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A band just started playing around Seattle called Swearengen, named after a Deadwood character.

Never seen the show, but this concept strikes me as crap....

Fall Out Boy = CRAP

DrAwkward wrote:Fall Out Boy = CRAP

So, you're saying that I shouldn't name my new band Bart Simpson and the Don't Have a Cow Men....

DrAwkward wrote:Fall Out Boy = CRAP

I don't know why I know this but the band claims they didn't know this was a Simpsons thing before they named the band. An audience member shouted it when they asked for suggestions for a name. I think this makes it even more CRAP.

Naming a band after a TV character is total CRAP. References that don't mean anything are total CRAP.

total shit.

think about what this act says to an audience.

now, naming your band television: not crap.

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.

A few years ago, I used to like that band JR Ewing.

I listened to them again a month or so ago and they just sounded like a Refused cover band to me.

CRAP

We were thinking about naming our band 'Bruticus'...but that was before the 'mega blockbuster' movie came out. Now it'd just be a tad more gae.

ChristopherM wrote:We were thinking about naming our band 'Bruticus'

Damn, that's a deep cut.

DrAwkward wrote:

ChristopherM wrote:We were thinking about naming our band 'Bruticus'

Damn, that's a deep cut.

Why?