are all the good band names taken?

And your point is? :cry:

Copyright?



Yea! Im stressed right out cos of this. I come up with a label name but some dudes around the world are pissing around with it. Copyright?

well what was this name you came up with that was so awesome??

If he tells us, he'll have to kill us.

How about "mongoose flappers and the incredible turtle toes"?



No, wait! How about " Bush whackers & Cheney chompers"?



"Rockinholistic jelly rollers?"



" Sanitary toilet tubers"????



I can think of a million of them and everyone of them says ROCK-AND-ROLL!



"Incredibly beautiful and all two reel"

Ms. Remy Ann David

"chill-out-mr and haveanotherbeer"



Just take the band name you want and put a new beginning or ending to it :P



Like. I play in Mean+Flower. They already exists in the US. So if we were ever to make it (something we wont cause we have quit. just play a bunch of gigs without rehearsal) it would probably be Mean+Flower of Norway or some geek crap like Mean+Flowerno.



You know. There are already stuff like OrangeUK and so forth.

Maybe you should read more. I've gotten all of my bands' names from Kurt Vonnegut novels...

I made it easy....



I started calling the band; Big Daddy Blues Band.



Reinventing the wheel is a problem.



You can do the whole dart board and map thing.



That's how they came up with the "Bay City Rollers."



Or you can use your home town like "The New York Dolls."



The book thing works well, I played in a band named "Middle Earth."

are all the good band names taken?



YES- no wait that's taken too....

It is odd that the confusion is not so much on if a good band name exists but can I get a domain name that reflects my band name.



Truly extraordinary times.

How about, "Buckup, Princess"

you cant copyright a band name.



you can trademark the way it's graphically designed.



like, you could name your band metallica, but you couldnt have the album cover with MeticallA done in their fancy stylings.



(although if you book your band as Metallica, you'll have a lot of pissed off people at your show when they see it's not the "real" metallica).



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.. at least thats the way i remember learning it.

What's in a name anyway ............the next band I startup won't have a name, that's right - no name, we'll be the only band with no name, now that's different, with everybody trying to be different, we'll really be different, when we go looking for a gig and and they ask "what's the band's name"........I'll say "We ain't got a name, we don't need a name, band names are for amatures".......if they say "And what am I suppose to put up on the marque"........I say "I don't care, put your grandmother's underware up there...we DON'T have a name, deal with it or find somebody else".

Personally I'm tired of always trying to come up with another band name everytime you start a new group, and there's always somebody that thinks the name sucks...so screw it, we won't have one. Plus people are always asking "What's the band's name", so soon as the word gets out that you don't have a name they won't ask anymore.

I suggest you do the same, you won't have to worry about anything, like someone else having the name, the drummer's wife saying it sucks, or even having to practive because you probably won't get any gigs anyway with no name, so it's a win win situation.

But if you insist and really want a good name, here's a couple to get you thinking

Hot Vomit

Cheap Music

Mashed Potatoes

We Suck

Domestic Abuse

The G Strings

The A** Wipes



I don't see what your problem is, there are loads of names still :lol: available, let me know if you need some more suggestions.

This is probably a really stupid question but if you are a local band why does it matter so much if you find a name that you like and just use it?



If the name is taken just add something to it...



Pearl Jammin



The Jackson 5 wannabees



The Beatles Exterminator



Queen's tiara



I think you get the point.



or



The A's



The B's



or



The Number ONE band



The First Band



The Numero Iona Band



Fatal Attraction



Mega Band



Tune a Fish



Guitar Pickers Amalgamated



Thunder Percussion



The Fools Game



Music Business Heroes





or



spell the name backwards:



neeuq (Queen), seltaeb (Beatles) ecilop (Police) anavirn (Nirvana) etc and etc.



Best of luck! :!:

Selteab was the name of the Beatles original US merchandising corporation. Horribly run and one Brian Epstein's worst blunders. (The Beatles originally got 10%.) Definitely bad karma for a band name.

Yeah, but your domain name doesnt have to be http://www.bandname.com, it can be something cool that describes your band in two or three words like a pop band would be, http://www.dickless-pussies.com



lol

My personal favorite is "The Big Floppy Donkey T*ts" or, of course "The Big Floppy Donkey D*cks".

I really don't want to disclose this because it's the one name I've been saving and saving for that one great band I was gonna have someday - but alas my best days have come and gone, so I'm giving it up and I'm throwing the name out there for anyone that wants it and is smart enough and got the stones to use it

Drum roll, please . . . . . . . .. .. .. .. .





FART





And if anyone ask - just say "because we stink"

I was saving that name for a wind band.

Sorry 'bout that Boswel - maybe you can call your wind band - "Breaking Wind" - or "Passing Gas"

"Youth in Asia" hasn't been around since the 80s, I always thought that was a GREAT rock name



Phil

In the pre-web days (1974), when you couldn't google, I was in a band called FRESH. Not "fresh anything", just FRESH. We thought we were so clever until everytime we went on the road to another state people would say, "Oh, you aren't the FRESH from Little Rock, or Springfield, or Columbus... you get the picture.



