That would be me, although Pornado never actually performed and I missed last weekend’s Diarrhea of Anne Frank reunion due to family reasons.
Meanwhile, there’s a Memphis band called The Joint Chiefs who totally rock.
Mid '80s saw this quartet perfroming regularly in Boulder, CO.
The 4 Nikators
There’s also a local band who calls themselves The Electric Amish.
They left one out:
SicKihntired.
I found out the hard way - by calling them “Lipps, Incoporated” in front of my brothers and getting teased unmercifully as a result.
Time to pay it forward:
[Nelson]
HAH-hah!
[/Nelson]
Last week’s Prairie Home Companion show featured the Wailin’ Jennys, a Canadian girl group.
In these parts, there’s a band called The Vulgar Boatmen, from the very old Volga Boatman.
Has anybody mentioned the Dead Kennedys yet?
The Notting Hillbillies, Mark Knopfler’s retro band.
The Hellecasters. Studio guitar wizards.
Hayseed Dixie is a bluegrass band that plays AC/DC covers.
The Fortress of Solitude is in Indiana?
My Dixie Wrecked.
Please could someone explain the puns in these names, which have all been put forward in this thread:
Eve’s Plumbs
Average White Band
Jim Jones & The Kool Aid Kids
Me First & the Gimme Gimmes
Electric Amish
Dead Kennedys
Eve’s Plumbs = Eve Plumb was Jan on the Brady Bunch
Jim Jones = was the leader of a cult. He forced his followers to drink poisoned Kool Aid
Electric Amish = The Amish live a 19th century lifestyle without modern amenities such as electricity
Dead Kennedys = San Francisco punk band ripping on JKF & RFK and their untimely demise.
Jello Biafra
So none of these are actually puns?
They’re jokes, but not puns.
This is really embarrassing–but I still don’t get the “Lipps, Inc.” thing.
Lip sync
I got it right after I posted! :smack: But thanks anyway.
Nope. But the Fortress of SoliDude is.
Reminds me of the book How to Be a Superhero. In it, the writers were discussing bad answers to media questions. Allow me to paraphrase:
“Captain Dynamo, can you tell us where your secret base is?”
“Sure…438 W 92nd Street…dammit! Forget I said that!”
[Nelson]
HAH-hah!
[/Nelson]
Ever since FilmGeek mentioned the band in a previous thread, I’ve thought of Onward Crispin Glover whenever this topic comes up.
My brother was once in a group called 6S (success) and my dad is part of an ensemble known as the Standard Thyme Band (playing the “standards” with a bit of spice).
Ernest Evans took the stage name Chubby Checker as a play on Fats Domino, whose actual first name is Antoine, as the recent news from New Orleans reminded/informed us.
I once saw an episode of Family Feud which featured a Caucasian woman who had a hip-hop act and billed herself as Plain White Rapper.
Fake (as far as I know) name which I’ve found amusing since hearing it when I was in college: Dr. Sausage and the Missing Links.
Don’t feel bad. I never got “Camper Van Beethoven”, and was just about to post an Idontgeddit…when the light dawned.
“Chevy Van Beethoven” would’ve been better, though.