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Points: 12812 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2005 at 11:58

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.?
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Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Originally posted by ivan_2068 ivan_2068 wrote:

Jethro Tull: Even when many people believes it's Ian's name, the one and only Jethro Tull invented the mechanical seed drill in 1701.

 

There was another Ian Anderson already established in the UK folk scene, when JT was formed, so maybe that association of the JT name and their front man, was to avoid confusion at the beginning?????


I stand to be corrected, but as I understand it when Tull were starting out, they weren't very good.  Therefore in order to get gigs they went through a lot of name changes so that people wouldn't realise it was the same band.  Eventually they did get asked to perform again.  At that time their name was Jethro Tull, and so they were stuck with it.
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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.
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Captain Beefheart's real name is Don Van Vliet, you can learn more at... http://www.beefheart.com/.
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Originally posted by daeve69 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.
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Camel: they were having a far-out meandering conversation which started with the word battleship, and ended with a discussion about anything that urinated backwards, especially a camel (from "god of light 73-75")
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"Black Sabbath" Took their name from a 1964 horror
film starring Boris Karloff.
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Points: 1225 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2005 at 17:18
Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

Knights In Satan's Service  

Angel Child/Devil Child

 
I've also heard
 
Kids In Satan's Service  

and

AntiChrist/Dead Christ

Some people sure have overactive imaginations and no facility for critical thinking... The combo that brought you Creationism.



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Originally posted by ivan_2068 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"

 

Originally posted by ivan_2068 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?



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Anekdoten - Just a rough German translation, with elaboration of the word Anecdote.

Opeth - Taken from a Wilbur Smith novel in which the city of the moon was titled "Opet". The "H" was added later.

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Originally posted by WillieThePimp WillieThePimp wrote:

Anekdoten - Just a rough German translation, with elaboration of the word Anecdote.

No elaboration, "Anekdoten" is just the German plural for "Anekdote".


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Points: 19535 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 11:46
Originally posted by Citanul Citanul wrote:

Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Originally posted by ivan_2068 ivan_2068 wrote:

Jethro Tull: Even when many people believes it's Ian's name, the one and only Jethro Tull invented the mechanical seed drill in 1701.

 

There was another Ian Anderson already established in the UK folk scene, when JT was formed, so maybe that association of the JT name and their front man, was to avoid confusion at the beginning?????


I stand to be corrected, but as I understand it when Tull were starting out, they weren't very good.  Therefore in order to get gigs they went through a lot of name changes so that people wouldn't realise it was the same band.  Eventually they did get asked to perform again.  At that time their name was Jethro Tull, and so they were stuck with it.

They first used the name Jethro TOE

Funny thing, not sure though if this was a mistake of the label.

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