Artists Whose Name Implies An Instrument or Tool They Use

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1. Vladislav Delay

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Kick Axe

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Joe Strummer was some what of an enigma... he drummed, yet shoulda played guitar...

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

2. Aphex Twin
3. Sunn

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

oops, forget the numbers

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Tools You Can Trust

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

808 State

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

BOLT THROWER

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

arcwelder

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

wire

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Blueshammer! (from Ghost World)

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

komputer
flanger
we've got a fuzzbox and we're gonna use it

― dave q (listerine), Saturday, 5 February 2005 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Kraftwerk... Indirectly.

― KeithW (kmw), Saturday, 5 February 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

UB40... with luck.

― KeithW (kmw), Saturday, 5 February 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

drums and tuba

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 5 February 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

kid 606

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 5 February 2005 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Electric Guitars
Johnny Guitar Watson
and any singer named "Mike"

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Saturday, 5 February 2005 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Electronic

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 5 February 2005 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

49. Udi Hrant.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 5 February 2005 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

50. Tool (does that count?)

― Mickey (modestmickey), Saturday, 5 February 2005 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Chad Whackerman (drummer)

― Bretty (Bretty), Saturday, 5 February 2005 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

plastikman

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 5 February 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Johnny Screwdriver

Edgar Wrench

Bob Pencilsharpener

Jorgé Garagedooropener

Elephantitis O'Thetesticles, Ye Douchebag

― john biershitz, Saturday, 5 February 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

NYC Hardcore band KRAUT featured a drummer named Johnny Feedback......which is a bit odd. Shouldn't he have been the guitarist with that name? Shouldn't he have been Johnny Hi-Hat or Johnny Snare or something?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 February 2005 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Guitar Wolf

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 5 February 2005 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Mix Master Mike

DJ -------

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 5 February 2005 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

umm...Guitar

― Black Arkestra (Black Arkestra), Saturday, 5 February 2005 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I mean DJ blank, as in anyone with DJ in their name obviously uses turntables, samplers, and/or other such equipment.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 5 February 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

808 State

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 5 February 2005 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Loop Guru

― flank, Saturday, 5 February 2005 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

land of the loops

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 5 February 2005 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

String Cheese Incident

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 5 February 2005 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Sluts'n'Strings'n'909s

― DJ Mencap0))), Saturday, 5 February 2005 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Alicia Keys
Killer Mike

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 5 February 2005 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Microphones
Six Organs of Admittance
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

― Glading the Wanderer, Saturday, 5 February 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

motorbass
kongas

― dave q (listerine), Saturday, 5 February 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

SWV

― passing through, Saturday, 5 February 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

MEATLOAF

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 5 February 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Pylon

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 5 February 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Coldplay

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 5 February 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Dead Machines.

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 5 February 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Drumbo.

― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 5 February 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Telefon

― briania (briania), Sunday, 6 February 2005 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Secret Machines

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Sunday, 6 February 2005 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

MC Hammer to thread

― marco van basten, Sunday, 6 February 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Spinderella and Sir Mix-A-Lot.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 6 February 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Optiganally Yours

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Sunday, 6 February 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

dammit, i was just gonna post that!

― oskar shindig! (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 February 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I am a tricky one. :)

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Sunday, 6 February 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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Fleetwood Mac

― assseenontv (j22433), Monday, 7 February 2005 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Boards of Canada

― assseenontv (j22433), Monday, 7 February 2005 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Slint

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 7 February 2005 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

NWBHM DRUMMER: THUNDERSTICK!!!!

― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 7 February 2005 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

after fine young cannibals there was two guys and a drum machine.
roland gift was not in the band.
http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=162438

― wiane darren, Monday, 7 February 2005 06:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Two Guys A Drum Machine And A Trumpet acksherly (and not after FYC)

Love Reaction (as in Zodiac Mindwarp And The) drummer: Slam Thunderhide

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 7 February 2005 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Guitar Vader

― Jole, Monday, 7 February 2005 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

eighteen years pass...

Roomful of Teeth

― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 7 August 2023 00:08 (three years ago)

Those Darn Accordions

― Moniker? I barely know 'er! (SlimAndSlam), Monday, 7 August 2023 00:22 (three years ago)

(h)Ornette Coleman

― Stevo, Monday, 7 August 2023 07:03 (three years ago)

Duran Duran had a keyboard player named Rhodes (as in the Fender Rhodes electric piano) and various guys named Taylor (as in Taylor guitars).

There was also once a guitar player named Les Paul.

