The Sound Of The Men Workin' On The Chain Gang

So as you may have gathered from recent blog inactivity, a portion of this vile gang has left the nest and sold out to The Man.

Not that any of us ever really leave, but one of us is trying. We won't say too much about who it is, but let's just say that this is being typed after hours on an office computer.

Anyhow, there we were, separated by over ninety miles of open ocean freeway, when a text was sent. I'll include it, and the following, verbatim.

Show Off: Band Name: Strap On Kitty. Thrash metal.

Sellout: Backstory?

Show Off: Trying to decide what to wear to the club tonight. Decided result = angry pussy=bad.

Sellout: Wow. Yeah, OK. Will post before I leave work.

Show Off: From (Other Housemate): Lesbian House Tear Down. Discussing reality shows, this band should have only one song: "Ballroom Blitz."

Sellout: Hah. Cool. We have a bonus!

And there you have it: Strap On Kitty, a thrash metal band, for the BNOTD, and the utterly sexist one-hit-wonder Lesbian House Tear Down for the bonus! They probably play house music, and remixed that famous Sweet song to make it popular once again.

Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt

Dear Readers,

We need to stop meeting like this. Overcaffeinated at the end of the work day, crazy old blues songs percolating through the brain like lukewarm water through stale grounds...

Wait, this doesn't describe you?

Oh. Oops.

Well, moving right along then!

Today's Band Name Of The Day Today (TBNOTDTD) is brought to you by a real, genuine, bona-fide musician! She plays guitar, bass and sings quite well, and has a wicked sense of humor. She's also part of a family of two that's rapidly becoming a family of three, and she gave* us a great Band Name!

Tiny Punk Jedi, which would obviously work well for a punk band of midget jedi impersonators, but would function equally brilliantly for any quality indie band.

You guys have fun with that one, and keep slinging the Band Names our way! Or else we'll have to steal them, the way we stole* Tiny Punk Jedi.


*And by this we mean "she came up with it and we grabbed it," but that's neither here nor there...

Clowns To The Left Of Me, Jokers To The Right

Well, dear readers, it appears we have failed you once again in not bringing you a BNOTD for yesterday, and that after all the hoopla on Saturday about coming up with band names!

See, the really sad part is that we came up with not just one, but two really, really good band names on Saturday night. No shit, there we were, solidly on the drunk side of the tipsy line, when someone said something and it was like a God said let there be rock, and there was rock. We looked at each other and like out of one mouth, said "Band Name!"

The night rolled on, the jokes flew thick and fast, and then it happened again!

The next morning we turned to each other and remembered what fantastic band names we'd come up with last night, but we couldn't have remembered what it was if our lives had depended on it. No matter, we just came up with Sunday's BNOTD on Sunday. And we did. And we forgot.

Humiliation galore. We never posted.

But today, there was music. By a real, honest-to-God band. Among this band was a certain fiddler, and he gave us the BNOTD. In true musician fashion, he came up with it by walking over a chair, and saying "call me a klutz."

Klutz. A good name for prog-rock or alternative bands, or if we modify it to The Klutzes, good for just about anything else. Except for electronica, that requires a somewhat more abstract name, like Daft Punk.

Anyhow, not content with being awesome once, Mr. Fiddler had anticipated this moment, and come up with another band name a few weeks ago we never got around to posting. Being and Irish band, this particular group is composed of mostly of burly gentlemen, with the occasional addition of one of several really hot lady fiddlers. Not sure why, but we've got about a dozen buzzing around the larger Bay Area Celtic scene, and they're always welcome. The Fiddler, of course suggested a band name:

Three Buddhas And A Goddess. It's not a bad name, but will probably be wasted on some sort of trashy new-age quasi-religious band that thinks it's deep because it discovered synthesizers.

Riding the Crazy Train

For the first time in almost two weeks, the whole house is under the same roof again. Some of us have been dealing with the start of the quarter, some have been making plans for future traveling, and some have been off galavanting about Seattle. Today has been a day of catching up on errands, catching up on friends, and generally running around being busy.

One of those catching up things happens to be finding the blog of a musician friend of ours, Hans York, who travels the country playing music. Last year he hit 49 states! We suggest you check out his blog (he has a real knack for words), and go listen to his music.

Unfortunately, all that has lead to not much time to chatter, drink, and come up with horrible band names. That'll happen tonight, but at that point we really shouldn't be posting on the internet. So, readers to the rescue! If you have a great BNOTD, go ahead and leave it in the comments!

In fact, that's just what a certain friend of ours did. Steve teaches university English, and had great taste in music. He's no slouch, and gave us a whole list of band names:

Meat Hammer, which would be fantastic for a hard rock or metal band. Probably something profane.

Cartoon Jesus, on the other hand, would be great for a soft-core Christian rock band, or an indie group with an Andy Warhol bend to them.

Mucus Plug is pure punk rock.

Basal Ganglia, of all the ones listed, is probably the most versatile. This could be a New Wave band, a post-punk group, academic hip-hop (although they'd spell it Bass-L Ganglia), even the name of a faux-Flamenco singer, if you pronounce it Bah-Sahl Gang-LEE-ah.

Thanks, Steve! Everyone else- we will happily accept your contributions below.

Zuch Zuch Riot?

Wrapping (har har) up the work week, we had a fantastic dinner of veggie burritos. Who knew, rice, beans, veggies, a fistful of cumin, pepper, salt, Mexican chili powder and ortega chilies make some awesome food...

Anyhow, back topic!

After throwing around names like Chuck Berry's Burrito, The Spice Rack Girls and a few other ones we can't legally publish on the internet, we settled on:

The Veggie D-Lites! Naturally, this would be a fantastic band for a vegetarian revue band. Why would anyone want a vegetarian revue band? Who the hell knows, but you know they're out there!

We Gotta Move These Refridgerators!

Oh man, life is busy, but we soldier on and bring you your daily dose of hilarity and stupid.

Here's a great Band Name inspired by a business meeting in which the word "leverage" came up. And hey, that would be a great BNOTD!

Leverage. A rock-solid name for any sort of band, really, but especially great for heavy metal and industrial bands. Usable, but not really advisable, for teenybopper acts.

And now, because we lack the Funny Quotient of the day (and because we're generous), have a Bonus BNOTD:

The Plastic Ears, which is almost certainly a late-sixties art-rock band featuring people in turtlenecks and berets who have eaten way more acid than is good for them.

Jimi Hendrix has left the building? Well, so have the Monkees...

Super-quick end-of-the-workday BNOTD, inspired by, well, you don't really want to know what it's been inspired by.

In any case, the topic of old bands came up, and so clearly we've gotta have a bit of retrocommentary here (sort of like retrorockets, but not as cool)(although that would be a cool band name too...)

And so, without further ado, The Band Name Of The Day Is:

Monkey and the Stepping Stones. They are, of course, a Monkees cover band. Why would anyone want to cover the Monkees? Hell, we don't know!

And the Bonus BNOTD, in a similar vein, is...

The RetroRockets! They play bad 1970's style 1950's music. You'd probably find them playing at a "retro" diner from the 80's, done up like a drive-in from the 60's or something equally horrific.