# The Name My Band Contest **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 5, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231 "2004-12-05T17:12:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/41 "2004-12-07T00:33:34Z")
I was looking at your profile and saw “good grass,” and thought immediately, **Good Grass Almighty.** Methinks I would really dig your band. I fell in love with bluegrass after going to college in West Virginia… Luckily I live close to some awesome venues that host great bluegrass bands. This Friday, I’m going to see [The Hackensaw Boys](http://www.hackensawboys.com/hack_default.asp), ever heard of 'em? They’re awesome. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/42 "2004-12-07T03:36:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Fire Mountain String Band I like it, but the problem would be the proximity to the very established (and very wonderful) Yonder Mountain String Band. A few more… **The Grazers** **The Star Grazers** **Salvador’s Deli** ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/43 "2004-12-07T03:57:11Z")
W-what? Nobody fell in love with Skull Bone Ten? Don’t tell me you’re actually quibbling about the fact your group doesn’t have ten members or anyone from Skullbone…? Oh, rough and ready thunderation. What a time to get hung up on unnecessary details. That’s part of y’all’s new hook. Use it. Well, fine. Charles Monroe Schultz spent fifty years cartooning a wildly successful strip he never liked the name of neither. If you’re gonna ignore GOLD, be my guest. Y’all could do worse and the fact that y’all are most evidently hell-bent on doing so makes no matter to me. (Great Divide? Pftttth. That ain’t a band name, it’s a damn social construct.) Okay, okay. One more. The League of Calamitous Bluegrass. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/44 "2004-12-09T02:54:11Z")
So… **Picker** , what’s crack-a-lackin’? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/45 "2004-12-09T03:25:32Z")
Ever since I first read [Satchel’s Pages Rules for Living,](http://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/lipaig.shtml) I’ve thought **Social Ramble** (see Rule #4) would be a great name for a band. Sure, **Bruce\_Daddy** passed it up when I suggested it to him, but that’s because it was meant for you all along, **picker** … ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/46 "2004-12-09T04:03:20Z")
All right, first of all, let me say that you guys rock…I’ve been swamped in the studio with a project and haven’t even looked at the Dope in several days. Meanwhile, I’m thinking in the back of my head, ‘Damn, I really need a name for this group’ totally forgetting about this thread 'cause of these damn projects. Then I pop in here and there’s crazy amounts of good ideas. The Situation As It Stands: I am about to go through and compile a master list, and again mark the ones that seem the most spot on. It looks like we’re doing a vocal rehearsal on Saturday, so I will again present the list to the group for consideration. If there is no obvious winner, I’ll keep the thread alive at least through Monday night’s full rehearsal. At that point, we’ll make the decision, and should we not have a band name out of the list, we as a group will vote on the overall coolest name on the list, even if it’s not suited to the band. That person will be the official winner, and get all the cool swag. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/47 "2004-12-09T04:31:00Z")
The list to this point: The Teeming Millions Caledonia Missionaries Unfaithful Servants The Great Divide The Bluegrass Resistance Cannabisaurus Rex Flatpick Mandolin Overdrive. The Electric Jamband Pickers The Flatpick Alliance Bluegrass Vibes Borderline Kentucky Tennessee Brindle Skull Bone Ten The Cast Iron Trio The Flatbeds The Pick Axis Rosine Horse Branch Pigeon Creek **Fire Mountain** / Fire Mountain String Band Cumberlandians The Jefferson County Sextet The Band Of Renown Johnny Reb and the Unionists Pick Pickwell and His Pickers Do It For Danko The Return of the Waltz The Pick Pockets Uncle Jean-Marie le The Stringers The Hidalgo Trading Company Warehouse Purple Filth Gumbo Free Beer Okefenokee Philharmonic Billie Banjo and the Hootenanny Richard Manuel’s Broken Heart The First Waltz Psychedelic Hillbilly Freakout High ‘N Lonesome High Lonesome Pickers/High Lonesome String Band Safe At Anchor Anniversary Paint Dustbowl Heart The Yolks Green Grass Bluegrass Band For Twenty Minutes Just Once Cottonpicker The Pony Party Kato and the C-Listers Pine Plank Pickers Fielder’s Square Trumped Up Rift Stump Shaker (or Stump Shakin’) Chicken Coop Hot House Bailing Wires The Bottles Shrinktones Pickin’ and Grinnin’ The Pike County Exchange Renfro Valley The Coal Crackers Picker Knows **Foggy Mountain Rehab** Arthur Fiddler and the Bustin’ Chops Orchestra Itty Bitty Shirt Band Johnny Debitcard (First there was Cash, then there was Paycheque; now…) Mountain Railway **The Porch Pickers** GuiBanjoLin **Across the Great Divide** Ozark Bluegrass Band Bluegrass Brigade Appalaichan Sensation No Fear Mountaineers Moun-tones Goddamitall Black Balsam Shining Rock Experience New 98s (get it?..nevermind) **Grassoline** Mountain Lake Retreat Perpetual Line Steppers/Perpetual Line Crossers The 2nd Coming Detatchable Jesus The Moonshine Review Sweet Creek Singers Balm in Gilead Kissing Cousins Owl Creek Bridge The Family Banjocases The Old Homestead **Uncle Dad** In The Pines Banjo Deliverance The Long Black Veil Thunder Road The Scrapplers Moonbeam McSwine Mayonnaise Bitch Licking Hole Butt Funnel L.I.M.B. (Lesbians In Men’s Bodies) Strikes Black Snick Paprika **Good Grass Almighty** The Grazers The Star Grazers **Salvador’s Deli** The League of Calamitous Bluegrass Social Ramble Again, thanks for this. I think you’ll see by the list we’re trending towards non-traditional bluegrass names. Traditional bluegrass is only going to be 25% or so of the show anyway, and even that’s gonna have a lot more jam vibe (kind of a Yonder Mountain meets the Band thing) **THE SHORT LIST** not officially. My personal short list… Foggy Mountain Rehab The Porch Pickers Salvador’s Deli ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/48 "2004-12-09T04:41:05Z")
