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Title: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on August 19, 2010, 12:05:34 PM
All I can remember offhand is I Love You The Ghost of Ann B. Davis.  I know there are many others and they're all great.  Let's list them!
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: Kid Pain on August 19, 2010, 12:18:16 PM
I'll have to go with Kid Pain for best record title.
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: Omar on August 19, 2010, 12:31:15 PM
I recently did some research (with help from the likes of Samir, Chris L, mos, etc.) that surfaced in the first appearance of Rick Spangler (aka "Disco Sucks" Dude).  Here it is in full:

Musicians who have appeared on the show:

Marky Ramone
Gene Simmons
Bernie Taupin
Glenn Danzig
Jimmy Crespo

Sister Sheila

Window Pain

Necroczar
Necropsy
Hex Head

Laser Allin (GG + laser beans!)
Laser Anthrax (Rev. Ken Miller programmed this at his church)

Punk (featuring Michael Jackson as “Mike Jackyl”)

Glass Houses (Billy Joel tribute band)
Pink Houses (John Cougar Mellencamp tribute band)

Country superstar Kenny Dupree

Troy Renfro (stage name: MC Troy Roy) released a dated nu-metal single called “Honeybone”

The Wednesday Rockets
The Wednesday Rockets Plus Papa

Crust

Barnacle Blues Band

DJ Clue and Liquid Brooklyn
DJ Goo-Goo
DJ Spooky

Toilet Rock:

The Crapeaters
S-hit Face
Pant Pudding

The Hey Now (Andy from Lake Newbridge’s band)

Lovely Boys
The Bill Bixbies
The Craigs
Ted Jacobs and The Now
Sherbert Falls
The Album
The Sleestaks
Denny Leonard and the Lemmons
September Gurgles
The Zoom
Darren Robbins and the Rockstars
Sugar Pie Four
The Bingles
Failure Time
Witchypoo
! I Love You The Ghost Of Ann B. Davis
The Menthols
Larry Neville and The Fun
Bam Bam
Candy-Coated Sugar Smacks
Rick and The Backers
The Resistance (White Power Pop, like if Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels wrote lyrics for The Rubinoos!)

White Reign
Bezerker
Norse Savage
Nordic Avenger

PPPP played in these bands:

The Need
The Hurt
The Yes
The No
The Maybe

A few others:

I Hate You The Ghost Of Anwar Sadat
White Tyger (1988's On the Prowl was their big album; Live in the Jungle + 8 was their last release and sold 37 copies)
Taupin/Tarpley
Barbershop Sweat
Anarchy in the Barbershop
West Hoover Barbershop Sparrows ("Barbershop Lover")
Pout
Jester's Folly
Crackpipe Susie
Bret Haskins's New The Clash
Von Trimble
Von Scharpling
The Medical Marijuana
Behemoth, Jr.
Gas Station Dogs
Mother 13 (one album was called High Dive; a single was “Wired”)
MickNick PickMickNick (with some variants)
Old Skull
I-Ron's Reggae Challenge
Put (released single on Chewtoy Records in 1991)
Mister Piggy (Western Maine group)

Hippystock:

The String Cheese Evidence
Dave Matthews Group
Grateful Death
Hippy Johnny’s Original Hippy Band

Darren’s bands (sometimes w/ Tom):

The Burn
The Consolidated (renamed Hell Toupee)

Newbridge Hardcore Bands:

SOL
MST
DLB
PRC
MAR
IHF
NRDO
ULGXB
ZBVYM
Threat to Society (TTS)
Punktallica (Hammerhead’s second band)
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: Big Plastic Head on August 19, 2010, 12:39:03 PM
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Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: fonpr on August 19, 2010, 12:41:55 PM
I recently did some research (with help from the likes of Samir, Chris L, mos, etc.) that surfaced in the first appearance of Rick Spangler (aka "Disco Sucks" Dude).  Here it is in full:

Musicians who have appeared on the show:

Marky Ramone
Gene Simmons
Bernie Taupin
Glenn Danzig
Jimmy Crespo

Sister Sheila

Window Pain

Necroczar
Necropsy
Hex Head

Laser Allin (GG + laser beans!)
Laser Anthrax (Rev. Ken Miller programmed this at his church)

Punk (featuring Michael Jackson as “Mike Jackyl”)

Glass Houses (Billy Joel tribute band)
Pink Houses (John Cougar Mellencamp tribute band)

Country superstar Kenny Dupree

Troy Renfro (stage name: MC Troy Roy) released a dated nu-metal single called “Honeybone”

The Wednesday Rockets
The Wednesday Rockets Plus Papa

Crust

Barnacle Blues Band

DJ Clue and Liquid Brooklyn
DJ Goo-Goo
DJ Spooky

Toilet Rock:

The Crapeaters
S-hit Face
Pant Pudding

The Hey Now (Andy from Lake Newbridge’s band)

Lovely Boys
The Bill Bixbies
The Craigs
Ted Jacobs and The Now
Sherbert Falls
The Album
The Sleestaks
Denny Leonard and the Lemmons
September Gurgles
The Zoom
Darren Robbins and the Rockstars
Sugar Pie Four
The Bingles
Failure Time
Witchypoo
! I Love You The Ghost Of Ann B. Davis
The Menthols
Larry Neville and The Fun
Bam Bam
Candy-Coated Sugar Smacks
Rick and The Backers
The Resistance (White Power Pop, like if Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels wrote lyrics for The Rubinoos!)

