There is no one in Pablo Cruise named Pablo. YOUR favorite band named after person not in the band?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Hell...that's a WHOLE lotta PERMS.

:rofl:

:toast:

[NightWatcher]

1. there was no Jethro in Jethro Tull either

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Wait, didn't he leave the band before the first album and rejoin them on "Thick As A Brick?"

...on second thought, maybe not.

:rofl:

[Orsino]

9. When he formed the group in the 1730s, it was an electric blues combo.

The rest of the band has bravely carried on through the centuries since.

TULL LIVES!!!!!!1!

[JBoy]

3. No Lizzy in Thin Lizzy.

[Kutjara]

4. No Uriah Heep in...well, you get the idea.

[XemaSab]

5. No Mazzy in Mazzy Star

:D

[underpants]

6. No Creedence in CCR

No Jethro in Jethro Tull
No Franz in Franz Ferdinan

[Kutjara]

7. No Jesus or Mary in the Jesus & Mary Chain.

The Cocteau Twins weren't named Cocteau. Nor were they twins.
Neither were the Thompson Twins.

False advertising, I call it.

[Arugula Latte]

16. But ... But ... Isn't Jesus everywhere?

:shrug:


;)

[Kutjara]

18. Nah. That's just hype.

He actually lives in a retirement community in Boca Raton and franchises personal appearances. Kinda like Santa.

[BOSSHOG]

8. Who would have thought there was no Ray Zorback

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. Might have helped if you ran SPELLCHECK

:rofl:

:toast:

BEST response yet!

[BOSSHOG]

12. I guess you did not experience

the music scene in Northwest Arkansas in the 70's.

[nolabear]

21. Travelling Wilburys

What a great conflation band.

[bluesbassman]

11. No ZZ in ZZ Top. Just Billy, Dusty, and Frank.

Works for me.

[Kutjara]

19. Cue the famous "beard" story. n/t

[nolabear]

23. Beard Story? Tell me, Grampa...

[Kutjara]

26. Two of them have beards, while the third one is named Beard...

...but is beardless!!!

Not much of a story, I'll admit. More of an interesting curiosity. Only not that interesting.

[Iggo]

27. "Two beards and a drummer" is how it goes. (n/t)

[MajorChode]

32. Gillette offered both of them 7 figures each to shave off their beards and they declined

[nolabear]

34. Yeah, I hear women go crazy 'bout a hirsute man.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

45. They sold out with the synths and drum machines, but not with endorsement deals...

...so I salute them for that.

Although I know that by posting this I am inviting someone to reply with a link to a ZZ Top Endorsement deal.

:rofl:

I don't care, I love 'em. I hated the brittle computer POP crap they cranked out in their post-Eliminator success, but what the hell. Bands play evey beer-and-piss smelling dive in the great 48 for the chance to make it. They made it. Their songs became less "authentic." But part of paying one's dues is that EVENTUALLY, the payments result in a dividend.

I have nothing bad to say about the band at all. Nothing.

:toast:

[EastTennesseeDem]

13. Who in Derek and the Dominos is Derek?

And which one is the Dominos?

[Swede]

14. No Billy Talent in Billy Talent.

Billy Talen - River Below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW3jyZRDlII


Rejected...since day one
My name is...bastard son
I've been damned...so many times I've lost count
Blue collar...working man
Devises...master plan
Bi-polar...with a mental side arm

I'm sick and I'm twisted
I'm broken you can't fix it
Don't make me, cause I'll do it
Red button and we'll all go

Into the river below...I'm running from the inferno...
They'll think I'm insane, but you'll all know my name!
Into the river below...I'm running from the inferno...
I'll take all the blame, the front page and the fame!

Contraption...made up of
Nuts and bolts...creates the
New monster...to burn your family tree down!
Tick-tocking...times up now
Split second...the world frowns
Lonely heart...never loved nobody!

I'm sick and I'm twisted
I'm broken an' you can't fix it
Don't make me, cause I'll do it
Red button and we'll all go

Into the river below...I'm running from the inferno...
They'll think I'm insane but you'll all know my name!
Into the river below...I'm running from the inferno...
I'll take all the blame, the front page and the fame!

I'll take all the blame
The front page and the fame
INTO THE RIVER BELOW
INTO THE RIVER BELOW
INTO THE RIVER BELOW
INTO THE RIVER BELOW

Into the river below...I'm running from the inferno...
They'll think I'm insane but you'll all know my name!
Into the river below...I'm running from the inferno...
I'll take all the blame, the front page and the fame!

Yeah I'll take all the blame
The front page and the fame
But you'll all know my name
And they'll think I'm insane
But you'll all know my name
But they'll think I'm insane

[Arugula Latte]

15. No Catherine in Catherine Wheel ... An all-guys band.

Named after the firework which was in turn named after the torture device upon which St. Catherine of Alexandria was put.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0O9uNvoMec

[nolabear]

17. Pink Floyd, of course.

"Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?"

[taterguy]

25. I met Pink Anderson's son a few years ago. Really nice guy

[KG]

20. no brothers named 'Doobie'

[Kutjara]

22. There is nobody named Phil...

...in the London Philharmonic. Noone even plays a damned harmonica!

