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Where did your favourite band's name come from? Or where did other band names come from?

My favourite band is Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Creedence were made up of John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, Stu Cook, Doug "Cosmo" Clifford.

The name Creedence Clearwater Revival,  came from a friend of Tom Fogerty called, Credence Nuball. The first name, with its
connotations of believability and integrity, appealed to the group.
Clearwater also had two meanings. It came initially from a beer
commercial, but also resonated with the burgeoning environmental
movement of the time. Revival, however, had one meaning. It was the
band's aspiration, that after four years as the Golliwogs, which Creedence were originally called to match the so called British pop invasion, and after ten
years of playing together, this new change in their fortunes would take
the band where they all knew it could go. 

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Biker Pat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List I spend too much time here!!! 72-75 Joined: 26-April-2005 Location: Swords, Co Dublin (ex Celti Status: Offline Points: 39648	Post Options Post Reply Quote Biker Pat Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Band names ? Posted: 13-May-2010 at 18:47
	Where did your favourite band's name come from? Or where did other band names come from? My favourite band is Creedence Clearwater Revival. Creedence were made up of John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, Stu Cook, Doug "Cosmo" Clifford. The name Creedence Clearwater Revival, came from a friend of Tom Fogerty called, Credence Nuball. The first name, with its connotations of believability and integrity, appealed to the group. Clearwater also had two meanings. It came initially from a beer commercial, but also resonated with the burgeoning environmental movement of the time. Revival, however, had one meaning. It was the band's aspiration, that after four years as the Golliwogs, which Creedence were originally called to match the so called British pop invasion, and after ten years of playing together, this new change in their fortunes would take the band where they all knew it could go.
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	You know Pat that we could also use this thread to make up "fictional" band names as well?
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Biker Pat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List I spend too much time here!!! 72-75 Joined: 26-April-2005 Location: Swords, Co Dublin (ex Celti Status: Offline Points: 39648	Post Options Post Reply Quote Biker Pat Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14-May-2010 at 19:02
	If I had a band it would be called "The Junk Yard Dogs"
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	Robbie was the lead singer in a band many many many years ago called " Staten Island"............they once backed up the band "Those nervous Animals" in The Baggot Inn.
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	The Rolling Stones This is one version of where the Rolling Stones name came from. The band got their name from an old saying, "A rolling stone gathers no moss." (It was also the title of a 1950s Muddy Waters song.) This saying has a literal truth in that moss needs an unmoving environment in order to form. One of the easiest ways to get an idea of how long stones or trees have been in a place is to look at the amount of moss that has formed on them. Correct or not Ideas please? And what about all the other bands that you all like? Edited by Biker Pat
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Biker Pat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List I spend too much time here!!! 72-75 Joined: 26-April-2005 Location: Swords, Co Dublin (ex Celti Status: Offline Points: 39648	Post Options Post Reply Quote Biker Pat Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16-May-2010 at 21:17
	Bad Company Bad Company, the name was inspired by the 1972 Robert Benton Civil War film of the same name.
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Biker Pat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List I spend too much time here!!! 72-75 Joined: 26-April-2005 Location: Swords, Co Dublin (ex Celti Status: Offline Points: 39648	Post Options Post Reply Quote Biker Pat Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21-May-2010 at 20:12
	Led Zeppelin Keith Moon and John Entwistle of the Who were hanging out with Richard Cole (The Yardbirds road manager) one night at the disco �Salvation� in New York. Moon and Entwistle were burnt out on the whole scene with The Who and were talking about the desire to form a band with Jimmy Page and Steve Winwood. And Entwistle said �Yeah. We�ll call it Lead Zeppelin. Because it will go over like a f**king Lead Balloon.� Laughter followed and Cole told Jimmy about the discussion later. So when the time came to change the band�s name from The New Yardbirds they finally settled on �Led Zeppelin� after short stints as �Mad Dogs� and �Whoopee Cushion�. They changed the spelling of lead to �Led� so that people wouldn�t mispronounce the groups name as �Leed Zeppelin�.
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Biker Pat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List I spend too much time here!!! 72-75 Joined: 26-April-2005 Location: Swords, Co Dublin (ex Celti Status: Offline Points: 39648	Post Options Post Reply Quote Biker Pat Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25-May-2010 at 18:47
