Best SF PuNk Band Name:

topic posted Mon, March 27, 2006 - 4:24 AM by  Cheezy
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  • Re: Best SF PuNk Band Name:

    Mon, March 27, 2006 - 7:23 AM
    Here's a few:

    the cunning stunts
    Jumping Jesus and the Baby Rapers Bruce Loose and Genocide's 1st band)
    Naked Lady Wrestlers
    the puds
    • DK, Fang, FUs, Fuckettes, A3I

      Mon, May 15, 2006 - 10:34 PM
      Dead Kennedys
      Fang
      A3I Any 3 Initials
      Fuck Ups
      Fuckettes

      later, post punk, i really liked the name Bedlam Rovers and Wannabe Texans, both told me what kind of band i'd be hearing, and that i'd probably like what i'd hear. And oh yes, the Yeastie Girls
      • Re: DK, Fang, FUs, Fuckettes, A3I

        Mon, May 15, 2006 - 10:38 PM
        oh yeh, Intensified Chaos
        excellent name, and of course, RobNoxious had star pressence

        out of LA, i liked the names and the bands
        X
        Gun Club
        Circle Jerks
        Wasted Youth
        Black Flag (with johnnie bob and most of the other famous and less famous lead screamers)
        Agent Orange (ok ok OC)

        and i liked Rockabilly, lots of it, large doses of twang please
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    Mon, March 27, 2006 - 2:46 PM
    Flipper may not have been the best band name, but they inspired the best graffitti hands down. Anyone remember these classics:

    Flipper died for your fins
    I'd kill Flipper for a tuna sandwhich
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      Mon, March 27, 2006 - 3:12 PM
      Pet rock rules ok
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        Mon, March 27, 2006 - 3:26 PM
        Band names are funny things...

        Remember the never ending conversations trying to name your band? Omg. Some people have the worst ideas, and then it hits you...

        KGB
        The Avengers
        Negative Trend
        Eye Protection
        The Sleepers
        Toiling Midgets
        VS
        The Mutants
        The flipper fish (not so much the name, but that fish was great!)
        Animal Things (and the peeing dog logo)

        We, of san francisco, pretty much faile to come up with anything so enduring as BUZZCOCKS, the Sex Pistols, Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, or The Adolescents, but our bands were the fucking best!

        SF Punk (in her humorous, art school, cross dressing confusion) Fo'evah!
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        Mon, March 27, 2006 - 3:31 PM
        Pet Rock or Mind Rott?

        Tuxedomoon...I think the Sluglords was a great name great band to...Wild Nixon's
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          Mon, March 27, 2006 - 4:38 PM
          Verbal Abuse...(another classic) anyone know how to reach Scotty?

          I did know a band in Marin...
          The Flesh Weapons...
          fun play on stealing sex pistols.....they weren't actually punk though...

          speaking of not punk BUT very SF
          Buck Naked & the Bare Bottom Boys

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            Mon, March 27, 2006 - 4:39 PM
            oh... oh...
            Hot Rod Shopping Cart
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              Mon, March 27, 2006 - 6:21 PM
              Los Olvidados or The Drunk Injuns
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                Mon, March 27, 2006 - 8:59 PM
                los olvidados and drunk injuns are san jose bands!
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                  Tue, March 28, 2006 - 12:53 AM
                  yeah!

                  * jeers over the twins' shoulder *

                  fuckin' san jose!

                  : P
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                    Wed, March 29, 2006 - 4:19 PM
                    Yep but they sure played SF quite a bit though. LOL!! Uhhh I did not notice the SF part in the title of the thread. Ahhh sorrrrryyyy.

