Lynyrd Skynyrd, http://lynyrdskynyrdhistory.com/faq.html#b,
named themselves after Leonard Skinner, a coach who punished two band members
in high school for their long hair. The band explained y’s were substituted for
the vowels “to protect the guilty.”
Pink Floyd, http://www.pinkfloydstyle.com/pinkfloydinglese.htm,
was named after two blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. More logical
than you might have guessed, right?
Nine Inch Nails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Inch_Nails.
Trent Reznor says he chose the name because it “abbreviated easily” to NIN and
not for any meaning. This
article quotes Reznor: “I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to think of band
names, but usually you think you have a great one and you look at it the next
day and it’s stupid … It’s a curse trying to come up with band names.”
Cage The Elephant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cage_the_Elephant
. Awww, I thought this band got its name from Horton Hears A Who. Nope, it got its name from a connect-the-dots
drawing on a cereal box.
The Arctic Monkeys,
http://www.nme.com/news/arctic-monkeys/60048,
don’t even like their name, reporting
that they are embarrassed to say it when asked. One member had the name picked,
at age 15, before they ever started the band.
Modest Mouse, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modest_Mouse, got its name from Virginia Woolf who wrote of “modest, mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises.”
Gorillaz, http://www.reddit.com/r/showerthoughts/comments/36atp6/the_name_of_the_band_gorillaz_is_a_pun_because_a/, the virtual/cartoon band, got its name when
its musical creator, Damon Albarn, also of the band Blur, was dissed by Liam
Gallagher of Oasis. An interviewer compared the competition between Blur and
Oasis in the ‘90s as like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the ‘60s, to
which Gallagher replied that Albarn was more like “the fucking Monkees.”
Wow, someone beat me to all this. For more, look here.
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