Eric Iverson

I loved the Doors at 14, and I think their first album still holds up well, and that "the End" was a masterpiece of rock theatre. But they quickly turned into self-parody after that. I didn't realize it at the time, being just a kid. But now the whole Jim Morrison "doomed poet" shtick seems like a sick joke, and to have him as a role model is pathetic - unless you think becoming a drunken bum and nearly ruining your career and dying at 27 is the way to go. Just like people who put Kurt Cobain on a pedestal. I can accept thinking he was talented, but to make a hero out a rich rock star who committed suicide? It doesn't make sense to me; maybe it would if I were still a teenager, who knows?

Wasn't there a Greek guy on one of the forums who said, "I'm gonna let my Greek flag fly?" I'm from Iowa myself, and proud of it, but somehow how "I'm gonna let my Iowa flag fly" doesn't have the same RING to it!

If Mike and I lived in the same town, we probably WOULD jam at some point - it might evolve into a project, who knows....... At least we could sit around and dream up band names all day... tough work, but SOMEBODY'S GOTTA DO IT!!!

Washbroads or Washboards?

TV was once described as a "vast intellectual wasteland" - this was back in the 50s or 60s if I remember right. For the most part, it's gotten worse! Which is where us intellectual rock musicians come in, LOL. "We're not university material." - Spinal Tap

April Fools is surely taken, but here's a couple of other month based names: May Maniacs June Bugs July Jackasses August Assembly.. I could come up with some more, but it's too much work! Do you guys expect me to WORK FOR NOTHING?

Is that derived from the Allman Bros. "Eat A Peach", Mike? Seriously, I love that story about someone asking Duane Allman what he planned to do for the revolution, and he told the guy, "eat a peach"! Nowadays, most of us dream about being MUSICAL revolutionaries, not overthrowing the government! The subway is not the underground

Passive Aggressive Whiners Pathological Optimists Zippadee Do Dah Polyanna and the Starry-Eyed Dreamers "I know he's an axe murderer, never pays his friends back that he borrows money from, and has severe B.O., but AT HEART HE'S NICE PERSON, MOST PEOPLE ARE...." Reminding me of a poem regarding a guitarist friend who is also a butcher (of frozen animals, not humans, as far as I know): I gotta make a living And must face the facts It's either my meat cleaver Or my axe PS Remember the Beatles album cover that the record company pulled, with all the butchered dolls?

Back To Stay, Apparently........ Reminding me of that old Dan Hicks tune, "How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?"

Por spelers

Grammatically Correct Split Infinitives Paradoxes and Metaphors

Banded Mongooses I was just reading how this critter sometimes grooms warthogs by eating ticks off them, and hunts cobras by biting off their heads. So we could do a one up on Alice Cooper, who merely bit the heads off chickens.... I refuse to groom warthogs though - too many swine to deal with as it is. ------------ Believe it or not, I DO work for a living! But even mongooses want to be in a good band! PS Happy Birthday, Alice!

D-Dimers [a medical term, actually, but I thought it sounded cool] It means a product of fibrin degeneration, so maybe Fibrin Degenerates would also work. Since some people think all musicians are Atavistic Degenerates.

Toothless Crones - we'll gum you to death!

Celebrity Scandals - at least people would be INTERESTED! The Schadenfreudians (Schadenfreude is German for laughing at the misfortunes of others) - not nice, maybe, but don't all comedians do it?

Nameless Band For Clueless Listeners or vice-versa, maybe.......

Casper & the Milquetoasts (a heavy metal band, of course!) Shy and Retiring Diffidence Walking On Eggshells Walter Mitty and the Fantasy World

Celebrated Jumping Frogs Mexican Jumping Beans Jumper Cables (mostly for my amp when it misfires....)

Weekend Warriors Sunday Morning Quarterbacks Dilettantes and Wannabes The Has-beens and Never Wases Capybara (biggest rat, sorry "largest rodent" in the world) and the Pied Pipers Dream On, Suckers PS One of you guys mentioned "the Eric Iverson Experience" - do I look like I'm from Seattle to you? Not that I don't like Jimi!

One Key Wonders

Gadflies of (wherever you're from) Not wishing on you the fate Socrates suffered! Horseflies of (ditto)

Now THAT'S a band name to be reckoned with! It DOES have a certain ring to it... LOL. Seriously, I'd love to be in a band with my little sister the flautist. My nephew, the bassist, I'm not sure about... though doubtless he's much better than he was last time I heard him! No other family members alive that are musical. Maybe they could tell JOKES....

The Thread That Will Never Die 9 1/2 Lives The Energizer Bunnies Too Much Of A Good Thing.........

I don't get it, Mike, what are the sheep looking up?

This has been named so many times by now that it surely doesn't know who it really is. "What's our name today?" "Hell, I don't know, flip a coin already." Maybe: Flip A Coin