eh?! | Rick | ||
| Destiny's Child | All the other stories aer wrong. Tina Knowles( Beyonce's mother was in the Bible.( I don't know for what reason.) But anywho she saw the word DESTINY and under it was CHILD. Destiny Child did not sound right so they said made Destiny a possesive noun. Hence the naem of the the 12 times platinum diva star super fine ass black gurl super sexy women group.............DESTINY'S CHILD~*^~*^~*^~*^ | Fabian | ||
| Slipknot | slipknot spelt backwards is tonkpils which is a drug used by goths in iowa | paddy | ||
| Goo Goo Dolls | They saw an ad in the back of a comic book for a doll whos expression changed if you stuck your finger in the back of its head. | Amanda | ||
| Esquivel | This band picked the name because they knew this gay kid named Chris Esquivel, they thought it sounded cool. | Steve-O | ||
| Blink 182 | Taken from TRL on MTV: When asked how they came up with the band name, and what the 182 stands for, Mark Hoppus responded; "We originally wanted it to just be "Blink", but, some Irish band had the same name, and they threatened to sue us, so, we just added the 182 on the end, it has no significance, we just added a number." There was nothing about a movie relation, or how many times one of them blinked; the number has NO significance. | Robert | ||
| Beatles | Actually, the Beatles was the name of the bad Motor Cycle club in the Marlon Brando movie "The Wild One". Lee Marvin played the lead Beatle. | Geoff | ||
| Eurythmics | Euryhythmics is a Greek system of dance that Annie Lennox learned when she was a child. They took the first h out to make it easier to spell. Dave Stewart liked it 'cos it summed up the European and rhythmic elements of the band. | Sophie | ||
| King Chango | "Xango" is actually the Candomble god of storms and thunder, not "music and partying". He was the fourth king of Candomble. | Sao Bento Grande | ||
| Rage Against The Machine | rage against the machine got thier name when zack had bought a computer and it kept freezing so he formed a band to destroy big corparations and get revenge for his broken p.c | power***** | ||
| Modest Mouse | Isaac read it in a book which referred to the people where he's from as 'modest mouse-like people' | mickey | ||
| Mourning Widows | Guitarist/singer Nuno Bettencourt saw a painting in Portugal which left an impression, the name of which was "Mourning Widows". | fondu | ||
| Extreme | Unconfirmed origin: some of the members which formed Extreme were from a band called The Dream. Ex-Dream. Extreme. | fondu | ||
| Slipknot | Slipknot, is a slang term for suicide/hanging yourself. class dismissed | from iowa | ||
| Led Zeppelin | When they first joined, there producer said that "there band would go down like a lead balloon" "zeppelin"=balloon, but then they were worried that people would pronounce it "lead zeppelin" with a long E so they just took away A. Led Zeppelin..... | Sam | ||
| Finger 11 | finger Eleven was originally called Rainbow Butt Monkeys, but their record label felt that some radio stations might find this offensive. So as a result they, changed their name to a portion of the male anatomy. | Gordon | ||
| Rainbow Butt Monkeys | The origin of this name comes from a house party in Burlington, ON Canada. The band was at a house party one evening. At this party several different chemicals substances were being consumed. Eventually has guest at the party dicovered an old Dr. Suess book. While reading this book in an altered state, the term Butt Monkey was formed. As the evening progressed, the word Rainbow was added, to bring us to the name Rainbow Butt Monkey. Which the band then used as an inside joke as they placed various high school coffee houses. | Gord | ||
| Bay City Rollers | They wanted an American sounded name, they stuck a pin in a map of the USA and it ended up near Bay City, Michigan. On the map had the words "Rollers" to discribe the waves of Lake Michigan. This was told to me by the manager Tam Paton and Ian Mitchell one of the former band members whom I am married to. As least this is one story I heard that seemed to never change as so many of them have. | Wendy-Ann Antanaitis | ||
| The Band | Originally backing Ronnie Hawkins as The Hawks, they went solo as Levon and the Hawks. As Bob Dylan's backing band, they lived communally in a house dubbed Big Pink in Woodstock, NY, and became known as Dylan's "Band from Big Pink," subsequently shortened to The Band. | Country Paul | ||
| Clear Light | One mid-1960's "psychedelic" album on Elektra; named for the "clear light" period of an LSD trip, after the intense buzz, when the tripper's "lessons" from his/her trip become clear. | Country Paul | ||
| Aztec Two Step | A two-man folk duo; the name was an irreverent reference to a gringo term for the runs a non-native can get in Mexico. | Country Paul | ||
| You Know Who Group | One hit and a supporting LP in the mid-'60s, this New York group tried to pass itself off as part of the English Invasaion in the footsteps of The Who and the Guess Who (originally Chad Allen and the Expressions from Canada, who were trying to change their omage). The group wore masks and capes on the album cover to promote the "mystery." | Country Paul | ||
| NRBQ | Now in business and recording for over 35 years, they were originally the New Rhythm & Blues Quintet. Two original members left, replaced by one new one, and Q has since stood for Quartet - or as fans just call them, the Q. | Country Paul | ||
| Orleans | Perpetrators of the once-ubiquitous ABC network promo song, "Still The One," Orleans took this name after their former made-up one, Boffalongo, proved to uncommercial. | Country Paul | ||
| Velvet Underground | From a William Burroughs book. | Country Paul | ||
| Dion & The Belmonts | One of the best and most famous Doo-Wop groups, they lived on Belmont Avenue in the Bronx, New York. | Country Paul | ||
| Kyuss | Nice Page, but the Sons of Kyuss is from the FIEND FOLIO not Deities. Keep up the good work | Greg Kessler | ||
| Rammstein | the band named themselves RAMMSTEIN after a SONG they made ABOUT the plane crash incident that happened in RAMMSTEIN (where 80 people were killed). because the song ended up being sort of like "an anthem" (quoted by Rammstein) so they named the band RAMMSTEIN. That's that sorted!! | someone who knows all about Rammstein | ||
| Stevie Nicks | She was born Stephanie Lynn Nicks, but couldn't pronounce Stephanie, so she just called herself Stevie | Britney | ||
| Steps | Everyday when going into the recording studio they had to climb 50 steps, and voila. steps where formed. | Kirsty | ||
| 54-40 | It wasn't 54-40 that had to fill out a form for unemployment benefits, it was UB-40. 54-40 came from President James K. Polk's 1844 campaign slogan "54 40 or fight!", refering to a US border dispute with Great Britain over what is now Canada. | J |
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