Funniest Legally-Obligated Band Names

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ie 'English Beat', 'London Suede', 'Renaissance Illusion', 'Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe' (imagine some stoner attempting to buy tickets over the phone for that one), and best of all...

― dave q, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

'Barclay James Harvest Through the Eyes of John Lees'

― dave q, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"Orchestra" as the remnants of ELO II are now known. They were only allowed to call themselves ELO II as long as Bev Bevan was in the band, but now he's not, they can't.

Also "The Verve."

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 11:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Fucking Champs obv

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

If I start a band I'm gonna call it Bananarama U.S.

― Scott Seward, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 12:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Charlatans UK
UK Squeeze
Dinosaur Jr
Big Audio, BAD II
...
and to a lesser extent (i.e. not "legal" per se)
David Bowie

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Cher UK.

― kate, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Jody Beth Rosen

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Bees -----> A Band of Bees
UK -----> USA

― marianna, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Mission UK

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

..."10 Grand" which is the name that these guys picked after members of Phish bought the name "Vida Blue" for 10 grand.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Best legally obligated name change:

Liberty to Liberty X.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Pink Floyd.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Bush X (as they were known in Canada during their brief quasi-relevance, as soon as they were allowed to drop the X, no one cared)
Ghosts of Modern Man (forced to change from Pillar by a Christain rap-rock outfit in OK with lawyers)
Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad (that's what's stenciled on his gear even!)
Nearly Neil D. (local N. Diamond impersonator forced to add D after local N. Young impersonator socked him one)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Chicago Transit Authority to Chicago
Common Sense to Common

― Neudonym, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Eugenius

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Friends of Dean Martin to Friends of Dean Martinez

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

nirvana uk

― schnell schnell, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

which is odd seeing as they were about before nirvana us

― schnell schnell, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

In college I was in band called The Motel No-tell which we had to change to the Motel No-tell UK after finding out there was another group of that name. Although, we were all in Virginia.

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Red Cross -> Redd Kross

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

legally obligated or legally obliged ?

Ivy (NYC)
Buzzcocks FOC
Hadley, Keeble and Norman or whatever they were called i.e. Spandau Ballet minus all kemps

― kieron, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Hurricane #1. Oh, the humanity.

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Panasonic being forced to change to "Pan Sonic", and then calling their album "A". Brilliant Finnish subversion!!!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Me and some friends formed a band called "The London Slipknot", but then we became "Colonial Heat" and then "Switchback Samurai". We were shit.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

wasn't there something about Celine Dion's Vegas show and some UK band?
I can't remember the names of either, maybe like, Muse or something, I don't know, I could do a google, but I won't.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, yes, Nordic - Pan Sonic's "A" certainly was brilliant, and put the pun into punk too

(there've been, for me, other A's that, contrarily to Pan Sonic's, just plain confused me every time I saw 'em in print all those years ago: Special AKA -- i mean, the very first thing the letters "AKA" always, ALWAYS brought to my mind then was the phrase "aftomat Kalashnikova"... for awhile i probbly even believed that *that* was what those letters were meant to stand for, somehow... must have been some weird side effect of having to undergo the 'course of compulsory military training' at the university, late-70s-early-80s i.e., which meant that I saw AK's practically every damn week for two years - as opposed to a copy of yer olde NME or MM that perhaps came my way twice or thrice a year...
oh, OK. sorry for digressing that far afield)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Wasn't Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad the name of Gibby Hayes' dog?

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

massive attack-massive
(is that true,if so will it be happening again?)

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean Gabby Hayes, from old cowboy movies?
http://www.americaremembers.com/images/Gabby.jpg
or Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers?
http://www.galleryofsound.com/dbimages/editorial/1201/buttholesurfers_holi.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 18:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I've seen the Butthole Surfers truncated to B.H. Surfers.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

do they not look like the same person?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

red Crayola to red Krayola

wait, that's not funny

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Speaking of Gibby Haynes...I sure hope he's wearing that shirt 'ironically' or to keep himself warm or sumthin'

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

isn't he Papa Hanson?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

ergo Hanson is best L/O name change pending paternity suit

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

No. But he's Marilyn Mansons' cousins' girlfriends' room-mates' godfathers' best friends' uncle

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Angel City

― Davlo (Davlo), Thursday, 20 March 2003 02:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Junkie XL to JXL when he did that Elvis remix.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 20 March 2003 02:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Can you believe there's TWO Glitter Bands running amok on the face of the earth? ... and that in order to avoid the obvious confusion amongst their diehard fanbase over which one to see this weekend, one is called Glitz Blitz/Glitter Band?

And then there's Wendy Carlos...

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Thursday, 20 March 2003 04:07 (twenty-three years ago)

A friend's band called Charlie Don't Surf had to become the Tallaght Charlie Don't Surf as there were two other Charlie Don't Surfs in Dublin.

― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 20 March 2003 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)

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