This ain't anything new. Truly original, innovative genius is rare. Do what the carmakers do; get a computer program that randomly generates words and hope no one else picked the coolest sounding one like you did.



I'm waiting now for someone to "Oh, are you the THIRD STEP GRACE from Altoona, Atlanta, Alaska, Argentina...?

For the record, all the bad names have been taken too



:lol:



Been playing in a duet as Shortbus for about twelve years now. There's at least five other bands with that name in the U.S. alone so we felt like we had to find a different name for the full band. We finally settled on "1 Brick Shy," but everyone still calls us Shortbus.



Sometimes when I'm playing solo I just call myself "Short."

you can trademark a name....

Literature and art are the two most intelligent yet somehow popular sources for band names.



A band I played and recorded an album with, an indie/alt/experimental rock group was called Step Stevie Step, Step and Stevie being characters from the Orson Scott Card book Lost Boys.



As well, being "The" anything is, in my opinion, cliche and overdone. I think bands just sit around and think of random words, put them together, and throw "The" in the front. Really. It can get ridiculous.

yea...like "The Band."



Those guys were so retro back in the Sixties:)

I dunno, I'm a real big fan of "FREE BEER AND PIZZA". Surprisingly, they always seem to get the biggest crowds, but the audience never sticks around for too long, they just get pissed and leave. Dunno why...

Depends on what you play... here's my suggestions:



punk music:

Midget Milkman



Emo music:

anything with Avenue on the end will work...



Indie music:

Hollywood Turndown



Radio-rock:

Ehh, efff radio rock!!!

I always wanted to use the name "The Twelve Inch Rulers". I guess I'd have to come up with something different for the metric countries.



"TBA" or "Special Guest" would be good names...you would have gigs EVERYWHERE.

rockstardave wrote:



(although if you book your band as Metallica, you'll have a lot of pissed off people at your show when they see it's not the "real" metallica).



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.. at least thats the way i remember learning it.

There's your answer, Dave did it for you. Whatever it is you wanted to call yourselves and someone has taken now, start it with The Real ......

Iive built a couple of websites for friends bands and had exactly the same problem finding a domain name. Its amazing how just about every name / word / or phrase has already been taken by someone...even really really dumb things!



Anyway, how about anagrams?



Chilean Sock Jam >> Michael Jackson



Mooned Army >> Mandy Moore



Or my favourite:



Chimaera Ray >> Mariah Carey



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Chris CD Duplication & Audio Services

alot of band names come from song names. my band is called The Waiting after a tom petty song...

Yea, sometimes just a line or two from a song. I'm thinking of going with "He just smoked my eyelids and punched my cigarettes."



A singer named Bob and the bass player called Zimmerman, the drummer chick referred to in the small hours of the morning as Dylan and the reluctant guitar player turned groupie answering to Blind Boy Grunt.



If that all was just to much to get on a business card, maybe just Blind Boy Grunt?

Has anyone taken Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat?

As of 5 seconds ago, probably.



How about:

"The Drummer Bassist And Lead Vocalist Who're Going To Rock Your Socks But The Backing Singers Ain't That Hot"

Sill having trouble coming up with that awsome, original name? Well, the answer is easier than you thought. Just visit: http://www.bandnamemaker.com/ and let them come up with a totally radical name for you, or type in a keyword if you want a certain word in your band name, like death; some of the awesome generated names are: Death Cracker, Death of the Radiation, and Resin of the Death Math; all of them are definitely death metal-worthy names -- which one to choose?

Resin of the Death Radiation Cracker Math ?

AKR wrote: [quote=Thomas W. Bethel]This is probably a really stupid question but if you are a local band why does it matter so much if you find a name that you like and just use it?



If the name is taken just add something to it...



Pearl Jammin



The Jackson 5 wannabees



The Beatles Exterminator



Queen's tiara



I think you get the point.



or



The A's



The B's



or



The Number ONE band



The First Band



The Numero Iona Band



Fatal Attraction



Mega Band



Tune a Fish



Guitar Pickers Amalgamated



Thunder Percussion



The Fools Game



Music Business Heroes





or



spell the name backwards:



neeuq (Queen), seltaeb (Beatles) ecilop (Police) anavirn (Nirvana) etc and etc.



Best of luck! :!:

Thanks for the suggestions, but there is no such thing as a local band anymore. Well, I mean, if you're just a couple of friends that get together to jam and are never going to be anything serious, then it doesn't really matter. But if you're serious about it, you should be on the internet, which makes you worldwide.


No it makes your NAME worldwide but your band is still local unless you are touring worldwide. Why do people think that because their name is on the Internet they are a world wide band? NOTHING could be further from the truth. Your posting here is read all over the world and people can see what you have written but until they meet you in person then they really do not know you. The same thing goes for a band. You can posts songs, interviews, bios and everything else but until you actually PLAY in some foreign land you are still a LOCAL band.