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I play fiddle in an old-timey string band. We've thought of putting together an alter ego group called "The Fiddle Sluts" whose motto is "We'll screw with any tune."

Interesting how many band names posted have outright sexual allusions.

JimK

In 1980 I was jamming with a bunch of old musician friends and one of the hangers on remarked that we sounded like a cross between the Eagles and the Beatles.

After laughing our faces off for about three hours the name "The Beagles" was adopted on an interim basis, until we could come up with something better. Unfortunately the band was a short lived collaboration but it was a lot of fun playing with those guys.

The two i like the most: "Half-Pint & the Fifth" and "Reasons Why" (from "Back from the grave" compilation).

My (limited) experience has shown that whatever the name is, it can sometimes be very difficult to get agreement among all band members.

I've always like the "Something and the Somethingorothers" name format. "Fudgie and the Reacharounds".... haaaaaaa... cracks me up, so to speak.

Given that one of my favorite band names of all time is "? and the Mysterians" I'd love to be in a band called "! and the Superlatives."

a few more sexualized "and the" format names:

Ben Wa and the Blue Balls
Big Dick and the Extenders
Buster Hymen & the Penetrators
Curious George and the Homophobes
Dirty Dick and the Trojan Test Pilots
Harry Palms and the Gym Towels
Hugh Jorgan and the Four Skins
Roid Rogers and the Whirling Butt Cherries
Molly Menstrual and the Cycles

I thought this one was cute:
Vic Vacuum and the Attachments

>>>"! and the Superlatives."
or simply "The Exclamations" wouldn't be bad.

Humorist Dave Barry's band is called "The Phlegmtones". What a great name. A variation of that could be "The Phabulous Phlegmtones" and the drumhead logo could use the PP for some nice artwork. Dang.... please dont anyone steal that idea. I'm going to form a band by that name.

Those are hilarious!!! ahahahahahahaha

Fudgie and the Reacharounds was a short lived project... one show... did 50's covers badly and could not keep a straight face doing them...

Ah, yes...'reacharound', a concept popularized in the movie "Full Metal Jacket"...well, maybe not 'popularized' exactly...

When I worked in Antarctica, if you were a good boy and did your job without whining, you might one day qualify for a C-130 trip to the South Pole, where you would have 20 minutes during cargo and fuel transfer ops to run around taking pictures and wheezing for lack of oxygen before reboarding the plane for the return trip to McMurdo. This was officially referred to as a 'turnaround', but it wasn't long before I had changed the rank-and-file's name for it...

One year, when my name came to the top of the list for an 'attaboy' trip, I was told to get my *ss and survival gear down to the ice edge, where I joined a group boarding a Swedish tracked vehicle called a Haglund for a bouncy ride out to an Adelie penguin rookery at a point on the coast of Ross Island called Cape Royds. I had a great time, but I couldn't resist the following line when I got back to town: "Everyone else gets a Reacharound to the Pole, and all I get is Royds on the Haglund"...

My second 'Ice' band, 1980..."Herman Nelson and The Darts":

I coudn't convince my current bandmates to become The Junior Samples Experience, so I reserve that one for a future project.

lemme guess...

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Nah...that's Tony, our welder/bass player from Athens, Ga...fresh off doing time on a possession charge and 'cooling his heels' in a far off place...

Yrs Trly (age 24):

great pix.... apparently going to the ice means being well armed.

So you had a garage band down there? Or should I say igloo band? Were you playing Rick?

My vote for my band's name was "Trouser Puppet" but I was out voted.......oh well, there's still time.