Darby Crash
Johnny Thunders
John Doe
Richard Hell
Ari Up
Poly Styrene
Gary Glitter
Buckethead
Tortelvis
Marilyn Manson
Slash (How could I forget him?)
Johnny Cougar, the Rock n Roll Cat!
Little Steven
Lady Gaga
Freddie Mercury
O. M. G. Frank Zappa rules
Husband’s asleep & stack of vinyls are too heavy for me to lift so working from “remembery” here…the Traveling Wilbury’s
Perry Ferrell.
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.
Bootsy Collins
and Tess Turbo!
Joachim Pimento
Blixa Bargeld (basically “Blue Sharpie Cash”)
F.M. Einheit (“Unity” - FM are his real initials)
N.U. Unruh(A real surname, but also a reference to Black Body radiation)
Bono?
Sleazy P. Martini from GWAR
(He’s a manager though. Not sure if that counts.)
Cobalt Stargazer
Shinehead
Shaggy
Dez Candenza
Exene Cervenka
John Doe
Henry Rollins (so plausibly normal, and yet)
Pink
Peaches
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!
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.
Dr. Winston O’Boogie (John Lennon)
L’Angelo Misterioso (George Harrison)
Ron Nasty
Dirk McQuickly
Stig O’Hara
Barry Wom
(actually, only the last one’s a pseudonym) 