not to confuse or insult, but the answer (of how to find a band name)is to come up with something original, a name that means something to you, that has some significance...i have a dumb band name if i ever have crappy music to name, don't all rock'n roll boys (and girls) make that shit up, those cool fake band names? if you really try hard, or relax and stop "trying", you can come up with a word/mispelling of a word/a combo of words that is original and unique, just gotta let the creative juices flow....
good luck,
rg
fripp and the fripptones... fripp today, gone tomorrow...i love fripp... i hate fripp...fripper is just alright with me...robert fripp usa...i don't give a fripp...fripp, frip, and frippp...
the fripp,
fripper
What if the band name you want is taken...
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- KVRAF
- 37541 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Why don't you call yourselves "The band with a name that isn't taken".
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- KVRAF
- 37541 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Or just copy The Beatles and choose a different bug - there are so many to choose from. I'd go for some thing like "The Sottyxerxids" (helps that they are also extinct) or "The Cryptoblattids".
Obscure diseases are also pretty cool - try "Cri du Chat Syndrome" or "Small Bowel Dysmotilities"
Obscure diseases are also pretty cool - try "Cri du Chat Syndrome" or "Small Bowel Dysmotilities"
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- KVRAF
- 1850 posts since 13 Nov, 2004
You just took it!aMUSEd wrote:Why don't you call yourselves "The band with a name that isn't taken".
The following statement is true.
The previous statement is false.
The previous statement is false.
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- KVRAF
- 7217 posts since 21 Aug, 2004 from Trondheim, Norway
It's probably a good idea to pick a name that lends itself to being shouted rhythmically by at least 50,000 people at a stadium (why be modest). "Stuffing Jeremy inside a small box" is a bit of a mouthful and just won't sound as cool as many other shorter and snappier band names. Hell, even AC/DC used to be abbreviated to "AC" by their fans.
I suggest "Uunhh".
I suggest "Uunhh".
Rakkervoksen
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- KVRian
- 631 posts since 29 Feb, 2004
afaik it is that the commercial interests of an artist/group are very important. If your competitor is a small unknown local band which has just immaterial interest, you are favored in court if you could prove those... perhaps you can look it up at your official national Broadcast insitution for Interprets and Writers, in germany it's called the GEMA / GVL, in the US there are two of them (forgot the names, but i can look 'em up iyl), in the UK i don't know...
i think an artist without a national presence represented by such an institution is not considered "known" ...
of course, to be sure : ask a lawyer, not a law student
i think an artist without a national presence represented by such an institution is not considered "known" ...
of course, to be sure : ask a lawyer, not a law student
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...Always stay in tune...!
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- KVRian
- 522 posts since 10 Jan, 2004 from England
If you want another bands name I suggest getting in touch with them through their agents and challenging them to a winner takes names battle of scissor, paper, stone! Although you will need to find an incentive for them if they win!
Alternatively, find and electronic thesaurus or go to dictionary.com, think of 1 or 2 words that mean something to yourselves (or words you really like eg 'sponge') and enter them into the thesaurus. Now scan through until until you find something that sounds cool, you might have to change course a little bit but you should come up with something eventually.
As last resort, go to the library and get a friend to blindfold you, spin you round and set you off looking for books. Randomly pick a book or 2 and then blindly select a page and a word (or some?). You might end up with Mother Theresa Colon Repair but you could pick a maths book with an equation on page 41?.....Oh, that's gone has it?
Alternatively, find and electronic thesaurus or go to dictionary.com, think of 1 or 2 words that mean something to yourselves (or words you really like eg 'sponge') and enter them into the thesaurus. Now scan through until until you find something that sounds cool, you might have to change course a little bit but you should come up with something eventually.
As last resort, go to the library and get a friend to blindfold you, spin you round and set you off looking for books. Randomly pick a book or 2 and then blindly select a page and a word (or some?). You might end up with Mother Theresa Colon Repair but you could pick a maths book with an equation on page 41?.....Oh, that's gone has it?
There are 2 rules to being a success in life: 1. Never give out all the information.
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- KVRist
- 277 posts since 6 Mar, 2003
Why not name your band "Bigger than Jezus" (or maybe that's not a good id?!)
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- KVRist
- 177 posts since 31 Oct, 2004 from Nærum, Denmark
As mentioned, if it's taken, it probably isn't original enough in the first place...
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- KVRAF
- 5782 posts since 10 Mar, 2003 from Music Shed #8
Does anyone know where I can find the online band-name register? My old band's name is on it, but subsequently, other bands have registered using the same name, and I'd rather like to keep it for myself!
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- KVRian
- 1236 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Karlshamn, Sweden
im much to lzy to be bothered reading thru this whole thread, so this may have been brought up already, but how is it possible to check if a bands name is taken?
i seem to remember there was a site i found long ago that u could write yer bands name and do a search if it was taken, but thats site is long gone by now. :S
i seem to remember there was a site i found long ago that u could write yer bands name and do a search if it was taken, but thats site is long gone by now. :S
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- KVRian
- 1202 posts since 8 May, 2003 from Munich
Don't think there is one. Basically you send a registration to ascap with 3 band names on it, after a while you hear back 'they're all taken', so you submit 3 new options etc. Of course if you're lucky, the first one of the first 3 you submit isn't taken yet. At least that's how it works with GEMA. It's really a guess and patience game.clueless wrote:Does anyone know where I can find the online band-name register?
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- KVRAF
- 8507 posts since 18 Apr, 2004
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Seismic Chesterfield
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8 Equals D
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Anyway, a pre-used bandname doesn't mean you can't sell millions
Seismic Chesterfield
Any Meatfist
8 Equals D
Blitzschnitzel
Collider 22
Anyway, a pre-used bandname doesn't mean you can't sell millions
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- KVRAF
- 5782 posts since 10 Mar, 2003 from Music Shed #8
There certainly is - I'm on it! Just can't remember where the bloody thing is.xRAVENx wrote:Don't think there is one.clueless wrote:Does anyone know where I can find the online band-name register?
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- KVRian
- 536 posts since 8 Dec, 2004
try allmusic guide