Bare naked Ladies

Preemptive disclaimer: Yes, I know it's a Monty Python reference.

Which skit?

I'll have to look at those later.

They are from Salt Lake City and very talented... I don't know if they are still performing I haven't seen them in over 15 years.

I googled them... they still perform.. and if your in the SLC area I recommend them. Highly entertaining.

you didn't say it actually had to exist, right? ... I had considered this if I ever started a band ...

lol I like 'em.

One of the band members must have visited the sex museum in Amsterdam.

So it was Burroughs who must have heard about or seen the Steely Dan in the Sex Museum. Our guide in the city just told us that it was from the bike/dildo that the band got its name.

Skull Fuck

Otto's Chemical Lounge

but I like the name!

Jesse Bishop and The Electric Shrimp.
Those are just some of the ones where I know the musicians.

I particularly like Jesse Bishop and the Electric Shrimp

there was also the Nuclear Enchilada.

and there were various punk bands here in Austin like the Dicks and the Skunks

Can't leave them out!

Forgot about them.

I think they had trouble getting booked, but fortunately I frequent places that don't give a shit about names. One of my favorite bands now is called "Daisy Cutters" - as in 500 lb bombs.

Live bands are hard enough to find in the first place, but ones that know how to play REAL music are getting harder and harder to find. They can be called Buttfucking Turd Pastries for all I care. If they play good music, we'll dance to it.

but I get a kick out of the names.

Our band's name is Whiskey Twin and we play real music.

Here's us doing Bonzo Goes to Bitburg ('m the one singing and playing bass).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=SG&feature=related&hl=en-GB&v=dLHUfB5Up5I

I'm the bigger guy in the plaid shirt.

Songs such as....

Kill for Peace

Coca Cola Douche

My Bed is Getting Crowded

and

I saw the best minds of my generation rot...

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Classic

The name was derived from "Leonard Skinner" their strict physical education teacher who despised long hair.

Well, other than custodians tend to be better educated.

That's pretty sad. They were all dumbfucks.

We teased him mercilessly because he was the most-unathletic nerd I've ever met. Remember Revenge of the Nerds? Those nerds would have jocked the hell out of this guy.

But dumb he wasn't...he once tried to explain to me what was wrong with how I run with physics and equations and engineering. I'm a language, communications and literature-nerd; I'd have understood more if he'd pointed and grunted in a semiotic fashion. I take pride in how not-STEM I really am.

I've never seen a gym teacher before or since that couldn't shoot free throws or hit grounders. About the only sports the guy was any good at were golf and as a soccer goalie. We used to have seniors vs. teachers sports events and I never in 6 years (4 as a student, 2 as the alumni sibling of a current student) saw anybody score on him in soccer.

I'm pretty sure he loved his wedgie jokes too.

I mean we're talking turban wedgies here.

A friend's band. And, yes, they actually get booked locally with that name.

opening up for Hank III and (I think) The Reverend Horton Heat....they were booked to play the House of Blues here in Orlando - which happens to be on Disney Property - HoB refused to put the name of the band on the marquis so Hank said "Fuck you we'll play elsewhere" and they booked a club downtown instead. I always thought highly of them for that. I wasn't able to make it to that show but I plan to next time any of them come through (I have seen the Rev - he was terrific. Opened for Motorhead)

Also known as Chk Chk Chk

I used to have a Doug and the Slugs album. Wonder what happened to it.

Kind of a weak imitation of Incubus.

Their biggest hit:

Big Back Yard

Trailer Trash

Farm Accident

   Pontius Pilate and the Nail Drivers, Stinky and the Right Guards  ohiosmith   Dec-24-03 11:07 AM   #54 

from my teen years insisted that he had once seen a band called Pontius Pilate and His Nail-drivin' Five back in the 1960s.

Saw a poster for them in a bar back in my working-band days.

Edited to add - teh Google sez they are still very much around.

Cattle Decapitation - the funny thing about them is they are mostly vegetarians and they play brutal, technical death metal with lyrical themes about how we are screwing up the environment and abusing animals and such. And a lot of the songs are from the abused animal's point of view.
Wormed - bonus points because their lead singer is named Phlegeton
Circle of Dead Children
Fuck...I'm Dead
Pretty Little Flower
Insect Warfare
Birdflesh
Disfear
Cock and Ball Torture
The County Medical Examiners - and yes, they are mostly all doctors or in med school
General Surgery - none of whom are doctors - but they and the County medical Examiners play the same type of goregrind that Carcass played in their early days.

but you get the picture - lol, i have pages of this stuff...

here's some Cattle Decapitation:

Butthole Surfers

Gay Bikers on Acid

The Exploding Broomhandles

Screaming Trees

We were all students together at The Catholic University of America right as the Bernard Cardinal Law scandal was breaking...that was the explanation for the name. It was our cause too. We hated the cover-up and several of the senior university administrators were questioned about their involvement as they'd all come from Arch. of Boston; there were whispers that they'd been rewarded with their positions in DC for being good-soldiers.

