List the bequoted ones

Nat "King" Cole
Richard "Dimples" Fields

Oran "Juice" Jones

Jim "Gag Reflex" Morrison

Givin' the ladies some:

Evelyn "Champagne" King

"Mad" Mike Banks

Kate "Fucking" Nash.

A little too OTT to ever really stick:

Al "He's The King" Hirt

Johnny "oh no" Borrell

or...

Johnny "oh no" guitar Watson "whew"

Busta "Cherry" Jones

Johnny "He's Making Eyes at Me" Marr.

It's a Parliafunkadelicment thang:

Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey
Phelps "Catfish" Collins
William "Bootsy" Collins
Gary "Mudbone" Cooper
Rodney "Skeet" Curtis
Raymond "Stingray" Davis
Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood
Richard "Kush" Griffith
Michael "Kidd Funkadelic" Hampton
Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins
Joel "Razor-Sharp" Johnson
Robert "P-Nut" Johnson
Tracey "Trey Lewd" Lewis
DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight
Walter "Junie" Morrison
Cordell "Boogie" Mosson
William "Billy Bass" Nelson
Michael "Clip" Payne
Lucius "Tawl" Ross
Frank "Kash" Waddy

Varg "Argh" Vikernes

KT "STFU" Tunstall

Not clear whether it's always quoted but

Robert "Junior" Lockwood

Bono "Bone-on" Vox
The "The" Edge
Adam "Who He?" Clayton
"Happy" Larry Mullen

"Spider" John Koerner
Bobby "Blue" Bland
Eddie "Flashin'" Fowlkes
Steve "Silk" Hurley
"Sneaky Pete" Kleinow

two guitars (I'm sure there are dozens of others, though):

Matt "Guitar" Murphy
Mickey "Guitar" Baker

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

Har Mar "Guitar" Superstar

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter

Steve Miller was once known as Stevie "Guitar" Miller...

"Brother" Wayne Kramer
Fred "Sonic" Smith
Scott "Rock Action" Asheton
"Big" Paul Ferguson
Phil"thy Animal" Taylor
"Fast" Eddie Clark
"Cripple" Jim "Phylr" Coleman
Arthur "Killer" Kane

Bob "The Bear" Hite
Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson
Henry "Sunflower" Vestine
Harvey "The Snake" Mandel
Larry "The Mole" Taylor
Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra

Gary "U.S" Bonds

Terry "Torie Crimes" Chimes

"Sweet Pea" Atkinson

Not clear whether it's always quoted but

Robert "Junior" Lockwood

Not only have I never seen that in quotes, but I don't even think that was supposed to go in the middle.

Towards the end of his life, his name was amended to Robert Lockwood, Jr..

(you know, it's completely possible to just start making these names up, and nobody would call you on them since they mostly sound like obscure blues musicians)...

Willie "The Lion" Smith

Earl "Fatha" Hines

Timmie "Oh Yeah" Rogers

George "Bad" Benson.

It didn't last.

once upon a time:

"Magic" Juan Atkins
Kevin "Master Reese" Saunderson

Werner "Zappi" Diermaier

Donald "Duck" Dunn

Ron "Pigpen" McKernan

Tim "Love" Lee

Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser

Aston "Family Man" Barrett
Bunny "Striker" Lee

... I'm sure there's a lot of reggae ones!

Paul "Mellow Down Easy" Feinstein

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Clarence "Frogman" Henry

Some of the above are just nicknames, but ladies and gentlemen:

Richard "Groove" Holmes

Colonel "Lieutenant" Abrams

Not clear whether it's always quoted but

Robert "Junior" Lockwood

Not only have I never seen that in quotes, but I don't even think that was supposed to go in the middle.

Towards the end of his life, his name was amended to Robert Lockwood, Jr..

You are right. I never saw it quoted before I looked on intraweb today. In fact, I think that it always looked weird probably because it wasn't quoted.

Terry "Torie Crimes" Chimes
I'd definitely put this in the nickname/stagename category, as well as spelling it "Tory."