	Deep Purple In the �now isn�t this the sweetest thing you�ve ever heard� department, the name of this famous band was inspired by the song �Deep Purple� by Bing Crosby that was a favorite of Ritchie Blackmore�s grandmother.
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	Pink Floyd was a name which Syd Barrett came up with after listening to two old blues players from Georgia,Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. The two never recorded together but Syd had both their albums and was so inspired he called his band (after the first incarnation of Meggadeath!!!) 'The Pink Floyd Sound',which later became 'The Pink Floyd' until their first recoring contract where the definite article was dropped and the name shortened to just 'Pink Floyd'.
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	Jethro Tull was so named after the inventor of the seed drill (a farming tool pulled by a horse to make it easier to sow seeds in a large field).
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	Eric Bell (Thin Lizzy guitarist) used to read the Beano and Dandy comics and one of the characters was a robot teacher called Tin Lizzy'. As Philo was a Dub he often said 'people from Dublin are going to call us 'Tin Lizzy anyway'.
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	Wishbone Ash As for the group's name, Andy Powell explained., We wanted something that wouldn't tie us down to a particular style. Miles Copeland came up with a number of wacky names - I remember Third World War and Jesus Duck. Finally there were two lists, one of which had the word Wishbone on it and the other of which had Ash. It was Martin Turner who suggested the combination of Wishbone and Ash and it sounded intriguing.
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	Status Quo It was 1967 at Butlins in Minehead when Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi first met and they formed a friendship Rick became the bands rhythm guitarist. In the band there was also Alan Lancaster on the bass guitar, John Coughlan on drums and percussion and Roy Lynes on the keyboard. Before Rick joined the band in 1967 Francis and the boys had released three singles under the name of the Spectres and they also released one single under the name of Traffic Jam, having changed their name from Traffic so as not to be confused with nthe other more famous band called Traffic. But it was in 1967 when their manager Pat Barlow saw the word quovardis they played around with word until they came up with Status Quo. They didn�t know what it meant it just sounded good so they kept it.
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	An old chestnut this,but it was from seeing the electrical rating plate on a vacuum cleaner, (some say it was a sewing machine) that Angus and Malcom Young named there band AC/DC. (any electrical product on it's rating plate tells you whether the supply should be AC (alternating current) or DC (direct current)). This led to albums titles such as Powerage,High Voltage and Flick of the Switch.
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	Marillion were first called Silmarillion from JRR Tolkeins book and being the prog inpirists they were adapted the name,after shortening it to just Marillion to avoid legal complications.
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	U2 The band got their name from the American (NOT GERMAN) U-2 Spy plane. It was the spy plane USAF pilot Gary Powers was flying when he was shot down over the USSR in 1960.
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	Velvet Underground Sterling Morrison�s (guitar and vocals) friend Conrad found a paperback book on the street and showed it to his colleagues. The book, The Velvet Underground, billed itself as �a documentary on the sexual corruption of our age.� It told a lurid tale of sadomasochism and other sexual adventures in New York City. The band had a name at last.
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	Lynyrd Skynyrd were previously called "My Background" for 5 years before they felt they needed a name change to kickstart the band. They decided to call it Leonard Skinnerd as a mocking tribute to a PE teacher at local high school, who was notorious for enforcing a "no long hair" policy. They later changed the spelling just before they released their first album. Edited by Uncle Arthur
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Biker Pat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List I spend too much time here!!! 72-75 Joined: 26-April-2005 Location: Swords, Co Dublin (ex Celti Status: Offline Points: 39648	Post Options Post Reply Quote Biker Pat Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26-May-2010 at 22:38
	The Grateful Dead The official story on the Grateful Dead, as related by Jerry Garcia in the book Playing in the Band, is as follows: "We were standing around in utter desperation at Phil [Lesh]'s house in Palo Alto [trying to think up a name for the band]. There was a huge dictionary, big monolithic thing, and I just opened it up. There in huge black letters was `The Grateful Dead.' It � just cancelled my mind out."
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	Black Sabbath From a Boris Karloff's 1963 horror movie called "Black Sabbath". The band was originally called Earth but when they found out that there was another band called Earth they changed their name to Black Sabbath.
	May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Biker Pat Grove 1972-1975