Band name! For real this time: help name a 70s rock cover band

The Wide Lapels
C.K. and the Twilight Band
Polyester Playthings
Electric Light Quintet
SALT Four
Nixon Meets Mao
Travolta’s White Suit
Detente
Angolan Freedom Fighters
Saturday Night Yeast Infection
Nixon Goes to Beijing (you know, like Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
The Nixon Pardon
Tricky Dick
Tricky Dixie (if you were going for more of a rockabilly sound)

I tell you, if you want to evoke the Seventies, there’s nothing like Tricky Dick!

Flare To Dream

Time Keepers
Back to the Past
Back in the Day
Day Dreamers
The Outfitters
Time n Again
Back to Life
Past n Present
Karma
Livin in the Past
Stuck in the Past
Right in the Middle
Memories
Oldies but Goodies
Merry Go Round
2nd Time Around
Sound Off
Check One Too
Sound Checkers
Bringin it Back
Trust in US
The Platforms
The Pop Rocks* I like this one!!
The Twizzlers
Rock Candy
The Hazy Dukes

The Dung Beatles
Billy Rocca and the Rockabillies.
HalfFlash (a play on "Quarterflash)
Minstrel Cycle.

The Zombies! :smiley:

Aww shoot, that one’s already taken!

People, people, people. You are soooo far off the mark.

The correct answers are:

  • The Kissingers

  • The Big Hair Band

  • Steely Dandruff

  • Growing up Brady
    Rejected suggestions include:

Empty V - a cunning word play for people who wanted, but couldn’t get MTV

Spandex Generation - and other combos trying to pair clothing with terms like psychedelia

Greg and Marsha’s Love Children

Mutually Assured Destruction

Too Late Jake.

This thread is 8 years old. :rolleyes:

Yeah, but it’s still fun to come up with band names…

Metric Rejections
Mood Ringers
Pop Rockers
Long National Nightmare
Karen Carpenter’s Dietician

Wednesday Manson
Road Flare Lapels
Maximum Naugahyde
Hell Bent for Pleather
Dr Jekyll and Naugahyde
Pong Bong (or Rama-Lama-Pong-Bong)
MIRVed Griffin (that might be more 1980s California Punk… )
Jesus Carpenter
Carter’s Little Malaise Pills
Canned Heep
Annette Funicello’s Peacock (does anyone else still know Annette Peacock?)
Mickey Manson
Nixon’s Used Ford Dealership

Squeaky Ford
Up The Country
Up With Peebles
Dick Nixon’s Badass Song
Avocado Velour

Stars On 45

K-Tel

Cheery Garcia
BAAB
Arena Rock

The Polling Bones

Walking Deads

Rank Sappa

Reely Pan

Hateful Bread

The Trash

Green

P. Hex

Fuzzrocks

The Bars

The Hand

Heap Brick

Malice Pooper

Dee Cees

Fire Grates

Piss

I love these!

Thank you. Hell Bent for Pleather could be a Judas Priest cover band, in specific.

Gerald Ford and the Pardon-Me’s.

and mine are tribute bands. :rolleyes: