# The cleverest tribute band/cover band names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cleverest-tribute-band-cover-band-names/446372 "2008-04-22T05:22:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cleverest-tribute-band-cover-band-names/446372/21 "2008-04-22T19:38:16Z")
The band [GABBA](http://www.gabba.co.uk/) plays ABBA songs in the style of The Ramones. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cleverest-tribute-band-cover-band-names/446372/22 "2008-04-22T19:57:39Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] The band [GABBA](http://www.gabba.co.uk/) plays ABBA songs in the style of The Ramones. [/QUOTE] Pink Freud would be a good coverband name, especially if manned by all pyschiatrist (or psych grad students). Ditto “Forever Jung” as a Rod Stewart tribute band. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cleverest-tribute-band-cover-band-names/446372/23 "2008-04-22T19:59:42Z")
[QUOTE=si\_blakely] Some uni friends and I performed a few Dire Straits covers. We wanted a name that reflected a sense of difficulty or trouble, single syllables, and used **D** and **S**. We called ourselvesDeep Shit Si [/QUOTE] That reminds me of my favorite Doors cover band, Crystal Shit [/bitchin’ camaro] ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cleverest-tribute-band-cover-band-names/446372/24 "2008-04-22T20:20:31Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] [Anal Gestapo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_Gestapo). Not clever as such but surely worth a mention. [/QUOTE] For some reason, my mind tried to read that as Anal Gazpacho. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cleverest-tribute-band-cover-band-names/446372/25 "2008-04-22T20:31:08Z")
I was part of a saxophone sextet that played the music of the once popular [Six Brown Brothers](http://www.hungrytigerpress.com/audio/sixbros_cd.shtml), called (of course) the **Six Brown Others**. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cleverest-tribute-band-cover-band-names/446372/26 "2008-04-22T20:44:01Z")
Obligatory Simpsons reference: the marquee in Las Vegas for Moody Blues cover band “The Satin Knights”, featuring as an opening act…The Moody Blues. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cleverest-tribute-band-cover-band-names/446372/27 "2008-04-22T21:05:56Z")
Shania Twin Led Zepagain ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cleverest-tribute-band-cover-band-names/446372/28 "2008-04-22T21:10:11Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict] **Hayseed Dixie**. Bluegrass AC/DC cover band. [/QUOTE] Came in here to mention this one. I didn’t “get” the name until I said it aloud–then I had a good laugh. Gotta say that it’s really something to hear “Big Balls” sung in bluegrass style! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cleverest-tribute-band-cover-band-names/446372/29 "2008-04-22T21:28:43Z")
NPR had a story today about a Stones cover band called “Sticky Fingers”. I think they mentioned a band called “Dixie Chicklets”. /was kinda half-listening at work. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cleverest-tribute-band-cover-band-names/446372/30 "2008-04-23T00:03:38Z")
The Wholigans ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cleverest-tribute-band-cover-band-names/446372/31 "2008-04-23T01:49:19Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] Pink Freud would be a good coverband name [/QUOTE] There IS one called **Pink Fraud**. But I still think **Anderson Council** is the Pict of the crop. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cleverest-tribute-band-cover-band-names/446372.md?page=1)