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Posted on 1/21/21 at 2:23 am to 10 Blade
Hornets Attack Victor Mature
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One afternoon two rock journalists, both neighbours and columnists for competing music weeklies, saw a perfect new name for a band in a headline in the Los Angeles Times: "Hornets Attack Victor Mature". The actor had been whisked off to the Encino burn centre.
It is unknown whether he was still under observation several days later when both scribes faced Wednesday deadlines for their rather similar columns, both devoted to reporting the latest news in Hollywood music circles. What is known is that both reporters encountered a not uncommon problem, a surfeit of committed editorial space against a shortfall of compelling fact, and that both reporters arrived at the same solution. As many journalistic professionals know, a misstatement of fact is a gross miscarriage of the truth; a misstatement followed by a question mark is entirely legal. Thus, these resourceful members of the Fourth Estate wondered aloud: "Will Hornets Attack Victor Mature be the next L.A. power pop band to snare big bucks in a record deal?"
The following week, two respected industry journals both queried a heretofore disinterested collective readership about the fate of this group. A week thereafter, a rock radio newsletter not known for its exhaustive fact-checking protocols reprinted the information, sans question mark.
Thus was the long and largely fruitless career of Hornets Attack Victor Mature launched, accumulating momentum and new copy lines without benefit of a single, album, video, tour or lawsuit.
In 1980, Musician magazine named the band winner in both the Best Name For A New Band and Worst Name For A New Band categories. At the beginning of the 80s, a buxom centrefold in Oui magazine was quoted as loving new wave and punk, naming Hornets Attack Victor Mature alongside the Clash as among her favorites (possibly the bio was ghosted by one of our former columnists). This virtual career might have gone on indefinitely, but in the mid-80s the members of R.E.M. actually booked themselves into an Athens club under this very name.
Posted on 1/21/21 at 6:11 am to 10 Blade
Back in my AU days, there was a proto-punk band that performed one show as “Snide Remark & The Insults”.
When I was in Starkville a decade later, the band I was in threw around a few potential names. The two that stuck in my memory that we didn’t use were “Claybunnies” and “Thick Dick Sandwich”.
When I was in Starkville a decade later, the band I was in threw around a few potential names. The two that stuck in my memory that we didn’t use were “Claybunnies” and “Thick Dick Sandwich”.
Posted on 1/21/21 at 6:38 am to FearlessFreep
Cattle Decapitation
Pineapple Roadmaps
Pineapple Roadmaps
Posted on 1/21/21 at 6:58 am to 10 Blade
Trampled by Turtles
The Steeldrivers
Alien Ant Farm
The Steeldrivers
Alien Ant Farm
Posted on 1/21/21 at 8:48 am to DeltaTigerDelta
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb
The Band
Throbbing Gristle
The Rolling Stones
The Yardbirds
Cream
The Band
Throbbing Gristle
The Rolling Stones
The Yardbirds
Cream
Posted on 1/21/21 at 9:46 am to 10 Blade
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
The Sex Pistols
The Grateful Dead
The Sex Pistols
The Grateful Dead
Posted on 1/21/21 at 12:45 pm to 10 Blade
Audioslave
Soundgarden
Bad Company
Rage Against the Machine
Dream Theater
The Smashing Pumpkins
Temple of the Dog
Damn Chris Cornell came up with some good names lol
Soundgarden
Bad Company
Rage Against the Machine
Dream Theater
The Smashing Pumpkins
Temple of the Dog
Damn Chris Cornell came up with some good names lol
Posted on 1/21/21 at 1:10 pm to EyeOfTheTiger311
Black Sabbath
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses
Posted on 1/21/21 at 1:27 pm to 10 Blade
Good ones named already.
I'll go with Massive Attack
I'll go with Massive Attack
Posted on 1/21/21 at 3:15 pm to 10 Blade
Once you know there was a NYC band in the '70s called
It's amusing to note there was a NYC band a few years later called
The Dicktasters
(Sorry, no pic -- no way I'm googling that name)
It's amusing to note there was a NYC band a few years later called
The Dicktasters
(Sorry, no pic -- no way I'm googling that name)
Posted on 1/21/21 at 4:18 pm to 10 Blade
America
Them Crooked Vultures
CAKE
Them Crooked Vultures
CAKE
Posted on 1/21/21 at 4:54 pm to randybobandy
Fuuck the bottom
This post was edited on 1/22/21 at 11:37 am
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