How did your favorite band choose/get their name?

Question

Radiohead: "Radio Head" is a Talking Heads song, from their 1986 album True Stories. Their first name was On a Friday (the only day they could rehearse while studying at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire).

Answer 1

Relient K was named after guitarist Matt Hoopes Reliant K car but they spelled it with an E to avoid copyright infringement. When they found out that that wouldn't be a problem they kept it like that anyways. :]

Answer 2

They won't say. Every time a fan asks them, they keep it a secret. Bugs the c**p out of me.

Answer 3

Tesla named themselves in honor of the man that truly created radio Nikola Tesla

Answer 4

Uhmm... let me think.. I don't know Ask Metallica themselves

Answer 5

Since olive said my favorite.... I'll go with my 2nd favorite. The Black Keys. It came from one of their friends who has schizophrenia and uses that term to describe people who aren't quite right.  

Answer 6

i really don't kno but my fav band is DA BEST BAND IN DA WORLD!!!

THE ALL AMER8ICAN REJECTS!!! WOOT! WOOT! LOL

Answer 7

Tokio Hotel was originally Develish but picked Tokio Hotel because once they went big and famous they always stayed in hotels and theyve always wanted to play in Tokyo

Answer 8

Since The Flood: It was the first line of the letter a soldier wrote during the American Civil War

Answer 9

jonas brothers: Their last name is Jonas, and they are brothers lol

Answer 10

well Queen's original name was Smile, but Freddie didn't like it to much so he took it upon himself and decided that Queen sounded "classy"

Answer 11

Farkus: from Flordia. They had a different name (not sure what it was, but lets call it TATORS) at one time. Well, they all realized he wasn't compatable with the band so they kicked him out. So he decided to go & pay lots of money to get the first name copyrite (TATORS) so they couldn't continue it. So they decided to name the band FARKUS, which is the guys last name. And he can't do anything about it..

Personally, I think that is funny..

Answer 12

Modest Mouse got their name from the Virginia Woolf story "The Mark On The Wall". The line says "I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises." They were gonna name the band Modest Mouse- Coloured People but thought it was too long so they shortened it to Modest Mouse.

Answer 13

His sister's name.

Answer 14

Well John Lennon first had a band called the Quarrymen (They went to Quarrybank school...)

But they eventually called themselves The Silver Beatles. They picked the beatles part because they loved Buddy Holly, and his band was named the crickets. So they wanted to stick with the bug theme...and they spelled it with an ea instead of an ee because a the local newspaper was called the Mersy Beat. And they thought it would be interesting to be the beatles instead of the beetles. Also because the word beat has to do with music..

One night when the Silver Beatles were doing a show, John saw the poster that read "Tonight Only: The Silver Beatles", and he took a sharpie, and crossed out the word Silver. He just didn't like it.

And that's how they ended up with Beatles...

Answer 15

ACDC got it off a vacuum cleaner when they were kids.