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If you had a band, what would you name it? You can name the type of music you would play (Original Post) debm55 Jan 2025 OP
"Boop" wcmagumba Jan 2025 #1
Great, Thank you wcmagumba debm55 Jan 2025 #9
Already there! johnp3907 Jan 2025 #2
Thank you john3907. I will check it out debm55 Jan 2025 #10
Youth in Asia Give Peace A Chance Jan 2025 #3
Welcome to DU! red dog 1 Jan 2025 #8
Thank you Give Peace A Chance. Love your band name debm55 Jan 2025 #11
Nosmo King. Mr.Bill Jan 2025 #4
Hahahaha , I like the name of your groupNosmo King debm55 Jan 2025 #12
Flying Debris The Blue Flower Jan 2025 #5
It is a great name name for a bandFlying Debris. debm55 Jan 2025 #13
The Poop Scoopers, We would play pop debm55 Jan 2025 #6
Ms.Anthrope catbyte Jan 2025 #7
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH. Thank you catbyte. debm55 Jan 2025 #14
Daniel Plainview and the Exploiters Doc_Technical Jan 2025 #15
Thank you very much Doc_Technical debm55 Jan 2025 #16
Trick Question, Deb ProfessorGAC Jan 2025 #17
Thank you Professor GAC. What was the name of the group debm55 Jan 2025 #20
Disaster Area Earl_from_PA Jan 2025 #18
Thank you very much Earl_from _PA debm55 Jan 2025 #21
From 'The Hitchhikers Guide ' Earl_from_PA Jan 2025 #24
Moon Pie Blues Solly Mack Jan 2025 #19
HAHAHAH. Thank you very much Solly Mack debm55 Jan 2025 #22
19Kilo. Aristus Jan 2025 #23
Thank you very much Aristus. Very interesting. debm55 Feb 2025 #31
The sexy old farts. Emile Feb 2025 #25
Could be interesting. dgauss Feb 2025 #27
HAHAHHHAHAHHAHHA. Thank you Emile debm55 Feb 2025 #32
Pumrt... The anti Trump. yourout Feb 2025 #26
Thank you very much yourout. debm55 Feb 2025 #33
I've always wanted to form a band that played cowboy western versions of Rolling Stones songs. Mister Ed Feb 2025 #28
HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAH. thati is funny. Thank you Mister Ed. debm55 Feb 2025 #34
Greem Vomit - we'd play real loud punk rock. FuzzyRabbit Feb 2025 #29
HAHHAHAHAHAH. Thank you Fuzzy Rabbit. debm55 Feb 2025 #35
Well, what if I DID have a band...or bands? GReedDiamond Feb 2025 #30
Thank you very much GReed Diamond, I will look them up om YouTube debm55 Feb 2025 #36
Spent Lemon Mad_Dem_X Feb 2025 #37
I like it . Thank you Mad_Dem_X debm55 Feb 2025 #38
Half-Asleep Peeps some_of_us_are_sane Feb 2025 #39
HAHAHHAHAHah. Thank you some_of_us_are_sane. debm55 Feb 2025 #40
2 different bands... electric_blue68 Feb 2025 #41
Thank you very much for the bands and the type of music. debm55 Feb 2025 #45
There were many over the years. OldBaldy1701E Feb 2025 #42
HAHHAHHAHAHAH.Thank you OldBaldy1701E for your choices. debm55 Feb 2025 #46
The Dead Cirillos AllYouWillEverNeed Feb 2025 #43
Thank you AllYouWillEverNeed. debm55 Feb 2025 #47
Played this game before! justaprogressive Feb 2025 #44
HAHAHAHAHHAHAH. Thank you very much justaprogressive. debm55 Feb 2025 #48
This thread is pushing hard on my senility. I must have played in 5 or 10 bands as a kid, and can't, for the life... NNadir Feb 2025 #49
Very sorry NNadir. debm55 Feb 2025 #51
The Ketchum Community Library Traditional Folk Old Fogey Fuzz Bucket String Band🎶 RB77 Feb 2025 #50
Thank you very much.RB77, It sounds wounderful. debm55 Feb 2025 #52
Snail Trail.. Tikki Feb 2025 #53
HAHHAHAHHAHAHAH. I like it Tiki debm55 Feb 2025 #54

Doc_Technical

(3,688 posts)
15. Daniel Plainview and the Exploiters
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 07:04 PM
Jan 2025

Work songs.

"The Ten Minute Lunch Break"
"Plenty More Where You Came From"
"The Back Break Quota Polka"
"Billionaire Braggart"
"The Boss' Shit Don't Stink"
"You Can Sleep When You're Dead"

ProfessorGAC

(73,663 posts)
17. Trick Question, Deb
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 08:50 PM
Jan 2025

There's no "if"!
The long lasting band (20 years) played progressive pop/alternative, with a touch of jazz influences (both me & the drummer).

