Noel
Joined: Mar 15, 2011
Posts: 8528
Back in Piitsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
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Posted on Mar 14 2012 10:16 AM
I've had a LOT of time on my hands lately. So naturally I thought this would make an interesting topic. Various people have asked for help naming their new bands and maybe this thread can be a band name depository,
The Glissandos is a great name proposed by Jon a couple of days ago.
Here's mine.
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JObeast
Joined: Jul 24, 2012
Posts: 2762
Finknabad, Squinkistan
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Posted on Jun 11 2013 09:54 PM
I got so many floating around in my big empty head.
How about these:
The Dead Witch
The Boneless Combo
The Stylites
The Surfarabs
Arab Supply
— Squink Out!
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dp
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 3545
mojave desert, california
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Posted on Jun 11 2013 11:17 PM
Los Mescaleros
Chupacabra Sunrise
Los Nalgas Grandes
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CousinMary
Joined: Nov 16, 2009
Posts: 1065
San Francisco Bay Area
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Posted on Jun 11 2013 11:26 PM
Has there ever been a surf band called El Terremoto?
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JObeast
Joined: Jul 24, 2012
Posts: 2762
Finknabad, Squinkistan
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Posted on Jun 12 2013 02:05 AM
The Advance Directive
The DNR
Omega Society
— Squink Out!
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blueruins
Joined: Mar 05, 2010
Posts: 362
Mauna Lani, HI
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Posted on Jun 12 2013 02:44 AM
The Chums
Sick Ducks
Ill-Favored Martians
Saltwater Slugs
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ElBirkerio
Joined: Dec 17, 2012
Posts: 519
Vienna
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Posted on Jun 12 2013 07:47 AM
... why not go to a site like "http://www.newbandname.com" and try for yourself - i really like our bandname, but if it would not already have been invented, i would immediately choose "Obese Surf Kitten" or "Eat the Sadistic Surf" ...
yours
wolfi
— http://www.surfgrammeln-san.org
https://www.facebook.com/BaluUndSurfgrammeln
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killbabykill34
Joined: Apr 03, 2010
Posts: 3201
Jacksonville, AL
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Posted on Jun 12 2013 09:55 AM
I have always loved band names that have a story behind them, no matter how trivial or simple it may be. The first substantial band that I had was called Stuck@Zero. The name came from a conversation we were having about our own status within the punk community in relation to a then joke about 'punk points'. Our friend Radek had recently gotten arrested for urinatig in an occupied police car. It was at that point when we realized in the grand scheme of handing out 'punk points', we would eternally be 'stuck@zero'.
Kill,Baby...Kill! comes from a Bava film that was the initial inspiration for the asthetic direction I wanted the band to take.
Up next for me is a just for fun project that will be called 'Model City Prisoners'. The nickname for Anniston, AL is 'The Model City'. If you know the current state of the area then the irony will not be lost on you. But the name comes from that and the general feeling that once you get stuck here, you are an eternal prisoner.
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caddady
Joined: Feb 14, 2010
Posts: 802
N.E. Ohio
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Posted on Jun 12 2013 10:41 AM
I am having a hoot with the generator gizmo gizmo link here
Type in surf lingo for a laugh or two.
The Screaming Skeg
The Rail Pounds a Serpent
Pain Lies Beneath The Greenroom
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CrazyAces
Joined: Jul 31, 2012
Posts: 4052
Nashville, TN.
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Posted on Jun 12 2013 11:03 AM
I like Noah's concept of an idea or story behind a name, not just something that appeals to the Genre.
Some people think our name is related to the retro culture, poker, card game stuff, Aces High etc. or that it has relation to us thinking we're aces on our instruments (I wish) or at performing our music......but in the end we just named ourselves after my electric guitar loving, bad ass coon hound lab mix,
Ace.
Yep, we're named after my dog.
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dp
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 3545
mojave desert, california
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Posted on Jun 12 2013 11:49 AM
Ned Schneebley's Gurl 
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Jay77
Joined: Nov 22, 2012
Posts: 71
Kitchener, ON
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Posted on Jun 12 2013 12:50 PM
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homerhead
Joined: Mar 17, 2006
Posts: 525
Portland, OR
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Posted on Jun 12 2013 02:58 PM
Milton Bradley & the Parker Bros.
— Rick
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Kian
Joined: Apr 05, 2013
Posts: 64
Franklinton
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Posted on Jun 12 2013 03:07 PM
Pahoehoe Milkshake
This might take some back story....In a geology class I had, we had a very picturesque textbook. Obviously, we covered lava. Someone pointed out that the picture of the pahoehoe lava looked like a fluffy chocolate milkshake, and the first thought I had was "woah....that'd be an epic band name." 
Sadly, I never used it for anything, so if anyone wants to use it, be my guest. I can picture the shtick being a mix of Hawaiian culture and a 50's malt shop. XD
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tahitijack
Joined: Nov 03, 2006
Posts: 690
San Clemente, CA
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Posted on Jun 12 2013 04:09 PM
Thinking about band names. As far as I know these are still available:
Beach Glass
Ding Repair Shop
Sunset Waves
— Happy Sunsets!
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fenderfan
Joined: Jul 13, 2008
Posts: 774
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Posted on Jun 12 2013 04:53 PM
Mystic Knights of the Sea...
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JObeast
Joined: Jul 24, 2012
Posts: 2762
Finknabad, Squinkistan
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Posted on Jun 12 2013 07:31 PM
'Model City Prisoners' has a great ring to it and a complexified meaning. Plus it sounds punk.
There has to be theory behind a name and irony to boot. Punk bands have left a good legacy of smarts that I think naming surf bands qua surf lingo doesn't measure up to. Topical, angry, political – no reason surf has to be 'safe'.
In the 80's I was in a band called Workfaire, referring to the Contract on America cooked up by the Speaker of the House (someone help me here – the short sweaty fat guy on the Red team). Another band was called Beatrice, after Dante's beloved but also the largest conglomerate purveyer of foodstuffs at the time – remember "We're Beatrice"? at the end of so many commercials in the mid-80s'?
Anyhow, keep em coming!
p.s.
Anybody using The Waterboarders yet?
How about The Renditions?
.killbabykill34 wrote:
I have always loved band names that have a story behind them
Up next for me is a just for fun project that will be called 'Model City Prisoners'. The nickname for Anniston, AL is 'The Model City'. If you know the current state of the area then the irony will not be lost on you. But the name comes from that and the general feeling that once you get stuck here, you are an eternal prisoner.
— Squink Out!
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dp
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 3545
mojave desert, california
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Posted on Jun 12 2013 09:28 PM
i think The Waterboarders are up in Portland OR...
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djangodeadman
Joined: Jan 25, 2007
Posts: 1564
Brighton UK
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Posted on Jun 13 2013 02:49 AM
dp wrote:
i think The Waterboarders are up in Portland OR...
I KNOW they are in Plymouth in the South West of England.
— Los Fantasticos
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clepak
Joined: Jun 11, 2006
Posts: 551
Liege (Belgium)
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Posted on Jun 13 2013 03:18 AM
In Belgium, we have a politician named "Bart De Wever" and with a bandmate, we had the idea to create a band called "Bart and the Wavers". Anyway we never did that because this politician is very controversed in Belgium (especially in the area we live).
A bit like a UK band named "Maggie and the Teachers" 
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