Bob Ludwig? Ironically, not a drummer.

― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 August 2023 08:09 (three years ago)

About those Les Paul guitars...

― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Monday, 7 August 2023 08:24 (three years ago)

Bono vox

― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 7 August 2023 08:55 (three years ago)

was thinking of that one, you know its a hearing aid brand innit.

― Stevo, Monday, 7 August 2023 09:26 (three years ago)

Loose Tubes
Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy (I'm sure there's a ton of these in jazz)

― MaresNest, Monday, 7 August 2023 09:42 (three years ago)

https://www.discogs.com/artist/717864-ZX-Spectrum-Orchestra (ex-plone)

― koogs, Monday, 7 August 2023 11:05 (three years ago)

Jaki Liebezeit

― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 7 August 2023 11:09 (three years ago)

loved time so much he couldn't stop playing with it

― Stevo, Monday, 7 August 2023 11:11 (three years ago)

Dom & Roland

― nashwan, Monday, 7 August 2023 11:14 (three years ago)

Echo & The Bunnymen

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 7 August 2023 12:15 (three years ago)

Buckethead

― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Monday, 7 August 2023 12:30 (three years ago)

Steely Dan
Nine Inch Nails
Steel Pulse
LCD Soundsystem

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 7 August 2023 14:42 (three years ago)

Throbbing Gristle

― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Monday, 7 August 2023 14:48 (three years ago)

The Saw Doctors

― a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Monday, 7 August 2023 14:55 (three years ago)

Davey DMX

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:02 (three years ago)

DJ Mark the 45 King

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:02 (three years ago)

DJ Technics

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:02 (three years ago)

I've often pondered how perfekt Jaki's name is given his precision.

― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:07 (three years ago)

Mr Fingers/Fingers Inc =>Larry Heard keyboards

― Stevo, Monday, 7 August 2023 15:08 (three years ago)

Bongripper, High on Fire, Weedeater, Green Lung etc

― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:11 (three years ago)

Good version of "Run Run Rudolph"!

loved time so much he couldn't stop playing with it

I was today years old when I realized what “Liebezeit” meant, despite my years of German lessons.

― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:13 (three years ago)

I feel like Martin Reverby (aka Martin Rev) is sort of in this category.

― Lily Dale, Monday, 7 August 2023 15:19 (three years ago)

Definitely.

― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:21 (three years ago)

AIXTC just gave me a new display name, thanks

― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:22 (three years ago)

Also I suspect that Trombone Shorty is in fact a pseudonym

― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:24 (three years ago)

Ken Stringfellow

― henry s, Monday, 7 August 2023 15:32 (three years ago)

Bobby Keys

― henry s, Monday, 7 August 2023 15:35 (three years ago)

DJ Toilet
DJ Shit
DJ Asshole

^^^

I'm not making these up

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:38 (three years ago)

oh there is a DJ Jizz as well

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:42 (three years ago)

Jim Horn

― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:46 (three years ago)

Let us not speak of Dick Dale.

Anyway, Taylor Swift has often used Taylor guitars.

https://images5.fanpop.com/image/forum/182000/182633_1338532827277_full.jpg

I don't think James Taylor has, as he prefers a custom luthier.

Don Gibson definitely used Gibson guitars.

http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/770x0/bd72faaa4b56493ca8bcee5750a74c98.jpg

Various people named Martin Something or something Martin have used Martin guitars but I don't have a detailed database on this.

― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:47 (three years ago)

Oddly, I don't know a lot of drummers named Tom. I thought there would be more.

Tommy Lee, I guess, is the best example.

― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:50 (three years ago)

Machinedrum

― octobeard, Monday, 7 August 2023 16:17 (three years ago)

Mr. Tambourine Man

― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 7 August 2023 16:19 (three years ago)

Freddie Fender
https://jasmine-records.co.uk/3362-large_default/freddy-fender-el-bebop-kid-part-2-in-english.jpg

― NickB, Monday, 7 August 2023 16:28 (three years ago)

Ivory Joe Hunter

― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 7 August 2023 16:31 (three years ago)

Slim Harpo

― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 7 August 2023 16:32 (three years ago)

Gonkulator

― Deflatormouse, Monday, 7 August 2023 17:00 (three years ago)

The Hellecasters

― Deflatormouse, Monday, 7 August 2023 17:01 (three years ago)

Billy Strings, alas, also a pseudonym

brb, changing my legal name to Bobby Bouzouki

― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 August 2023 18:48 (three years ago)

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