Bands With Stolen Names

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.

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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?