Funny to think that Slash tried out for Poison but didn't get in because he wasn't pretty enough. Same reason I was discouraged from playing with Coltrane, incidentally.
I saw Poison and Cinderella at Riverbend in 2000. It was awesome.
Les Claypool tried out for Metallica after Cliff died, but they didn't take him becaue he wanted to write songs about cereal and fishing.
My friend Bill tried out for Corrosion of Conformity via tape and got hired, but when he showed up in person they fired him because he was too young and had short hair. He said they were real nice and hung out with all week until he could get money together for a ticket home.
People had weird last names back then. Winger was named for Kip Winger. Guns & Roses was named for Traci Guns & Axl Rose. Slaughter was named for Mark Slaughter.
I was trying to refer to bands named after one of their members who had a silly made up name to begin with. Like if I named my band "Asskicker", and my name was Dan Asskicker.
Nelson is a real last name so it doesn't count. So is Van Halen. Bon Jovi is a re-spelling of Bongiovi, so it sort of counts. Like Sebastian Bach is a re-spelling of Sebastian Bierk.
But then I went to Wikipedia & learned that "Winger", "Slaughter", & "Rose" are their real last names. Only "Guns" is made up.
Of course, "Ramone" is not the real last name of anyone in that band. But they could have used Joey Ramone's real last name --- then they would have been "The Hymans".
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This is exactly why I went the direction of rap and classic rock in high school.
Funny to think that Slash tried out for Poison but didn't get in because he wasn't pretty enough. Same reason I was discouraged from playing with Coltrane, incidentally.
I saw Poison and Cinderella at Riverbend in 2000.
It was awesome.
Les Claypool tried out for Metallica after Cliff died, but they didn't take him becaue he wanted to write songs about cereal and fishing.
My friend Bill tried out for Corrosion of Conformity via tape and got hired, but when he showed up in person they fired him because he was too young and had short hair. He said they were real nice and hung out with all week until he could get money together for a ticket home.
Which band had that fire in the nightclub, Great White or White Lion?
Quick, and no Googling!
Great White.
People had weird last names back then. Winger was named for Kip Winger. Guns & Roses was named for Traci Guns & Axl Rose. Slaughter was named for Mark Slaughter.
"Hi, I'm Mark Slaughter."
BEL BIV DEVOE, BON JOVI?!
Bohannon, make it funky. Bohannon, Bohannon.
Hamilton Bohannon is one of my favorite funksters.
And for hair ballad bands you forgot Nelson.
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I was trying to refer to bands named after one of their members who had a silly made up name to begin with. Like if I named my band "Asskicker", and my name was Dan Asskicker.
Nelson is a real last name so it doesn't count. So is Van Halen. Bon Jovi is a re-spelling of Bongiovi, so it sort of counts. Like Sebastian Bach is a re-spelling of Sebastian Bierk.
But then I went to Wikipedia & learned that "Winger", "Slaughter", & "Rose" are their real last names. Only "Guns" is made up.
Of course, "Ramone" is not the real last name of anyone in that band. But they could have used Joey Ramone's real last name --- then they would have been "The Hymans".
I prefer bands with acronym names. ABC...you know.
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