Your Band Names

cool. did any of your bands make any records?

Kite:  '77 high school garage rock band...

Elfhouse:  '78-'79 somewhat known San Jose Bay Area prog band

Rhodri's Hand:  '80 prog band that never got anywhere 

From here on, I quit playing in traditional "bands" and began handling all the instruments, songwriting and production myself in my "one man bands"...

General Cosmo: '81 to '84 the first of my one-man bands (named after a line in the Netherworld song, "Son of Sam") keyboard oriented sometimes prog

Sammy Davis and the Juniors: '83  special project for 1 song

Plateau Madd: '85 alternative/college rock rather than prog

MBD: '86 (aka Minimal Brain Dysfunction) short lived hardcore punk band

Lucifer Sam: '86 hardcore punk band

A Blatant Disgrace: '86-'87 hardcore punk/rock band

Mutiny in Jonestown: '87 to present, my primary band with 42 albums released so far.  In PA database under Neo Prog: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=10248  Also at Bandcamp at: https://mutinyinjonestown.bandcamp.com/

The Mirror Test: '89 one off album project

Morpheus: '98 to present, began as my goth band but grew to include my modern classical compositions and synth adaptations of classical works (think Tomita).  14 albums released so far

WytchCrypt: '05 to present, began as an improv looping band but morphed into my progressive doom metal band in '14...9 albums released so far.  In PA database under Experimental/Post Metal:  http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=9666  Also at Bandcamp at: https://wytchcrypt.bandcamp.com/

The Alchemy of Atlantis: '15 to present with 5 albums released so far.  Meant for my ears only and for any crazy thing that doesn't fit as Mutiny in Jonestown, Morpheus or WytchCrypt

To Brisk / Too Brisk / Two Brisk (spelling depending on lineup) - this was pretty much a talent show band with my high school friends. We played mostly acoustic covers of popular alternative songs with split male and female vocals for other high school students.

Turtleneck - this was another talent show sort of band, this time electric and more rock n roll. We spawned from working together on music for a big comedy and music show my dorm put on for our university, wound up playing a couple other gigs for a riley dance marathon and on the school football field for a senior celebration.

Drapes - this is a halfway imaginary band my best friend and I claim to be in. The idea came from our other friend who said he wanted to start a punk band, so we told him to show up to my house ready to sing. I brought my bass and my best friend brought a couple buckets and kitchen utensils to hit them with. We actually tried writing some songs, or more like I wrote some weird lyrics for this weird band and we jammed once. Theoretically we're still together and liable to actually write a full song at any time.

Names are a lot of fun! I also made up an imaginary band name once, Violate Blues.

Let's see:

The Mercury Orchestra (not to be confused with the actual orchestra by the same name)

Identity Theft

Laminar Flow

Early Morning

Boreal Kinship

Silent Script

Daniel Martin & The Infamous

Pepperland

Rockology

I'm actually still involved with the last 5 - although thanks to COVID, I'm usually not too busy rehearsing with them lately. I think the other 4 have dissolved mostly by now. This doesn't count the groups I played with while going through music school, which all have boring names like Symphonic Wind Ensemble.

Profound Intrusion.

I thought of my favorite fruit at the time - perhaps, it was orange. And my favorite number was nine. Ninth Orange or, in short, NO. 

However, the mystical side of that name was yet to discover. Like ten or so years after the invention I have finally understood that if translated in Russian, it would become Devyaty Apelsin - that is, DA, that is YES... 

How can one not believe in supernatural forces then?!. 

I once played in a band called Lilac, but I left after approximately a year, and they changed name to Bias.

Other than that, I've mostly made music in my own name. Not particularly proggy though, but the song "Uoriginal sang" has a kind of tricky chorus and some irregular bars. Another one is in 5/4...

http://andersejsing.bandcamp.com