Bands named after Place-Names?
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Topic: Bands named after Place-Names?
Posted By: Cluster One
Subject: Bands named after Place-Names?
Date Posted: July 13 2005 at 23:54
Bands named after actual Place-Names. To get us started... Prog - Kansas - Hatfield and the North - UK - Asia Non-Prog - Chicago - Boston - Toronto - America ------------- Marmalade...I like marmalade. |
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 00:50
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Well, just off of the top of my head...two bands named after mythical places: Atlantis and Styx ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 02:09
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Wasn't there a metal band called Europe? ------------- 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 05:14
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There was a motown band called Orleans if I remember well! ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 05:39
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Non-Prog Portishead; Texas. |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 05:50
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Ozark mountain daredevils ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 06:36
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Mategra
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 06:52
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Yes it was. Here they are...
The band's drummer ( I think it's the bearded guy to the right in the picture) used to be Jerry Marotta (who later became a member of The Tony Levin Band). |
Sean Trane wrote:
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 08:46
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Prog: Cairo Odessa Non prog (although?): Thule |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 09:22
Dieppe Purple  ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 09:38
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Leeds Zeppelin Angla(Fish)gard Caravan (park) (bit of a moveable feast that band) and of course the legendary Jethro Hull |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 09:42
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GENTLE GIANTS CAUSEWAY!(IRISH BAND I THINK) |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 09:47
heheh!  |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 09:56
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I THINK THERE WAS A HEAVY METAL BAND CALLED "DEF LEIPZIG" |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 11:43
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 12:13
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Karthago, a German band from the 70s, in which Ingo Bischof (Kraan, Guru Guru) and Gerald Luciano Hartwig (Guru Guru, Embryo, Roman Bunka Band) played. Another entry for the archive, by the way -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 12:15
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It is more appropriate to say that "Hatfield and the North" are named after a direction sign on the M1. ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Carakhallo
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 13:11
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There's also: - ASTURIAS, a region in the north of Spain - CAI, short name of CÁDIZ, a Spanish city - And yet to be well-known, SENOGUL, which spelled backwards gives Lugones... again a Spanish city  |
Posted By: Mategra
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 14:36
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Iona (Scottish island) Lindisfarne (another British island) Uppsala (Swedish town, French band) Kebnekaise (Swedish mountain) Krakatoa (Indonesian Volcano) Karnataka (Indian state)
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Posted By: Poxx
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 16:24
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Asia! Epsilons! ...and you didnt know Asia wasn't prog, shouldst your life depend on it. Comanded! |
Posted By: The Prognaut
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 17:15
I remember that tongue-twister used as a password at this crappy, very kitsh movie with Jane Fonda named "Barbarella"... Definitely, I'd have to rip off my tongue first in order to pronounce that correctly!
------------- break the circle reset my head wake the sleepwalker and i'll wake the dead |
Posted By: maani
Date Posted: July 15 2005 at 00:51
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Alaska I have not included fictional names (Valinor, Lothlorien, etc.) Peace. |
Posted By: Cluster One
Date Posted: July 15 2005 at 02:13
Ok, I guess that's the end of that then ... 
------------- Marmalade...I like marmalade. |
Posted By: Hammill
Date Posted: July 15 2005 at 06:09
well they were not metal , i would call them poser/hard rcck...great band though...i really like them. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: July 15 2005 at 08:43
| Rammstein.... |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 15 2005 at 08:51
Yes you have...Atlantis and Avalon! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: ShaunoNoNo
Date Posted: July 15 2005 at 09:41
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Metal?
If we're thinking of the same group, those that done 'the Final Countdown', then they aren't metal. ------------- 
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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: July 15 2005 at 10:50
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Cluster One: Not by a long shot! I would bet that, with a little thought (and maybe some research...), you could find as many more as I have listed. Snow Dog: Actually, it depends on your personal beliefs, doesn't it? Peace. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 15 2005 at 10:53
Wow, you gave in far easier than I expected! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: July 15 2005 at 10:55
Marburg : german Prog, named after a town in Southern Germany.
but, Neuschwannstein :a castle in Bavaria La Düsseldorf : town in North/West Germany ------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
OOps, Marburg is a record of Pell MellPosted By: maani
Date Posted: July 15 2005 at 17:09
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Snow Dog: No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Peace. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 17 2005 at 19:09
I must be Cardinal Fang then!
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: July 19 2005 at 10:23
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There is a Dutch band (from Leewarden ? crap spelling) who named themselves 'Flamborough Head' after part of the North Yorkshire coastline. When they played for the CRS in Rotherham a few years ago (supporting Threshold), they were taken there on the following Monday to see where they were named after... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: emdiar
Date Posted: July 19 2005 at 12:07
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Todd Rundgren's Uttoxeter
(ps. Leeuwarden.) ------------- Perception is truth, ergo opinion is fact. |