Tuesday, 19 December 2017

Why do rock bands have to have silly names?

A jazz band is mostly named after the person who runs it:
The Miles Davis Quintet, The Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra, The Oscar Peterson Trio, The Testore Trio.
Classical Orchestras generally tell you where they come from:
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, The Auckland Philharmonia.
Sometimes chanber ensembles take their name from someone who inspires them or whose music they play:
The Mozart Quintet, The Orpheus String Quartet.



Okay, so far it's all making sense.

Let's move onto rock bands:
The Small Faces

Hang on, where did that name come from?
The Animals

Not something you'd really want
to advertise!
Dragon

Well, at least Robert and Darek will like this one!
and on it goes!


WHY DO ROCK BANDS HAVE SUCH SILLY BLOODY NAMES?

1 comment:

  1. Gosh, I never thought that I'd agree with Akish but I do. Some of the names are stupid. Often they are pretentious. I too liked the good old names of those bands of previous years like The Mills Brothers; The Andrews Sisters, The Prowse Brothers etc.

    re The Small Faces they could just as easily been labelled The Ugly Faces.

    re Dragon I used to fancy Robert Taylor's girlfriend back in the '70s.

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