Guess the band by the origin of its name.

The Game Room
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  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.

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  1. This band allegedly took their name from a teacher said to despise long hair and rock music…
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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.
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I didn’t, largely due to the fact that Jeopardy doesn’t air in this country.

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Well… allegedly. Do people really believe that?

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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.
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That’s the story I’ve always heard.

Toad the Wet Sprocket, from an Eric Idle sketch in a MP album.

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  1. Nobody has heard of peyote jam in any other context. (Try to find a recipe.)

  2. The name means semen.

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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.
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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.

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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?

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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.

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  1. This band was named after a movie about a man who thinks he’s Sherlock Holmes.
    They Might be Giants.
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Steely Dan.

  1. This band took their name from a French fashion magazine.
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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’

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  1. Black Sabbath
  2. Jethro Tull
  3. Who is Great Big Sea?
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28 = Jethro Tull

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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.

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30: Husker Du.

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  1. The Pouges

  2. Stephen “Tin Tin” Duffy?

  3. This band was named after an American expansionist slogan.