Jean-Luc Pickguard

Return To Sender — Elvis

Feet Like Fins — Cocteau twins

I have just uploaded a new version of the band name generator. This has probably around 10× the number of words as the first version. Due to the size of word list, rather than doing everything using javascript in the browser, this new version does all the clever stuff on the server in PHP. This means it is less likely to crash the browser. There is still some work to do before it is officially launched— notably I need to go through the word lists and remove a lot of the crappy/obscure/archaic words. Currently I'd say the app is a fair bit less useful than the previous version due to there currently being a lot of crappy words in the source lists, but once I have edited the lists down, it should improve.

Does something like this come with a case, and if so, how the hell would you carry it? Its a bit of silliness like Elwood's multi-stringed beast in ZZ Top.

It's a fake of a fake.

It appears to be aimed at the kind of people who think smoking would make them look cool.* *it doesn't — it would make them look like they stink.

Quartz Going On — Marvin Gaye

Only A Prawn In Their Game — Bob Dylan

Just googled it — There's at least one band with that name

I was at the event last night — you can see the top of my orange/yellow bandana at the far left of the pic, it was a very enjoyable way to spend an evening. I've never played a sandberg, but after hearing Holger I will definitely check one out. It was particularly refreshing to hear Yolanda speak about her approach when she played sessions where she expected there to be a bass part already written which she then interpreted. i.e. if you write an original bass part, you should get a co-credit and royalties.

Good tip, but I'm lazy so I'd check out the colour names at https://www.valsparpaint.co.uk/paint-colours/ Anaemic Moon, Scrubbed Cauliflower, Poached Smoke, Snowman's Bone

I used to know a band called Party Seven. There weren't seven people in the band though.

I’ll be sure not to include any French bus stops in my generator webapp.

I've made an online list editing app today, which will make it very easy to delete words from my long word lists, so as long as I have a signal I can easily edit the lists whilst waiting for a train, sitting on the train or otherwise with time on my hands. Not sure when the longer lists will be ready to be incorporated into the name generator, but I might add an option, so it can be set to use the current standard word lists or the much longer expanded lists

My old band had a punter looking for the fifth band member while we were packing up after a gig, so she could have a complete set of autographs on a gig poster. All four of us in the band 'obviously 5 believers' had already signed it, and she had watched the whole gig with a drummer, a bass player and two guitarists. We told her the elusive fifth member was in the bog.

Nah! The band name is/was "Amber Gambler"

June Bugs (Bunny) — The Handsome Family

There are about 3000 words in total in the app as it is currently. I now have lists of over 11,000 single syllable words and 33,000 two syllable words (from https://en.wiktionary.org), but it will be necessary to remove a lot of crud from both lists for them to be useful. It may take a while to get these larger lists in a usable state if I do proceed with them.

I have a short list of possible names generated from my page. I'm probably going to expand the word list further, although if I add a large number of words I might need to use a different method to select them using separate files for the word lists.

As discussed in another thread, I have discovered another band had been using the same name as my recording project's band name, and although that other band has little digital footprint, they were using the name first, so I have decided to come up with a new name for my project. Thinking up good band names on demand is not easy, good ones tend to come in a flash of inspiration out of the blue when you're least expecting it. I have found a few existing band name generators online, but I have not been successful in finding a name that I like using any of them. I have now built my own band name generator, which I hope will work better. This generates two word, three syllable names — which is my preference at the moment as this format tends to give many of the best sounding names, - eg Aphex Twin, BadFinger, Black Sabbath, Bon Iver, Cocteau Twins, Deep Purple, Depeche Mode, Dirty Three, Fearless Flyers, Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, Funk Brothers, Gentle Giant, GrinderMan, Honey Cone, Human League, Judas Priest, Killing Joke, King Harvest, Led Zeppelin, Low Anthem, Mars Volta, Matching Mole, Mazzy Star, Mink DeVille, Mountain Goats, New Order, NewYork Dolls, Nitzer Ebb, NineInch Nails, Primal Scream, SandPebbles, Sex Pistols, Shocking Blue, Small Faces, Soft Machine, Status Quo, SugarCubes, Taj Mahal, Thin Lizzy, Tin Machine, UK Subs, UnderTones, Van Halen, WaterBoys etc... The link to my generator is at the bottom of this post. Click the red button to generate a list of twenty-four suggestions for a band name and click the icon next to any name you like to copy to it the clipboard so you can paste it into your own document. I've just finished coding this and already have a few possible band names copied into a pages document just from testing it. If you are interested in how it works, you can view the page source to see the code and word lists. Everything is self-contained on the single page with zero external resources used. If anyone wants to contribute additional words I have left out, or finds any 'inappropriate' words please let me know and I'll make any changes needed when I update it. This has been designed to work on every modern device including phones and tablets, however I have only tested it on my apple kit so far. Link to the band name generator -> https://names.bandrocks.co.uk/

Bridget (Riley) The Midget — Ray Stevens

Nerds don't play bass. Nerd bass is the keyboard player's left hand.