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DrAwkward wrote:

lemur68 wrote:

DrAwkward wrote:I'm currently wracking my brain trying to think of an example of a good band that picked a good TV character name. There has to be one, right?

"Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen" doesn't count, as those were film serials...

There's a band in Manitowoc called Jack the Tripper. Nice guys, decent punk band, but sort of a dumb name...

There used to be a band called the Showcase Showdown, which is an awesome TV reference, but it's not a character name...

Damn. I'm stumped.

Your girlfriend T'Pau is named after a Star Trek character.

I was trying to think of a good band. Just ask Ronald Thomas Clontle--a band can rot even if one of their songs rules.

Has anyone ever even heard another T'Pau song?

lemur68 wrote:Has anyone ever even heard another T'Pau song?

I owned the cassette.

Mind you, i don't remember any of the songs at all...

Jeez, I wouldn't want to meet that guy(?)

ERawk wrote:Apparently, there's a T'Pau archivist on the YouTube.

I initially read this as "there's a T'Pau activist on the YouTube."

There was a great and brutally heavy band in Boston around 1996 called Michael Mancini named after the sleazy lawyer on "Melrose Place". Their drummer Thos Niles is one the best drummers I have ever seen play. One of the guitar players who wasn't in the band for long, Ayal Naor had been in the band Spore and is currently in the band 27. Michael Mancini slowly disintegrated from a four piece with Ayal, Thos, Kate McLaughlin on guitar and Andrew Donheiser on bass to just Andrew and Thos on bass and drums. The last time I saw them play was as the two piece and they still slayed everyone in the room.

My adoration for this band even led to Andrew playing with us in the gersch for awhile after we lost our third guitarist. It never went anywhere with him although he did do the sound for us a few times. The last time he mixed one of our shows he caused a power outage during our set and had to leave ASAP to avoid getting his ass kicked by the club owners.

I wish Michael Mancini had put out an album. Their only released song that I know of was on the Allston Rock City compilation and is played backwards. The world would be a better place if more people had heard the band Michael Mancini. Inconsequential to most, hugely influential to me.

For all of that I give the concept a NOT CRAP and no waffles. That's how great this band named after a TV character was.

Don Caballero?

The was a local band called 'Rosemary Conley And The Eat Yourself Slims' that operated for a few months a couple years ago, they only ever played one show but it was good.

I once played a set with a guy and we called it "Cooper & Truman."

The set was not crap.

I was in a band called Penfold in the early 90s.

Not crap.

piut wrote:Don Caballero?

The character's name was actually Guy Caballero, wasn't it? He didn't require a wheelchair but he used one "for respect."