# Band name! For real this time: help name a 70s rock cover band **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393 "2009-02-25T18:01:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/41 "2009-02-26T00:28:47Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Cheap Tramps > It’s a combo of Cheap Trick and Super Tramp with the added bonus of advertisements that read “Tonight at the BrewPub: Cheap Tramps!” I would like to take back all of my suggestions and place my full support behind this one. Nothing says “The '70s” like a band named “Cheap Tramps” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/42 "2009-02-26T02:09:33Z")
Some suggestions… Apollo Soyuz and the Skylabs The Bad Influences Your Mother Warned You About (thinking of what our parents thought of Kiss and Aerosmith in those days) Stretch Armstrong and the Big Wheels The Rhapsodic Bohemians ---
**Author:** ![Obeseus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbce88/32.png) [@Obeseus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obeseus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/43 "2009-02-26T02:38:08Z")
The Swinging Testicles ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/44 "2009-02-26T10:35:08Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Have a Nice Day > > **The Leisure Suits** > Surgical Steel > > Slow Ride Taken by Jonathan Brandemeier (big-shot DJ from the 80s). I dated one of them! ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/45 "2009-02-26T10:47:22Z")
Steal Balloon. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/46 "2009-02-26T10:53:02Z")
The Penny Rounds Three Star Jumper The Platform Shoes No Mascara Allowed The Curly Perms ---
**Author:** ![criminey.jicket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@criminey.jicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminey.jicket)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/47 "2009-02-26T11:18:15Z")
Hot Pants and Farrah Fawcett Hair The Foosball Wizards Kept on Truckin’ The Pop Rocks ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/48 "2009-02-26T11:54:56Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > Wanna help name them? So far they’ve looked at things like car names from that era (Galaxie 500, Alfa Romeo, etc.), played around with “bell bottom” and a few other ideas, but nothing’s stuck. Go the whole hog and invoke the time: **Muscle Car Era** ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/49 "2009-02-26T11:58:16Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > Still Leaded [plays on the early '70’s phasing out of leaded gasoline; also suggestive of Led Zep covers] Still leaded after all these years. > [@AskNott](#): > > Rhinestone Jockstrap I like this. Maybe format it like “Diana Ross & the Supremes,” say, “Rhinestone Jockstrap and The Supporters.” > [@cornflakes](#): > > I would like to take back all of my suggestions and place my full support behind this one. Nothing says “The '70s” like a band named “Cheap Tramps” It is pretty good, but it would be better if they played tunes by either of them. E.g. _Still leaded after all these years_ has the Zep thing, but they don’t play Paul Simon (and that particular song is not “party.”) Cheap Tramp and the Super Tricks? Trick = a client. If you had a female lead singer and all male musicians, might be phunny. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/50 "2009-02-26T13:45:13Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Taken by Jonathan Brandemeier (big-shot DJ from the 80s). I dated one of them! Wow. I bet you waited a long time to drop **that** name! ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/51 "2009-02-26T13:50:49Z")
Three Mile Ithsmus ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/52 "2009-02-26T14:08:30Z")
Dyn-o-mite! ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/53 "2009-02-26T14:51:10Z")
Neon Nova Sticky Stash ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/54 "2009-02-26T15:42:41Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Taken by Jonathan Brandemeier Not sure of the ethical and/or legal implications, but Jonathan Brandemeier’s band is **Johnny Brandemeier and the Leisure Suits** , so technically _The Leisure Suits_ (without a name before it) is available. Could I legally start a band called **The Comets** [minus Bill Haley and…]? Could I legally start a band called **The Royal Canadians** [minus Guy Lombardo and…]? ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/55 "2009-02-26T15:43:58Z")
Spaceman Spliff Ganja Juan The Midnight Tokers ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/56 "2009-02-26T15:54:07Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Could I legally start a band called **The Royal Canadians** [minus Guy Lombardo and…]? [Guy Lombardo’s Royal Canadians](http://www.caclive.com/index.php/music/guylombardo)are still playing. Without Guy. FYI, I totally recommend the Genetti Hotel in Williamsport, Pennsylvania! A great old-fashioned hotel. They remembered our dog’s name every time we came in the lobby and gave him a treat! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/57 "2009-02-26T16:20:39Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Not sure of the ethical and/or legal implications, but Jonathan Brandemeier’s band is **Johnny Brandemeier and the Leisure Suits** , so technically _The Leisure Suits_ (without a name before it) is available. > > Could I legally start a band called **The Comets** [minus Bill Haley and…]? > > Could I legally start a band called **The Royal Canadians** [minus Guy Lombardo and…]? Actually, I thought it was just “Johnny and the Leisure Suits” but yes, I think the Leisure Suits is technically available. Prolly the whole name, as I think they’re no longer a band. ---
**Author:** ![Octalcode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Octalcode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octalcode)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/58 "2009-02-26T17:22:27Z")
Jehova’s Witness Protection Program ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/59 "2009-02-26T19:17:06Z")
For the time period and party-rock vibe, you need to somehow work the adjective **bitchin’** into the name. I dunno, Bob Bitchin’ and the Cameros, Bitchin’ Aviator Frames, Bitchin’ Sound System!, Bitchin’ 8 tracks… ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393/60 "2009-02-26T20:34:33Z")
What about something like “Bump”? It’s a dance, it’s from the 70’s… Or maybe something funny like “Jive Turkeys”? One of my favorite cover bands is called “The Funnies” and they place an eclectic range of rock music. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-for-real-this-time-help-name-a-70s-rock-cover-band/487393.md?page=4)