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Bands with stolen names
The Eyeball Kid:
Just found this as i was adding him to the site i work for: "Meat Katie is the alias of south Londoner Mark Pember, the producer and DJ that borrowed the name from a video in a porn store".
edgyswingsetacid:
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--- Quote from: ImRonBurgundy? ---Hot Water Music and A Radio With Guts both lifted their names from Charles Bukowski
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good call. i beleive The Good Life also got their name from buk.
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negative, it is the nebraska slogan thing.
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aah, i see. i only assumed that they got it from buk, basing it on the fact that he wrote a poem entitled 'the good life,' and the band's lyrics are reminiscent of the themes associated with the author. as well, they go so far as to mention his name in at least one of their songs.
The Eyeball Kid:
--- Quote from: The Eyeball Kid ---Augie March got their name from a charcter in a book. possibly Russian
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Right... it was the title of a Saul Bellow book, 'The Adventures of Augie March'. The title was chosen 'cause Glenn Richards reckons he wrote songs like Saul Bellow wrote books.
I haven't read Saul Bellow, but if his stuff is anything like last night's Augie March show it'd be more emotional then the ending of Cowboby Bebop...
Scytale:
I used to know a bunch of trivia stuff like this.
Darkthrone got their name from a Celtic Frost song
Mayhem got their name from a Venom song (Mayhem without Mercy)
Bathory got their name from Erzsebet Bathory the Hungarian countess and also from a Venom song.
Burzum, Gorgoroth, Cirith Ungol, Isengard and a whole lot of other bands got their names form Tolkein.
Mars Volta got their name from an interview with the director Felini(sp?)
Megadeth got their name from a US Senator's speach
Metallica stole their name from a fanzine
Opeth is from a Wilbur Smith book
Zyklon B is named after the WW2 chemical
Dimmu Borgir is a lava formation in Iceland
Paramecium is a micro-organism
Demons And Wizards - is named after a Uriah Heep album
Nevermore got their name from Edgar Allan Poe
Samael is from the book of revelations.
Therion was taken from the Aleister Crowley / Celtic Frost / bible
Thrillho:
Baby Lemonade and Gigolo Aunts are both named after Syd Barrett songs.
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