Sometimes it sucks to be a younger sibling, like when your brother shouts you out as:

Dave "Death Of A Clown" Davies

Good one, thread creator!

Earl "Speedo" Carroll.

Bernard "Pretty" Purdie

Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson

Jeff "Tain" Waits

He got the nickname “Tain” from Kenny Kirkland when they were on tour in Florida and drove past a Chieftain gas station, so "Jeff Tain" for "Chief-tain

"Legs" Larry Smith

"... and now for your delight, the Darling of Wapping Wharf Launderette, Ronald 'Leafy' Lane!!!"

John "Jellybean" Benitez

"Miami" Steve Van Zandt

I think they should only count if
1) The artist in question is most often referred to as First Name + "Quoted Part" + Last Name
2) The quoted part is in the middle

"Weird Al" Yankovic

Jose "El Canario" Alberto
Clarence "Tom" Ashley
Richard "Rabbit" Brown
Rufus "Hound Dog" Thomas

(xpost)
So, for instance
Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim

WOULD NOT COUNT

Nor would "Philly" Joe Jones.

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup

David "Honeyboy" Edwards

Marie "Queenie" Lyons
Earl "Chinna" Smith

Hm. I'd accept "Weird Al"
but if he went by
"Weird" Al Yankovic
I'd disallow him.

Billy "The Kid" Emerson

Dave "Baby" Cortez

Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez

Eric "Slowhand" Clapton

James "Didn't Even Start The Thread But Apparently Is The One Guy Who Knows The Rules And Enforces Them With An Iron Fist" Redd

I'm not enforcing nothing, I'm just making suggestions until briania comes back.

Alex "My Name Is Alex And I Post On ILX So I've Got A Short Fuse" in Baltimore

Yeah, that's me, losing my temper and exploding with half-assed jokes. I'm like the Incredible Hulk over here. I mean I think your rules are valid, honestly, I just thought it was funny that you were "disallowing" stuff like there's a master list it didn't make the cut for.

Hargus "Pig" Robbins - session player on Ween's 12 Golden Country Greats

Mark "The Shark" Shelton (main guy in Manilla Road for those who don't know). I thought it was "Weird" Al Yankovic, not "Weird Al" Yankovic.

I was wrong :

http://www.nndb.com/people/684/000022618/fatf-med.jpg

Eddie "Flashin'" Fowlkes

Retrieved a few off this thread Greatest Nicknames in Music that might belong here

Huey "Piano" Smith
Harry "Sweets" Edison
Don "Sugarcane" Harris

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2e/Chirping_Crickets.jpg/200px-Chirping_Crickets.jpg

Evelyn "Champagne" King

Really should do a duet with Cheryl "Pepsi" Riley sometime. (Though she may not actually use quotes.)

John "Rabbit" Bundrick

(because they don't actually "chirp" xpost)

Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba

Exactly. The chirping backing vocals were actually provided by an outfit known as The Picks.
(xpost)

Funk Brothers rule this thread - William "Benny" Benjamin, Richard "Pistol" Allen , Eddie "Bongo" Brown, Melvin "Wah-Wah Watson" Ragin, Henry "Hank" Cosby, Andrew "Mike" Terry, Thomas "Beans" Bowles, "Lefty" Edwards, Eugene "BeeBee" Moore, William "Wild Bill" Moore and, best of all, Earl "Chunk of Funk" Van Dyke.

Funk Brothers rule on this thread and otherwise.

Howzabout two guys with "nested" levels of nicknames:

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis aka "Jaws"
Sun Ra aka Herman "Sonny" Blount

David "Fathead" Newman
Steve "Lips" Kudlow

Oh yeah, that reminds me

Oran "Hot Lips" Page

Isaac "Bubbly" Hayes

(Tho I've only heard dj's on the local soul station use this)

Sean "Puffy" Combs

Dick "Slide" Hyde
Nick "The Greek" Gravenites
Tony "T.S." McPhee (or was that one parenthetical instead?)