I need a dead serious opinion from SERIOUS MUSICIANS!!!

[Josh Smith]

Ok, I know we joke & jank on eachother ALOT on here but I need some honesty with no bullshit!!! I am in a mainstream Hardrock band who's Influenced mostly by Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, & Karnivool... Mainstream really isnt my cup of tea but it pays WAY better... We need a name!!! We have already discussed that it CANNOT be Marajuanna or drug related because we have two guys in our band who are Police Officers!!! If this was a metal or a punk band (which I'm more into) there wouldn't be a problem and my creative juices would be flowing... But since I don't normally play or even listen to this genera of music (for the most part) I'm kinda dumbfounded... Need some help guys!!! Suggestions???

[michael craig]

make sure the name you pick doesnt have a history to it..one of the many bands i know,didnt check and there had been a band with the same name a few hours away...while now disbanded was known for causeing trouble and some of the music venues thought it was the same guys and wouldnt let them thru the door,,,

[Josh Smith]

Damn... Yea, we definately wanna play it safe when it comes to originality!!! Thank you for the advice.. However, I was more or less trying to get some ideas/inspiration on some band name suggestions...

[michael craig]

i know you want name sugestions...just letting you know thre are other things to consider...i bounced at a music venue for 3 years...i also bartended ,DJ'd and also promoted a few shows...ive dealt wit punk,rock,metal.deathmetal....put alot of thought into it before you commit to it...make sure its not hard to pronounce, one band i know named hephystus,,everyone kept fucking the name up and it haunts them to this day. make it something rememerable

[Donovan]

You could always name your band after one of these awesome machines:

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Lathe

[michael craig]

chicken foot

[NelsonLucca]

Annunaki

[Josh Smith]

You could always name your band after one of these awesome machines:

http://www.amazon.com/Mini-Combo-Lathe-Mill/dp/B001OA80JI/ref=sr_1_cc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1282649694&sr=1-1-catcorr
Lathe


That's a pretty bad ass name man!!

[Heidi McCreery]

Static Existence....or is that depressing? I'm not good at this but I tried. :)

[John Roderick]

Well, it can't be too silly, juvenile, or unrecognizable. Naming a band is one of the most difficult things to do (trust me, I know). I've recently named my new project "Majestic 12" after the organization formed to investigate UFO's by the US government decades ago. Perhaps something that you're interested in or read regularly? That could provide some inspiration.

[Louis Ho]

Not sure if this is taken already...Spazmodic. Just cuz my back is bothering me.

[Josh Smith]

Perhaps something that you're interested in or read regularly? That could provide some inspiration.


The only things I care about is jiu jitsu, guns, and my country but we've already discussed that we don't want to go the political route!!!

[Kevin Madsen]

Relatively Daft Individuals.

[Chad Bloom]

Kind of hard to offer suggestions without more info. What kind of places do you play? who is the clientèle? and so... but here you go any way...

Based on you location:
Alabama Blacksnake
Based on your friends occupation:
Jailbreak
Duty Crew
Based on guns:
Chambered
Lock N Load
Semi-Auto
Based on MMA;
Takedown
Fracture
Some randomness:
Dance To It
Growl
Stage Fright
Fright Night
Glory Days

[AJ Camacho]

I saw a band the other night, their name was Cadillac Flambé. How awful is that? It sounds like something that a bunch of Japanese rockabilly kids would come up with to "break into the US market".

[Kevin Green]

You could take the name of that band from PC High.

"Everybody gets Laid"

The your posters can read..
"Everybody Gets laid 7pm at the Las Vegas Hardrock"
Who wouldnt got to that show :)

[Scott Elkin]

being that half the band is police officers, it would seem that you could do something with police codes, e.g. the police code for public nudity

[Kevin Green]

I used to get Ink at this tatto shop in New Jersey. The owner named the shop after his band = Damnability...the ability to be damned.

[Kevin Green]

Oh, I like the police code thing...thats a good one.

[Kevin Green]

I think a 311 is the police code for public nudity (in most places).

[Brandon Mccaghren]

- pizza planet
- uncle fester
- the duck
- the salami sisters
- pinochle x
- whip tusk
- about 6
- the tom hanks 5

[Aab]

1. Teddy Bear Killers
2. I Love Milk
3. Chocolate Rabbit
4. Cheese Okay
5. 50 Vaults a Day
6. Good Christian Men
7. Beer Battered Chicken
8. Plow the Garden
9. Super Rockstars
10. Coloring Book Rockers

[Aab]

Actually you know what I want Coloring Book Rockers so you will have to pick from the rest.

[Brandon Mccaghren]

1. under the sea
2. pick em up and put em down
3. inch
4. haphazard timmy
5. vomit, twinkie, vomit
6. is it?
7. gold or pasta
8. the wonder queers
9. stipulation
10. origami fred

[bobby rivers]

Exclamation Point Overload!!!

[Aab]

Exclamation Point Overload!!!
lol. Well Josh between me and Brandon you have 28 great names to choose from.

[AJ Camacho]

Due to the post-grunge genre you are approaching, here are some bands names I came up with...

Nine Stairs Up
Friday Morning
Cold New Winter
Buckshot Hwy
Flatback
Condemnednation
Buckleup
Pertusis (if you have a female singer)
Knuckle Down
Down Range

and

Kavanagh (the singer will have to change his last name for this one)

[Chad Bloom]

@ Don

I will take two of yours and form Beer Battered Christians.

