How did you come up your band name?

Mysterytrain · Post by **Mysterytrain** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:11 pm

How did you come up with your band name?

Here's the history of the mystery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFyh9OgV ... re=related

kayla · Post by **kayla** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:30 pm

I often wondered how you guys got your name. The hardest part of a band is findin the right name. still pondering a name for our blues band..

- kayla.

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:47 pm

Our band name, The Conniptions, was a name I was saving for a number of years to use for a band. A conniption is a fit of rage or hysteria and suits a rock band. The term is not a conniption fit (that would be redundant since a conniption is a type of fit). Anyway, everybody knows what a conniption is, the name was short, recognizable, easy to remember, it fit the image of a rock band, and everybody we asked at the time liked it. Back when I was a kid, my parents, grandparents, and everybody else's would always say, "Now, don't have a conniption!"

ToonaRockGuy · Post by **ToonaRockGuy** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:54 pm

Mine's easy...Half Tempted already had existed for over 20 years when I joined, LOL!!

onegunguitar · Post by **onegunguitar** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:23 pm

NailDriver.....we're just a bunch of carpenters

robinhood · Post by **robinhood** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:51 pm

[quote="kayla"]I often wondered how you guys got your name. The hardest part of a band is findin the right name. still pondering a name for our blues band..

It almost feels like figuring out the name is harder than learning the material

lol

kayla · Post by **kayla** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:05 pm

robinhood wrote:It almost feels like figuring out the name is harder than learning the material lol

ha no way ... you do remember that we are covering SRV, right?

- kayla.

robinhood · Post by **robinhood** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:12 pm

indeed i do....that's a good point

Jasaoke · Post by **Jasaoke** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:44 pm

When we started the project, we tried to come up with a name that could do a decent job of describing our act, without using the"k" word (it can be the kiss of death). In the meantime, we were beginning to assemble our song list / database and whenever we needed a label, we kinda abbreviated it to kBand. It stuck around and we never came up with anything better.

Ya got yer email, ya got yer iPod, ya got yer kBand.

lector · Post by **lector** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:24 pm

I kinda like the name still pondering....in the terms of a whiskey still...

...thats bluesy!

floodcitybrass · Post by **floodcitybrass** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:51 pm

I used http://www.bandnamemaker.com and it came up with the following names

Manufactured Collapse And The Priceless Plant
Boss Fault And The Proud Magazine
Embryo Onto Elephant
Fixed Confession And The Hairless Baggage
Mango Of The Benevolent Rapsody
Flood City Brass

So we picked Flood City Brass

RamRod 1 · Post by **RamRod 1** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:28 am

"RamRod" is a play on my last name.

"Andy & the RamRods"

kayla · Post by **kayla** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:47 pm

lector wrote:I kinda like the name still pondering....in the terms of a whiskey still... ...thats bluesy!

i kinda like that. i'm pondering The Rhythm Sharks.

- kayla.

Post by **Jim Price** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 3:33 pm

Perhaps the strangest irony with our new handle, The Backyard Rockers, is that I actually didn't come up with the idea to use it, even though it was right under my nose. Harmonica Dave just blurted it out in practice recently, and it was instantly unanimous that The Backyard Rockers would be our new name.

Beyond that, though, we think the name fits what we are. Our presentation is pretty casual and laid-back, almost like a pick-up session on a back porch or during a backyard picnic. Maybe the name will help us land some gigs at summertime backyard picnics or house parties.

Mysterytrain · Post by **Mysterytrain** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 4:13 pm

Jim Price wrote:Maybe the name will help us land some gigs at summertime backyard picnics or house parties.

Well, see JP, what ya need to do is find someone that knows the local music scene in the area to help spread the word. They may work at a radio station, or maybe write for a musicians magazine, some folks even have 2 hour sunday night local music programs on the radio.