Names of Bands...


I'm a 91.1 WFMU listener(www.wfmu.org) where often I listen to the very cool talk shows and great non-commercial music.

The show I realy liked unfortunately was heard recorded where DJ-s were accepting a phone calls from everyone who knows the name of band and the reason of that name.

For example the name Can was always accossiated with nown but in reality as per band name selection it's a verb that realy uncovers meaning of the band: Yes, they can!

What about King Crimson? Jethro Tull? Yes? 10CC?
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The Cocteau Twins from Grangemounth,Scotland in 1979 took their name from a song from fellow Scotmen Simple Minds.
Alice Cooper was a 17th century witch that was burned at the stake. Led Zeppelin implied failure, borrowed from the old phrase in the first world war that goes something like "it'll go down like a lead Zeppelin".
Jethro Tull was a farmer-inventor born in the 1600s who invented among other things the Seed Drill for planting multiple rows at once. Cheers, Lee
I forgot to mention earlier that Lovin' Spoonful was taken by John Sebastian from a line in a Mississippi John Hurt song "Coffee Blues". Cheers, Lee