Tell us about your childhood band, imaginary or real

Inspired by some posts on Come Up With The Most Boring Band Name Possible:

When I was 13 I was in a band called the Nice Jewish Boys. We actually thought we could book bar mitzvah gigs. We made business cards and everything. NJB. I shit you not.

― Bobby Short, Wayne Shorter (Hurting 2), Monday, October 25, 2010 8:10 PM (Yesterday)

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When I was little my teddy bear had a band called The Sparkplugs, which at the time I thought was an excellent name for a rock n roll band.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:59 AM (3 minutes ago)

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I once wanted to form a band called Ghost of Toast but this dream has since faded

When I was five or so I liked to pretend I was in a band called "Eternity" where I played the saxophone and also danced. I had the superpower to turn anything into a saxophone. This was inspired by watching Jem more than actual to music.

actual to music = actually listening to music

that band turned out to be the mighty mighty bosstones.

early teens, 3 white dudes and 1 chinese dude = cheese and crackers

age 11, a band called Tears & Vomit. i was the singer, there was an acoustic guitar and tupperware for drums.

^^^ age 11/12, a band called '<snoball's real first name> & The Guitars'. We only had the one guitar though, an old acoustic that only had five strings after one broke during our first rehearsal.

yeah, in the beginning, we didn't know how to play guitar, so we just hit open strings. probably sounded pretty radical.

Also age 11/12, a concept band based around an imaginary radio station, including musique concreté elements (alarm clocks, hitting stuff) and cheap keyboards. Remember how Joe Meek's landlady would bang on the ceiling while he was recording? One time my mother banged on the ceiling while we were recording.

Age 14, Jarre influenced solo electronic project where I pretended to be French.

this thread should probably include links to recordings. i think i've got a tape of some of this stuff. it would be embarrassing.

my first band got me temporarily expelled from high school

in kindergarten, my friend Ben and i had this idea we were going to have a band...I had a busted old acoustic guitar i found in my grandma's garage...

we thought we could make it electric by hammering a nail into it, then connecting it to a stereo speaker with some wire.

we named out band 1000 Volts. We had a logo that was a skull and crossbones but instead of crossbones it was lightning bolts.

anyway, our idea was that we were going to put on a concert at recess for all our classmates...we started telling people this and made up our own tickets and started selling them for 50 cents...we ended up collecting like 10 bucks worth of quarters...

now, despite the fact that our ridiculous idea for making the acoustic guitar wouldn't actually work and was untest....AND the fact that neither one of us knew how to sing or play guitar, we didn't think we were scamming people...on some level we both actually thought we were going to do it.

anyway, after about a week the concert obviously didn't happen, and our teacher caught wind of the ticket sales and brought us into her office during recess.

we had to admit the whole thing and then refund all the tickets. that was the end of 1000 Volts.

xp We have to hear this story.

ILX childhood recordings compilation, would support

hahaha 1000 volts story is awesome

lol, yeah that's a great story

Inspired by The Misfits when we were 12, me and a friend would spend our time in school cranking out lyrics about killing stuff. In the afternoons, we'd plug my guitar and a microphone into the two mic jacks on my boombox. I'd strum the guitar really fast and he'd sing in a high-pitched yelp. Made some pretty good tapes that way.

yeah, in the beginning, we didn't know how to play guitar, so we just hit open strings. probably sounded pretty radical.

my favorite part of the minutemen documentary is when mike watt talks about when they first got guitars and didn't know there was such a thing as tuning... "we just thought it was personal preference, I like my strings loose, you like yours tight"

My 7 year old son is currently obsessed with the idea of starting a band with me and his two cousins called The Tropical Stars. I'm guessing he's trying to get in on the whole Chillwave trend before it dies out.

The Psychedelic People -- my friend Danny on snare drum & vocs & me on kazoo & vocs. Our theme song:

Psychedelic People
Live in psychedelic places
Psychedelic people
Wearing psychedelic faces
Psychedelic people
Are very hard to see
Psychedelic people
Look like...........me

We were a (much) younger alternative to the Hassles, who played in Johnny Small's garage a few doors down and were probably our main inspiration.

ha, yeah, our main inspiration was my older brother's band, the Thurmanistics. they had bongos and knew guitar chords, though.

