Music band names you forgot to make use of

[tomcruise]

• the jazz michaels
• unusual stains
• sugar hits

 

[Proper Gander]

I love unusual stains

I had a friend who played in three bands

• Dog Act
• Velocity Chunder
• Unreliable

None were a success, and unreliable was overrating them vastly

Actually he wasn’t a good friend, more an acquaintance that I got on okay with. What am I talking about? I didn’t like him at all but was mostly polite because we worked together

 

[Headless]

HARVEST SLAPS

 

[Proper Gander]

I’m starting a band called The Harvest Slaps. Applications welcome, with particular favour given to trombonists

 

[Proper Gander]

I’ve just had a thought but I’m taking it to the random chat thread

 

[Proper Gander]

• the jazz michaels
• unusual stains
• sugar hits

I also really like “the jazz michaels” without knowing why, which is the best kind of band name

 

[Headless]

I’m starting a band called The Harvest Slaps. Applications welcome, with particular favour given to trombonists

I've heard that The Harvest Slaps wear harvest caps. Might you confirm?

 

[Proper Gander]

I've heard that The Harvest Slaps wear harvest caps. Might you confirm?

I can’t put hand on heart and confirm because the band hasn’t actually formed as yet

 

[Headless]

I can’t put hand on heart and confirm because the band hasn’t actually formed as yet

Thanks for being honest on this occasion.

 

[Proper Gander]

Thanks for being honest on this occasion.

On this occasion is interesting.

I’d like a list (can just be a sample) of instances when you have doubted my honesty

 

[Headless]

On this occasion is interesting.

I’d like a list (can just be a sample) of instances when you have doubted my honesty

I can't in truth list any such occasions on this occasion.

 

[Proper Gander]

I can't in truth list any such occasions on this occasion.

Give it time

 

[tomcruise]

I also really like “the jazz michaels” without knowing why, which is the best kind of band name

I struggled to come up with a genre to fit it. Obviously wouldn't be jazz.

 

[Proper Gander]

I struggled to come up with a genre to fit it. Obviously wouldn't be jazz.

That’s what I hoped.

I’ve always liked the old school type names where a group calls themselves the (something something) trio.

I’d like that kind of name back, but it shouldn’t be jazz and it should have at least four core members

 

[tomcruise]

That’s what I hoped.

I’ve always liked the old school type names where a group calls themselves the (something something) trio.

I’d like that kind of name back, but it shouldn’t be jazz and it should have at least four core members

None of which are called Michael.

 

[Proper Gander]

None of which are called Michael.

Then you get famous and have a wealth of bullshitting opportunities for where the name came from, sort of Penguin Cafe Orchestra style

 

[tomcruise]

Then you get famous and have a wealth of bullshitting opportunities for where the name came from, sort of Penguin Cafe Orchestra style

Love that. And a harmonium or hammered dulcimer is a wonderful idea for the jazz michaels.

Thank you for your support in this initiative Headless

 

[Proper Gander]

Love that. And a harmonium or hammered dulcimer is a wonderful idea for the jazz michaels.

Thank you for your support in this initiative Headless

Original penguin cafe orchestra had a harmonium (for just the one number) but a regular trombonist!

As a quirky folk/minimalist group they would have been better calling themselves the jazz michaels though

 

[tomcruise]

Album names (to hijack a thread):

• maths my bitch up
• trombones in hell
• dig a nice a hole and play some tunes in it

 

[Proper Gander]

Also hammered dulcimer is an exceptionally cool instrument. I haven’t come across one on gumtree but I reackon you could saw up a Yamaha upright piano and get some drumsticks and get a good result

 

[Proper Gander]

Album names (to hijack a thread):

• maths my bitch up
• trombones in hell
• dig a nice a hole and play some tunes in it

Genuinely can’t pick a favourite here. You’ll just have to be good enough to have all three commissioned

 

[tomcruise]

Also hammered dulcimer is an exceptionally cool instrument. I haven’t come across one on gumtree but I reackon you could saw up a Yamaha upright piano and get some drumsticks and get a good result

It's not my scene, but there's a few decent examples of folks turning pianos into percussion instruments I remember an old music teacher was into.

 

[jhong]

Was in a band called KIF(1970s) . Unfortunately the Richmond cops got too interested in us and that was all she wrote .

 

[Proper Gander]

It's not my scene, but there's a few decent examples of folks turning pianos into percussion instruments I remember an old music teacher was into.

In orchestral pieces which have a piano in them somewhere (not concertos, just where a piano shows up somewhere) a piano is designated a percussion instrument. Which seems weird but then makes sense. Orchestras don’t generally include keyboard instruments and a piano is sort of a technically sophisticated version of a dulcimer - strings hit by hammers.

What makes less sense is that French horn is designated as a member of the woodwind section. I’m sure there must be a historical reason for this, but on face value it’s very weird and I’ve never asked anyone to explain.

 

[Proper Gander]

It's not my scene, but there's a few decent examples of folks turning pianos into percussion instruments I remember an old music teacher was into.

They are percussion instruments. But there are some cool avant garde works for “prepared piano” where the instructions are to lift the lid of the instrument and clip pegs in selected spaces on the strings and foil and bits of gravel etc. interesting results though I don’t think those experiments stood the test of time in the same way as, say, Sir Paul McCartney. If you did that and called it the Jazz Michaels it would have gone very big though