Cool Stagename = More Success?

[Spike Vincent]

I dunno,people not using their real names...

[Maude]

[quote name='zero9' timestamp='1346178651' post='1786206']
Changing real names to stagenames appears more prevalent amongst the guitardist community, then amongst bassists. I'm struggling to find good examples of bass players who've adopted stagenames other than Sting (I've lived a fairly sheltered life ).
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Sid Vicious, although I'm not entirely sure you can class him as a bassist .

[KingBollock]

There are plenty of people, who I met online, who call me KB in real life, mainly because I won't tell them my real name... (I hate my real name, even friends who I didn't meet online don't call me by my real name). I've been using this name since 1998, so I would quite happily use it as a stage name. I always thought [b]KingBollock and the Danglies[/b] would make a good name for a punk band.

Edited August 28, 2012 by KingBollock

[dudewheresmybass]

In one band, my stagename is Rex thunderbolt.
My drummist is Rocco savage, our Singist is Kelly zero, and guitarists are rhys lightning and jimmy nightwear

[ken_white]

I just found a stage name generator that suggested the name of "Eden Savage" for me, Good idea or not lol :-)

[alyctes]

[quote name='dudewheresmybass' timestamp='1346193696' post='1786475']
jimmy nightwear
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Excellent!

[alyctes]

just wondering, is my old mate Vermin Roadrat on BC?

[Delberthot]

I'm Delbert T Wildebeast

[Mr. Foxen]

I was recently talking to my mate Bristol Dave, AKA Natzee-Tintin, Shorts Guy, Diamond Dave, Hipster Hitler Roadie. He had a mate in the punk era who's genuine name was Nicholas Vile. Meant he had a lot of trouble with the police whenever they asked him his name and he replied Nicky Vile.

[BassTractor]

My take: normally vastly overrated, but an intelligent look at the times, the style and the name couldn't hurt.
No singer/songwriter should use Willy Idle, for example.

Of the name generators, I liked the blues name one best. It's simply:
A blues name consists of three parts:
- a bodily impediment or similar
- a fruit, vegetable or similar
- a US president's family name


I'm Slantin' Banana Clinton. Where's my success?
BTW, what chords in blues?


best,
bert

Edited August 29, 2012 by BassTractor

[dincz]

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1346201603' post='1786532']
- a bodily impediment or similar
- a fruit, vegetable or similar
- a US president's family name
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My first attempt resulted in "Limp Lettuce Lincoln"

[Dom in Dorset]

Weren't "Lemmy" and "Sting" their nick names long before they were performers?

I recently did a stint depping in a tongue in cheek country band called The Johnsons. Their act is that they are brothers (and sisters) ,anything up to seven or eight of them. They all have stage names --------- Johnson. Clint, Garry-Lee,Zac,Elli-May, Johnny "Geetar" etc For the duration of my stay I was known as "Duke" (pronounced "Dook") Johnson.

[Roland Rock]

I was "Butch Brownstone" in previous not-too-serious band Father McKenzie and the Brown Pants. Not muh commercial success, but lots of fun.

Edited August 29, 2012 by Roland Rock

[gafbass02]

Gaf just Gaf
Onstage and off, for yeeeears now.

Edited August 29, 2012 by gafbass02

[Delberthot]

[quote name='Dom in Somerset' timestamp='1346219170' post='1786553']
Weren't "Lemmy" and "Sting" their nick names long before they were performers?


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Gordon used to wear a black and yellow striped jumper that made him look like a wasp and Ian was always asking to borrow stuff - usually drink and drugs - and was how he'd say "lend me a ....." so "lend me" became Lemmy

[paul torch]

we prefer to think of them as alta-egos rather than stage names. we are:

Nilp Vanagan = drums
Vince Continental = bass
Rom Mitney = guitar/vox
Chrissie Jumper = keyboards

[BILL POSTERS]

Only just noticed this thread.

I spose it depends on the genre, and what your name is to start with. Dunno if anybody has mentioned Larry Parnes yet. he gave pretty much everybody in his stable a flashy 'exciting' name. Billy [i]Fury[/i]. Tommy [i]Steel[/i] etc. According to Joe Brown Parnes wanted to call him Elmer Twich... He wanted to rename Ray Davies as well I think.

A cool stage name, like an image, is only any good if you can carry it off. You could end up looking like that guy in Fools and Horses that only sings song without R,s in them,

[LiamPodmore]

I have been called in the past (Whilst on stage, by a band member or a fan): Pod, Count Podula, Lord Podlington, Bass-Monkey, and a few more that i can't remember. The only one of them that's actually stick was Pod, as it's just a shortened version of my surname.

Liam

[Ruiner]

[quote name='LiamPodmore' timestamp='1346177078' post='1786179']
Sometimes stage names shouldn't be used though. Like Pat Smear from the Foo Fighters, his real name is Georg Ruthenberg, which if you ask me, sounds MUCH better than Pat Smear...

Liam
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Think that name stems from when he was in the Germs. I don't think Georg Ruthenberg would've sat quite as well alongside Darby Crash, Lorna Doom and Donna Rhia

I guess the name stuck.

Edited August 29, 2012 by Ruiner

[Fat Rich]

[quote name='Mabrothrax' timestamp='1346182397' post='1786267']
Surely there's a silly stagename generator somewhere?

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Is it the Beckhams?

[skankdelvar]

[quote name='BRANCINI' timestamp='1346230005' post='1786648']
Larry Parnes [/quote]

More Parnes:

Tommy Steele (Tommy Hicks)
Marty Wilde (Reg Patterson)
Billy Fury (Ron Wycherley)
Vince Eager (Roy Taylor)
Dickie Pride (Richard Knellar)
Lance Fortune (Chris Morris)
Duffy Power (Ray Howard),
Johnny Gentle (John Askew)
Terry Dene (Terence Williams)
Nelson Keene (Malcolm Holland)
Georgie Fame (Clive Powell)
Derek Bollocks (Danny Enthusiastic)

(OK, I made the last one up.)

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Edited August 29, 2012 by skankdelvar

[uncle psychosis]

There's no doubting that image is important to music and to musicians. I definitely think a band that has stage names and stage costumes have more chance of being noticed than a bunch of guys in jeans and tshirts. Of course, you have to have the talent as well---bands who look the part but are crap will always just be a novelty.

[Fat Rich]

Maurice Micklewhite anybody?

Or Reg Dwight?

[BILL POSTERS]

[quote name='Fat Rich' timestamp='1346234380' post='1786721']
Maurice Micklewhite anybody?

Or Reg Dwight?
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[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1346233219' post='1786699']
More Parnes:

Tommy Steele (Tommy Hicks)
Marty Wilde (Reg Patterson)
Billy Fury (Ron Wycherley)
Vince Eager (Roy Taylor)
Dickie Pride (Richard Knellar)
Lance Fortune (Chris Morris)
Duffy Power (Ray Howard),
Johnny Gentle (John Askew)
Terry Dene (Terence Williams)
Nelson Keene (Malcolm Holland)
Georgie Fame (Clive Powell)
Derek Bollocks (Danny Enthusiastic)

(OK, I made the last one up.)

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I spose if you have got an ordinary sounding real name.its less memorable than something that rolls nicely off the tongue. And you do need people to remember you as something other than the bloke wiv a mustache out of the so and so band. Parnes was a clever bloke in his day.

Didnt Derek Bollox present New Faces ?

[steve-bbb]

[quote name='zero9' timestamp='1346178118' post='1786197']
Even John Pastorius adopted 'Jaco'. I suppose it's what starts to sound familiar after a while. Jaco? John? Jaco?
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was his family from devon?