                    Dead Kennedys or The Offs is that better.
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                      Tue, June 13, 2006 - 5:06 PM
                      every band from the surrounding area played in the city - we were still getting beat up in the 'burbs! PLH (peace, love & happiness) and whipping boy and killjoy all exclaimed to have hailed from east palo alto where we all practiced way back. AML studios. E.P.A.H.C. rules! we were happy to make it out of there alive - it was the murder capital of the U.S. for many years.
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                  Tue, March 28, 2006 - 7:09 AM
                  What? No mention of Ribzy?
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                    Thu, April 20, 2006 - 10:30 AM
                    Yeah and don't forget The Faction!
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                      Thu, April 20, 2006 - 12:38 PM
                      MJB, toiling midgets (hands down, sorry, always a HUGE fan), short dogs grow, whatta about all those peace punk bands? they always had such serious non-humorous names though, Trial, A State of Mind (yaaawwwnnnn), um Atrocity (ok, sisters old band...), PLH (yeah, another peace punk band), loved free beer, and rizby (i had a rizby kerchief which i tied unto one of my engineer boots...), oh yeah, black athletes, poppa wheelie (all girl band), i'm sure i'll think of more.
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                        Mon, May 29, 2006 - 12:42 PM
                        Juliet said "whatta about all those peace punk bands? they always had such serious non-humorous names though, Trial, A State of Mind (yaaawwwnnnn),..."

                        traitor. ;-)
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                      Thu, April 20, 2006 - 3:34 PM
                      those Johnny come latelys. Yeah and same for Ribzy damnit!!


                      Kidding!
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                        Fri, April 21, 2006 - 6:15 AM
                        Ribzy has a page on myspace now.
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                          Tue, April 25, 2006 - 2:10 PM
                          I saw Paul from PLH day b4 yesterday at the Bargin Bank...NOt my vote though --I have to bring in the fringe punk/messenger with the bANd name so great they got a cease and desist order..for background you must remember that a major photo store on 2nd street sent that lawer letter to "Adolf and the gassers" well Adloph Gasser INC was supriseed when there letter was the background for a show by adolf and the gazzerz...
                          as far as S>F> PUNK NAMES--yeah Fuck ups..GOD(girls on drugs)and some of the other COMPOUND(16th st) bands..wasnt ribze from san pantyhose??
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                            Tue, April 25, 2006 - 2:22 PM
                            OK!! I just got a call from one of my oldest buddies!!! and his band was from Santa Rosa and later then '82....

                            Pop Sickle Love Sponge...

                            if anyone remembers.. He got into a TON of trouble for killing a chicken on stage in Petaluma.. 87?

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                              Tue, April 25, 2006 - 3:07 PM
                              Re: Popsicle love sponge..

                              I remember that guy. Beautiful and totally crazy. Didn't Jesse Helmes speak out on that "performance." And uh...I recall the charges having something to do with simulating copulation on that chicken too? ick.
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                                Tue, April 25, 2006 - 4:24 PM
                                that would be Chip!!!
                                I am soooooo happy to hear from him! My pic was in the paper for a real estate award and he saw it while taking a dump this morning... isn't that sweet???

                                Dr. Dean Adel spoke out on his behalf, actually interviewed him... then 1/2 way through the trial Chip's attorney died of AIDS..... it was not a happy time for him...
                                but he has a cabinet company. called me from a job in Belvedere!!

                                YAY MORE OLD FRIENDS!!
                                and yes he "simulated" fucking a chicken... it was supposed to be a joke about Petaluma.. ya know chicken capital & all...
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                                  Tue, April 25, 2006 - 5:43 PM
                                  BegAwwwK!!!
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                                    Thu, April 27, 2006 - 4:00 AM
                                    That weirdness and cops and bands and that shit made me think of the marin band the PUKES and ricky repulsive..but I guess it first made me think of Crib Death (also marin?-whadabout the CMP's!!)_) which also got in a big stink about the name and some shit with the media/cops--
                                    Ricky repulsive is the reason the campanile at the SFAI is closed to the public..his finial project took place there ...and I do mean FINAL...
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                                      Thu, April 27, 2006 - 3:42 PM
                                      Ah...Ricky Paul...I remember going to some Peace Punk rally at College of Marin where the Pukes played and waltzing in the pit with Ricky.

