Band Names Derived From Real/ Fictional Characters
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Topic: Band Names Derived From Real/ Fictional Characters
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Subject: Band Names Derived From Real/ Fictional Characters
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 15:41
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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.... Maybe you can do better????? ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
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Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 15:44
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coheed and cambria comes to mind. apparently they are characters from claudio sanchez comic/novel series.
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 15:44
Any chance Steely Dan counts?  (/not expanding unless absolutely neccessary) |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 15:47
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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) |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 15:50
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Maybe: Barclay James Harvest ------------- 
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Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 15:51
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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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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 15:54
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Arthur Brown 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. |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 15:55
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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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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 15:57
 ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
rushfan4 wrote:Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 16:00
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 16:01
Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 16:09
| Catherin Bull! |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 16:34
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Gregor Samsa ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 16:39
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 16:44
I'm not sure if it is true, but I read it somewhere a while back. -------------
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 16:53
From Wikipedia: The name King Crimson was coined by lyricist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sinfield - Peter Sinfield as a synonym for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub - Beelzebub , prince of demons. According to Fripp, Beelzebub would be an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language - anglicised form of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language - Arabic phrase "B'il Sabab", meaning "the man with an aim" (although it literally means "with a cause"). |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 17:00
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. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 17:08
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Rick Wakeman - Named after the mythical musical grey haired beast on ice. ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 17:32
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Amazing Blondel
Aphrodite's Child
Mandrake ... the Magician ... comic book hero
Morpheus
Daedalus
Icarus
Ikarus
Iron Maiden
 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
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 17:51
I think Dean makes half this stuff up. 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 18:05
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^ I wish that were true. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 19:04
| Silmarillion = Marillion = JRR. |
Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 20:46
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I believe The Porcupine Tree was one of the "names" created by Steven Wilson for Tarquin's Seaweed Farm. I think (I could be wrong) that the "project" was like Porcupine Tree's band.
Those names me up. They're just classic. "The Incredible Expanding Flan"?!? And of course, my namesake, Sir Tarquin Underspoon. ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 22:02
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related to the king crimson comment Lord of the Flies" (ba'al being http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language - Hebrew for owner or lord and zebűb being a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language - Hebrew collective noun for 'fly'). Biblical scholar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kelly_Cheyne - Thomas Kelly Cheyne suggested that it might be a derogatory corruption of Ba'al Zebul, 'Lord of the High Place', or 'Lord of Heaven ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 23:57
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Tonton Macoute, From Wiki: The name Tonton Macoute (literally translates as "Uncle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnysack - Gunnysack ") originated from Haitian Creole mythology. It was the name of a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogeyman - bogeyman who walked the streets after dark, kidnapping children who stayed out too late and stowing them away in his gunnysack, never to be seen again. Those who spoke out against Duvalier would disappear in the night, and would never be seen again. Anyone who challenged the MVSN risked their own abduction, and so they were referred to as the Tonton Macoutes. And of course, Premiata Forneria Marconi ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: September 24 2009 at 07:59
Oh, Capability Brown and Gnidrolog, if Gnidrolog counts ------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win! The search for nonexistent perfection. |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: September 24 2009 at 08:06
Correct (Well sort of..) Here are the credits on Tarquin's Seaweed Farm: Credits Tripping Musicians Extraordinaire: The Porcupine Tree – Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Flute, Koto and Sings Sir Tarquin Underspoon – Organ, Electric Piano, Synthesisers and Sings Mr Jelly – Bass Guitar The Expanding Flan – Drums, Percussion, Drum Computer and Speaks Timothy Tadpole-Jones – Acoustic Guitar, Percussion Sebastian Tweetle-Blampton III operates the delay circuits and mixing desk Solomon St. Jemain – Guitar on 'Wastecoat', Drum Computer on 'Towel' and speaks Master Timothy Masters – Oboe, Cor Anglais Linton Samuel Dawson operates the light show |
Posted By: paulwalker71
Date Posted: September 24 2009 at 08:54
Oh, all the ones I could think of have been said  I was going to mine Tolkein - Gandalf, Galadriel, (Sil) Marillion, Shadowfax.... |
Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: September 24 2009 at 16:04
Aaaah, I see, I was combining two different SW references with "The Incredible Expanding Flan"
Again, I think that list is hysterical though. ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |