# Guess the band by the origin of its name. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 4, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502 "2011-03-04T18:17:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/21 "2011-03-06T06:53:53Z")
1. This band named itself after a Western that co-starred Jeff Bridges. 2. This band adopted its name because their idol burst onto the musical scene almost exactly a decade before the group played its first gig together. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/22 "2011-03-06T07:15:46Z")
1. This band allegedly took their name from a teacher said to despise long hair and rock music… ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/23 "2011-03-06T07:43:04Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > 1. This band allegedly took their name from a teacher said to despise long hair and rock music… Lynyrd Skynyrd. The real Leonard Skinner passed away recently. 1. This band took its name from a slang term for a meth addict - which its founder and frontman _was_ at the time. ---
**Author:** ![BDoors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BDoors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BDoors)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/24 "2011-03-06T10:29:48Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > Dude, this is the SDMB. We all watched Jeopardy last week, too… > > Joe I didn’t, largely due to the fact that Jeopardy doesn’t air in this country. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/25 "2011-03-06T11:49:55Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > 10—This band took it’s name from the peyote cactus preserves that the lead singers Native American grandmother used to make. Well… allegedly. Do people really believe that? ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/26 "2011-03-06T12:03:57Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > 1. This band adopted its name because their idol burst onto the musical scene almost exactly a decade before the group played its first gig together. 19= Ten Years After 1. This band took its name from a Monty Python sketch never actually shown in the Monty Python T.V. shows or movies. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/27 "2011-03-06T12:17:43Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > Well… allegedly. Do people really believe that? That’s the story I’ve always heard. > [@njtt](#): > > 1. This band took its name from a Monty Python sketch never actually shown in the Monty Python T.V. shows or movies. **Toad the Wet Sprocket** , from an Eric Idle sketch in a MP album. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/28 "2011-03-06T12:31:57Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > That’s the story I’ve always heard. 1. Nobody has heard of peyote jam in any other context. (Try to find a recipe.) 2. The name means _semen_. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/29 "2011-03-06T13:26:25Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > 19= Ten Years After Correct- the band was formed in 1966, almost exactly “ten years after” Elvis Presley introduced rock and roll to millions of kids. The only question of mine that’s still unanswered is #6. I’ll expand it a teeny bit 1. In the early Sixties, this band originally named itself after a popular beer company in Birmingham, England, in order to get a sponsorship. When the sponsorship fell through, the band kept the same initials but took a new name based on a Slim Harpo song. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/30 "2011-03-06T13:28:03Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > 1. Nobody has heard of peyote jam in any other context. (Try to find a recipe.) > > 2. The name means _semen_. I can’t vouch for the origin of the name- I CAN tell you that, even if the peyote jelly story was bogus, it was presented as true on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” in the Regis Philbin days. ---
**Author:** ![BDoors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BDoors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BDoors)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/31 "2011-03-06T14:13:32Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > The only question of mine that’s still unanswered is #6. I’ll expand it a teeny bit > > 1. In the early Sixties, this band originally named itself after a popular beer company in Birmingham, England, in order to get a sponsorship. When the sponsorship fell through, the band kept the same initials but took a new name based on a Slim Harpo song. Well, the list of famous Birmingham bands isn’t that long, and it can’t be Duran Duran, Ocean Colour Scene or the aforementioned UB40. I tried to get ELO to work, but they emerged form The Move, I think, so that doesn’t work. Which leaves the **Moody Blues**? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/32 "2011-03-06T14:29:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > 1. This band took its name from a slang term for a meth addict - which its founder and frontman _was_ at the time. Motorhead. 1. This band got both its name and a new musical direction after watching a late night Vincent Price movie on telly. 2. The drummer for this band stole the name from a friend who was starting a rock magazine and was running potential titles by him. The drummer steered him to another name and kept the good one for his band. 3. This band was named after a mechanical sex toy in William S. Burrough’s \*Naked Lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/33 "2011-03-06T14:47:52Z")
1. This band was named after a movie about a man who thinks he’s Sherlock Holmes. They Might be Giants. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/34 "2011-03-06T15:02:02Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > 1. This band was named after a mechanical sex toy in William S. Burrough’s \*Naked Lunch. Steely Dan. 1. This band took their name from a French fashion magazine. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/35 "2011-03-06T15:09:23Z")
Originally Posted by Vaious People: 9 Also called The Warlocks, then The Falling Spikes, and finally they took the title from a book about the ‘secret sexual subculture of the early sixties’. 1. This band named itself after a Western that co-starred Jeff Bridges. 1. This band took their name from a French fashion magazine. 1. Velvet Underground 2. Bad Company 3. Depeche Mode New Ones: 4. This band named itself after a 1963 Boris Karloff film 5. This band was named after an 18th century inventor of farming equipment 6. This band’s name was shortened from the Gaelic for ‘kiss my ass’ ---
**Author:** ![Hennessy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hennessy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hennessy)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/36 "2011-03-06T15:27:32Z")
1. Black Sabbath 2. Jethro Tull 3. Who is Great Big Sea? ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/37 "2011-03-06T15:29:18Z")
28 = Jethro Tull ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/38 "2011-03-06T15:35:28Z")
30 - This post-punk band got their name from a board game introduced in the States during the 70’s. 31 - This band name was originally the title of a French kiddie book. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/39 "2011-03-06T16:24:24Z")
30: Husker Du. ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/40 "2011-03-06T17:09:23Z")
1. The Pouges 2. Stephen “Tin Tin” Duffy? 3. This band was named after an American expansionist slogan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502.md?page=3)