Ear Bombed
Again… art imitating life… well, almost. I wanted to hide under the table. (And the band names are fictitious… any resemblance to reality is just weird). But there was a real vegetable toss.
Again… art imitating life… well, almost. I wanted to hide under the table. (And the band names are fictitious… any resemblance to reality is just weird). But there was a real vegetable toss.
Oh, BRIG…I guess suffering for one’s art is a lifelong process, no? Don’t let them do that to you again!
polka dot bandwagon…hmmm…do they play polkas? or is their music just a bit dotty?
As the mother of a child who has been in a number of punk bands, I can tell you your band names are pretty mild in comparison. My daughter is doing the solo career thing now and has switched from punk to blues, but her choice of band and personal stage names still leaves something to be desired.
But I support her in her efforts and will proudly wear her solo project t-shirt when she get’s it to me even if it does garner me some interesting looks for the wearing of it.
For some reason she is really fond of the fact that she was born out of wedlock and she just loves the word associated with it. So she took the stage name Zebrana Bastard and she calls her solo project Bastard Child Productions.
I’m not too keen on either name, but I figure it’s her life and I will support her in her efforts no matter what. And truthfully those names are far better than some of the names of other bands that she’s been in.
EofO… Oh, I won’t. My hearing is too precious!
Firedome… Wait, you haven’t HEARD of Thee Polkadot Bandwagon… tsk tsk. And you being a fan of music obscura. Polkas.
(I made them up).
PashaMeow… THey are mild… as this was one of those family friendly events. I imagine with a name like Zebrana Bastard, yer kid’s band plays to the 18 and older crowd (or near abouts). Punk and blues… that’s an interesting combo. My musical tastes are all over the board. I pretty much draw the line at death metal…. makes me nervous.
I can’t think of the blues without thinking of the movie “Adventures in Babysitting”… “Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.”
Sweet potato pie toss? Fruitcake smacking? Lutefisk stomping? What’s next? Gallager with his watermellon smashing vegematic?
Forget the loud speaker, staying under the table is a much safer place to be. Let those gnomes fend for themselves.
Pasha… Yeh, I supposed such names as “Love Child” and “Gift from God” wouldn’t appeal to her social circle. But ain’t bastard the male version of out-of-weddedness-birthing? I thought the other “b” name was linked to the female gender. Hmm, maybe her band can shoot for androgyny and combine both names. Uh, no, maybe not.
stick… at the event that I attended/partook in, there was an actual vegetable toss… where there was actual cauliflower and lettuce head chucking. I am uncertain as to the fate of the food. I do hope it was not just chucked in the trash after the entertainment factor was accomplished. In anycase, that was the inspiration for said inter-toon activities.
As per the punk band names…. it’s their band… they can name it what they want. I suppose part of the reason they named it what they named it, is to provoke a reaction… that’s very punk of them.
Meanwhile, above the gnomes are dancing, pie tossing and cake stomping.
brig… I can understand her name as a punk performer, but the little love child has gone solo in a blues format. Somehow, I just don’t get her adopting Zebrana Bastard (male version) or Zebrana Bitch (female version) as her blues soloist stage name. Guess I’m old. That and Randie Springlemeyer was already taken. Hey, she could just create a new music style. Bastard Blues. Or would that be Bitch Blues? Oh, and for the record, a bitch is a female dog, and to bitch is to complain, so the word is not all bad.
hey, anybody notice that the comment time stamps are an hour off?
stick…why does one call oneself a Squirrel Nut Zipper? or Screaming Asparagus? It’s a band name… or single member band name. Maybe she’s gay? Does it really matter?
time stamp… does it really…? WordPress doesn’t know about Daylight savings, I guess.
I’m exactly like Randie in this. I can only take loud sound for a limited period of time and then I start coming apart. Parties, noisy crowded rooms, loud bands, all those will get to me in about 20 minutes and if I can’t get away from the sound, I freak out. I’d be under the table, too in that situation.
I know the feeling. I get overwhelmed by noise pretty easily. I actually bring earplugs to events like this. Since everyone has to shout to be heard you can still talk to people but the extra noise level drops about 80 decibels.
There is a band called Polkadot Cadaver, formed by ex-members of Dog Fashion Disco….
Band names have always fascinated me, and one of my informal hobbies is collecting origin stories.
After getting her ears checked, Randie might wanna get her eyes checked. Look at them pupils!
Okay, brig, why would a band call itself Squirrel Nut Zipper (and what does that mean?), Screaming Asparagus, or for that matter Nirvana or Foo Fighters?
All right, Foo Fighters is WWII slang for UFO’s and the band was created by a couple Nirvana band members after Kurt’s suicide. And last night at the 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy Benefit Concert Sir Paul McCartney fronted an amazing Nirvana reunion…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/paul-mccartney-12-12-12-nirvana-performance_n_2288687.html?ir=Entertainment
And back to the point, after that concert plug, yes names do matter. More to some folks than others. They probably mean most to those who have them and nearly equally to the fans of those folks. Things matter if you make them matter and over time things can matter more or less. A band that hit the big time but did not have a name at the start came up with the smartass name of Goo Goo Dolls, and came to first regret it when they hit it big and could not change their name, but later accepted and just rolled with it.
Does the time stamp being off an hour really matter? No, but hey this is a comment place and comments don’t have to really matter, they just have to be.
Pete & Arospace … yah… Cons must make you a little crazy then. I was pleased that the noise level at APE this year was lower. Not sure why… there seemed to be as many vendors as years past… maybe my hearing is more shot… WAIT… I brought cotton! That’s right.
uwg… I like knowing origins, also as well. It’s fun to read titles on paintings…. band names, town names, word origins, etc. What is your Favorite band name then?
Jack… she’s wacked out, for certain!
stick… yes, you can make it mean as little or as much as you want. Agreed.
Band names just have to be as well.
Stick, no there is no gender distinction for the term Bastard. It’s just that the original meaning has wandered since it’s inception. The original meaning was simply a child (of any gender) born out of wedlock.
Also, her solo name has always been Zebrana (she likes zebra’s) Bastard. It was never her band name. Sadly one of the punk bands she was in was simply called Shit complete with a cartoon logo of a pile of said stinky matter.
Punk is punk, they do things to shake up the status quo. So yeah, she’s been in a number of bands that I really don’t understand the naming of but I figure hey… at least she’s happy, and it’s better than the name of the band that her husband is a member of, “Sock and the F***t’s.
And if you’re stuck on trying to figure out what that last word is, it’s a rude term for homosexual.