Splash 11 ch21 Group Names II
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>group & singer names ii< hello pals! the boss of accuracy is again proud to welcome ya this time to the second part of group and singer names.we got very posi tive reactions for the first part so we decided to write a new one again. i am not very sure of the ones i mentiond last time,so if i repeat some of them here too,excuse me! okey,let's move now... >guns'n roses:first,izzy and axl rose were playing in a band call- ed "hollywood rose",duff and sla- sh were in a band named "l.a.gun" later those groups came togather so "guns and roses" were formed >the beach boys:group's first na me was carl&passion. but when their song called"surf- ing usa"became a hit they decided to call themselves as "the beach boys to fit the image they crea- ted... >crowded house:when the group ca- me to hollywood from australia to produce their album they didn't ha ve even a cat...ooops sorry,even a name.and being impressed by the cr owded world they arrived,the just chose this name... >level 42:in douglas adams book named "galaxy guide to the hithchi ker", "42" was described to be"the best answer to the misery of life, universe and everything."this was very attractive for them.so... >anthrax:is there anyone who do- es not know that this is the name of an ilness? >tesla:the kick ass hard rock gro up got their name from the unit of magnetic field in physics.by the way,it is symboled with a ca- pital "t" >pretenders:they were inspired by the song called"the great preten- ter" that was performed by platt- ers in 1953 and by queen in 1980 >the black crowes:this cool(i me- an really cool) blues rock band got their name from an indian tr- ibe in atlanta(guess which one?) >status quo:after changing four names(scorpions,spectres,traffic, traffic jam)their manager thought that this was a very good and di- fferrent name... >megadeth:one megadeth's equal to the number of people,died in a nu clear attack,in one km sq area... >sex pistols:name was chose by the group leader malcolm mclaren.every body used to come to his boutique called "sex" and also this is the name of flower's sexual sections >talking heads:in slang,the speak- ers on tv are called as talking he ads.this was very interesting to the group members... >tankard:does anybody know what this means? i don't!(hehee...) >wham:group's first hit was called wham rap.and in it there was a sen tence:"wham,bam,i'm a man!".when they looked for a name,they chose this one... >the who:pete townshead read this word on a poster.according to what he says "the who" was a word that was too hard to forget... >thomson twins:being inspired from the detective brothers in tintin.. now time for some real names and shortened formes: *r.e.m.:rapid eye movement *b.a.d.:big auto dynamite *k.l.f.:kings of low frequency *e.m.f.:ectasy mother fuckers *n.w.a.:niggers with attitude *o.m.d.:orchestral manouvres in da *ll cool j:james todd smith *tina turner:annie mae bullock *cat stevens:stephen georgiou *cher:cherilyn lapierre sarkisyan *elton john:reginald kenneth dwaig *george micheal:georgious kyriacos panayiotou(pheeew...) *hammer:stanley kirk burrel *slash:paul hudson *heavy d.:dwight myers *sting:gordon summer *the boss:muharrem koray ozcan(ehe *turbo b.:maurice durran butler *seal:seal henry samuel *maxi priest:max elliot *vanilla ice:robert van winkle *prince:prince rogers nelson *pat benetar:pat andrezejewski *black:colin vearncombe okey,okey that's all for this time why don't you send some of those that you know.i also am thinking about to do the same for groups in the scene so try to send what your group name means & where it comes from,okey? anyway,see ya later >the boss/accuracy