Thursday, September 23, 2004
What's in a Name
This morning I was thinking about band names and what they mean. Take
"Corporate Red", whenever you type it in a search engine you end up
finding a lot of posts about Corporate Red Tape. My old band's name
was Red Krovvy. Notice the Red. Krovvy was actually a Russian term
meaning blood. We got it from Clockwork Orange. Finding a band name is
pretty hard considering most have already been taken. Colors seem to
work. Like Deep Purple, White Stripes, Black Sabbath. So if I ever
needed a band name quickly I'd pick a color, say Yellow and then pick
a cool word, say Gun. Therefore we have a perfectly good band name
"Yellow Gun". In the 80s letters were popular, like U2, UB40, INXS,
ACDC. Although it didn't take that long for all the cool letter
combinations to run out. Right now we have numbers like 411 and 741. I
think the next fad might be character signs like # and % and @. How
about #2# (pound to pound). Who knows where this whole naming thing
will go. Eventually all of them will be taken and it'll become generic
"Band122". Come see Band122! Followed by Band546! and then the
Infamous Band1!
Thought of the Day
"You're a comedian, couldn't you come up with something?"
- Helen, to Jerry, in "The Watch"
"Corporate Red", whenever you type it in a search engine you end up
finding a lot of posts about Corporate Red Tape. My old band's name
was Red Krovvy. Notice the Red. Krovvy was actually a Russian term
meaning blood. We got it from Clockwork Orange. Finding a band name is
pretty hard considering most have already been taken. Colors seem to
work. Like Deep Purple, White Stripes, Black Sabbath. So if I ever
needed a band name quickly I'd pick a color, say Yellow and then pick
a cool word, say Gun. Therefore we have a perfectly good band name
"Yellow Gun". In the 80s letters were popular, like U2, UB40, INXS,
ACDC. Although it didn't take that long for all the cool letter
combinations to run out. Right now we have numbers like 411 and 741. I
think the next fad might be character signs like # and % and @. How
about #2# (pound to pound). Who knows where this whole naming thing
will go. Eventually all of them will be taken and it'll become generic
"Band122". Come see Band122! Followed by Band546! and then the
Infamous Band1!
Thought of the Day
"You're a comedian, couldn't you come up with something?"
- Helen, to Jerry, in "The Watch"
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I would get a band name from something kinda personal. I might call my band "Rashad's house" or "Saturday car wash" , which would mean nothing to most folks, but those around me in high school would know exactly what I was talking about. In other words, I'd make it an inside joke.
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