Driving back from a gig the other night we shared band name histories. Paul had one called "Gone" which I think rocks. He'll list the rest for us here once school is out and he has a little time again. As for me, I can't remember my earliest--that would have been 7th grade--any more (hmmm...), but here is what I do remember, not that it's anything to brag about:
Flatrock Plains; Stony Lonesome (both from my country rock/NRPS/The Byrds/Flying Burrito Brothers and the Band phase); Household Word (I liked it when people in the house shouted "Word!" "Word up!" when we went onstage; Storm Warning (I don't think they ever played an actual gig); The Deadbeats (had to turn drunken drummer's mic off after the first set so no one could hear his rambling crude jokes) , The 5 O'Clock Shadows, Route 66, and I played for several years with the Rusty Rockstar Roadshow, whose leader modeled the band on the Blues Brothers, dark golassies and all
...what else? Oh, how could I forget Bojun Hence! Wait, Was that an actual band or just a name we threw around? Am I dreaming?
I also forgot the Reggae/Polka Pickup Band, which performed only once, at The Gowanus Arts Exchange in Brooklyn (1987?). and I could claim partial rights to Le Nozze Di Carlo, I suppose, since I was the bass player in the actual band at the actual nozze, and they're a great band.
Posted by: craig | May 25, 2011 at 07:56 PM