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Old 08-04-2002, 07:05 AM   #1
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I have a book called "The Book Of Rock Lists" ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671787004/qid%3D1028 458329/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/002-3001156-4397632 )It's a good book!

And there is a list of bands and their names before the hit.

Here are some:
The Detours, The High Numbers = The Who
Earth = Black Sabbath
Soft White Underbelly, The Stalk-Forrest Group = Blue Oyster Cult
The Tangerine Puppets = The Ramones
Mammoth = Van Halen
The Farriss Btothers = INXS
The Beefeaters = The Byrds
The Warlocks = The Grateful Dead
The Tourists = The Eurythmics
Smile = Queen
The Screaming Abdabs = Pink Floyd
The Hallucinations = J.Geils Band
Johnny and the Self-Abusers = Simple Minds
London = Motley Crue
Mudcrutch = Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Praise of Lemmings = Culture Club

And last but not least...

Pud = The Doobie Brothers!

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Old 08-04-2002, 07:39 AM   #2
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The Tangerine Puppets? *stunned* [img]tongue.gif[/img]
 
Old 08-04-2002, 07:50 AM   #3
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The Tangerine Puppets? *stunned* [img]tongue.gif[/img]
There are many on the list that I find pretty stunning as well!

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Old 08-04-2002, 09:11 AM   #4
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earlier Black sabbath also took the name Polka Tulk
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Old 08-04-2002, 09:15 AM   #5
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earlier Black sabbath also took the name Polka Tulk
In case anyone ia wondering. "Polka Tulk was derived from a can of talcum powder that Ozzy found in a bathroom."

(Quoted from http://www.ozzyhead.com/bio1.htm )

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Old 08-04-2002, 10:06 AM   #6
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quote:
Originally posted by Waldie:
earlier Black sabbath also took the name Polka Tulk
In case anyone ia wondering. "Polka Tulk was derived from a can of talcum powder that Ozzy found in a bathroom."

(Quoted from http://www.ozzyhead.com/bio1.htm )

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[/QUOTE]I wonder how much he snorted up till he figured out it wasnt giving him a buzz? [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Old 08-04-2002, 10:12 AM   #7
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The Metropolitan Blues Quartet = The Yardbirds
The Ravens = The Kinks
The Guildford Stranglers = The Stranglers (interesting to me cos Guildford is my home town, in fact the band I used to be in rehearsed in the same place The Stranglers used to rehearse )
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Old 08-05-2002, 05:07 AM   #8
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Blue Oyster Cult took their name from an anagram of the beer that they were drinking. 'Cully Stout Beer'
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Old 08-05-2002, 08:15 AM   #9
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Blue Oyster Cult took their name from an anagram of the beer that they were drinking. 'Cully Stout Beer'
I knew that, being an old BOC fan. Btw, a Google search for Cully Stout Beer turned up this.

Utterly barking mad [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img]
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Old 08-05-2002, 08:36 AM   #10
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How about names bands could have had?

Before Journey recorded it's first album they were looking for that "just right" name and they had a contest. The names weren't very appealing, so a roadie suggested Journey and that's what they eventually went with.

The name that could have been?

One of the contest entries, my favorite, was "Rumpled Foreskin".

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