good band names all gone?
October 9, 2007Across the pond, journalists are wondering if all the best names are already taken, one citing the example of the group, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jongs.
I always thought that when naming time came, there were two, maybe three hats. Someone tossed random words in them, and there was some gathering of members and others. Beer and other substances generally involved. They just kept putting these words together till something sounded good enough. Is that close?
The author of the Guardian blog offers up ‘Red Mist’. This certainly does not work for me. It wasn’t so long ago I read Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, in which he describes the vaporizing of soldiers (via close contact with cannon, I believe) using that very term. It does stick in the mind, but perhaps not so well for a band.
