# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/81 "2011-08-25T02:42:18Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > Does anyone in Rock actually use their real name? 🙂 Lenny Kravitz does. Which is funny, because he started out with the pseudonym “Romeo Blue,” which is just awful. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/82 "2011-08-26T02:16:37Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Bono? No, I’m pretty sure Sonny Bono was born that way… But [Biff Blumfumgagnge](https://andywallman.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/with-a-name-like-biff-blumfumgagnge-this-creativity-chat-should-be-pretty-boffo/) is, I suspect, one o’ them made-up names. 'Strewth, gov’nr, he’s got a [wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biff_Blumfumgagnge). ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/83 "2011-08-26T02:33:30Z")
Rudi Protrudi and Deb O’Nair (members of The Fuzztones). ---
**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 26, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/84 "2011-08-26T03:22:06Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > What’s so great about these pseudonyms? Pseudonyms, schmeudonyms, so long as they’re nice to their mothers, already. ---
**Author:** ![Rattlehead02](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rattlehead02/32/3944_2.png) [@Rattlehead02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rattlehead02)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/85 "2011-08-26T04:01:05Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Richard Cheese > Jerry Only > **Jimmy Pop** But his pop’s name is Dick. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/86 "2011-08-26T08:30:31Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > Does anyone in Rock actually use their real name? 🙂 Mike Rivers put out a couple 4-songs 45-rpm records in the 60s, a time when many RnR artists in Spain used English names because it sounded cooler; the trend was so big that many people are surprised to find out that a few of those artists actually were English, American or Australian. Miguel Ríos just retired from a long career spanning more than 40 years. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/87 "2011-08-26T12:22:51Z")
If we’re going for nicknames, David Freiberg’s names for Paul Kantner and Grace Slick aren’t bad: Baron von Tolbooth and the Chrome Nun. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/88 "2011-08-26T23:15:29Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Mike Rivers put out a couple 4-songs 45-rpm records in the 60s, a time when many RnR artists in Spain used English names because it sounded cooler; the trend was so big that many people are surprised to find out that a few of those artists actually were English, American or Australian. Miguel Ríos just retired from a long career spanning more than 40 years. Miguel Ríos, kicking musical ass across decades…“…_el rock es un bumerán, por eso siempre volverá…_” ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839/89 "2011-08-27T01:54:10Z")
> [@Mixolydian](#): > > _Perry Ferrell_ is a play on “peripheral”…not as bad, eh? No, not as bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-roll-pseudonyms/593839.md?page=4)