Alter-Ego Bands?

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XTC -------> the Dukes of Stratosphear
the Damned --------> Naz Nomad & the Nitemares
The Mission ------> the Metal Gurus
Redd Kross -------> the Anarchy 6
Love & Rockets -------> the Bubblemen
REM ------> Bingo Hand Job
Blue Oyster Cult ------> Soft White Underbelly
the Cure -------> Cult Hero

Alright, the last three are simply pseudonyms as opposed to the first five (different stylistic incarnations/presentations), but the fact remains -- the bands are ulimately the same despite the name.

Others?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 7 July 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Blue Oyster Cult were Soft White Underbelly first right? (sorta like saying The Beatles --------> The Silver Beetles). R.E.M. used to play under dozens of aliases, until Buck got the divorce, moved to Seattle (never a smart move)(look at Holmgren)

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 July 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Spinal Tap ---------> The Folksmen

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 July 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Blue Oyster Cult would still make club appearances under that name, however, even in their short lived stadium-years.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 7 July 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Folksmen

Thamesmen surely?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 7 July 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

dammit! (I haven't seen A Mighty Wind)

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 July 2003 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The Rolling Stones ------> The Mosquitos

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 July 2003 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

derek smalls wasn't in the thamesmen anyway so that's ok

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 7 July 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

*googles* - no I was right the first time - The Folksmen (totally different group from the Thamesmen)

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

ah i see. same movie though?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't the sex pistols tour the US as S.P.O.T.S. (sex pistols on tour secretly)?

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Nomeansno ----> The Hanson Brothers

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The Masked Marauders -----> Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, etc.

OK, not really. But that was the story. (They were really something called the Cleanliness and Godliness Band -- friends of Greil Marcus, sez AMG.) Some of the songs are pretty funny imitations, though.

In the same vein: Klaatu -----> The Beatles

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

GbV's "Suitcase" owns this thread in a roundabout way

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

one of those E6 bands does this. of montreal and marshmallow coast? i saw them perform, leave the stage and come back, switch instruments and "become a different band"

― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

of montreal and marshmallow coast share members but not the same lineup

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

great lakes and essex green have v similar lineups don't they?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Menswe@r play once under the name 'Raw Semen'.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Weezer / Goat Punishment

― gojito, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

great lakes and essex green are decidedly different lineups

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm am i confusing great lakes with the sixth great lake then?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, um, maybe

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

garth brooks ----> chris gaines.

ahhhh!

― Grell (Grell), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 05:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Nomeansno----->Hanson Brothers

― chad (chad), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

shit, donut got it first...

― chad (chad), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 06:37 (twenty-two years ago)

GWAR ----------> "X-Cops" and "RAWG!"

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Bingo Handjob???????? was i in REM at some point. Quite possibly they saw into the future.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Also:
REM + Warren Zevon == Hindu Love Gods

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Low ------> the Misfits (Halloween a few years back)

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Man or Astro-man? - sort of the antithesis of this thread with clone bands..

X - Knitters
Pere Ubu - the Wooden Birds

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

sigue sigue sputnik > sci-fi sexstars

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Hypocrisy -> The Abyss

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

All the members of Oxes have simultaneously been in Long Live Death, but never at the same time and always with a pile of other people, so maybe they don't count. Also Oxes + Cass McCombs -------> Cass McCombs (the same way Beck + Flaming Lips ------> Beck).

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The Housemartins used to open for themselves (doing only a cappella stuff) under the name The Fishy Five.

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

the Contortions -----> James White and the Blacks

― Jeff K (jeff k), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Autechre >>> Gescom (sorta and sometimes)
RDJ >>> Aphex >>> AFX >>> etc.
µ-ziq >>> Jake Slazenger or something.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, Autechre >>> Legofeet

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Two Lone Swordsmen = Klart = Lino Squares and many many more.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

X - Knitters

Not really since the group added Dave Alvin to become the Knitters.

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Sonic Youth >>> Ciccone Youth

― Robert Moore (treble), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 07:38 (twenty-two years ago)

...and then they added Alvin to X, Weiss.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

A Certain Ratio -> Sir Horatio for that dub 12" (which isn't so hot).

I seem to recall the Housemartins being the Fish City Five OleM, but I may be wrong.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Julian Cope - Rabbi Joseph Gordon
Momus and Jack - Jacques

― Kim Tortoise, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Richard D James ownz, surely? Or does he not count cos he's just, like, one guy?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I seem to recall the Housemartins being the Fish City Five OleM, but I may be wrong.

Heavens! You're right! ;-)

― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince>that symbol>the artist formerly known as prince>prince

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Tool >>> APC

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince>that symbol>the artist formerly known as prince>prince
I *still* call him Capt Squiggle and the Inscrutable Rune Patrol

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 10 July 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

U2 - Passengers

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 10 July 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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