Name for my rock band?

Posted by admin on April 15th, 2010 and filed under 50s rock and roll | 13 Comments »

I’m forming a 50s themed rock band. We play mostly early rock & roll cover songs, but also some hard rock, metal and punk. Are these names taken? If not, which one is the best?

The Desperados
The Bearcats
The Helldivers
Nick and the Thunderbolts
The Warthogs
Kingcobra
And can you suggest any others?
Billy is correct. They are the names of various US aircraft (except for Desperado, which is a Mexican film i really love)
At the moment "pwnNOOBZ" is the only one who has actually responded to the original list of names

Helldivers, definitely.
The Desperados is to Western Style, when people hear that name the mexican hat dance will play in their head.
The Bearcats is a silly and useless combination of semi-masculine animals.
Nick and the Thunderbolts reminds me too much of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Seriously, why would you name your band the Warthogs? Messy, uselesss animals.
Last but not least Kingcobra. A Cobra is a very common animal to represent rock/punk/metal bands. It’s overused and obvious.

13 Responses

  1. captainhotpants Says:

    the blasphemous daredevils

    i think ive heard a few bands with the warthogs and kingcobra before
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  2. Ali M Says:

    please dont start the band name with ‘the’ it just ruins it (and i then associate it with mainstream sh*t
    ) out of them Kingcobra sounds RAWest
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  3. lagha Says:

    how about the playouts!
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  4. Billy Shat Says:

    So? You like WWII aircraft!

    Freddie and the Pharoahs.
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  5. BuffPap@51 Says:

    RetroRock
    Slicktones
    The Greasers
    The Tuck& Rolls
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  6. eyjude Says:

    jusJamin
    wicked RIGHT
    OR wicked wright
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  7. Pwn N00bz Says:

    Helldivers, definitely.
    The Desperados is to Western Style, when people hear that name the mexican hat dance will play in their head.
    The Bearcats is a silly and useless combination of semi-masculine animals.
    Nick and the Thunderbolts reminds me too much of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
    Seriously, why would you name your band the Warthogs? Messy, uselesss animals.
    Last but not least Kingcobra. A Cobra is a very common animal to represent rock/punk/metal bands. It’s overused and obvious.
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    I’m a music journalist.

  8. Brent D Says:

    BlackSpikes lol
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    me:]

  9. Toonhawk Says:

    King Kobra were a metal band in the 80s featuring, among others, legendary drummer Carmine Appice.
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  10. rusty Says:

    full circle would be a good name as music always goes full circle when people like yourselves do covers
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  11. Davey Joe Says:

    Tinkle Fairy
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  12. luke Says:

    Jedward..I don’t think this name has been used by a music talent before.
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  13. metalhead Says:

    how about … Eternal Flames
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