What was the name of your first band?

Epilog -1969

 

Jr High, I guess it would’ve been around 1977, we called ourselves Nemesis. We played the school talent show. The bass player and I went on to become music teachers, the keyboard player is a really good jazz pianist, but has a career in finance, the other guitarist lives in CA and we still keep in touch, I have no idea what became of the drummer.

 

Dribbling Enid and the Serrated Edge

 

The Kool Aid Smile

 

67 or 68 in a Junior High school "talent show"... Gabe Sanchez and the Rolling Tamales ... (Gabe's idea and he was the singer)
Other Jr High and Freshman year bands I was in were The Blades of Grass and The Bright Lights, it was all pretty dismal kid band stuff.

 

Bobby Ribino and The Killer Cheesies

 

I.p.o

It wasn't a real band, but we occasionally did some songs for which we'r called ourselves:

The Aluminium Fudge

 

The T.P. Waterhouse Jug Band & Electric Screendoor Salesmen (and I have copies of posters to prove it!)

 

We Are the Friend

I saw it on a friend's pencil case. It was part of a longer set of phrases that were obviously translated into English from some language by someone who didn't know how to translate into English very well. I thought it was funny and kind of mysterious, but in the end was more hassle than it was worth, since people would always ask me what it meant and I honestly had no idea!

 

The Hummeroids. Yeah, I know. But we did win the local high school talent show and the keyboard player went on to play with Dave Matthews. Still, not exactly a name you tell your kids about...

 

Not counting playing with my cousins for the family gathering at Christmas, the first band I was in was called Altus, because that's Latin for "high". That was in high school in something like 1983. I didn't name it; they already had that name when I joined.

The first band that I participated in naming, during college, was Marty and the Mammals. Marty was a very popular guy and our lead singer, so we were keen to put his name in the name of the band to leverage his social capital. I remember going through the "M" section of the dictionary looking for alliterative words. The runner-up was "Marty and the Mints".

 

The Dmitri Shostakovich Memorial Blues Band

 

The Dmitri Shostakovich Memorial Blues Band

 

Boys Will Be Boys - 1981 monosynth pop trio.

 

Centifugal Force

 

Centrifugal Force

 

Mine was The Four D’s ...all of our last names started with D’s...seemed clever at the time. LOL

 

Black Dharma 1993
Supa Necta 1995

 

Guadalcanal Diary