Embarrassing Band Names

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Jimmy’s sharing of his part in a somewhat embarrassing episode from his past, got me thinking about all of the embarrassing names of the bands in which I played in the past. There have been plenty of bad ones but as I look back the worse we’re…


ThunderMug
Slippery Slope
Faunus Nirvana
Stonecutters Bloody Fingers
Noble Bullshi….
Gas Station Coffee
Gemini Quadruplets
A Fiddle & Franks (bluegrass group in which of 5 players I was the only one who didn’t have a first or last name of Frank. And yes we had a double… the fiddle players name was Frank Frank)
Fire Fly aka Lightning Bug


The bands of past did come up with one or two names I liked…Mystic (not The Mystics but just Mystic), GrayOwl, and prior to the Stonecutters Bloody Fingers it was Stonecutter’s Breakfast.


Would anyone else care to share?

[BeenDown139]

bronzed heroes of the apocalypse.

we actually played a lot of gigs around denver in the early 90's.  got told on a couple of occasions that our name was too big for the marquee.  ahhh, the good old days.

[cozmik_cowboy]

From high school (some of these I sang in, some I humped gear for; at this remove I couldn't possibly tell you which was which):
Sweetleaf
Silver Spoon
Chrystal Myth (are you catching a pattern in our thinking?)
The Perverts Of Cram (Actually, I can tell you I was the roadie for that one; singer was Virgil Enos - who of course we called Virgin Penis.....)


Somewhat later, I was (as I mentioned over in the "What Are You Listening To" thread) I worked for Holidaze, Featuring Doc & Linda Holiday.


Peter (who is not embarrassed, but in fact proud, to have played nose flute in The Cosmic Shits & Giggles Jug Band; hottest jug band in Galena, IL, in 1979.....)

[lbpesq]

Prune Danish Handstand (9th grade - name influenced by Strawberry Alarm Clock)
The Pros from Dover (remember M.A.S.H.?)
Cripplefinger
Rough Around the Edges
The Half Fast Band (we’re not slow, we’re not fast, we are half fast!)
Jerry@trics

Bill, tgo

[StephenR]

1966-68
The Henchmen
The Den of Iniquity
Battery Operated Mushroom- I think I still have a hand-lettered business card our guitarist drew that featured psychedelic artwork.
Grumbly Rum Hogans - I definitely still have a business card.

One of my favorite names, though, was the name we used for an acoustic band in the early 70s  - Johnny Aloha and the Volcanoes of Sound.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Prune Danish Handstand (9th grade - name influenced by Strawberry Alarm Clock)
The Pros from Dover (remember M.A.S.H.?)
Cripplefinger
Rough Around the Edges
The Half Fast Band (we’re not slow, we’re not fast, we are half fast!)
Jerry@trics

Bill, tgo

Hey, I happen to thing Jerry@trics is a great name!
It's right up there with Mike's (dadabass) tribute band Petty Theft.

Peter

[pauldo]

Assassin.  A group of teens playing pop covers.
Pull My Finger.  Our motto was that ‘we stunk’.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Pull My Finger.  Our motto was that ‘we stunk’.

A friend was in a folkie trio called "Singing Bananas: The Group With A Peel".

Peter

[lbpesq]

For a couple of weeks, we were “Little Swimmers”.  (an honored R’nR tradition:  Cream, Lovin’ Spoonful, 10cc, Vanilla Fudge, Pearl Jam, et al.). Then the other guitar player balked.   Then we considered “Nicole Brown Trout”. That eventually morphed to “Stonetrout” which lasted almost 40 years until health issues forced a couple of the guys to give it up last year.  Agreeing on a name has broken up many bands before they even got started!

Yea, I like Jerry@trics, but I played with people who didn’t appreciate the self-deprecating humor.

Bill, tgo

[Quasar1]

Pull My Finger.  Our motto was that ‘we stunk’.

A friend was in a folkie trio called "Singing Bananas: The Group With A Peel".

Peter

The band I was in around 1979, we actually considered calling ourselves "Beethoven's Bubble Bath !!

[edwardofhuncote]

I need to just post a page from the Old Fiddlers Convention program, Band Contest. I've got about thirty years worth of them somewhere here. I literally buy a program every year just to read some of these band names...


*here's the Old Time Bands from the 87th Old Fiddlers Convention last year, and I pulled the 77th just for fun. There are some humdingers in these lists... may, or may not be real, but you gotta' love the imagination. Our band (New River Bound) is in both.

[cozmik_cowboy]

I noticed "Little Pee Dee River Band" out of Richmond, VA; I have a picture of my mom (age 4) and her dad on the bank of Little Pee Dee Creek in OH.

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

You hear about the Pee Dee basin referenced often in the Carolinas. In this case, I am guessing they were playing on the Lonesome River Band, a popular group.

In the spirit of Brian's thread, I guess this bunch had a cringe-worthy name; Mountain Legend. I don't even remember which of us geniuses came up with it. We had a lot of fun though. This picture was from 1991-92.