5-year old daughter wants to be in The Big Bubble Popper

my high school bands were Devil Donkey and Crackhouse

When I was 9 or 10, I invented a band called Sidewinder. They were basically a classic rock band, falling somewhere between the Eagles, Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan and Dire Straits. Keep in mind, I was only vaguely familiar w/any of these bands. I drew dozens of pics of them, in various stages: their pyschedelic 60s look, their beardy 70s looko, their zippered 80s look. They did all the big rock stuff, and somewhere I have a picture I drew with them all wearing Live Aid shirts

the band--

Lee Ceago: drummer and lead vocalist. Kind of a Don Henley type. Had long, dirty blond hair, and usually a beard

Will Davidson: lead guitarist, dark quiet type. Basically Eric Clapton/Mark Knopfler/George Harrison type. Dark hair, sideburns, mustache

Jason Davidson: bassist, sometimes piano player, brother of Will. Didn't sing much, but he wrote some of the coolest songs

David King: lead singer, but only until the mid-70s, when he left to pursue a solo career. Kind of an asshole

Mark McCall: guitarist. he was brought in when Dave King left. he didn't really do much except play rhythm guitar

Dave Johnson: keyboardist, sometimes sang. he joined in the 80s to bring the band up to date. He wrote all the synth-y songs, maybe kind of a Howard Jones type. He left in the late 80s to start his own band In A Sense w/a UK guitarist whose name I can't remember

and I cannot believe this is now public information

haha!

omg <3 Psychedelic People song

my high school band was named god kicks you. one of our flyers was a picture of jesus on the cross with a voice balloon extolling the pleasures of our latest cassette release. unsurprisingly, the administration of a catholic learning institution failed to see the humor in this. the principal called us "an abomination". we got kicked out. we told them we were breaking up, they let us back in, and we reformed as crowbar bathroom love. john mcbain used to call us catholic boyschool love, lol.

I had several!

The first band was just a band name called "The Dead Broccoli" which I came up with when I was 6. I had a logo too, which was a peace sign made out of broccoli.

Later, my friends in 2nd grade and I started a "band" which included me playing my Dad's acoustic guitar and one of my other friends having some bongo drums and then a third kid who was the singer. We called our band "The Coolaholics."

When I told this to my mom she didn't like the band name. I asked her why and she said "Well its all nice and well to be 'cool' but I just don't think you should be addicted to anything!"

should have been The Alcoolholics obviously.

R.B.U. = Rock By Us. We consisted of a Casio keyboard, a Remo drum practice pad & I think like a ukelele or something. Our breakthrough single was "Batman Saves the Day." We aspired to Old Skull status but fell well short of that goal.

In 7th grade I created an imaginary band called The Krazy 8s and charted an entire career trajectory for them, starting out as a violent punk-influenced guitar band and mellowing into more radio-friendly pop music over the course of 7 albums, culminating in an eight and final album that was a live recording of a farewell concert where every song from the band's career was played in chronological order.

The only song I ever got around to writing was called "Bloody Murder", and I am certain I've already posted the lyrics to ILX.

"bloody murder" is a str8 classic iirc

ah here we go

Poems You Wrote When You Were 15

When I was little my teddy bear had a band called The Sparkplugs, which at the time I thought was an excellent name for a rock n roll band.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:59 AM (3 minutes ago)

Their biggest hit was a cod-reggae number called 'Love Remedy'.

I love these stories like The Krazy 8s and Sidewider with big, decade-long arcs!

MEATLOF IN THE REFRIGERATOR!!!!!!

I mean, that guy gets everywhere...

Imaginary guitar band when I was 6: 'The Repeats'

omg dominique

― markers (crüt), Tuesday, October 26, 2010 1:06 PM (50 minutes ago)

X-D

god kicks you gets a mention in this monster magnet interview

http://www.nowinvisibly.com/wwc/content/article_fsusa.html

when i was 14 i recorded a bunch of acoustic mxpx-style pop punk songs onto a boombox (sample lyric iirc: 'mom dont yell at me/i just want to watch tv,' and this is still about where i'm at lyrics-wise). i had my cousin come over and double the vocals cause i thought you could do cool punk 'gang vocals' with two guys. we labeled the tape D-RAILED and my cousin started designing album art for our 'self titled debut'. i started scrawling D-RAILED in different fonts onto all my notebooks at school so i could figure out which one looked coolest.

and then i got really into rocks or something and didn't record another song for 10 years. the tape is probably in my aunt's garage still.

