Band names: Origins and Meanings

[mancity2012_eamo]

This is Jim calling. I'm glad you think I'm gorgeous

You know you’re gorgeous Jim.

 

[hilts]

There's variations on the story but Led Zeppelin's name supposedly came about from a comment by Keith Moon, who claimed that a supergroup Page was trying to put together would go down like a lead balloon. That band involving Jeff Beck and John Entwistle never happened but Page took inspiration from it for the New Yardbirds...

Surprised zeppelin didn’t call themselves the Beetles they nicked everything else.

 

[Elbow beards]

I thought that was ‘cellardoor’ ?

That's donnie darko, and that's a pairing of words,quoted by JRR Tolkien.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

My gran used to have a stall on there.

Not heard of them, any links to some of their music?

 

[laserblue]

The Doors took their name from Aldous Huxley's book 'Doors Of Perception' which in turn was a reference to a quote by William Blake. Huxley's book dealt with his psychedelic experience with mescaline.

 

[Bill Walker]

Van der graf Generator

Named after a machine

 

[Bill Walker]

Small Faces
Was because they were all diminutive.
When Stewart and Wood joined they were taller so renamed The Faces.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

The Bachelors were all married

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Sad Cafe from the book Sad Cafe by Carsen McUllers

 

[denislawsbackheel]

the Kursaal Flyers – named after the imitation train which was used to advertise Southend's famous amusement hall, the Kursaal.