[Brandon Mccaghren]

4. Cheese Okay


We have a winner!

[Aab]

6 minutes past the hour and we have Chocolate Rabbit coming up at the half hour performing their new song "Clog your Arteries". So don't you touch that dial folks this hour is jammed packed full of music on your source for REAL music. Real 96.8 FM.

[dirtybird]

1. The Neighbors Gentle
2. Kudzu for Kristians
3. The Arms of Your Lady
4. Fork Night
5. Shivering Fat
6. Heinous in Uranus
7. Freckles
8. Dancing Pooptarts
9. I Wanna Hike
10. Yours Truly: A Band that inherits money from sock vendors...

[Josh Smith]

Kind of hard to offer suggestions without more info. What kind of places do you play? who is the clientèle? and so... but here you go any way...

Based on you location:
Alabama Blacksnake
Based on your friends occupation:
Jailbreak
Duty Crew
Based on guns:
Chambered
Lock N Load
Semi-Auto
Based on MMA;
Takedown
Fracture
Some randomness:
Dance To It
Growl
Stage Fright
Fright Night
Glory Days

Chad, I think you have been the most helpful so far!!! Thank you for a genuine, well thought out answer....

[Josh Smith]

I like the word fracture (as Chad suggested) but it needs something to go with it... Like Skull fracture (obviously not something that bland) or something creative that will compliment it well & sound catchy... I'm really not good when it comes to this genera... Thanks to those of you who are truly trying to help... I'm kinda disappointed in the rest of you (even though I'm sure you don't care)... If ANY of you guys had ask me to cut out the bullshit and help you, I would have tried to help out anyone of you to the best of my ability, but it's cool, I guess if we didn't have douche bags then no one would be around to make us laugh... Anyways It's been an on going Issue and it needs to be fixed before my band mates just settle for something that's lame & doesn't represent us well... I really appreciate it guys... Thank you again...

[Heidi McCreery]

How about Infinite Fracture (a fracture with not limits) or Finite Fracture (one that has limits).

[Brandon Mccaghren]

Dear Josh,

You used the word "serious" in your thread title twice. You were asking for it.

Signed,

The Douche Bags.

P.S. You should go with "Cheese Okay."

[Josh Smith]

Dear Josh,

You used the word "serious" in your thread title twice. You were asking for it.

Signed,

The Douche Bags.

P.S. You should go with "Cheese Okay."

I know I was, they were pretty funny and I can always respect a good sense of humor... Next time I'll just check out a music forum for serious inquires about music.. I apologize...

[Brandon Palmer]

If you don't name the band "Back to the Future 3", you're making a HUGE fucking mistake!

Second to that, however, would be "Haphazard Timmy".


DO NOT pick any of these:

- The "I Just Soddomized My Grandmother" Five (with quotations, and regardless of the number of band members)
- Stephen King Has Abnormally Fat Fingers...Good Thing I Wore Jeans
- Cut Out the Baby & Sew In a Dead Dog Carcass, for $500, Alex
- The Carrot Top Seems Trustworthy Review
- How Much to Make My Hand Stink?

[dirtybird]

Don't give up yet on "Stephen King Has Abnormally Fat Fingers...Good Thing I wore Jeans". I would totally pay money and/or trade animal/people skins to get into a concert from a band with that name.

But if you are looking to go the "Fracture" way might I suggest:
-You Fractured My Tibia, Geoffrey!
-Fracture, I don't Even Know Her
-Inglorious Weiner Fracture
-My Fracture Inside You (part 6)
-J'ai d'énormes imbéciles...FRACTURE

[Brandon Mccaghren]

- The "I Just Soddomized My Grandmother" Five

Thank you, Josh. You will be rewarded in Heaven for starting this thread, I am sure of it.

[Brandon Palmer]

Yes Joshua, the great Odin smiles upon you!

[Brad McLoughlin]

FYI, 311 are already a band.

I kinda like Fight Night, but it may lead to poster confusion...

[Josh Smith]

Thank you, Josh. You will be rewarded in Heaven for starting this thread, I am sure of it.

well I try... One day when I'm rich & famous, I'll remember all of the little people who can kick my ass!!! LoL

[John_RI]

Wicked Business

[michael craig]

fractured chicken foot

[Brandon Palmer]

No offense, if thats even possible with me, but PLEASE don't name your band some manufactured MMA spinoff shit.

Lord God come up with something somewhat original.

In John Carpenter's 1976 CLASSIC (everyone go watch and get learned) "Assault on Precinct 13," one of the main characters, played by Darwin Joston, is named Napoleon Wilson. Napoleon Wilson, being so obscure that nobody would get it, would be a winner. Think outside the box.

If you want to go with something fight-ish related, ask Joe Rogan.

I think he could help. "Dragon fucking a pit bull" comes to mind.

[Dima]

Well depending on how many guys u have in the band, I would go with something like "The Five Winds" lol that was my 5 cents..go for something romantic for the ladies so that they could buy the records. Because there are more females then males and females that like a band chit chat about it and the bands fame spreads like wildfire.

[Dave Brown]

I like the names Free Beer, Black Folk or What the hell is wrong with me I hang out with cops.

[michael craig]

leroy jenkins....!!!! google it

[Clinton lawrence]

toilet stalls hey best source of inspiration my band "To Hell with honour " we found the name on a toilet stall door it works on 2 levels so we liked it keep your eyes open hey

[michael craig]

big fat johnson