High school band, aged about 15 or 16, me and my best friend - I blasted 3 chords and a load of feedback from an untuned Jazzmaster copy, she stabbed at a Juno synth over the top of the world's cheapest drum machine (I don't think I even had a Roland TR at that point, it was some casio crap) and we sang in spooky harmony.

We played exactly one gig at a high school talent show, drowned out by the horrible heavy metal bands and got booed off after about 5 minutes.

We were called (massive facepalm) The Flowers Of Lust.

Sample song:

Standing alone on a hillside
watching the days of youth slide by
Days stretching into years without end
Is this my golden youth?

Boredom, loneliness, anger, pain
Are these the times that I will treasure
Wanting only to get through
Nothing except the future to live for

Some far off day I suppose
I too will look back and sigh
Everyone forgets the pain
Of youth the further they get away

YES I KNOW IT'S SHITE we were 15, alright? Plus ça change...

The Flowers Of Lust

YES

One-off eighth-grade industrial metal project: Mechanical Death

Between the two of us, we had a bass guitar & practice amp, a cheap keyboard w/ stock drum tracks & mic run through a distortion stombox into another Gorilla practice amp. We produced one EP's worth of boombox recordings on a rainy summer day.

when i was eight i envisioned a musical whose name was my last name and my then-best friend's last name, a la wilson phillips, and came up with an album title and a fake tracklist (though i never actually wrote any songs, i just liked the idea of songs )

i never actually told my best friend about that. though, he and my older brother once wrote a song called "boys just wanna be boys", an answer record to "girls just wanna have fun", and i remember they even recorded it but it's probably long since gone (sadly)

envisioned a musical duo*. i wasn't so ambitious as to write a musical

lil ilm had some awesome imaginary bands! i just had idiotic ones in adolescence. there was also super thesaurus, with a theme song. i remember this verse:

super thesaurus, super thesaurus
we've got a synonym for rigor mortis
super thesaurus, super thesaurus
if we play this long enough we might achieve coitus

Age 11. Dreamt about having some sort of karaoke/musician robots joining me. They'd make noise in the background, act as musicians and I'd just plug a microphone to one of them and sing.

and then i got really into rocks or something

^ as much as I love the band name D-RAILED this is my favorite part of the story ^

I had an imaginary metal band aged 15 who would open shows with a cover of Carmina Burana, and whose drummer would perform suspended in a cage above the crowd. They had a name but I've forgotten it, though their debut album was called Hypothermia and was about the Cold War.

i was in a real band in high school. it started off as me and my friend m4rk dicking around in his basement with all of his equipment, him on bass/drums and me on clarinet (still the only instrument i know how to play) trying (and failing) to play along to tortoise songs and doing weird 'faust tapes'-style tapefuckery. it eventually blossomed into a 13-piece funk band with members drawn from my HS' marching band and various musicians that m4rk knew. we played arrangements of songs from sega genesis games (mostly sonic, some toejam and earl), herbie hancock jams, "pick up the pieces", "pennsylvania 6-5000", some other stuff. we ended every show with a cover of the 'mortal kombat' theme where we each picked a different key so it sounded like a crazy atonal mess. it was pretty much the best thing about high school, in retrospect

i think we were 12, a friend had rush 2112 album out and i don't think we liked it. but "the meek shall inherit the earth" inspired us to form The Meek. We had heard and liked the Shaggs; they were a big inspiration. Immediately wrote some lyrics and recorded ourselves, w/absolutely zero rehearsal or idea what would happen, one of us on pots and pans, the other on two-stringed guitar. When we got to high school we'd have musical friends join us, communal style. some of it actually kinda holds up. Esp. a freakout called "the slot", where my buddy pulled off a sublime Beefheart-ish vocal; i don't think we had heard the Capt. at that point though...
http://www.myspace.com/themeekps

other terribly named high school bands I was in

hi-fi death monster
interracial humping
3D graveyard

In '95 when I was 13 I got my first drum kit and my older brother got a bass and an amp, and we started a band with a couple of his friends. We were alt-rock/GNR fans who had just started getting into old punk rock via Nirvana and the Spaghetti Incident so we did a bunch of sloppy covers of the Ramones, Sex Pistols, Modern Lovers, etc. our guitarist wanted us to be called The Junkies as kind of an ironic/purposefully offensive name because of that PSA at the time that went "nobody says I want to be a junkie when I grow up," although sadly he turned into a total burnout years later. and then a year or two later my brother and I started another band with 2 other friends and called it Tantrya (one of the guitarists was dabbling in Eastern philosophy/religion stuff), and we made more of an effort at writing songs but ultimately got nowhere, made a few terrible practice tapes and played Super Mario Kart more than our instruments when we got together. and then in senior year I joined a screamo band and I wasn't really into the music but am proud of my drumming with them, we actually wrote & recorded an album and played like, 3 gigs in front of actual people.