White Reign
Bezerker
Norse Savage
Nordic Avenger

PPPP played in these bands:

The Need
The Hurt
The Yes
The No
The Maybe

A few others:

I Hate You The Ghost Of Anwar Sadat
White Tyger (1988's On the Prowl was their big album; Live in the Jungle + 8 was their last release and sold 37 copies)
Taupin/Tarpley
Barbershop Sweat
Anarchy in the Barbershop
West Hoover Barbershop Sparrows ("Barbershop Lover")
Pout
Jester's Folly
Crackpipe Susie
Bret Haskins's New The Clash
Von Trimble
Von Scharpling
The Medical Marijuana
Behemoth, Jr.
Gas Station Dogs
Mother 13 (one album was called High Dive; a single was “Wired”)
MickNick PickMickNick (with some variants)
Old Skull
I-Ron's Reggae Challenge
Put (released single on Chewtoy Records in 1991)
Mister Piggy (Western Maine group)

Hippystock:

The String Cheese Evidence
Dave Matthews Group
Grateful Death
Hippy Johnny’s Original Hippy Band

Darren’s bands (sometimes w/ Tom):

The Burn
The Consolidated (renamed Hell Toupee)

Newbridge Hardcore Bands:

SOL
MST
DLB
PRC
MAR
IHF
NRDO
ULGXB
ZBVYM
Threat to Society (TTS)
Punktallica (Hammerhead’s second band)

I'm awestruck.
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: betheboy on August 19, 2010, 12:43:31 PM
Amazing work.
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: ben on August 20, 2010, 05:39:15 AM
That is really crazy to see in a full list!

(Terrence from Billyburg mentioned Fribble and Sherman Helmsley Must Live No Die and a few others too)
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: Pregnant Pause on August 20, 2010, 09:00:45 AM
Wow, great list.

Two others: 
Flock of Sea Gals
Dawn (not Don) Henley 
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: Jason on August 20, 2010, 01:33:39 PM
Woodsy.
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: Omar on August 20, 2010, 01:55:55 PM
Just remembered two more: Maurice Kern once discussed Shanya Twain and Alabammy.
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: Jason on August 20, 2010, 03:29:52 PM
Mini Skrewdriver, damn we need to get the FOTpedia going again.
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: Quilombo on August 20, 2010, 07:53:10 PM
Quazar

Played at Tom's High School Prom, Troy Dershman's wedding and (many years later) at a resort in the Bahamas where Barry Levitz was staying.
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: robertc on August 20, 2010, 10:54:15 PM
We Are Dinosaurs NOW! was a good one
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: stephen on August 22, 2010, 12:58:26 AM
Barry Dworkin mentioned his dad managing bands like:
Jester
Paragon Paradox
RobotFace

Other Dworkin related bands:
Dworkin's Tribe
The Gas Station Dogs Minus Barry Dworkin
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: ben on August 22, 2010, 07:30:52 PM
The Summers-Thomas Doohickey.

And the Smiths tribute bands These Charming Men and the Cemetery Gates.
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: mrCoffea on September 15, 2010, 05:12:42 PM
why do I remember there being more toilet rock bands than that
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: stephen on September 15, 2010, 05:27:21 PM
why do I remember there being more toilet rock bands than that

There were more.  The others were The Stench, The Snot, Beat Off, and Mr. Wilson's Crotch.
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: orangewhip on September 16, 2010, 10:57:16 AM
Remember Cereal.
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: Eric Fishlegs on September 21, 2010, 06:18:05 PM
Listening to this week's Best Show Gems I thought Wurster really out did himself with what had to be the best "bad" fake album title I had ever heard in my life. Then I Wiki-ed it and found out that Limp Bizkit really did put out an album called "Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water."
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: Mr. Spacely on September 21, 2010, 07:00:07 PM
Having been on a Darren Call kick lately, I'll add:

Chevy Chase Movie Bands:
The Spackler-Smails Alliance (Darren's band as of summer 07)
Cinderella Story (Rival Caddyshack band)
The Dr. Cocktostins (Rival Fletch band)

Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: banjo on September 23, 2010, 08:12:52 AM
these pretzels are making me thirsty

Practice?.........We talking about PRACTICE?
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on September 23, 2010, 09:11:48 AM
My favorite is Abbott and Skastello meet Skankenstein.
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: Rick on September 29, 2010, 09:29:43 AM
Some more bands that Rick Spangler worked on:

His Light (Christian band who hated Rick)
Wehrmacht (I'm not entirely sure this isn't a real band)
Sgt. Hulka's Revenge (album: "I Don't Know What Kind of Stunt You Guys Pulled At Graduation...")
Ok, Mr. Pushups (album: "I Got A Hell Of A Sense Of Humor, Ain't I, Corporal?")
Carp ADM (another Andy from NB band)
McCain Youth On Ice (one of Hammerhead's bands)
Bob Timmons/Bob Timmons Band/Bob Timmons Group/Bob Timmons and the Bibles/Bob Timmons and the Satanic Bibles/Bob Timmons and the Buckaroo 5/4/3/2/1/Buckaroo Featuring Bob Timmons
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: Mr. Spacely on October 02, 2010, 03:57:37 AM
In the call, "Tom's Daddy," Roger Scharpling mentions that Tom's "brother" Sean has a new band called "Kryptonite."
Title: Re: Best Show Fake Band Names
Post by: not that James on October 04, 2010, 05:56:22 PM
Sherman Hemsley must live... NO, DIE!