Jean-Luc Pickguard

Good tip, but I'm lazy so I'd check out the colour names at https://www.valsparpaint.co.uk/paint-colours/ Anaemic Moon, Scrubbed Cauliflower, Poached Smoke, Snowman's Bone

I used to know a band called Party Seven. There weren't seven people in the band though.

I’ll be sure not to include any French bus stops in my generator webapp.

I've made an online list editing app today, which will make it very easy to delete words from my long word lists, so as long as I have a signal I can easily edit the lists whilst waiting for a train, sitting on the train or otherwise with time on my hands. Not sure when the longer lists will be ready to be incorporated into the name generator, but I might add an option, so it can be set to use the current standard word lists or the much longer expanded lists

My old band had a punter looking for the fifth band member while we were packing up after a gig, so she could have a complete set of autographs on a gig poster. All four of us in the band 'obviously 5 believers' had already signed it, and she had watched the whole gig with a drummer, a bass player and two guitarists. We told her the elusive fifth member was in the bog.

Nah! The band name is/was "Amber Gambler"

June Bugs (Bunny) — The Handsome Family

There are about 3000 words in total in the app as it is currently. I now have lists of over 11,000 single syllable words and 33,000 two syllable words (from https://en.wiktionary.org), but it will be necessary to remove a lot of crud from both lists for them to be useful. It may take a while to get these larger lists in a usable state if I do proceed with them.

I have a short list of possible names generated from my page. I'm probably going to expand the word list further, although if I add a large number of words I might need to use a different method to select them using separate files for the word lists.

As discussed in another thread, I have discovered another band had been using the same name as my recording project's band name, and although that other band has little digital footprint, they were using the name first, so I have decided to come up with a new name for my project. Thinking up good band names on demand is not easy, good ones tend to come in a flash of inspiration out of the blue when you're least expecting it. I have found a few existing band name generators online, but I have not been successful in finding a name that I like using any of them. I have now built my own band name generator, which I hope will work better. This generates two word, three syllable names — which is my preference at the moment as this format tends to give many of the best sounding names, - eg Aphex Twin, BadFinger, Black Sabbath, Bon Iver, Cocteau Twins, Deep Purple, Depeche Mode, Dirty Three, Fearless Flyers, Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, Funk Brothers, Gentle Giant, GrinderMan, Honey Cone, Human League, Judas Priest, Killing Joke, King Harvest, Led Zeppelin, Low Anthem, Mars Volta, Matching Mole, Mazzy Star, Mink DeVille, Mountain Goats, New Order, NewYork Dolls, Nitzer Ebb, NineInch Nails, Primal Scream, SandPebbles, Sex Pistols, Shocking Blue, Small Faces, Soft Machine, Status Quo, SugarCubes, Taj Mahal, Thin Lizzy, Tin Machine, UK Subs, UnderTones, Van Halen, WaterBoys etc... The link to my generator is at the bottom of this post. Click the red button to generate a list of twenty-four suggestions for a band name and click the icon next to any name you like to copy to it the clipboard so you can paste it into your own document. I've just finished coding this and already have a few possible band names copied into a pages document just from testing it. If you are interested in how it works, you can view the page source to see the code and word lists. Everything is self-contained on the single page with zero external resources used. If anyone wants to contribute additional words I have left out, or finds any 'inappropriate' words please let me know and I'll make any changes needed when I update it. This has been designed to work on every modern device including phones and tablets, however I have only tested it on my apple kit so far. Link to the band name generator -> https://names.bandrocks.co.uk/

Bridget (Riley) The Midget — Ray Stevens

Nerds don't play bass. Nerd bass is the keyboard player's left hand.

I try to mod my instruments so that the mods are reversable if possible, so I can return everything back to stock if I do sell. Things like swapping out the pickguard, fitting a hi-mass bridge in place of a BBoT, replacing tuners for ones with the same footprint, and replacing pickups with ones of the same shape make this easy. A notable exception is that I fittied much larger gotoh GB640 tuners on all three of my vintage pro thunderbirds, but I'm not planning to ever sell those.

No Debussy Blues — Grinderman

I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea — Elvis Costello

I'm a big fan of lollipop tuners. The first set I bought were hipshot HB2s which I fitted with the matching D-tuner on my fretless Precision bitzer. They were fitted as standard on three JMJs and a vintera mustang bass. I have put a set of HB10 lollipops on my Sienna sunburst player mustang bass. I was planning on fitingt a set of HB7 lollipops to my competition orange squier classic vibe mustang bass, however they don't fit as the holes in the headstock are slightly too close together.

I Thank You — Sam & Dave

It wouldn't have been a problem in the days when being in a moderately successful band meant playing regular gigs in your local area, but these days we have websites, youtube, facebook, bandcamp, spotify etc to consider, although of those I'm only planning to use youtube and bandcamp to any extent, plus a website when I have more material.

True story — The band I formed and fronted from 1985-86 was called Nirvana. I guess Kurt had a copy of Love by The Cult as well.

For the last six months or so (might be longer) I have been using a band name for one of my ongoing projects which is fairly obscure reference to something that will probably be meaningless to anyone who didn't grow up in the 70s in the UK. Before the first release I did a thorough online check for any band with the same or sigificantly similar name. For this I searched google, youtube and various streaming services. Nothing came up at that time and no domains in reference to the name had been registered. I did another search this week and a facebook page came up for a band in Scotland using the name. This band was active from 2014 to 2021 when they broke up, but it looks like they might be getting back together. I'm not planning on contacting this other band as I'd prefer to fly under the radar, and I've not promoted the name yet to any great extent, ie the youtube views are in the hundreds at best. I guess I have three options Continue to use the name as my project is the only one with actual releases under the name, and if the other band gets in touch tell them to eff off. Quietly forfeit the name and re-release the existing tracks under a totally different name Pluralise the name - for example if the name was 'silver beatle' make it 'silver beatles' instead (that isn't the name in question by the way) I'm tending towards the second option, but have yet to find a suitable replacement name. What do others think? Has anyone else had encountered a similar issue with their band name?

Thanks But No Thanks — General Crook

Mr Pheasant — The Kinks

I think most people were confused reading it. I certainly was.