                                      I didn't know the closed the Campanile after that...but I'm not surprised.
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                                        Sun, May 14, 2006 - 8:42 PM
                                        Wow, I am so happy to see Ricky Paul's name in writing. I still miss that guy. RIP Ricky Paul, you're still loved and not forgotten.

                                        Hey, when were you at College of Marin? My husband and I went there--in fact, I first met Ricky Paul face to face (I had seen him around before) at CoM.
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                                          Sun, May 14, 2006 - 8:48 PM
                                          OK gotta plug some more Marin bands. What about Sacri-political?

                                          Alot of people at the time didn't get it. Sacri- as in sacrilege.

                                          And don't forget: Where's Whitney?

                                          I dunno. Maybe you had to have been there to appreciate it...
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                                            Sun, May 14, 2006 - 9:51 PM
                                            Sacra-political? Oh, shit. I had forgotten!

                                            I still have an old notebook that Skot Travis had doodled the Sacri-political symbol all over ('cause, yeah, I throw almost nothing out!).
                                        • Re: Best SF PuNk Band Name:

                                          Sun, May 14, 2006 - 9:53 PM
                                          I never went to College of Marin. I was still in high school (at San Andreas). I hung out at the Caffe Nuvo *A LOT* though. I had much shorter hair then!
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                                            Thu, June 1, 2006 - 2:11 AM
                                            Yeah, my hair was plenty shorter then too! Caffe Nuvo? We've probably met. My husband and I used to hang out there. San Andreas--we had friends that used to go there or--wasn't SWAS the alternative school on campus there? I went to a Halloween party there with my husband's mod and punk friends in 1982. White Stag was playing.

                                            Scott Travis? My husband and I were just walking around College of Marin the other day and reminiscing about walking to class 24 years ago and looking up and seeing Scott and Jason Decell suspended from the roof of the walkway blasting a giant boom box (rap, I believe). Scott was totally leathered out with his big 'flock of seagulls' hair. When we heard he died a few years ago, even though we hadn't seen him in years, it really had an impact on us. I think we felt that, if you survived your teens and 20s, it was supposed to get easier. It broke our hearts to think that, after all those years, he still had so much pain to deal with. RIP Scott.
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                                      Sun, May 14, 2006 - 8:53 PM
                                      Yeah, you're right about the media blitz, but Crib Death wasn't a band. It was what a group of vandals spray painted all over the bleachers at San Rafael High, which were also partially burned to the ground.

                                      The fucked thing about it was that the assumption was that the punks at SR High did it, but in fact, they didn't do it. It was done by a group of non-punks--one of whom later became a cop! That didn't stop the school administration from trying to place the blame on the punks, though. You know, called the parents in, threatened legal action, etc. Total bullshit. I think I still have the newpaper clipping somewhere.
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                    Tue, June 13, 2006 - 5:16 PM
                    yes, honorable mention for the san jose band that took their name from a children's book "ribzy" about a cute little doggy. they had (have) the original at their house. can't not point out ribzy have the standing record for the shortest-ever songs. "sit" might be nanoseconds shorter than "stay".
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            Mon, March 27, 2006 - 6:56 PM
            Buck Nekkid! That pink pimpin' cowboy hat...And the Bare Bottom Boys. Was it the drummer that wore the Yosemite Sam mudflap as a cod piece?

