What is the coolest bandname of a band you played in?

[4pickupguy]

I saw it on another thread and wish I had made it up :
Melonious Thunk

Mostly in the early 80’s around Dallas:
The Hue Beaumont Experience
The Parameciums
Roadkill Platters
Non Compos Mentos

 

[brookdalebill]

I forgot about this one.
I joined em’ in 1977, they faded away in 1981.
Many moons ago!

 

[gridlock]

“Myth” and “Gridlock”.

We had a cool logo. Me on top of a PA speaker at a rehearsal in my parents living room.

 

[tvvoodoo]

Scarlet Fever, and The Peppercorns... two groups that didn't kick me out right away

 

[Geo]

Coin flip - either Neon Bushman or The Escalators.

 

[Cosmic Cowboy]

No Innocent Victim

 

[MisterZ]

My high school band was called Armageddon. Nobody could spell it.

In college I was in Preppies From Hell. Also in the Crouse New Wave Chamber Ensemble.

Since then, nothing even remotely that awesome.

 

[Beachbum]

When we were first getting together one day our lead player and I got to going back and forth about something and he said that I was being grumpy as an old bear to which the drummer replied, well you've just got to face the bear man. As a reminder to me to mind my manners the name stuck.

FACE THE BEAR

 

[Old Deaf Roadie]

Used to play in a jam nite host band that called ourselves Cletus Colitis & the Festering Stench. It was a fun gig, mostly because we were good friends and didn't take much of anything very seriously, including ourselves.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

My high school band was called Armageddon. Nobody could spell it.

I had a friend who named his group "Paradigm Shift". I listened to people mispronounce it

 

[cyclopean]

I once had a drummer refuse to be in a band called red lorry peter Lorre.

 

[Telenator]

I once named a band The Groove Diggers. One of the members was creeped out by it.

 

[loudboy]

5 Dog Pileup

Worried About Frank

 

[Skyhook]

It's a toss-up between Kremator(with the A circled for Anarchy, oooh) and Prophylactica.
Neither band ever got as far as the stage which in retrospect is a good thing.

 

[Twang Deluxe]

A former classmate hated ABBA and called his punkband "Dancing Welfare Queen"

 

[RhythmFender]

The Mac Cherry Sextet

 

[JohnnyThul]

Fastlane Motörblast - kind of a Motörhead cover band with everything played faster than the original. Loud and good fun!

 

[hemingway]

Bank in the 80s my drummer and I decided to join our 2 favourite words to make the name of our next band. He chose roller and I chose dogs.

And thus Rollerdogs were born.

They died fairly soon after.

 

[VintageSG]

The website 'B3ta' has/had a 'swearing keyboard' app thingy. From there, we had a working name for a band of 'Xylophone Buggery'
We were an office band, nothing too serious, just a bunch of us with a love of Spinal Tap levels of volume controls and 60's garage style.
Being based in deepest, darkest Yorkshire, other names had to have the 'h' dropped...
The Two 'ats
'Oof 'Arted

We wanted 'Gutbucket', but that was already in use. For one week, we were 'W.O.B.'O.' Which stood for 'Whale Oil Beef 'Ooked' As we were all geeks and sys-admins, 'Perl in the Shell' was mooted, then thrown out as too geeky. I was riding a Suzuki GSX-R at the time, so for one night only, we were 'Sue's Zoo Key'

The last band I was a member of had the delightful internal name of 'Anal Seepage' Drone-thrash-garage-punk-metal, so it sort of fitted.

Back in my teen years, there was a bit of a ruckus off the coast of Argentina. For a short time, we renamed our band 'Malvinas Argentina', which was either brave or stupid.

 

[Skeet-1969]

29 Toes - yeah, the bass player had a lawn mower incident.

Mike B