ILX childhood recordings compilation, would support

― mr. mandelbrot flythrough vertigo, esq. (Edward III), Tuesday, October 26, 2010 1:25 PM (57 minutes ago)

like I want to hear all of these bands

There are a bunch of home videos of me pretending a fuckton of household items are in fact saxophones.

especially the 13 piece atonal funk mortal combat cover marching band

xp

yeah totally. i know i can dig up a song from wayback when. who else has recordings?

this was a song I recorded at 15, though it was just me fucking around with a MIDI keyboard & sequencer:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/8200791080a5c2b3/

there are definitely recordings of us somewhere, i bet. we had t-shirts made at one point, but i think my mom threw mine out when she was cleaning out my bedroom closet

actually i'm certain someone took video of one of our performances. our live shows were kind of legendary. our friend 3ric would dress like a pirate and just growl incoherently over every song, and once we had a game of twister going in the audience - we played while he spun the wheel and called out LEFT FOOT ON GREEN YARRRRRGH

when bruce springsteen's tunnel of love album came out, one of my high school bands covered it in its entirety and released our version the following week.

When I was 15 I played bass in a band called Vas Deferens. One of the goth kids at school asked me to join, probably because I was the only kid at school who played bass. We did mostly Cure covers, and a few originals that the goth kid/singer/guitarist wrote. I wasn't that into it, and quit before we got any gigs. The keyboardist and I stayed friends though, and were later in a band called Train Break Symphony that covered Pink Floyd's "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun."

That keyboardist is now the organist at Fenway Park.

we even threw in the b-side "lucky man" for good measure

xp

you all remember the details of your imaginary bands so well. i remember only that i was 11 or 12 and that there were four of us, including my brother and bobby & lou from down the street. we each designed our own costumes, on paper or just in our heads, depending on degree of enthusiasm or ability. mine was basically gene simmons, but with more fur and lightning. we had four imaginary albums, each based on a kiss or rush album cover. mine was destroyer. we would play the records in question and jump around a lot. wish i could remember our band name...

subsequent imaginary bands (some still ongoing) have involved the actual production of music. no less imaginary for that.

not a band but one time at the end of the school year, during finals when, if you've finished then school attendance is optional, m4rk and i decided to have a "free jazz parade" throughout the school hallways - a group of us just walked all around the school with a tuba, a clarinet, a bass drum and a saxophone and just wailed on all of them, to the tremendous consternation of every teacher in the building

In high school my friend and I got obsessed with Black Flag's "Wasted" and decided to start The Two Girl Wasted Cover Band, where we covered "Wasted" in different styles. I had figured out how to play this one arpeggio on the guitar that showed up in a lot of Ink Spots songs so we started out doing it after the manner of the Ink Spots first. After four of five times of playing it I got really tired of saying "I was so messed up, I was so screwed up" in a fake deep guy voice and I decided I definitely didn't want to sing "Wasted" more than one time in a night, which was the whole point of the band. SO that band lasted about two afternoons long.

Parallax, name heavily inpsired by Metallica listening. Our "songs" consisted of our super awesome lead guitarist tearing off solo after solo while the drummer (me) and the bassist (another friend) pounded away atonally behind him, since neither of us knew how to play AT ALL. It was a mess, but I'd love to have recordings of those now.

Two interesting sidenotes:
1) My "drum kit" consisted of one snare, one tom, and one cymbal because thats all the lead guitarist's brother had around the house.

2) We broke up when the lead singer had to move to Florida to live with his real dad. He spent a few years couch surfing and played in a bunch of local bands down there to make money, including one band that would later become Tabitha's Secret and then Matchbox Twenty.

