Naming Your Radical Street Band
The band’s name must contain three words, preferably of the unwieldy multisyllablic variety, in order to evoke old-time medicine shows, circuses, and other flim-flammery.
First word: A descriptor that illustrates what the group is like when it’s playing, that in some way conveys that the group is full of piss and vinegar. Music-related words are acceptable, but preferably avoided. Examples: drunken, diabolical, rabid.
Second word: A descriptor that gives a sense of the group’s mission. Politically loaded words that evoke the military-industrial complex are highly appropriate here. Examples: sabotage, emancipation, hammer.
Third word: A noun that names the organization as a group of musicians or other rogues. The less closely it describes the instrumental makeup of the group, the better. Good: band. Better: orchestra. Best: gamelan.
Examples: The Insurgent Tuba Troupe, The Red Rabble Combo, The Angry Pirate Philharmonic.
Also, somewhere out there lives the Courteous Organic Choir, a wandering a cappella singing troupe of really really REALLY nice hippies, and someday our two groups will be inevitably drawn together and cancel each other out.
by Pogolo