            Good Lord Jellin'....that was a whole 'nother era I've known you. The Parasite Lounge and Zeitgiest days. I remember you singing at Hank Williams birthday party at the parasite. You rock, girl. Smoked that place. (Your cheatin' heart? Can't quite remember.)
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              Tue, March 28, 2006 - 11:49 AM
              yah "wildsoul"
              Hecter is Buck's bro & wore the mud flap "BACK OFF!"
              I finally got the Buck Naked video that Hecter sent me after Buck's murder.
              one of my "brothers" held it hostage for all these years when they weren't speaking to me...(nice)

              I was just telling the story of when we saw Los Lobos at Georges... & Carlos & Gerry played with them.. and we were standing there saying "wow this is sooo Marin... and soo many other people would care more than us to see these legends perform like this"
              hahahahahahaha
              funny how we remember things... all I remember was I forgot the words to that song cause I was so drunk... tee hee...der....
    • Re: Best SF PuNk Band Name:

      Thu, June 22, 2006 - 1:30 PM
      I wrote "Dyslexics like Reppilf" at Target but Monica (mgr. from BOB) correctly pointed out to me it would be a much better tag for them so from then on it was "Dyslexics love BOB"
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    Wed, March 29, 2006 - 5:01 PM
    i always thought that A3I was a good name (any three initials). i also used to like to mess with verbal abuse's and urban assault's names (verbal assault and urban abuse).
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      Mon, April 3, 2006 - 12:17 PM
      HAY CHEEZY ONE!!!!

      for some freakish reason, I remembered, upon waking this morning...

      The Tattooed Vegetables... they were a band of out patients from Napa State Hospital
      I saw them open for the Dead Kennedy's the first time I saw them it was at Sonoma State University...
      we were drinking white lighting... I DO remember one of the band memebers wearing a black plastic garbage bag...or was it green??
      • Re: Best SF PuNk Band Name:

        Mon, April 3, 2006 - 12:21 PM
        Do you guys remember when Eye Protection changed their name to BEEF? I think that was after Andy moved on to Ball of DooDoo, uh, I mean Wall of Voodoo! He tried to make out with me once, ewww, I like girls... People's Temple rocked!
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          Mon, April 3, 2006 - 12:47 PM
          yikes I remember Eye Protection..they sucked
          but I didn't like alot of the bands...
          I won't get into that...
          people's feeling would get hurt...
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            Thu, April 20, 2006 - 2:04 PM
            Heh....PLH....I knew Fred from that band through a couple friends of mine,twin sisters Adrianna and Jackie...Jackie was dating him...Peace Love and Happiness indeed.
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              Thu, April 20, 2006 - 3:32 PM
              VKTMS
              Crime
              Los Microwaves
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                Tue, April 25, 2006 - 4:19 PM
                I always liked Negative Trend as a name there was also a briefly lived band the Test Subjex
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                  Sun, May 14, 2006 - 7:33 PM
                  Clown Alley...wasn't there a resturant by the same name.
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                    Fri, July 25, 2008 - 3:37 PM
                    Yea Clown Alley!

                    I was in a band called Adolph & the Gassers and one of our songs was Clown Alley. I was the drummer. we needed a name for the band for the poster and the bass player and singer were asked by the guy who was doing the art and they were at 181 second street. They looked up and said "how about Adolph & the Gassers"!

                    after I left I heard they got a letter from Adolph Gasser just about when they were gonna change the name and decided to keep it for a while. I think the band later became El Cid.

                    we were more like Punk Jazz because Craig and I were Jazz players and the guitar player and singer were more Rock/Punk oriented. We just wanted to play.
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        Sun, November 2, 2008 - 8:30 PM
        THANX fer rememberin us ...yeah I was the Dork on Bass ....good times ....we used the cheapest .trash bags cause we blew all our money on the dry ice .../-=-.BruteForce -Tattooed Vegetables
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    Thu, June 22, 2006 - 1:51 PM
    The Dead Kennedys is still one of the greatest names ever, still has the same gut-wrenching impact for non-punks. I wore an early button w/ a that newspaper photo of Lee Harvey Oswald (bought at the Compound) as a DKs button and almost got my ass kicked when I wore it into a cop bar (the Bus Stop on Union St).

