What popular work has spawned the most band names? Movie, TV show, book, other band, whatever.
For example, Nerf Herder, famous for the Buffy theme song, took their name from the Star Wars universe. I’m sure there are other Star Wars-derived band names out there. And I’d guess Star Wars is a good candidate for the most band-influential popular work, but I really have no idea.
(For purposes of this question, fictional bands do not count. The bands in question should have existed and probably recorded some music, or at least toured around a bit.)
There are about 2,000 mostly obscure progressive rock bands named after Tolkein characters and places. Shadowfax, Isildur’s Bane, at least two or three different Gandalfs, Rivendell (apparently two different ones with different spellings), Galadriel, Cirith Ungol, Lothlorien, Iluvatar, Mirthrandir, and probably a host of others.
But of course. See my list of concerts in this thread. Ironically, though, I forgot to list Marillion, whom I’ve seen twice. (Funny story about seeing Marillion on the Clutching at Straws tour, which ties in with another recent thread…during the last song, when Fish was exhorting the audience to clap along, he pointed directly at me because I wasn’t clapping. The reason was that I had a tape recorder in my hands! But what could I do? I shoved the tape recorder between my knees and clapped!)
I’m a HUGE fan of King Crimson; I once got to interview Robert Fripp, and I made a couple of very minor contributions to Sid Smith’s excellent book on the band.