I like the band better than their name.

...over-inhalation...

...if it were possible!

Then two years later, Stanley Kubrick made a film with the same name. We were 2 years before our time.

We were called the Clockwork Orange, and everyone asked where in the world we got an oddball name like that.

Where indeed.

Strawberry Alarm Clock?

We took our name from a book we had all read by Anthony Burgess. If we had known that it was going to be made into a worldwide film sensation a couple of years later, we might have made some recordings, but we were just a bunch of high school kids who happened to have similar tastes. I think we were the only band in the DC area that played the long version of Light My Fire note for note, both guitar and organ. Playing as opening act for the original lineup of Canned Heat and the Youngbloods was heady stuff for us.

But we were destined to scatter to the four winds before the film came out, and by then it was too late to try t regroup. I had moved to Spain, the drummer went to school in Rhode Island, the rhythm guitarist moved back to Canada and the lead guitarist saw his future in San Francisco (he ended up back in the DC area from what I heard later on).

Probably the story of 99% of the bands who might have been great if only.........

A friend told me that in college he had seen a poster on campus for a band called Painful Discharge.

when they toured as Dylan's backing band.

Years ago I would see their name in the paper of locaL (Los Angeles) bands
never saw them but I always loved the name

Chapter 15 starts off with other bands that played the Cavern Club in Liverpool along with the Fabs in the early days.

Wump and His Werbles
Gerry Bach and the Beathovens
Abraham and His Lot
San Quentin and the Rock Pounders
Rip Van Winkle and the Rip-It-Ups
Pete Picasso and the Rock Sculptors

(from Terry Pratchett's "Soul Music&quot

Darius Rucker wasn't Hootie, and the other guys weren't the Blowfish. Hootie was some guy they knew who had huge glasses (so he looked like an owl), and the Blowfish was another guy who had puffy cheeks.

The other guys were sitting around in a dorm lounge at South Carolina when they heard this awesome voice singing in the shower. They said, "We have GOT to get this guy in the band!" Then Darius stepped out of the shower. Did I mention the other guys were all white?

(psst psst Now what? psst psst) Okay, he can be in the band. And the rest was history.

I always thought The Smithereens was very clever.
Mao St. Helen - saw that on a poster once and thought it was funny

I suspect such a thing is available. I'll have too look around one of these days.

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Although I've also read that they picked the name pretty much at random.

I read something about how they chose it a while back. I vaguely remember it being kind of random. They heard the phrase and decided the liked it, I think.

supposedly one of the guys, high on FSM only knows what, opened a book at random, and that was all he could see on the page.

13 shows here.

and even 80's Dead shows (thank God for mp3's) are among the best live music I've ever heard. Even from '87 I've heard a great "Throwin' Stones/Not Fade Away" recorded at Shoreline (lifelong Bay resident here).

a band from Hawai'i consisting of five guys, none of whom are amputees, hence "Ten Feet".

They've been around since the late 70's I believe.

Fairport Convention
Bootsy's Rubber Band
B-52s
UB40
Squirrel Nut Zippers

And I have 2 of the candies they're named after on one of my CD shelves.

Patty Hearst Shifter
Southern Culture on the Skids
Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Lee Harvey Osmond (not sure if this is a band or one guy)
Donna the Buffalo
The New Pornographers

Are a band.

Rasputina is a good one too

but never listened to Skyclad much. I probably should...

But I'm not all that familiar with either band's music.

and most likely why I skipped Skyclad before but my tastes have expanded some since the old days lol...

I've always been curious about Sabbat but have not checked them out yet. We're even

He's an amazing lyricist!

I'm not sure what songs they have videos for, besides "Inequality Street", but anything off "Prince of the Poverty Line" would be a good choice

ETA: My two favorites off that album:

Heard them on the Jam channel on Sirius Xm

If you have a chance to see them live, I Highly Recommend.

It is ripping my guts inside out that they are playing the Maryland Death Fest next May and I most likely can't go. I've loved this band for 20+ years.

The song was "Why Can the Bodies Fly?" but I don't remember the original artist.

Truth in advertising.

or maybe ...

Nate Nostril and the Nine Nasty Nosepickers

Great Band, Great Name.......

they stayed with a friend when they played- MISTAKE! FYI having 80's hardcore punk bands in your house is a bad idea.

Considering nobody in the band was named Floyd (an issue brought up later in The Wall) and their light show did not feature the colour Pink (although that name also did show up in The Wall).

Runner up, the Strawberry Alarm Clock

I'm thinking most of the bands on that list never planned to be commercially successful.

Local band that I see advertised around here.
Never heard them play, but I get a kick out of the name...

They're supposed to be pretty good. I think they play at the Blue Goose Inn a lot.

Really fits them too....

One of my very favorite bands ever. I still miss Mikey. Jimmy brings a different thing to them and I am really digging it lately. Took some getting used to but now I am ready to Rock out with Panic in 2014. Missed em last year and only saw them a couple of times over the past five including a couple of trips to NOLA for fest to see them.......

And Really, their cover of Low Spark of High Heeled Boys is the deal.....

It's a city in Ontario.

I like DIAMOND EYES. [roll up vehicle windows real tight cyber hackers]