I wish I had photos from that, I was 6'4" and about 300# wearing a floral housedress with a slicked sky-blue side-part haircut, cherry-red lips and Buddy Holly glasses. I was the singer and everything you need to know can be summarized thus: I'm HoH/tone-deaf. I'm really glad there are no recordings that I know of us playing. We were terrible.

...DogKnob?

http://snd.sc/wQAZNd

There were some great ones out there.

...there is a list of the names Butthole Surfers used before they settled on Butthole Surfers...

I remember 2 from the list:

1) Nine Foot Worm Makes Own Food

2) The Right To Eat Frank Sinatra's Asshole (shortened from The Inalienable Right To Eat Frank Sinatra's Asshole)

The Ashtray Babyheads were another couple of pre-Butthole Surfers names considered, IIRC. You gotta love a band that titled a song "The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave."

Awesome name.

Richmond Va band - I think - love the name

Jack Off Jill - 'Sexless Demons and Scars'

singer.

Let's see.

Abominable Putridity.
GWAR
Alter Bridge
Dethklok

Intergalactic Smugglers and

From the late 80s-early 90s.

I'd link to videos if I wasn't at work.

I met D.R.I. backstage when I was 18 in Providence. I saw them last May in Atlanta and got backstage again.

July Fourth Toilet
The Meat Shits
Proof of Utah
Bad Luck 13 Riot Extravaganza
Fuck the Facts
Funeral Bitch

I believe they're a gay indie band.

Blind Driver, Swollen Member.

reminds me of Throbbing Gristle.

On his car. The car died in my driveway. The home owners association were real dicks about getting it off the property. I think that was why.

That's their name - "Here Come the Mummies." How could I have forgotten them?

http://herecomethemummies.com/

Great band from the late 60's.

I could look it up I suppose, but more fun trying to rely on memory even though those are the days when things started getting just the teensiest bit, um...fuzzy.

Formed in November 1968 by Mick Abrahams after he left Jethro Tull. They recorded two good rock albums and toured the US. Their first album had a pig's head on the front cover with a ring through its nose, a fag in its mouth, sunglasses and headphones. The playing on the album is good but it isn't always matched by the material. Still, it had its moments, listen out particularly for some classic progressive rock on "The Modern Alchemist" and "Ain't Ya Coming Home, Babe?" which conclude each side of the album. Their second album saw them move away from their blues roots towards a more soulful sound. The See For Miles CD reissue of this contains two additional cuts, both sides of their second 45. In September 1970, Pete Banks joined from Yes but the new line-up just didn't gel and the band split up at the end of 1970. Subsequently, Mick Abrahams formed his own band; Andy Pyle joined Savoy Brown and was then in a later incarnation of Juicy Lucy with Ron Berg.

From Beavis & Butthead:

Butthead: Uh... What does "Cage The Elephant even mean?"
Beavis: I think it means like choking your chicken.
Butthead: You think everything means that - but in this case it actually does.
Beavis: This guy just caged his elephant.

Imagine the uproar or confusion when "Help Wanted" appeared on the marquee.

Squirrel Nut Zippers. They do Delta blues, gypsy jazz, 1930s-era swing, klezmer, and other styles making them hard to categorize.

So many more - I've kept a "bad band names" file forever. Thanks to Harlan Ellison for the Snot Vampires.

My quasi-real "band" was called And More. We figured we could tag along and play at nearly any show, because we were on the marquee. Too bad we didn't actually play live much. Recorded a hell of a lot, though.

Band names we never used...
The Nose Leeches
The Copacetics
Lez Catamites
Baby Bane
Pair'O Got Eh!
Armpit Crystal
the Smegmatics
John Galt and his Arrogants
Noun
Leeds Zinger & his Pick-Up Band


REAL band names...
!!!
†‡†
✝NO VIRGIN✝
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Be Your Own Pet
Camper Van Beethoven
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Holy Fuck
Holy Ghost!
???????
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head
oOoOO
Geza X and the Mommymen
Limited Express (has gone?)
Ednaswap
Casiotone For the Painfully Alone
Trespassers William
Rain Tree Crow
The Insect Trust
Hazmat Modine
Wah!
Two Ton Baker The Music Maker
Bishops Of The Holy Rollers Fallout Shelter With Curtis Colbert
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Brute Force
Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra
Fifty Foot Hose
The The

Don't you hate that?

Would have been cool....Oh well, both were well over ten years ago. But yeah, I'd wished they'd had the huevos to name it that.

An early version of The Grateful Dead.

Sixties bands from NYC, DC and (I think) Boston, in that order.

L A band

Another Minneapolis band.

They play at Lee's don't they?

Why beatles? Figure that one out.

of Beat and Beetle.

according to wikipedia: Lennon's art school friend Stu Sutcliffe, who had recently sold one of his paintings and purchased a bass guitar using the proceeds, joined in January 1960, and it was he who suggested changing the band's name to "The Beetles" as a tribute to Buddy Holly and The Crickets.

And at the time, the style that the Merseyside bands were playing was called "beat music" in the music press; ergo "The Beetles" became "The Beatles"

from which came the great bass player for the Allman Bros, Oteil Burbridge.

Actually I made that one up. But I thought it'd be a good name for a punk band.