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Dan decided to capitalize on his great smelting accident by looking on the positive side of his disability. Sure his legs were fused together when the molten steel cooled, but now he was 50% steel. Is there a better gimmick for a musician than that?


Next arrow The Destroyers (as in George Thorogood and the Destroyers)

So, this one day, there was a high school prom. Of course, there were those select few (the lucky ones) who never were chosen to dance. They stood against the wall, skulking or staring at the people dancing, wishing for just one instance that someone would dance with them. Sometimes a few of the people would sing along with whatever song was playing. About 3/4 of the way through the prom, a "popular" walked up to the people standing against the wall and asked one of them to dance. The "popular" heard them singing and said "Hey, that sounds really good. You could make a band." So the person the "popular" chose to dance with was left out of the band, but the others called themselves the wallflowers instead of the Wall Leaners because Wallflowers sounds so much cooler. ^_^


Next band arrow Barenaked Ladies

Back in the late 70's, an audition notice for a new band had been posted in the Chicago area. But this was no ordinary series of auditions; there was to be five steel cage matches to determine who would be in this band.

When all was said and done, the five winners emerged, battered and bloody. One of them spoke up, "Wow, I can't believe we actually got through this."

"Yeah", said another, "we're survivors".

They decided to drop the pluralizing "s" and began touring the next day.

Next band arrow Soul Coughing

The members of the band all had a mutual friend who stated that when she passed away, they were to provide all the music at her memorial service.

The band, however, was not at its most prepared when the time came. They had never played in public before and didn't even have a name yet. But everything went off with a hitch and the congregation was greatly moved by their performance. Not too long after, the band gained great recognition and the phones were ringing off the hook with gig offers. The owner of one bar asked what their first gig was and one of the members replied, "It was a funeral for a friend". Something about the alliterative nature of the phrase inspired them to adopt it as their name and somehow it stuck.

Next band arrow Oscar Drill and The Bits (NOTE: This is not a real band, they're a band that appeared in the movie Shock Treatment. As such, let it be noted that fictious bands are also fair game in this game.)

One day, three guys were sitting around wondering what to call their newly formed band. One of the guys suggested that they give themselves the most rediculous name possible, that way people will have to think they are an incredible band since they have such a wacky name.

Unfortunately "Smuckers" was already taken by a jelly company. So the only logical second choice was the Guckenheimder Sour Kraut Band. Why? Well why not?

Next arrow Thousand Foot Krutch

Before the band became famous, its members were desperate for cash. To make ends meet, they found work as fetish prostitutes. They had one recurrent employee, a German composer who made them do all sorts of things to his "baton," while symphonies played in the background. He called them "mine little Audioslave."
He knew they had talent, and used his connections to get them a record deal. In return, they took up the nickname as their band name.

Next: Grateful Dead

The lead singer was in a tragic accident when he was younger. A tractor ran over his head and crushed it. In a mighty attempt to save his life, doctors digitised his memories than created a new, mechanic head to place on his body

Smash Mouth

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