My ninth grade band was Fudgepop. We were a four-piece rock band with actual, functioning equipment! Our songs were either covers of or songs written in the style of The Pixies, Teenage Fanclub & The Jesus & Mary Chain. We didn't know anyone that played bass, so we made one of our friends play - we bought the cheapest bass guitar we could find & rigged it through an eight-track player into an old stereo speaker! Our first gig was at the weekly Sunday afternoon talent show at Kuhl's Downtown Grocery and Farmer's Market. We shared the bill with our singer's other band, a bizarro comedy-rock trio called Sweet Pickles. One of their songs was called "Waffle Stomp" & during its performance they brought out some actual waffles & tossed them into the crowd like frisbees. All was in good humor until a flying waffle led to hot coffee being spilled on a baby.

Ok I shouldn't have laughed that hard at that last sentence.

I wasn't the only one then!

My first band, when I was 15, was called Yukon (shortened from Yukon Cornelius, the dog from the Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer TV special.) I played sax, and we had electric piano, drums, and our guitarist played bass on his low strings. We did all original material inspired by Sparks and Roxy Music, and also Elton/Cat Stevens piano pop. (That probably reads 1000x better than we ever were.) We played a handful of gigs and disbanded within a year or so.

We actually recorded (on a Realistic 4-track) and pressed a 45, which I haven't listened to in 20 years.

The dog? He is not a dog, sir! Don't mess with my favorite childhood holiday special.

Also, lol:

Yukon Kornelius is a rock music supergroup. It consists of bassist Stefan Lessard from the Dave Matthews Band (the anchor member),[1] singer/guitarist Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies, singer/guitarist Adam Gardner from Guster, and drummer Eric Fawcett from Spymob (billed for the first show as a special guest, but billed in 2009 as part of the band). The band's name comes from Yukon Cornelius, a character in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special). The band's shows have so far been known for including special guests.[2] The band was originally put together for charitable purposes when the members were together for a planned ski/snowboard trip while filming Warren Miller's Children of Winter, a snow sports film.

Oh, ffs, he's the prospector dude! That was supposed to read "named for my cousin's dog, who was named after..." Lame editor, me.

I hope this didn't kill the thread, I want to hear more. I love these!

The next band i was in at age 13-14 or so was called the G4reth 0sborn Traveling Blues Band, named for our friend who wasn't really in the band. We didn't play the blues and we certainly didn't travel. We jammed in my garage and had mostly real instruments (tho our drummer just had a snare, a tambourine for a hi-hat and a crash cymbal). We constantly had the police come and tell us to stop, mainly because a certain neighbor couldn't stand the noise. It probably was pretty annoying, I realize in retrospect. But as a result, most of our original songs were about said neighbor. But it was mostly covers -- neil young, the velvet underground, pavement, tom petty ...

I played piano by then, and sort of fantasized about starting a "band" where all voices were multitracked piano in the studio. Imagining the project today, probably would have sounded like some kind of cross-in-between Phil Spector's production of the ballads on "Imagine" and Ben Folds Five. ;)

At times I still fantasize that I'm a pop star that puts all other pop stars to shame. Of course I do this while listening to other artists' music, so everything is a cover! In general? I've been making my own music videos inside my head since I've been at least 8.
I'd also like to be that one chick in the game known for wearing men's suits, so I always throw that into my impromptu fantasy music videos.

We were David Katz and the Kittens and we played punk rock covers. Lots of badly strummed amp distortion power chords.

At times I still fantasize that I'm a pop star that puts all other pop stars to shame. Of course I do this while listening to other artists' music, so everything is a cover! In general? I've been making my own music videos inside my head since I've been at least 8.

...wait, are you me? (In my case more like 12 when it came to the videos but even so.)

In junior high I spent an afternoon at my Indian friend's house banging on an acoustic guitar and improvising songs about all the popular people we hated while he noodled Hindustani scales on a Casio keyboard. We taped the whole thing and I made a cover for it complete with a track listing and credits and everything. There was also some laughably terrible band name for it but I don't remember what it was. I think the tape is still somewhere at my dad's house, I really want to go dig it out now.

my band was called Rejected By Hell and i started it when i was 10 years old after my parents bought me and my brothers an electric guitar for a combined christmas present. i'd spend hour after hour filling up blank tapes with wretched improvised guitar and screeching while a mate of mine thumped listlessly on a couple of bongo drums. i swear i must have made about 20 of those tapes, each one as horrendous as the last. i think i can even remember what some of them were called: "killers", "trap", "appetite for pain", "pretty trapped up", "blackened", "flattening the vision"... the album artwork was mostly made up of collages of childhood photos. the tapes are probably lying around somewhere...

