British Heavy Metal band Judas Priest. Taken from the Bob Dylan song.
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If barbershop quartets count: the Buffalo Bills.
There was a NYC-based band called Eve’s Plum (a nod to Eve Plumb).
Sleater-Kinney Rd. was named after two families. The band was named after the road.
Though there are undoubtedly real Frank Burnses out there, I imagine that your band was more likely named after the MASH character. Haven Moses, OTOH, is a real person (with an excellent name).
Au contraire. I had no hand in naming it, but I was told it was a reference to a bad barbecue experience … but I never believed them.
(also apropos, there’s a dog I sometimes take care of a daycare named Frank, last name, Burns - and the pet parents said it nothing to do with MASH either)
A couple of not hugely well known British Punk bands.
Phineas Gage who took their name from that railway worker in America in the 1800s who survived a metal bar piercing his skull.
Wat Tyler who took their name from the leader of the 1381 Peasants Revolt in England.
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The Lee Harvey Oswald Band
This is true. The road that separated the “Sawyer Farm” from the “Brown Farm” is the historically recognized Sawyer Brown Road in Bellevue, Tennessee.
The name for the road came about, obviously, because the road ran between property owned by families named Sawyer and Brown. There are historical records that confirm this origin
They sound about like I expected.
Walt Mink was a fairly obscure band active mainly in the 1990s that named themselves after a favorite professor of psychology at Macalester College. I’m not seeing any info regarding what he thought about that fact.
From Wikipedia about The Marshall Tucker Band…
The “Marshall Tucker” in the band’s name refers not to a band member, but to a blind piano tuner from Spartanburg.The band was discussing possible band names one evening in an old warehouse they had rented for rehearsal space. Someone noticed that the warehouse’s door keychain had the name “Marshall Tucker” inscribed on it, and suggested they call themselves “The Marshall Tucker Band,” not realizing it referred to an actual person.
Has ZZ Top been mentioned?