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From: ab3@pucc-h (kulawiec)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Strange Group Names
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Date: Mon, 14-Nov-83 15:17:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 14 15:17:43 1983
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	In a recent posting, hocda!sra [aka Scott Abbot] mentions a number 
of bizarre and (largely) unknown group names...some of these are rather
interesting.

	For instance, It's A Beautiful Day (featuring David LaFlamme) had
an FM hit with "White Bird", and several of their albums are now collectors
items.  Ultimate Spinach evolved into Steely Dan; and no, I don't think
I'll discuss the origin of "Steely Dan" here.  Suffice to say that it refers
to an inanimate object featured in an X-rated flick.  Finally, the Bonzo
Dog Doo Dah Band folks are intertwined with the Monty Python types...they
had such great songs as "Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?" and "I'm the Urban
Spaceman" and "The Canyons of Your Mind".
	There are some interesting bands out here in the midwest as of
late, too...Skanking Lizard, Burning Corvairs, Phil 'n the Blanks (say it
quickly), Heavy Manners, Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows, Pocketwatch Paul
and the Rhythm Rockets, Juggular, The Bzzz...
	And finally, my favorite name for a bar (This one's in Chicago on
North Halsted):

	The Wild Hare and Singing Armadillo Frog Sanctuary

---Darth Wombat
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Darth Wombat
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