My first band was called eXperience, and was mostly my friend and I goofing around with a sound machine and talking in silly voices when we were 8. One track was just the intro from "Walking On The Moon" sped up to 45RPM. Then we took the tape recorder up a tree and played it "until a record producer with good taste walks past and gives us a deal".

Next was The Electric Polo - maybe about 13? I designed a tape box and everything. Wrote some lyrics. Mostly it was mint-based parodies of eurodance hits of the time, such as "I Like To Move It" and "Living On My Own". We had one practice in my bedroom. I remember someone breaking out an electric guitar he'd got for Christmas and playing the riff from Eye of the Tiger. We didn't get a lot done.

Eventually started a gabba/hardcore act at 16 called Reindeer Of Doom. We actually played a couple of gigs, including one at our high school where someone had rigged our equipment through a sole guitar amp. When we switched everything on, there was an almighty feedback which continued throughout our 30 minute set. The kids loved it though. I think I'd had a can of Special Brew before going onstage. Reindeer Of Doom morphed into Autofire, an electronica thing that lasted about 8 years.

Oh yeah - between Electric Polo and Reindeer Of Doom, there was Bud, which again was mostly my friends and I mucking about with a tape recorder and a primitive WAV editor on the family's first PC. We had a track called "Fuck Fuck Fuck Bugger Bollocks Bugger Bollocks"; a track called "President Clinton" set to the tune of Flight of the Valkyries; an unlistenable 6-minute piece of musique concrete I made that ruined the whole flow of the tape we made... I can't remember the rest, but we filled maybe a whole side of a tape, which eventually got shot by a BB-gun.

I couldn't have an imaginary band or even a crap punk band. I performed in a real piano bar when I was seven and got money, hard to top that.

In tenth grade, I joined The Liquid Bastards with the same shitty bass guitar previously employed by Fudgepop which, being a guitarist, I basically learned how to play on the job. The guitarist and the drummer were actually pretty solid players & formed the anchor of the band, which specialized in cut-rate DC-style hardcore. The singer was an obese malcontent known as Turtle & he would basically go all Crowbar over the other guys' Fugazi impersonation, which pissed them off to no end. So they fired Turtle for not being Ian MacKaye, right on the eve of our first "show" - a teenage pot party in some shitty garage. A resourceful crew, instead of canceling the show, they promoted yours truly from bass to vox.

To my mind, being the singer for a hardcore band was going to be my ticket to boobs. Unfortunately, I was left with about 24 hours to write lyrics (no one ever knew what Turtle was singing, so I had to start from scratch) to ten or twelve punk jams, passably memorize said lyrics & then hone my delivery. On top of that, my voice was cracking & I am a terrible singer. During the show, I was essentially improvising a vocal performance on the spot while totally failing on pretty much every musical level as well. It spiraled into such an embarrassing trainwreck that Turtle, out of pity for me & contempt for the other fellas, eventually seized the mic & proceeded to go all Crowbar all over everybody's ass after all.

After that, the band immediately imploded & my cred with the ladies declined sharply b/c I had become the laughing stock of the entire local punk community.

What a great read! So nostalgic and an accurate reflection of the time!

hey thanks!

I'm glad this thread has encouraged us all to unpack and sort out those golden memories.

this is a great thread!

1st/2nd grade - my sister and I had a Jem-inspired fake band with no instruments and no songs

2nd grade - my friend Max and I started a heavily Monkees-influenced band called the Dinosaurs. he played toy guitar and I played "drums" consisting of pots and pans. Since we were influenced by the Monkees, our only song was a "theme song" about how we were the Dinosaurs.

7th grade - started my first real band (ie one that practiced and played in front of other people), called Viscid Lemon. I was the lead singer because I didn't know how to play any instruments (eventually I got a guitar and learned to play). we'd play Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana covers and had originals like "My French Teacher is an Alien" and "Pissbat." we played at a few school events and one party, mostly we just invited girls over to our drummer's house to hang out while we "rocked"

Was thinking of some the names of the original songs my band had:
"suburban blues"
"the great eagle (in the sky)"
"mantis"
"i go to the warehouse"
should probably be a separate thread" Come Up With The Most Boring Song Titles Possible

That's actually kind of incredibly precocious, Dominique.