best band names

[Jim Yates]

There's a Peterborough band that used to be called the Grassholes, but they seem to get more gigs now that they're known as the Grass Menagery (spelling?)

[rsgars]

There was a band playing in the courtyard outside of my office today, "Annie and the Hedonists." I like that nam.

[Patrick Sylvest]

My group is called 'FOLKLURE'. We thought it clever!

[Landgrass]

I was in a few bands back in the day:

Proteus
The Bass Avenue Boys
Blew Grass Breakdown
The Thursday Night Club Band

Real names I like:
Olds School Freight Train
Good Ol' Persons
Mid-Missouri Hell Band (with Forrest Rose)

[allenhopkins]

My band that does Jewish-influenced music is Love & Knishes. The Tompkins County Horseflies (now just the Horseflies) had a great name, as did a local rockband, Urban Squirrels. Hank Sapoznik's klezmer group is The Youngers of Zion (works if you're familiar with the Protocols etc.). And I understand there was a '60's SF band called Stark Naked & the Car Thieves. But I think one of my all-time favorites is the 12-year-old Mississippi fiddler, who released one record in 1928: Mumford Bean & His Itawambians (from Itawamba County MS).

[mangorockfish]

band names i've used:
the swingin swamis
cash for junkers
big-### lazy susan
eureka zeke and the sleek peak seranaders
polly peptides and the poptones
the square root mtn. boys

band names i haven't used yet:
the screw tops
the antelopers
the ungulati
wysterioso

band names i wish i'd thought of:
a nascar named desire
the all-girl boys

Wish I had thought of The Square Root Mt. Boys. That is one of, if not the coolest names I have ever heard.

[mandroid]

last years in high school some friends in Napa Cal, called them selves 'the Warlocks'
there was another band on the SF penninsula that was using the same name, and then chose to change theirs , they went on to do much better..

[John Flynn]

We had a great bluegrass band in St. Louis called "Sweet Sally and the Hot Corn Boys."

[John Rosett]

there was a soul group in north carolina in the 60's and 70's called "doug clark and the hot nuts.
also, i've heard of an all female klezmer band called "the klezbians".

[Markelberry]

Okay our impromtu allnighter band is called the bluegrassholes and I was in another band called Fret no More

[Shana Aisenberg]

We've used "Moose'l Tov" for our occasional klezmer band based in NH. I recently used the name "SupercaliFREYgalISHtics" for a student klezmer ensemble at a music camp. I think there's a band named "Klezmerelda" (or should be).

One string band I'm in contemplated the name "TickPickers" but weren't sure whether we'd lose corporate gigs:D

Seth

[bootinz]

Richard Cheese

[otterly2k]

The Klezbians was a real group... not sure if they're still around, but there is one still around called Isle of Klezbos.

A friend of mine who is a minister was in a band when she was in divinity school called The Jumpin' Jehosephats. I always liked that.

[Jeff Baldwin]

In the 1970's there was a local African-American bluegrass band, called the "The "Don't Call Me Boys".

[danmills]

I see "The Grassholes" was already mentioned above, and will just add that I have friends in Portland, ME who are gigging regularly under that name. I think they still laugh out loud when they see it printed in the newspaper's club listings. I also really like "The Sibling Brothers," a local Santa Cruz bluegrass and old timey band, possibly now defunct.

Dan

[JeffD]

Lets not forget R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders

[JeffD]

I also remember a trio that played under the name of "The Verns Hurt Quartet".

[Jim Garber]

Actual Bands I have been in or known:

Live Maine Lobster & the Fresh Fish
The Color By Number String Band
The Voodoobillies
The Wretched Refuse String Band
(from Emma Lazarus poem on the Statue of Liberty)
The Fly By Night String Band
Lowe Arkwright and the Backdoor Oilers
The Wonderbeans
Wahoo
Tunesmith

Jim

[Neil Gladd]

If I had the time, I could supply tons of wacky, actual band names, but I think these are enough for now:

The ModFathers
Churchy Bottom
Gruesome Galore
The Beatitudes (They recorded the Whit Album.)
Dead Dean and the Battered Babies
Pontius Copilot
Dick Tater
South Normal
Cretins Bongwater Revival
Tinpanmonkeycrunch

[Gary S]

I was in a short lived band(one fiddlers contest)called
"Children of the Corn". I dont believe we won anything and no one got our name either. But we had fun...Gary

[mangorockfish]

In the 1970's there was a local African-American bluegrass band, called the "The "Don't Call Me Boys".

If this is true, it is pretty cool.

[TonyP]

I'm surprised nobody said it yet, but by far my favortite band name is Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers. I also really like my buddy Paul Bernstien's band name, The Circle R Boys, their logo is the "registered trademark symbol". clever, very clever.

[LowGapBG]

My neighbors got a band and there name is "Rich-in-Tradition"

[Joe F]

I've been compiling a list of possible band names for some time, gleaned from the headers of those spam emails that have a sequence of seemingly random words. #Most of these would be more appropriate for thrash-metal garage bands, but some have bluegrass potential:

Big Condiment
Blameless Grand Slam
Borderline Blossom
Corset Grief
Crackdown Receptive
Dadaism Aspersion
Deviation Rights
Divine Invasion
Dogmatic Slat
Fatalistic Noblewoman
Figurehead Prink
Fine Print Foyer
Genetically Unjustified
Inductance Basketball
Inexpensive Militancy
Injurious Molestation
Instrumentalist Prude
Juror Regalia
Morning Glory Sphinx
Mown Tankard
News Granny
Parasol Mushroom
Potent Solder
Talmud Auspices
Voluntarily Climactic
Yellowish Pinball Machine

[Eric F.]

Hog Farm Massacre.