# Best Rock & Roll Pseudonyms **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839 "2011-08-24T00:57:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/41 "2011-08-24T03:45:41Z")
Darby Crash Johnny Thunders John Doe Richard Hell Ari Up Poly Styrene ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/42 "2011-08-24T03:50:33Z")
Gary Glitter Buckethead Tortelvis Marilyn Manson Slash (How could I forget him?) ---
**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:** [August 24, 2011, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/43 "2011-08-24T03:56:41Z")
Johnny Cougar, the Rock n Roll Cat! Little Steven Lady Gaga Freddie Mercury ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/44 "2011-08-24T04:13:53Z")
> [@Mixolydian](#): > > Suzy Creamcheese 😃 O. M. G. Frank Zappa rules ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/45 "2011-08-24T04:18:51Z")
Husband’s asleep & stack of vinyls are too heavy for me to lift so working from “remembery” here…the Traveling Wilbury’s ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/46 "2011-08-24T05:21:09Z")
Perry Ferrell. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/47 "2011-08-24T05:32:49Z")
Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, Tommy, Markie and Richie Ramone Zodiac Mindwarp Muddy Waters The Edge Howlin’ Wolf H.R. (Human Rights, for those who aren’t fans of Bad Brains) Lee Ving Derf Scratch Johnny Backbeat Spit Stix Robo (from Black Flag) Chuck Biscuits Glenn Danzig Necrobutcher Hellhammer Attila Csihar Morfeus Teloch George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher Cronos I’ma stop now… punk and metal are fucking overflowing with pseudonyms; if I don’t stop now I could easily put in hundreds and hundreds of great names. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/48 "2011-08-24T06:01:31Z")
Bootsy Collins ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/49 "2011-08-24T06:02:33Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Joan Jett and Tess Turbo! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/50 "2011-08-24T08:39:17Z")
[Joachim Pimento](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Borland) [Blixa Bargeld](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blixa_Bargeld) (basically “Blue Sharpie Cash”) [F.M. Einheit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.M._Einheit) (“Unity” - FM are his real initials) [N.U. Unruh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.U._Unruh)(A real surname, but also a reference to Black Body radiation) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/51 "2011-08-24T09:14:39Z")
Bono? ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/52 "2011-08-24T09:25:53Z")
[Sleazy P. Martini](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleazy_P._Martini) from GWAR (He’s a manager though. Not sure if that counts.) ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/53 "2011-08-24T10:49:29Z")
Cobalt Stargazer ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/54 "2011-08-24T11:03:49Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > Not R’n’r but Reggae: > Yellowman. Shinehead Shaggy ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/55 "2011-08-24T11:51:35Z")
Dez Candenza ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/56 "2011-08-24T12:28:11Z")
Exene Cervenka John Doe Henry Rollins (so plausibly normal, and yet) Pink Peaches ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/57 "2011-08-24T12:31:14Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > Exene Cervenka I was going to say this, but I thought for sure that was her real name, and “X” was based on that. Instead, it seems they came up with her pseudonym and the band name simultaneously. A bit like ? and the Mysterians! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/58 "2011-08-24T12:38:41Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Geddy Lee For that matter… Alex Lifeson (Aleksandar Živojinović) Mutters…flag on the play for Geddy’s name though. That was his Polish mother’s attempt at pronouncing his given name ‘Gary’. He had it as a nickname by high school. It’s true that Lee is his middle name, though. Gary Lee Weinrib. Good jewish boy. And Neil Peart’s middle name is Ellwood. So there. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/59 "2011-08-24T12:47:29Z")
Dr. Winston O’Boogie (John Lennon) L’Angelo Misterioso (George Harrison) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/60 "2011-08-24T12:52:25Z")
Ron Nasty Dirk McQuickly Stig O’Hara Barry Wom (actually, only the last one’s a pseudonym) 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839.md?page=4)