[nolabear]

24. *snort!*

[abq e streeter]

28. Alice Cooper, Cadillac Bob

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwXtOoEUC2I

[Condem]

29. Leonard Skinner.

Yes.

[nolabear]

35. ROTFL!

[Blue-Jay]

41. He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner.

[nolabear]

44. Kid Rock ain't a kid no more

[Bucky]

62. And he never actually rocked.

He rapped. He shoulda called himself Kid Rap--or today, Middle Aged Rap.

[Sebastian Doyle]

30. None of these three guys are named "Rush"

Which is fortunate, really......

If they had a guy named "Rush" in their band, they might write songs called "Red State Barchetta" or "Time Stands Still (When You're Whacked Out on Oxycontin)"

[MajorChode]

31. No Kennedy in the Dead Kennedys

[wickerwoman]

33. Page France

also maybe the Ramones... I don't think any of them were actually named Ramone (but too lazy to google it... sorry!)

[Sebastian Doyle]

55. Nah, the Ramone name was totally a stage name. A tribute to the Beatles actually....

You may notice that the stage "uniform" of the Ramones - Leather jackets, Levis and t-shirts - was the same as that worn by the Beatles in their Hamburg & Cavern Club days. Back then, the Beatles also gave themselves stage names. Paul used the name "Paul Ramone".

[jobycom]

36. There ain't even a dog in Toto. nt

[conscious evolution]

37. Lynyrd Skynyrd

[Rabrrrrrr]

38. In "Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention" there was no one actually named "Invention"

[Forkboy]

39. Ed Hall

[mitchum]

40. "What song is it you wanna hear?"

that band

[Amerigo Vespucci]

50. I love that...

...as I was growing up, I wasn't the world's biggest fans of rednecks. As a Massachusetts native, I didn't run into a lot of them.

My two Ronnie stories are:

1). Remember "Oui" magazine? Hefner bought the American rights in the 70s from French skin mag "Lui." They had a profile on Skynyrd. They had a scenario of Ronnie and Gary Rossington in a bar, looking at a "hippie" and his wife or girlfriend, with Ronnie telling Gary "You could TAKE him."

I personally feel that any man who sets his sights on another man's wife or girlfriend is a chickenshit motherfucker...but that's how Ronnie and Gary rolled, and it was a joke to them, but it didn't exactly make me a Skynyrd fan.

2). In "Freebird: The Movie," Ronnie is fishing on a lake and talking about "Free Bird" and what it means to him. All of a sudden the guy who wanted his buddy to fuck the hippie's girlfriend gives way to a "Simple Man"...a guy talking about what it meant to him to be free, to live life.

I know people from Florida who have stories to tell about Ronnie's home town. He was what he was. And in the end, that's all any of us can be.

:toast:

[mitchum]

59. I saw them a lot growing up (even saw the last show)...

I preferred Reed, Bowie, Iggy, Dolls, etc...but would go see any act at the auditorium-Hey, weed, ludes,and bottle rockets!
I remember my profound astonishment when I realized just how good they were. And saying to myself, "Man, this guy is a great songwriter. His use of language is careful and precise. His lyrics are just as good as those of Reed or Young. How can that be?"

[poiuytsister]

42. May I please vote for Monty Python?

Yeah, I know it's not a band but I still love them the most.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

51. OK, I'm willing to bend the rules, but ONLY for you...

:rofl:

:toast:

[poiuytsister]

56. Thanks Sweetie!

I will do a silly walk in your honor.

[charlie and algernon]

43. No Presidents of the United States in The Presidents of the United States of America

[TheKentuckian]

46. Pink Floyd

Pink Anderson and Floyd Council inspired the name

[Capn Sunshine]

47. No Jam in Pearl Jam

[Robeson]

48. Easy. Jethro Tull.

[Common Sense Party]

49. Alice Cooper is the most obvious

[PassingFair]

52. No "Mott the Hoople"

Ian Anderson RULED!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sih9OVokuQ

[704wipes]

53. No Dan in Steely Dan

nt

[soleft]

54. No Bush in Bush Tetras

[blockhead]

57. there is no Dr.Hook

[alcibiades_mystery]

58. Don't even like it, but I can't believe nobody's mentioned Hootie

:rofl:

That dude hates when people call him Hootie.

[omega minimo]

60. Roxy Music

[Bucky]

61. No Dexy in Dexy's Midnight Runners. Also, they didn't actually run. No Leds in Led Zepplin

Or however the fuck they spelled it.

[no name no slogan]

63. Pablo Cruise was named after a cruise, NOT a person.

It runs from Puerto Vallarta to San Diego. In San Diego, you'll often hear people near the dock saying, "I'm taking the Pablo to PV. I'll see you next week."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

65. So Tom Cruise isn't a person either?

Wait a minute...that might be a non sequitur.

Never mind.

:rofl:

[BarbaRosa]

64. No BoDean in the BoDeans.

And, well there is no Freddy Jones in the Freddy Jones Band.