    I've noticed that band names have gone thru several stages- the early ones, many mentioned here, then a period when names got either too esoteric or just lame, and now, over the last 4-5 years, they've gotten more imaginative, harder edged.
    I just realized that these episodes coincide with having Republicans in the White House.
    • Re: Best SF PuNk Band Name:

      Thu, June 22, 2006 - 8:41 PM
      Aint it the truth...it almost feels like (excepting the detour into the Clinton years)we never really have gotten out of the Reagan era somehow....and what is with Green Day as a punk rock name?does it have some meaning I am not aware of?It almost sounds like it should be the name for a Hippie band.
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        Thu, June 22, 2006 - 10:15 PM
        "and what is with Green Day as a punk rock name?does it have some meaning I am not aware of?"

        Sort of. It's reference to spending an entire day smoking bud.
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      Fri, June 23, 2006 - 2:11 AM
      COP, Christ on Parade
      Caustrophobic Greyhound, ok, that's not a band, it's a spam subject line, but I think it would make a great band name.

      a slight stretch was Acid Rain. East Bay band, don't know how'd you catagorize them, (that's pretty punk in itself isn't it?) more rock than punk I guess, but sounds like a good peace punk name. Anyway, they turned into Idiot Flesh who was doing rock/performances art in clown make-up a decade or so before Slip Knot.

      ok it's late. I'll stop babbling
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    Wed, July 30, 2008 - 4:24 PM
    Not an SF band, and slightly before my time, but Black Randy and the Metro Squad. I know next to nothing about them, but great name. Also, The Snot Puppies, who I know nothing about either. I remember when I was 11 or 12, well before I was going to shows, looking at the club listings in the back of the Pink Section and seeing an ad for The Screamers and The Snot Puppies and thought that sounded really cool. (I really wish I'd had a chance to see The Screamers back in the day. A lot of their stuff is only now turning up on YouTube and on mp3s and I like them a lot.) It probably was one of the things that planted the seed that got me into punk a few years later.

    Flipper was always a source for good puns ("Flipper died for your fins") and their logo was iconic.

    NON was a really great minimal name. I knew next to nothing about NON when I was into punk, though I got into it years later when I was more into industrial. I actually got to see NON once, briefly, during my punk days, but walked out on the performance because it was mainly Boyd Rice torturing the audience with bright lights and ear-splitting sound.
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      Wed, July 30, 2008 - 6:33 PM
      Oh, and most appropriately named band: The Lewd. :)
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        Wed, July 30, 2008 - 8:47 PM
        black randy had some funny lyrics..."marlon brando"...."i slept in an arcade"...."san francisco".... great songs
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          Wed, August 13, 2008 - 2:39 AM
          oh no, dear god not black randy.. I didnt know people in this area knew anything about him... he had that 7 " record with that drawing of hustlers wanking eachother in a line, "trouble at the cup" wasnt he in a movie??
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        Thu, July 31, 2008 - 12:50 PM
        Agreed on of our best bands along with Vktms! I also thought of the Screamers, Black Humour, The Zeros, the Loosers and the Weirdos! I think this list could go on and on...
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          Wed, August 13, 2008 - 2:48 AM
          vktms kick ass, love that goddam the rich song... great thing to put down on a wall.. and the whole CD is a fuckin brilliant collection, hooray john vktm!
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    Wed, August 13, 2008 - 4:56 PM
    Early 80s-ish: The Pop Smears, which I always thought a cute name. Then they got a guy in the band, and changed the name to Post No Bills -- I'm amazed I remember that, come to think of it...

    The Cheap Dates -- but that was a fuck band, mostly members of the Contractions.

    Barking Spiders -- Biafra named them, I remember they had a full page ad in some magazine, maybe Creep? Barking Spiders, over and over, line after line, with a diagonal notice posted over it saying something like "Crawling your way soon!" Bobby Weaver was the singer, and I think that was just after he got out of jail.

    Noh Mercy, which struck me as pretentious, and still does, but is still clever. Los Microwaves.

    That's all I can remember right now -- but it is a fun subject. I'd forgotten a number of those names already mentioned, and am smiling at the memories.

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