Redneck Nipple Beaver ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/49 "2004-12-09T05:00:56Z")
When I bought my mandolin a few years ago, my friends made me promise that I would name my band **Bandolin**. I don’t particularly like it, so I’m throwing it out here for you. Also, feel free to use my old username, **FireUnderpantsBoobs** , as long as I get credit. Credit, dammit! Also if you ever come to Chicago I want to play a set with you (I can play fiddle & mandolin but not so well…) Other random names: **The United Romaine Farmer’s Alliance Craze Campaign 3000 The Venus Flytraps Bobby Dean and the Down Home Boys The Shitty Beatles** (“So it’s not just a clever name!”) This is hard. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/50 "2004-12-09T06:31:24Z")
The Chicken Plucker’s Sons. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/51 "2004-12-09T06:46:39Z")
Pick of the Litter Home from the Hills ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/52 "2004-12-09T07:54:02Z")
The New Old Yellers The Young Yellers The Porch Sitters/Pickers ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/53 "2004-12-09T08:54:55Z")
The Dopers War on Ignorance Only Once in 1960 Mariana’s Trench The Death Rays (doesn’t sound that bluegrassy at all–oh well) The Blisters (I started thinking about country music and got to thinking about Stewie shouting “I’ve got blisters on me fingers!” after a jammin’ banjo tune) ATOD (Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs) – you see this a lot in research about adolescent drug abuse–always thought it would make a good band name – maybe Alcohol, Tobacco and the Drugs? Herb Green and the Green Herbs We Inhaled The Grand Theft Autos Sea Sponge ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/54 "2004-12-17T09:50:19Z")
Well, after much discussion, we picked several names, so I’m afraid we’ve got to declare several winners. We’ve still not settled on a name for the main project, which is rapidly becoming it’s own amalgamation of acoustic, vocal, funk and americana. I suppose the proper name shall make itself known to us soon. However, we realized that in light of the way the original material and core group is shaping up, we’d best split the radically different stuff into ‘side projects’ that consist of most of us playing, under a different name. Henceforth when perform in a bluegrass/jamgrass environment (with the banjo player and fiddler) we shall indeed be known as **Foggy Mountain Rehab**. The jazz duo that my bassist and I run has been re-christened **Salvador’s Deli**. So congrats to the winners of our contest, **SavageNarce** and **DoctorJ** for the names. If the two of you would contact me at ellestad AT charter DOT net I will figure out what musical prizes to send to you, and where to send them. Many thanks to all who participated, we appreciate all the suggestions. Now go help **Seven** name his new [project](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=291387). P.S. We’ll be starting to record early January, and I’ll be sure to post some links to the material. Thanks again! ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/55 "2004-12-17T10:40:47Z")
> [@](#): > > **Askia** : W-what? Nobody fell in love with Skull Bone Ten? How in the hell did you know about Skullbone? My mother was born in the general area known as “Skullbonia,” and I grew up about fifteen miles away. Got the T-shirt with the store on it and I’m hungry for the doodle soup as I type. [This](http://www.bywaysusa.com/oddities/oddities14.php) is the Skullbone that I grew up with. Recently I’ve discovered that it now has the biggest biker rally in Tennessee and concerts by Lynard Skynard, Willie Nelson, Charlie Daniels, etc. Sure beats standing in the road and talking. Seriously, I think “Skullbone Ten” would be a great inside joke and the T-shirts are already available if the store still sells them. (They have a skull and crossbones. You can pretend to be from Yale.) ---
**Author:** ![ExpiringMind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ExpiringMind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExpiringMind)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/56 "2004-12-18T02:40:35Z")
Bluegrass or ass ??? ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231/57 "2004-12-18T07:59:27Z")
> [@picker](#): > > Now go help **Seven** name his new [project](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=291387). Heh heh. You know, I totaly missed this thread when I made mine. Really I’m not trying to play copy cat. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-my-band-contest/278231.md?page=2)