Bands With Stolen Names

I had a band a couple years ago, and came p with the name "The Outliers" - there's an explanation but

Anyway, I did due diligence through Discogs and suchlike, and found no other bands of that name! How about that! (There was an "Outliers" a techno project, but with no definite article)..

Just thought I'd note that Coldplay as a name was taken from Chris Martin's mate's band who split up a few years previously, and his mate let him have it.

remembered while failing to sleep (recovering from a minor surgery that has me looking like the cover of _i get wet_) that there's an entire genre that uses the name of a previous musical genre - jungle, which was used in the 1920s to describe duke ellington's sound. now i'm kind of curious as to what a 90s jungle-style take on "black and tan fantasie" would sound like. probably terrible.

basically band names are not the product of infinite monkeys - they are very finite and are apt to be repeated - particularly given that brief, pithy names, such as one-word names, tend to be preferred. all the good band names have been taken by now

there are hundreds of thousands of english words, not even counting e.g. plurals separately. ok something like 'subdermatoglyphic' might not be a popular choice but i still think there's plenty to go round.

The Felch Monkees

there are hundreds of thousands of english words, not even counting e.g. plurals separately. ok something like 'subdermatoglyphic' might not be a popular choice but i still think there's plenty to go round.

― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge)

idk, i think it's silly. nobody gives george clinton shit for having the same name as an early 19th century united states vice president, or george s. clinton shit for having the same name as george clinton. plenty of people have the same names as more famous people. hell, i used to. i don't now, but that's mostly down to there being a lot more famous men than there are famous women - there certainly are people out there who had my name before i did. why bands using the same chords everybody before them did should be expected to have a name that nobody before them used doesn't make a lot of sense to me, less so why we would expect every 15 year old in the world to have heard of, say, the united states of america.

The example you gave the Rolling Stones. It's reasonable for active bands to expect other bands (in the same country, at least) not to pick names that will lead to fan confusion - it's the same as any other service, their names function as trademarks, and are often registered as such.

the vocalist from Kool and the Gang's name was James Taylor and when he went solo, he went as "James 'J.T.' Taylor" to avoid a buncha nerdy white hippies showing up at his show and being confused.

Or wondering why James Taylor sounded so diff on the Ghostbusters 2 soundtrack.

The example you gave the Rolling Stones. It's reasonable for active bands to expect other bands (in the same country, at least) not to pick names that will lead to fan confusion - it's the same as any other service, their names function as trademarks, and are often registered as such.

― Bunheads Pilot Enthusiast (morrisp)

any other service or any other corporation, sure, it's the same as if some other company decided to start delivering packages and started calling themselves UPS

i should probably mention here that i'm an anarchocommunist

Monty Cantsin to thread.

this is every 90s American sitcom where someone booked a famous band and all these people got excited and showed up to find a band full of men wearing kilts and holding bagpipes and coincidentally had the same name

"We're the Good Old Boys!"

country sunday with the misfits

the vocalist from Kool and the Gang's name was James Taylor and when he went solo, he went as "James 'J.T.' Taylor" to avoid a buncha nerdy white hippies showing up at his show and being confused.

I think Yngwie J. Malmsteen did something similar.

I actually thought John Cale and John 'J.J.' Cale were the same person until fairly recently

They aren't?