I’ll start and keep it short cause I’m sitting in a tractor…
Heidi is playing guitar and singing, I’m pretending to play bass, and our son is smashing the set. We are going through our usual routine of trying to get him to keep a beat and suddenly it just clicks for him. He is rocking! We jump around genres a bit and settle on some 90s rock. It is really sounding good and then he just stops, stands up, and says (note he is only 10), “I’m just too restricted in these pants”. He proceeds to strip down to his underwear and yells out, “DRUMMIN UNDIES”!!
Our family band name is drummin undies… 
Love it,
Everybody have a great day!!!
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A wise man already! 
Love the band name. It’s awesome!
I don’t remember the discussion about the name of my punk band in school times but the result was: “Die ziemlich gute Bänd” = “The rather good Bänd”.
Think it was something among the lines of:
“Mhh, we aren’t really good.”
“but we’re rather good”
“so we’re the rather good band?”
“oh no please no…”
“YES! Yes we are the rather good bänd! With Ä”
“do we have to?”
“Yes!”
“It’s a stupid name”
“You got a better one?”
“… so the rather good bänd… with Ä?”
Of course that’s just the gist of it and maybe warped by my memory. I think we thought of more “punk” sounding names first but didn’t like anything we came up with. The one story I can remember more clearly was when we have written a song and tried to came up with lyrics and one of us said:
“Yeah, but what’s in this part? We can’t just sing la-la-la”
Guess what part of that sentence made it into the lyrics?
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LOL I love it!
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Love it @Greg!! At least it sounds more appealing than “The DIRTY Undies”!!
Keep on Thumpin’!
Lanny
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@Lanny you and our boy would make a hell of a team! 
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When I read the title of the Post and I was thinking of famous bands, and their names
Like
Pearl Jam from one of the guys aunt Pearls hallucinogenic Jam
Or
Primus after the camping stereo stoves branded Primus and things like that…
Etc…
But I like where you went with it. Great name.
My future band will be “The Pathalogical Smart Asses”
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UB 40 was named after the unemployment form that the band members had filled out so many times.
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A few of my fellow Vietnam era veteran friends from the American Legion post I belong to have been trying to get together for a jam as soon as this silliness is over.
If we end up starting a band, I have decided our name will be “The Fossils”.
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I dig that name @PamPurrs 
See what I did there…
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Hat har har, good one.
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I’m reviving a very old thread…
I found a piece of paper from 1979 or maybe 1980 in my Eagle Annual No 7, written when I was a teenager. It was a list of possible band names produced during a lunch break by four friends and I. There are 128 entries.
The eventual winner was Dr Crippen’s first day on the ward. Unfortunately, it didn’t fit on posters so was shortened to Crippen. You must remember that at the time, bands were called The Police, The Jam or The Beat.
Reading them now, my favourite is Attack of the Draylon Tigers. For those not in the know, draylon is a (usually) brown indestructible man-made fibre used to upholster 1970’s home interiors.
There are quite a few smart-arse play-on-words/adaptations of existing bands:
The Continental Drifters
Billy Smart’s Flying Circus (for the Pythonists)
Anglepoise-Vamp
The Jettison’s (for those who remember the Jetsons cartoon)
David Bowie’s Knife
Fanfare for the Caravan (for Emerson Lake & Palmer fans)
Hollywood Stairs
The Billy Hendrix Experience
Some are just daft:
The Nobby Styles Appreciation Society (for England football fans)
Captain Calculus and the Equations
Twelve Inch Singles (smutty connotations !)
Harry the Spider’s Coming Out Party (a line stolen from a Cadbury’s Fudge advert)
Tommy Chopper and the Grifters (one for 1970’s child cyclists)
Account Payee Only (are you old enough to remember cheque books ?)
Beethoven’s Glam Rock Period
The End of Space and Time (probably stolen from an episode of Dr Who)
Top-dead-centre (for those who have removed a car timing chain)
The Dandy Highwaymen (we’re the Dandy Highwaymen that you’re too scared to mention, we spend our cash on looking flash and grabbing your attention…)
Lost Souls (a Joy Division tribute band ?)
The Power Trio Quartet
Wild West Heroes (an ELO tribute band ?)
Fall of the Romany Empire
The decline of steam power
I loved ridiculously long band names such as Dave Dee Dozy Beeky Mick and Tich:
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
Bagpipe Banjo and Accordion (the 3 horsemen of the apocalypse)
Cutlass Sabre and Foil
Ingledew Pybus Botterill & Roche (a real firm of Solicitors)
Watt Wear Wye & Howe
A few car based names:
Dolly Sprint (the Triumph Dolomite Sprint was the first car with mechanical fuel injection and 4 valves per cylinder)
Jenson Interceptor
A few sea based names, as I am from a port:
Last of the deep sea fishermen
Lighthouse Keepers
Lost at sea
Cast Adrift
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I love this so much. Naming the band is the hardest part.
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This is phenomenal.
Those old notebooks full of band names are priceless.
I’m sure I have some buried in the journals and sketchbooks over here… but not sure I’m brave enough today to pore through whatever else angsty-me-of-the-past had on his mind to find the good stuff.
Some of my favorites:
The Power Trio Quartet
The Decline of Steam Power
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There are also a few that would make good first album titles:
Surly Parisian waiters (Franz Ferdinand)
Incompatible star signs (Evanesence)
The taming of Cerberus (Led Zeppelin)
Flirting with Death (Iron Maiden)
Poison pen letter (Roxy Music)
Minor royalty (Prince & the Revolution)
I need someone to do the cover artwork…
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@Gio!
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So… many years ago, my ex-GF and I rented a bounce house for her son for his birthday. The bounce house… company, I guess, set it up, and the next day tore it down. They left behind a bigass hammer. On the bigass hammer was a masking-tape price tag, like what you’d use at a garage sale, listing the hammer at $5.
If I ever start a band, it will be named “Five Dollar Hammer”.
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Fixed it:
Five Buck Banger
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I have a bandname that I won’t post… it’s based on Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Zombie.
Writing that, I think an easy formula is to just mash together two artist or band names:
Rob Osbourne - Dark country rock, wide-brimmed hat, raspy voice
Johnny Zombie - Romantic, stampeding shoe-gazy stuff with a whiny voice with some harmony effect á la Ozzy.
Do you guys have an idea for my artist name? Antonio just has so many syllables. I would like a shorter, or two word name which expresses my desire to rock hard, sing about anger and sorrow and do loads of slides on the bass. 
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Tony Rawk
Spiff Bassbro
Bass Wolf (stolen from epic Japanese band, Guitar Wolf, but still great)
The Wizard
Bruce Campbell
Ash Stringmasher
Dougie 4-strings
Chuggy
Thor
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