John Paul Jones: There Are No Decent Band Names Any More
The Led Zeppelin/Them Crooked Vultures bassist reckons MySpace has ruined everything.
Talking to The Wall Street Journal, Jones complained:
“Every other name is taken. Think of a great band name and Google it, and you’ll find a French-Canadian jam band with a MySpace page.”
Technology has made it easier for bands to establish identities, so the issue of naming rights has become increasingly important.
Jones and his fellow members in Them Crooked Vultures – Dave Grohl and Josh Homme – initially wanted to name their band Caligula, after the Roman emperor, but found seven other acts online with the same name.
In trademark disputes, the band who can prove to have claimed a name first, wins.
However, Them Crooked Vultures worked Caligula into a song title instead: Caligulove.
Concerning the likelihood of another Led Zeppelin reunion, Jones said:
“I shouldn’t think so. Robert has stated that he doesn’t want to do it anymore, and that’s it really. At the 02 show [a 2007 tribute concert in London for late record executive Ahmet Ertegun], I remember thinking while I was playing something: ‘I’ll change that for tomorrow night. Oh, there is no tomorrow night.’”
“John Paul Jones: There Are No Decent Band Names Any More”
Rubbish.
I sing & drum in an ULTRA POWER BLUEZ DOOM band called…………wait for it………waaaait…..RATZ ASS.
haha spot on! Way to prove Mr Jones right! Nicely done. I’m in a band called Matanuska. Now THAT’S a cool name! Can’t go wrong when you name your band after Alaskan weed
I think you are very safe with “Matanuska”. No other bands come to mind with that name. Incidentally Ratz Ass have a song called “Heavy Weed”…it contains oodles of cowbell and badly played plodding drums…the riffs are tasty though. I’m sure we’ve just ripped off a few Sir Lord Baltimore riffs.
There’s a band in the UK called ASTROHENGE….now that is a NAME!
“Ladies and Gentlemen…ASTROHENGE”
I’m in a band called Stinkin’ Midget. Got that? STINKIN’ MIDGET! So called because we’re all small guys (Ronnie James Dio size) and we don’t wash! Never have, never will! STINKIN’ MIDGET ROOL!
STINKIN’ MIDGET!…did you release the albums. “Lovin my Leather Lady” & “Wet Between the Legz”?
No, we’ve only had a couple of EPs out… ‘Lovin’ Touchin’ Stinkin” (Journey tribute) and ‘I Stink, Therefore I Am’.
My band name is Those Guys.
My punk band is called We Are Shit. No one else seems to want it…
I must have got you confused with SHITTIN MIDGET. They released some great albums. They kind of remind me of Back to Back era QUO.
There’s only two of us at the moment but the working title of our band is The Swinging Ballsacks!
I dont think we need to be told who JPJ played bass for.
shit, i was just about to call my new band “Them Crooked Vultures ”
totally pissed now…
I play in a band called the unshaggables.I went for a piss a couple of weeks ago in a pub and a guy goes”your an unshaggable are,nt you? straight up!
twat!
x
I like the name Big Large Breastsesess
How about Negative Destroyer?
Maybe that’s why he is in a bad called Them Crooked Vultures. Ha.
ASTROHENGE is probably the single greatest band name I have ever heard!! Next to Matanuska of course
haha
Great names still available…
Who The?
Pistol Sex
The “Z” Street Band
Lead Zep
Beetles
Rolling the Stone
Heap of Uriah
and many more…just be creative…
it doesnt matter what you blues power band name is. 1. hes right. when nickelback and breaking benjamin are the nest selling bands in rock something is wrong. and 2 hes in a band called LED ZEPPELIN. the best band. ever. period. hes a god of rock.