Earl_from_PA

(280 posts)
24. From 'The Hitchhikers Guide '
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 11:17 PM
Jan 2025

Disaster Area are a plutonium rock band fronted by Hotblack Desiato from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones and are generally regarded as not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but also as being the loudest noise of any kind at all.


Aristus

(70,426 posts)
23. 19Kilo.
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 09:59 PM
Jan 2025

19Kilo is the U.S. Army’s alphanumeric designation for the job position of Abrams tank crewman.

Four crew members on a tank. Four band members. Lead vocal/keyboards/rhythm guitar, lead guitar, bass guitar, and drums.

We play hard rock, interspersed with metal, and some goth rock.

dgauss

(1,389 posts)
27. Could be interesting.
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 12:15 AM
Feb 2025

But maybe better on an old time am radio type 2 inch speaker than high fidelity headphones.

Mister Ed

(6,649 posts)
28. I've always wanted to form a band that played cowboy western versions of Rolling Stones songs.
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 01:22 AM
Feb 2025

I'd name the band "The Stolen Roans."

Also, I think it'd be fun to form a band that does six-piece Southern boogie versions of songs from the Leonard Cohen catalog. I'd call the band "Lynyrd Cohen".

Their crowd -pleasing tour de force would be "Free Bird On A Wire".

GReedDiamond

(5,471 posts)
30. Well, what if I DID have a band...or bands?
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 04:38 AM
Feb 2025

...which I did.

They were called:

1. Benedict Arnold & The Traitors - 1980-1982 / 2000-2008
2. The Hundredth Monkey - 1982-1989
3. Pendu Femelle - 1990-1991
4. Picture This - 1992-1994
5. Slowdazzle - 1995
6. (1996-2007 - on and off, played in various other bands not my own)
7. Green Sparkle Frog - 2008 / 2019

In the early 80s, BA & The Traitors got some L.A. airplay on KROQ, plus some national airplay on Dr. Demento's radio show.

Slowdazzle snagged a Columbia Records development deal, but our drunken singer could not record her vocals on the 6-song demo that we had to submit to finalize the deal. Our A&R guy/producer was Sandy Pearlman, who had produced, amongst others, Blue Oyster Cult. Sad story, I guess.

If you search YouTube, you can find Traitors stuff, and Green Sparkle Frog.







Mad_Dem_X

(9,980 posts)
37. Spent Lemon
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 12:25 PM
Feb 2025

A name I came up with several years ago. We'd be comprised of all women, and play rock music.

electric_blue68

(22,468 posts)
41. 2 different bands...
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 07:22 PM
Feb 2025

Deep Dreams - psychedelic

Wild Chords - either alt/indie, or The Who, and Midnight Oil influenced

OldBaldy1701E

(8,427 posts)
42. There were many over the years.
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 08:26 PM
Feb 2025

However, there were two that I always wanted to use and never got the chance.

The first was Tokin'. The logo was a joint with the name spelled out in the smoke.

The second was what I considered the best band name I have ever heard. Get ready for...

Buddha, and The Crippled Christian Band! (I wish I could copyright that one, but it is not mine.)

justaprogressive

(4,732 posts)
44. Played this game before!
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 11:50 AM
Feb 2025

like ten times

How about " The Odds" or "Thin Ice"

Country/bluegrass: "Bert and the Snowy Owls"

Reggae: The Irie Riddim Band

Still fun after all these years, in my first band we let a dictionary fall open
until we had a name.



PS. A hat tip to another SF writer harry Harrison for
"The Stainless Steel Rats"

NNadir

(36,196 posts)
49. This thread is pushing hard on my senility. I must have played in 5 or 10 bands as a kid, and can't, for the life...
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 12:23 PM
Feb 2025

...me, remember the names of any of them.

Most of the playing I did in a semiprofessional setting in clubs was solo acoustic work.

For some reason, even though at one point it was a very important part of my life, I haven't picked up a guitar in years, probably because I'm afraid to recognize how much I've lost in skill and how many songs (and tunings) I've forgotten. I last played in public about ten years ago.

RB77

(56 posts)
50. The Ketchum Community Library Traditional Folk Old Fogey Fuzz Bucket String Band🎶
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 12:52 PM
Feb 2025

There is a group of us that meet in the library or Senior Center to play our instruments and sing songs. (Mostly senior citizens) We like to play “Old Timey Music”, folk songs and lots of Scotch-Irish tunes. I play guitar and the Irish Rhythm bones.

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