Eric Iverson

As a guitarist, I have to mention a couple CDs that are superb, but off the beaten track: Bach - Four Suites for Orchestra - Brazilian Guitar Quartet - they really nailed it! Not just for guitar fans. And Hubert Kappel did a fabulous guitar version of Partita #6 in E minor, although it's still better on keyboard. I don't remember the name of the CD, but I'm sure his website mentions it. On mandolin, Chris Thile and Mike Marshall play Bach great - I wish they'd do a whole album of it.

Great thread! Gin and tonic for us Bachaholics, LOL. Seriously, I'm not addicted to Bach but listen to his music regularly and run through some of his music on guitar, flute and mandolin - not on a professional level, that takes HARD WORK..... two four letter words in a row. It's very beneficial in lots of ways, and the skills you learn carry over to pop music.

There's this DVD of old movies which I bought (with the wonderful original version of "Little Shop of Horrors" with the man-eating plant "FEED ME!! FEED ME!!"). Ursula Andress played in another B movie (C movie? D movie?) - a really terrible one involving people lost in a jungle encountering natives whose idea of fun was cannibalism. The only redeeming aspect was seeing her take off her clothes a couple of times! She was never a great actress, but you didn't have to be to be a Bond girl, LOL!

Oddly enough, I just saw "Goldfinger" with my wife in the Village on Saturday - they're running a retrospective with all the Sean Connery Bond flicks! Yes, it's ridiculously over the top in terms of any kind of logic, but highly entertaining in any event.... I never saw any of the Bond movies with other actors... never wanted to!

Vibrator techniques?? This is a FAMILY thread!!!

Longest Thread Ever The Eternal Thread Give It A Rest, Already Old Farts at Play Speaking of which, gotta get back to work, LOL!

Bored at Work Will Do ANYTHING for money Of Course I Speak Arabic Shalom Aleikem

The Dumb Blondes (inspired by a picture of a giraffe I saw, to which I attached a caption: my mind is on a far higher level than YOURS is....) Dumb Redheads?? Brunettes?? Dumb Broads? Poor Dumb Males? Boy, I better find something useful to do, LOL!

Our Saturday Jazz Ensemble played at the Tucuma Social Club a few months back, and they asked us our name, and I said, "Saturday Jazz Ensemble" which elicited loud protests from my bandmates. I later thought of: Occupy Tucuma, since we DID occupy the stage; or Octopi Wall Street, picture a giant octopus with the caption, "sure I'll do it, if the government will provide me with 30 feet of water or so....." (No politics here, all in fun, LOL.) Listening to some fantastic Otis Rush blues guitar as I write. Maybe "Otis and the Rush to Judgment."

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Name

Norway deserves to be a band name (the home of my ancestors, as it happens). There is a band called Japan, after all. Outer Mongolia - for the Mongoloids in the audience.....

The Komodo Dragons

I Came, I Saw, I Had Nothing Better To Do, So I Invented A Few Band Names

Rattus rattus = black rat. There is also a Norwegian rat (rattus norvegicus), which is more my bloodline, except that I'm not a rodent, as far as I can tell. And there is the capybara, the world's biggest rat; excuse me, the world's largest rodent........ And when the union is protesting something or other around here, they trot out this huge inflatable rat - trying to imply something about the building management, I think. But I'm no rodentologist, so I defer you guys that know more about rats (union or otherwise) than I do. Eric a/k/a Church Mouse Guitarist

McCartney the Living Legend McCartney the Peer of the Realm or maybe The Living Legends Peers of the Realm The Royal Peeping Toms

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Names

Slightly different thought process? Such as, "my band is EARTHSHAKING"?

Arcane and Esoteric Gibberish, AEG for short. Of course, if you sell a lot of records, some people will think you're ENLIGHTENED!

"Don't badger me, honey I've got feelings, too! Don't hound me forever I'll be feeling blue!" Oh sorry, that's not a band name.....

Endless Thread Threadbare

This makes me glad I'm a mere guitarist. My one stage guitar and small amp fit easily in the back of my 1987 Plymouth Horizon (car of the century... last century I mean), plus a gig bag with all my goodies. No 20 guitars + 500 pedals + 5 or 6 boutique amps.... Even so, I don't really like lugging my guitar around on the subway, so there have been times I just bring the flute and mandolin to my weekly jazz seminar. Usually I bring the guitar, though. I read about this jazz organist who would lug his organ up three flights of stairs on the fire escape (with a friend, of course) and be delighted to do so! Me, I'm a wimp, I guess! LOL

I still like that old album "You Bought It, You Name It". Maybe for a band: You Came To Hear Us, You Name Us Or Names? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Names A Band By Any Other Name (will smell as sweet, or stink so bad...) And Clint Eastwood did alright by himself as The Man With No Name in his early career. The Band With No Name

Next Big Thing

Mama don't allow no bad jokes round here..... I don't care what Mama don't allow Gonna tell my bad jokes anyhow... (derived from an old country song)

I like Little Anthony and the Weiners... although I quickly grew tired of seeing that man's face (and other parts of his anatomy) on the cover of newspapers and magazines. So maybe it wouldn't work as a band name...... Does Anthony Weiner know how to sing "Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop"? Just wondering....... he has the jungle sexuality for the part, anyway, LOL.