Band names and where they come from

ivan_2068 wrote: Uriah Heep: A character from Charles Dickens novel David Copperfieold, a guy who had a pronunciation problem and often said he was Very Eavy and Very Umble, a phrase that was used as the band's debut album.

Almost right, Uriah Heep never ever said "Veyr 'eavy" though, just "Very 'umble"

ivan_2068 wrote: AC/DC: Means in fact After Christ, Devil Comes and not Anthi Christ, Devil Child.

Somehow I doubt this one, surely its to do with electrical current?

daeve69 wrote: Captain Beefheart's real name is Don Van Vliet, you can learn more at... http://www.beefheart.com/.

According to Mike Barnes' excellent biog, Captain Beefheart's name was originally Don Vliet, the 'van' appeared just after the band turned pro.

Captain Beefheart

I recall there was an explanation for this in Frank Zappa's biography. "Captains" girlfriend was visiting Capt. during the time he still lived with his parents. His father made some remarks about his genitals to this girl, "Ahh, it's big as cow's beefheart!" Haha.

What was the guys real name after all? He's familiar to me mostly from Zappas "Rats" LP.

The Strawbs as a shortened form of the Strawberry Hill Boys or Mob (Strawberry Hill is part of the Richmond/Twickenham area in west London - although Newbury town in Berkshire also has a Strawberry Hill)

Fairport Convention, after one band member's parent's house name where the band convened to practice.

The Doors from Aldous Huxley's Doors Of Perception book - British author Huxley moved to California and spent his last years there, indulging and writing about the early drug culture. It was said that he deliberately ingested LSD when he knew he had only a few hours left to live.

Anybody help with Wynder K Frog, the name taken by Mick 'Blue' Weaver for late 60's albums of Hammond organ covers of hits, before he was part of Strawbs, Taj Mahal's Phantom Blues Band, etc.?

Where do people get half this tripe from? Godbotherers Anonymous perhaps. AC/DC came from the bottom of a sewing machine in Ma Young's livingroom.

As a resident crusty I'd like to enlighten the world - a tansad is a brand of seat for antique motorcycles.

ivan_2068 wrote: Good link Guillermo (some words are part from a letter of Genesis to King), it's interesting how the versions of Genesis and Jonathon King differ. According to King he's the one who baptized the band (He says it in Genesis a History documental), and according to Genesis, they had the name already. King appears in the documental and personally claims he asked Peter for the band's name and Peter answered "We have't got a  a name yet", so he decided to throw the first album without a band name, "a mistake I will never repeat" (he also said that). But it's also interesting to find both agree in the point that From Genesis to the Revelation was released by a band with no name. I believe it's the only case in history. Ivàn

Yes, Iván. It`s incredible that King released an album of a band without name and that he thought that the album was going to have success anyway! I know (because I saw the "History" video) that he had a hit single (called "Everyone`s gone to the moon" or something like that) and maybe some albums too (I don`t remember well). So, he wasn`t without experience about the music business. I think that years later he learned from his "mistake", and since then he has licensed the album to many record labels, so in the market there are a lot of different versions of this album, as "the Genesis Museum" shows. In the Genesis Forum, I realized that he is not very well appreciated by Genesis` fans. In fact, many of them don`t like his personality, calling him "egocentric", and some of them say that he was booed in the "Six of the Best" 1982 reunion concert, when he introduced Genesis. So, now it is not a surprise for me that this man says that he gave the name to Genesis. He is or was  a very powerful man in the music industry in England. I think that he also was manager of 10cc. (he also says that he gave them the name of the band but I don`t know if this is true!), and he has or had a label called "UK" and 10cc. released some albums in that label. He also was recently in jail for some crimes which I don`t like to mention here, but he was released from jail 3 years after being sentenced, and he wasn`t in jail for the 7 years he originally received in the sentence. Like Michael Jackson and some politicians, he  is also free!

In late 1992, I was playing in a band with old friends and with my brother who is a guitarist. We played for some months only for fun really, and we only played covers. We also had an old friend who played in another band with us in 1985, and he was playing in a Bar with another band, so he invited us to play some songs in several occassions in that Bar.The first time we played there, we realized that we didn`t have a name for the band, so our lead singer introduced us as "Los Incógnitos" ("The Incognitos") as a last idea he had for the name of the band!

About Genesis ("From Genesis To Revelation" lyric sheet and text, which I printed from www.genesismuseum.com for my personal "archives") :

"The group started as Genesis, biblical centuries ago. But fate intervened, other groups became Genesis and who were we to fight. So we changed our name in America to Revelation. Moments later up came another Revelation. Now we are the group without a name, but we have a record and we want to give it to you, name or not.

It was a hard sound to get together, conceived over a period of months, with rainbows of music colour filtering through the glass partition on to the sliding faders and echo knobs, searching for the pot of gold.

From Genesis to Revelation. Sporadic moments in between;" ....etc.

I tried to paste the link to that website, but in this moment  unfortunately it is not available. Maybe the webmaster is updating it. It is a very good website, IMO.

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"But....a few minutes later....the website is available again, and this is the link:

http://www.genesismuseum.com/vinyl/fgtr.htm   "

BleedingGum wrote: DURAN DURAN was taken from the movie Jane Fonda's Barbarella. I think it was the robot's name [?] DJAM KARET is taken from Indonesian word, means: Rubber Time Thanks for letting about their name! GENESIS was taken from the Bible But they were called Revelation first........... YES was taken from English Dictionary None of the band could spell affrimertiver, afirmytiv,  or waht ever....................

Hatfield & The North was indeed named after the first roadsign going north on the M1 motorway, just after you  come off the North Circular Road.

Pink Floyd after two obscure but favourite blues singers of the original band.

Rolling Stones from a Muddy Water tune

But why the Walker Brothers?????