DannySnyder wrote:

My shortlived punk band in 1985 - God's Third Leg.

The band was hung?

I was in a mod band right after I got out of the army and we tried to sound British and somehow came up with the stupid name:
"Screamin' Davy Rodriguez and the Westingham Express"

Our goal was to play "Go, Scoot Go!" in the Bay area with the likes of the Crawdaddies (Driving Wheels, and other incarnations) and the Event.

Matt "tha Kat" Lentz
Skippy and the Skipjacks: 2018-
Skippyandtheskipjacks.net
https://www.facebook.com/skippyandtheskipjacks
Otto and the Ottomans: 2014-2015
The Coconauts surf band: 2009-2014
www.theamazingcoconauts.com
Group Captain and the Mandrakes 2013
http://www.gcmband.com/
The Surfside IV: 2002-2005, 2008-2009
the Del-Vamps: 1992-1999, 2006-2007
http://www.dblcrown.com/delvamps.html

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No, we didn't last but a few months. The drummer's house burned down in early 1991 and we ceased to exist after that. Luckily he didn't lose his drums, but we lost our practice space.

3 of us went to Go Scoot Go in 1990 and were just amazed at the bands that had played. Xan McCurdy and Bart Davenport were there, but that was before they formed the Loved Ones, which was a pretty amazing 60s-style blues band that almost hit it big. Xan later went on to join the band "Cake." He was one of the best guitarists I'd seen live at that time. He was playing in the Driving Wheels at Go Scoot Go and Ron from the Cradaddys was playing drums and singing. That band blew me away!

Matt "tha Kat" Lentz
Skippy and the Skipjacks: 2018-
Skippyandtheskipjacks.net
https://www.facebook.com/skippyandtheskipjacks
Otto and the Ottomans: 2014-2015
The Coconauts surf band: 2009-2014
www.theamazingcoconauts.com
Group Captain and the Mandrakes 2013
http://www.gcmband.com/
The Surfside IV: 2002-2005, 2008-2009
the Del-Vamps: 1992-1999, 2006-2007
http://www.dblcrown.com/delvamps.html

I shit you not- I was in a band called Max Pad and the Sanitary Napkins.
circa 1990-1991.

I was Max.

It was mercifully short lived and we never made it out of the practice space

Our influences were Metallica, Robert Johnson and Devo. Some things just don't mix.

Friends of mine with whom I played since high school as the Shooters Bible, we're invited to participate in a talent show at Hard Rock Cafe on Van Ness in San Francisco, ca. 1989. We amassed a large 'orchestra' of largely non-musician friends with various acoustic instruments such as steel radiators hammered with copper pipes, and performed as "Holiday Death Toll", holding forth loudly for an extended moment (halting the flow of time at the Hard Rock) until they figured out it was a joke on them and they shut off the PA.

Squink Out!

Local 'indi' band was named

SONS OF LEE MARVIN

'Surf Music Lasts Forever'

Had a short lived band in '69 in Biloxi MS. We had differing opinions on names so we combined them and ended up being: "Hard Thymes with the King George Rock and Soul Band" which BTW won't fit on a kick drum head.....

and then there was the group i played with last summer.......'lady j and the jives'. thank goodness i was not in on naming this band. and, what the hell is a jive?

www.surfintheeye.com

Walking my dog this morning I saw a poster for the big Oakland music fest - Burger Boogaloo (which in and of itself is rather ridiculous) and there is a band on the bill called "Personal and the Pizzas"

Danny Snyder

Latest project - Now That's What I Call SURF
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I'm back playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta

WaveOhhh wrote:

Elvis Hitler and the Nashville Nazis

I recall Elvis Hitler but not the Nashville Nazis part. I also recall being turned off by the name. That fine line between stupid & clever, you know.

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http://www.sandiegojoe.com/rfb.htm

Here in the Mojave Desert from 1979 to the early 1990s, I was part of several badly-named punk-garage-type outfits:

1. 1979-1980: our sophomoric (grade 8/9) effort "Patty, Linda and the Beavers" (aka "PLB") was a four piece ad-hoc punk thing that was simply horrible. No one in the group could tune or play their instrument. Sounded a lot like Neil Young meets Wire meets U2 and they all get wasted and pass out with amplifiers screeching. We were named after "Patty and Linda's Hallmark Card Shop" and of course, we named the other guys in our band "The Beavers".

2. 1982-1983: "Hermaphrodites from Hell" (HFH) , this was one of the greatest bands ever formed on planet Earth. We played cover versions of Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Neil Young and ZZTop mixed in with our own original country punk screaming guitars and vocals. We played one paying set at the local Cowboy Bar,and nearly got murdered in the parking lot afterward by boot wearing diesel driving cowfolk. The "real" cowboys in our town didn't appreciate our avante guard approach to the classic repetoire.

3. 1980s : there was this horrible terrible band named "CDM" that I cannot even describe. The names behind the acronym was the epitome of disgusting. Mainly spent our time playing drunken back yard pool parties and college gigs. Non-stop punk rock Louie Louie. I wish I could tell you what "CDM" stands for... well, it's how motorcycle folks earn their "red wings"...

4. 1990: "The Pagan Dogs" punk poetry jazz combo. Several bad gigs and a lively recording session for this awfully named trio. "Ace Freehley's Ghost" was our major hit in High Desert music circles.

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