It’s Sunday afternoon, and the blog tends to be lazy on Sunday afternoons, and I was just reminded of what I would name my band if I had a band (I don’t, nor do I ever plan to have one), so I thought I’d post about it and ask for yours. Mine requires a tiny bit of explanation …
So several years ago, I read something on-line. I can’t remember if Greg Hatcher wrote about it on the old blog, because it’s certainly something he would write about, but he did try to keep things comics-related over there, especially early on, so perhaps not unless he was writing about Addams Family comics. Are there Addams Family comic books? Anyway, at some point I learned about the existence of the 1972 TV movie Evil Roy Slade, starring John Astin as the title character and featuring a killer theme song:
I’ve never actually seen the movie, but it’s on YouTube if you’re interested. I just love the name “Evil Roy Slade.” It sounds so ridiculous but menacing at the same time – the “Roy” works after the two-syllable “Evil,” and “Slade” is a word that just sounds a bit scary. Ever since then, I’ve wanted to be in a band called Evil Roy Slade. When I write the X-Men (come on, Joey Q, you know you want to offer me the job!), someone’s favorite band will be Evil Roy Slade. They’ll be the kind of band that all the cool people in the Marvel Universe go to see. Tony Stark will be at the Drake concert thinking he’s all hot shit, but all the cool people will be at some dive bar watching Evil Roy Slade.
What’s the name of your band? Sound off in the comments! Don’t be shy!
I don’t remember ever writing about it, but I love EVIL ROY SLADE, and Kurt Mitchell, whom Greg and I see at the CBR dinner we have during ECCC, loves it even more.
Me, I always wanted to name a band Bitter Dregs. Because Spock.
What. The. Fuck. I’m not a big Star Trek fan, but I guess I need to start being one if it means I get to see shit like that. That was insane.
And yeah, Bitter Dregs is a good name.
The third season gets WEIRD, man.
My best friend Frankie and I have formed a band named Skinny John Goodman. Not that I have any musical ability whatsoever, but hey, that didn’t stop the Sex Pistols.
Neat Pat Buttram narration on the Evil Roy Slade TV movie!
Now that’s a fine name! 🙂
Evil Roy Slade is a decent little comedy; not as hilarious as I thought it would be; but amusing. For comedy westerns, though apart from Blazing Saddles) I like Rustler’s Rhapsody, with Tom Berenger. It pokes fun at the Roy Rogers-type cowboy, perfectly.
Sadly, the name of my band has already been claimed: the Tragically Hip. If it had been my band’s name (disclosure: I don’t have a band), there’s no telling the heights we’d have reached. So, yeah, it’s impossible to top that particular moniker. Even Tequila Mockingbird doesn’t measure up, though admittedly it’s close. The best band name ever is the Miami Screaming Eagles. Or maybe that’s the best sports team name ever. It’s the best something, for sure…
Is Miami Screaming Eagles an actual band?
When I was a teenager, there was no question what my band name would have been: Slow Children at Play. Based on a traffic sign in my neighborhood.
Had I been a DJ, I would have been DJ Trance Fats.
Both of those are amazing. The pun is good, but I really like Slow Children at Play!
I refuse to believe that someday I won’t have a band still, so I won’t disclose mine.
…he says, forgetting what band name he intended to go with anyway….
I don’t know where I heard it, maybe Dave Barry, but the one that has stuck with me for years has been The Ice Cream Headaches.
“…Which, by the way, would make a great name for a band” is one of Barry’s best running gags.
I don’t know if Barry pioneered it, but I love it whenever someone says that. I do it far too often! 🙂
My fake band names are the Suspicious Pigeons (an all girl rock band), Soul Booty (a bluesy-woozy disco funk jazz ensemble that featured in a story that I created) and Goat Funk (something that sounds like some sort of bad word, but doesn’t actually mean anything).
I love all of those, especially Suspicious Pigeons. Pigeons are naturally shifty, so that works!
My band would be The Sonny Skize Band.
That looks great in print. Of course, when you announced who you were, no one would appreciate the spelling! 🙂
My favorite real band names:
Root Boy slim and the Sex Change Band
Rash of Stabbings
Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys
The Skillet Lickers
Fake band names:
The Pulchritudinous Expostulators
Sacrificial Waffle
Sparkle Motion
I dig Sacrificial Waffle. Aren’t they all, though, eventually?
My daughter coined this one; whenever I make waffles, I always screw up the first one. She decided that the first waffle has to be ruined as a sacrifice to the waffle gods. Followed immediately by “that would be a good band name.”
Literally pulled from a headline, “China Ferrari Sex Orgy Death Crash.”
So, I of course had to Google that. Any of these you?
https://www.facebook.com/China-Ferrari-Sex-Orgy-Death-Crash-144185872394469/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca7682_oJXI
https://soundcloud.com/jakeray/china-ferrari-sex-orgy-death
Apparently I waited too long. Back to the drawing board.
Man, I want to see the story associated with that headline.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/894175/ferrari-sex-orgy-kills-son-of-top-chinese-politician/
I’ve kept a list of band names since college, largely inspired by Jello Biafra’s “Names for Bands”. A few of my favorites from the list:
Lazy Agents of Satan
Serving Local Morons
Epileptic Gunfighter
Angry Hulk Love
Working Class Pothead
King Ding Dong and the Cream Filling Five (I always imagined this one as a swingy jazz combo)
I really like Angry Hulk Love. Sounds vaguely pornographic, which is never a bad thing!
The Bradford Dillmans
Cockbogglers
The Nameless
The Still Point
Leisurely Repentors
Pricked Conscience and the Conscientious Pricks
True Believers (Originally Excelsior! Rival bands:A Is A and Kirby’s Cigar)
Oh! The Humanity
The Eyes Of Lynda Carter
Why Am I Surrounded By Idiots?
The Stolen Moments
Eugene Levy’s Eyebrows/Greg Burgas’s Eyebrows
Hal: Hey, now! I get enough grief from my daughter about my eyebrows. I don’t need it from you! 🙂
Ahahahaha! Sorry, Greg! Your daughter is obviously possessed of firecracker wit and perspicuity, you should thank her she’s keeping you grounded…
(Truth be told, I’m not exactly lacking in the eyebrow department but it’s no fun teasing yourself is it? )
Darn, the emoticons failed to appear. FEH. There should be a “:D” after “…keeping you grounded” and a “;)” following “…tease yourself is it?”.
Gee willickers, they aren’t appearing properly! Oh well… 😛 Triple post – my apologies.
I’m late to the party on this one because our little family has been on vacation, so no-one’s going to read this, but here I am anyway.
In my comic, I have a four piece teenage girl punk folk (sure, it’s a thing) band called Objects Of Interest. Because the girls are all science-minded (the phrase being what they call a possibly habitable planet, of course) and it’s also them saying (screaming?) they’re more than just Objects Of Affection.
The other fake Toronto bands they look up to are Cave In and Lizzy Galactic (a band, not one person.)
I say “that would make an awesome band name” so much in real life, I couldn’t possibly think of any more.
Caanan: You can’t escape our baleful gaze!!!!!
I like Objects of Interest, and your explanation about them. Man, the things we put thought into …
I’ve said that a lot, too, so much that I can’t remember them. But I keep doing it!