Bands named after celebrities/famous people etc.

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1. Philip Seymour Hoffman
2. Mickey Mickey Rourke

― van smack, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:32 (fifteen years ago)

3.Harvey Milk

― Zeno, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:32 (fifteen years ago)

4.The Mooney Suzuki

― Zeno, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:36 (fifteen years ago)

5. Com Truise - how could I forget that one

― van smack, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:37 (fifteen years ago)

Dananananaykroyd

― jaymc, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:37 (fifteen years ago)

7. abe vigoda

― gay sauna manthems (LOLK), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:38 (fifteen years ago)

8. Kathleen Turner Overdrive
9. Sandy Duncan's Eye

― jaymc, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:38 (fifteen years ago)

10. sun kil moon

― gay sauna manthems (LOLK), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:39 (fifteen years ago)

11. Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments

― jaymc, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:39 (fifteen years ago)

12 Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza

― van smack, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:39 (fifteen years ago)

13 Natalie Portman's Shaved Head

― van smack, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:40 (fifteen years ago)

14 Franz Ferdinand

― jaymc, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:41 (fifteen years ago)

15. David Cronenberg's Wife

― Becky Facelift, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:42 (fifteen years ago)

16 Kathleen Turner Overdrive

― van smack, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:43 (fifteen years ago)

(^Already mentioned)

― jaymc, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)

17. Justin Beiber

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)

18. Chicago

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)

19. Tiesto

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:46 (fifteen years ago)

20. Helen Stellar

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:47 (fifteen years ago)

21 The Mr T Experience
22 Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

― jaymc, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:51 (fifteen years ago)

23 brian jonestown massacre
24 cartman (do animated characters count?)

― sugar fuckup (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:52 (fifteen years ago)

25 webster

― sugar fuckup (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:52 (fifteen years ago)

26 Cocteau Twins

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:55 (fifteen years ago)

xp Webster from the tv show or something else?

― van smack, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:55 (fifteen years ago)

27 Jethro Tull

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:57 (fifteen years ago)

tv show

― sugar fuckup (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:57 (fifteen years ago)

Hmm, maybe we should keep it to real names, and not fictional characters.

― van smack, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:58 (fifteen years ago)

28 Reagan Youth
29 Dead Kennedys

― jaymc, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:02 (fifteen years ago)

30. James Dean Bradfield

― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:03 (fifteen years ago)

Crazy Horse

― If you can believe your eyes and ears (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:09 (fifteen years ago)

30. The Jesus Lizard

― Save Ferris' It Means Everything knocked my socks off (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:12 (fifteen years ago)

31. Fenix TX (formerly known as Riverfenix)

― MarkoP, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:34 (fifteen years ago)

Jodie Foster's Army (later shortened to JFA)

― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:35 (fifteen years ago)

Flipper

― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:35 (fifteen years ago)

John Cougar Concentration Camp

― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:36 (fifteen years ago)

The Mr T Experience
Don Knotts Overdrive

― MarkoP, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:36 (fifteen years ago)

37 Sissy Spacek
38 Donna Summer

― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:40 (fifteen years ago)

Charles Bronson

― spastic heritage, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:48 (fifteen years ago)

drive like jehu

― del griffith, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:49 (fifteen years ago)

the red elvises

― del griffith, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:51 (fifteen years ago)

el vez

― del griffith, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:51 (fifteen years ago)

tesla

― del griffith, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:02 (fifteen years ago)

John Cougar Concentration Camp

haha I love that one

― van smack, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:04 (fifteen years ago)

nation of ulysses

― del griffith, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:06 (fifteen years ago)

Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash

― President Keyes, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:09 (fifteen years ago)

Dandy Warhols
Danny Wilson

― Deus, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:19 (fifteen years ago)

Thelonious Monster

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:22 (fifteen years ago)

carter peace mission

― del griffith, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:22 (fifteen years ago)

louis XIV

― del griffith, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:24 (fifteen years ago)

Bob Tilton

― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:31 (fifteen years ago)

dillinger four

― del griffith, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:37 (fifteen years ago)

marilyn manson lol

― del griffith, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:38 (fifteen years ago)

The Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra
The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet

There's a local band in my area called Okra Win Free.

― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 02:12 (fifteen years ago)

Paul Newman
Kinski

― earlnash, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 09:58 (fifteen years ago)

Pele

― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:01 (fifteen years ago)

j. stalin

― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:07 (fifteen years ago)

30. The Jesus Lizard

― Save Ferris' It Means Everything knocked my socks off (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:12 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

technically they are named after... a lizard

― heywood jabulani (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:08 (fifteen years ago)

Mary Tyler Morphine

― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:10 (fifteen years ago)

Ciccone Youth
Kula Shaker

― seandalai, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 11:04 (fifteen years ago)

titus andronicus

― del griffith, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 14:36 (fifteen years ago)

Ed Gein's Car

― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 15:49 (fifteen years ago)

The Joyce Mckinney Experience

― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 15:59 (fifteen years ago)

titus andronicus

That's a Shakespeare play

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:09 (fifteen years ago)

Jimi Hendrix Experience

― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

Van Halen

― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

Dio

― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

Alice Cooper

― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

Yaphet Kotto
The Winona Ryders

― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:31 (fifteen years ago)

That's a Shakespeare play

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, June 16, 2010 4:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yeah, a play about a guy, a guy named titus andronicus! but i forgot we weren't doing fictional characters so my bad

― del griffith, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:25 (fifteen years ago)

there are enough local novelty punk bands in san diego county alone to fill this thread up a billion times over

― del griffith, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:27 (fifteen years ago)

sugar ray lol

― del griffith, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:41 (fifteen years ago)

what are the requirements for being a band? does the band have to have recorded a song/gigged?
because I am up for forming bands for the sole purpose of land-grabbing the novelty celebrity band namespace, the same way Enron made shell corporations.

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:54 (fifteen years ago)

Gay for Johnny Depp

― Cunga, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 18:11 (fifteen years ago)

The Fibonaccis

― nickn, Thursday, 17 June 2010 00:52 (fifteen years ago)

The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black

― nickn, Thursday, 17 June 2010 00:54 (fifteen years ago)

Friends of Dean Martinez (orig was Dean Martin but they were forced to change it)

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 17 June 2010 02:14 (fifteen years ago)

Helen Keller Plaid

― If you can believe your eyes and ears (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 17 June 2010 03:24 (fifteen years ago)

lenin&mc'carthy

― nakamura, Friday, 18 June 2010 16:42 (fifteen years ago)

Jean Paul Sartre Experience
Reagan Youth
Propaghandi
Joe Buck Yourself

― ImprovSpirit, Friday, 18 June 2010 18:02 (fifteen years ago)

Ringo Deathstarr

― van smack, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago)

Bob Dylan

― the most horrifying moment in shallow grave (abanana), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago)

Camper Van Beethoven

― late adopter, Thursday, 24 June 2010 00:25 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

The Dead Kenny G's

― Bjorn Cyborg (van smack), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 01:56 (fourteen years ago)

The Deathray Davies

― late adopter, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 07:58 (fourteen years ago)

Gnarls Barkley

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 12:01 (fourteen years ago)

Supposedly both Ice-T and Ice Cube were named after Iceberg Slim.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 12:03 (fourteen years ago)

Maher Shalal Hash Baz

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

Tina Turner Tidal Wave

― van smack, Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:20 (fourteen years ago)

Kylie Minoise

― just call me brian (krakow), Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:23 (fourteen years ago)

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