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    Posted: September 23 2009 at 15:41
Can you think of any prog or prog related bands whose name derives form either real or fictional characters?

Here's a few for starters:

Jethro Tull  (17th - 18th Century English agriculturalist - inventor of the seed drill)
Uriah Heep  (thoroughly unpleasant, obsequious character from 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens)
Pink Floyd (amalgam of the names of two Georgia bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council)

errrrr.....that's all I can think of so far....

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coheed and cambria comes to mind. apparently they are characters from claudio sanchez comic/novel series. 
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Any chance Steely Dan counts? LOL

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Edgar Allan Poe (an Italian band of the Seventies)
HP Lovecraft (in Proto-Prog, if I'm not wrong)
Ezra Winston (another Italian prog band that took its name from a comic book character)
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Maybe: Barclay James Harvest
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King Crimson (or the Crimson King) is a synonym for the devil I believe. 
Van Der Graaf Generator is named after a machine invented by the sceintist Robert Van De Graaff.


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all bands with the name coming from the band members' names (the "ELP" kind or the "Kostarev Group" kind or the McLaughlin-Corea kind etc)

Gentle Giant maybe

Most of the rest are solo artists' own names.
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Spock's Beard (from the episode "Mirror, Mirror" of Star Trek TOS where Spock sported a goatee)
Van Der Graaf Generator (from Robert Van De Graaff's electrostatic generator)
Pendragon (I assume that one is named after King Arthur)
 
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Maybe: Barclay James Harvest

Think I read on the liner notes to one of their albums that the name came about after they put a bunch of names in a hat and picked out three.  LOL
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Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:

Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Maybe: Barclay James Harvest

Think I read on the liner notes to one of their albums that the name came about after they put a bunch of names in a hat and picked out three.  LOL
Haha. Yes, it also says that in their biography on their website. 
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  1. Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera: The preacher from Sinclair Lewis novel
  2. Pavlov's Dog:From Ivan Pavlov, Noberl prize in Physiology
  3. Pink Floyd: Pink Anderson & Floyd Council
  4. Van der Graff Generator: From Robert Van der Graff
  5. Atila (Spain): Obvious
  6. Shadowfax: : The horse of Rohan
  7. Baba Yaga (Germany): Witch of Slavic Folk
  8. Babe Ruth (UK): Obvious

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Originally posted by floydispink floydispink wrote:

King Crimson (or the Crimson King) is a synonym for the devil I believe. 

never heard that before.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by floydispink floydispink wrote:

King Crimson (or the Crimson King) is a synonym for the devil I believe. 

never heard that before.

I'm not sure if it is true, but I read it somewhere a while back. 
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Originally posted by floydispink floydispink wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by floydispink floydispink wrote:

King Crimson (or the Crimson King) is a synonym for the devil I believe. 

never heard that before.

I'm not sure if it is true, but I read it somewhere a while back. 

From Wikipedia:
The name King Crimson was coined by lyricist Peter Sinfield as a synonym for Beelzebub, prince of demons. According to Fripp, Beelzebub would be an anglicised form of the Arabic phrase "B'il Sabab", meaning "the man with an aim" (although it literally means "with a cause").
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Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

Originally posted by floydispink floydispink wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by floydispink floydispink wrote:

King Crimson (or the Crimson King) is a synonym for the devil I believe. 

never heard that before.

I'm not sure if it is true, but I read it somewhere a while back. 

From Wikipedia:
The name King Crimson was coined by lyricist Peter Sinfield as a synonym for Beelzebub, prince of demons. According to Fripp, Beelzebub would be an anglicised form of the Arabic phrase "B'il Sabab", meaning "the man with an aim" (although it literally means "with a cause").


As far as I know, Beelzebub means "Lord of the Flies" (hence the title of William Golding's novel), or at least this is one of the possible meanings of the name.
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Rick Wakeman - Named after the mythical musical grey haired beast on ice.
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Amazing Blondel
Aphrodite's Child
Mandrake ... the Magician ... comic book hero
Morpheus
Daedalus
Icarus
Ikarus
Iron Maiden Wink 
Ivanhoe
Riff Raff ... the butler from Rocky Horror Show
Dali's Dilema
Rosa Luxemburg ... Polish-Jewish-German Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary
Klaatu
Galadriel
Galahad
Gandalf
Garybaldi
Tonto's Expanding Head Band
Bram Stoker
Henry Gale ... Uncle Henry Frank Baum's Oz series
 
 


Edited by Dean - September 23 2009 at 17:33
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I think Dean makes half this stuff up.  Stern Smile
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