# Knockoff Band Names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2013, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380 "2013-05-26T05:54:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/1 "2013-05-26T05:54:22Z")
My wife and I passed a billboard advertising Creedence Clearwater Revisited, which is not quite the same as Creedence Clearwater Revival, having been formed by two members of the original band (but not John Fogerty). This is a knockoff band; they even have a CD consisting of covers of Creedence Clearwater Revival songs. We got to thinking - what if other bands had knockoff versions with former minor menbers? What would they be called? We thought of: Aerosmith \> Aerojones The Beach Boys \> The Beach Erosion Boys Red Hot Chili Peppers \> Mild Chili Peppers The Rolling Stones \> The Stationary Stones What else do you guys have? No points for the obvious Beatles \> Monkees joke. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/2 "2013-05-26T06:08:33Z")
Toad the Damp Sprocket Hypothermic Ladies Micro Vanilli ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/3 "2013-05-26T06:33:02Z")
Grey Sabbath Smooch The Tumbling Stones Milk Fat Myopic Belief ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/4 "2013-05-26T06:34:10Z")
When Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, & Howe reunited in the late '80s, they toyed with the name “The Affirmative” before deciding on using their last names. Dream Theater has been known to switch up their instruments on stage, calling themselves Nightmare Cinema. Anyway, a couple of ideas… Prince Crimson Spock’s Stubble Gentle Ogre Fuchsia Floyd Hedgehog Tree Return to a Few Thousand Years from Now The Security Guards ---
**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:** [May 26, 2013, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/5 "2013-05-26T06:39:18Z")
A real-life example is Todd Rundgren touring and recording with Cars members Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes and calling themselves the _New Cars_. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/6 "2013-05-26T07:30:45Z")
King Zirconia ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/7 "2013-05-26T07:51:48Z")
Another real life example is _ELO Part II_ which did not include Jeff Lynne. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/8 "2013-05-26T09:53:40Z")
The Who Dat? The Faux Fighters The Grateful Zombies Blink 182.1 The Red Not Chili Peppers Crosby, Stills, Nash & Jung Jefferson Starship 😃 mmm ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/9 "2013-05-26T10:25:50Z")
The Windows The Suede Mainstream The Abstinent Stamens Clueless and the Unrelated People Rock ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/10 "2013-05-26T12:36:01Z")
Deep Lavender Mumbling Heads Humble Crumbs 50 Years After Great Grandmammas and Grandpappies ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/11 "2013-05-26T13:35:22Z")
There is a local Doors cover band called _The Next Doors_. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/12 "2013-05-26T13:36:15Z")
There is an excellent female AC-DC cover band called Hell’s Belles. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/13 "2013-05-27T11:26:07Z")
**Foo Huggers** ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/14 "2013-05-27T16:39:23Z")
Another real-life example: [The Kast Off Kinks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kast_Off_Kinks) ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/15 "2013-05-27T18:30:51Z")
Wham! –\> The Other Guy From Wham! > [@cochrane](#): > > A real-life example is Todd Rundgren touring and recording with Cars members Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes and calling themselves the _New Cars_. I always thought the New Yardbirds was a lousy name and was glad to see Spinal Tap thought so too: _David: And we had to change our name actually… Nigel: Well there was, there was another group in the east end called The Originals and we had to rename ourselves. David: The New Originals. Nigel: The New Originals and then, uh, they became… David: The Regulars, they changed their name back to The Regulars and we thought well, we could go back to The Originals but what’s the point?_ ---
**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/16 "2013-05-27T19:45:36Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > There is an excellent female AC-DC cover band called Hell’s Belles. There’s also a band which covers AC/DC tunes as country songs called [Hayseed Dixie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayseed_Dixie). No former members of the tributed band are involved, so it doesn’t quite fit the OP’s requirements, but that’s hard to beat as a knockoff name. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/17 "2013-05-27T20:17:22Z")
We’re Certainly Dwarfs The Surreptitious Fabric The Whom The Blots Steel Balloon Lead Moth Dwarfs With Altitude &U ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/18 "2013-05-27T20:33:41Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > The Grateful Zombies That one presumably would be made up of Garcia, Pigpen, Keith Godchaux, and Brent Myland. IRL, some of the surviving members performed for a while as _The Other Ones_ ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/19 "2013-05-27T20:35:06Z")
Celebrity spouse Mrs. Stephen Fry has gone on record as affirming that some of her husband’s favorite bands are **Earth, Wind and Frank** , **Nearvana** , and **I Can’t Believe It’s Not Emerson, Lake and Palmer**. ---
**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380/20 "2013-05-27T22:17:27Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > **I Can’t Believe It’s Not Emerson, Lake and Palmer**. …which brings to mind another real knockoff band: Keith Emerson and Greg Lake reformed ELP in the late 1980s and managed to retain the initials by [substituting Cozy Powell for Carl Palmer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerson_Lake_and_Powell). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockoff-band-names/659380.md?page=2)