Vipul Agrawal Nope. Zeppelins were dirigibles, which are a type of balloon. You may have been mislead by their description as "airships". This is not the same as a plane.
Wasn't it a rip off from the movie Turk-182 but that name was copyrighted. So they use Turk's nickname Blink. 182 was Turk/Blink's badge number as he was a fire fighter. It was one of their favourite movies. This is old news. Check out the movie if you haven't seen it.
@@cooldoodert2919 I know, but it just sounds odd, because "they" and "them" are typically used for plural. Most people who actually listen to Owl City that I've spoken to, just as I do, typically say "him" or "Adam"
I like to think 182 in blink -182 represented the 182nd day of the year. 365/2 = 182.5 but decimals arent appeals to look at or speak. Blink-182 as if saying you blink and half the year is gone.
samuraiguitarist oh i dont doubt you info man. Thats just my fav theory. If thats how it happened thats how it happened. I just think the 182nd day thing would have been clever.
The Beatles thought Buddy Holly and The Crickets were really good. They also thought it would be a great band name for a British band, cricket being the animal and the sport. So they were the silver beetles for a while but then they were like "hey why not the Beatles cause we play beat music"
'Metallica' was the idea for the name of a heavy metal magazine that drummer Lars's friend was trying to start, but he ended up calling his magazine 'Metal Mania' instead. Nonetheless, Lars liked the sound of 'Metallica' and kept it for himself.
When i was younger (like a couple of years ago, i was like 11 years old) i thought led zeppelin was a solo artist. Idk it kind of sounds like somebody's name.
Cage The Elephant will always be my favourite band name story - according to lead singer Matt Shultz, the name came from an incident in 2006 where a mentally disturbed man approached the band after a show. He hugged Shultz and kept repeating the sentence "You have to cage the elephant" over and over.
Great video as always Steve. I have always liked the stories behind the names for Daft Punk and Spandau Ballet. Daft Punk used to be a trio called Darlin' consisting of Guy-Man and Thomas along with Laurent Brancowitz who is now known for playing guitar with Phoenix. Back then they were not doing the electronic music that they are known for but rock. Some music critic gave them a really negative review and described them as "a daft punky thrash". Spandau Ballet went through a few name changes before settling on Spandau Ballet. The origin is that a friend of theirs saw the phrase "Spandau Ballet" written on a wall in a nightclub restroom in Berlin. What the phrase means (according to wikipedia): "The expression "Spandau Ballet" was slang used by Allied troops in the trenches in the First World War referring to the twitching of the corpses hanging on the barbed wire and repeatedly hit by Spandau machine gun fire from the German lines". This makes it seem like Spandau Ballet are maybe a metal or punk band but they are a new romantic pop group with a dose of R&B and soul.
One thing I've learnt growing up as a massive fan of 60's/70's rock and a massive fan of The Who is that they have their fingers in everything. I mean Townshend inspired the riff for smoke on the water for god sake.
Best RU-vid channel out there. Helped me a lot with my guitar playing and inspired me to keep on playing after breaking my left wrist, that put me out of playing for 6 months and still troubles me when playing. Great job, sensei, and thank you for your wisdom!🙏
Micah Young It actually came from Eddie Vedder grandmothers name being Pearl who would make jam for him when he was a kid. There's and interview of him taking about it.
It's actually supposedly from Jeff Ament, who came up with "pearl" and the jam part was supposedly a reference to Neil Young, whose jam sessions at live concerts would be 15 - 20 minutes long. Imagine "Powderfinger" going on for 20 minutes! "Look out, Mama, there's a white boat coming up the river..." *20 minutes later* "...Remember me to my love / I know I'll miss her"
There's a funny anecdote where Chico Buarque (AMAZING brazillian musician) was playing a football match where Phill Selway was also playing, and he told Selway that Radiohead owed it's name to him... Turns out David Byrne took the name Radio Head from a song of his (O Ultimo Blues). There's not much point to this story, but I found it really cool.
The same story as Blink 182 was a punk band we saw play back in the day called Flashlight, there was a European band with the same name so they changed it to Flashlight Brown
Where I'm from, we have this local band called Padlock Chain. When asked about how they went about choosing that name, they provide two different stories, one remarkably more interesting and absurd than the other. One version is that one time, they were playing a gig somewhere, and the stage wasn't exactly even, so to keep the guitarist's Marshall stack from falling over, they had to tie it down, but all they could find was a giant stack of padlocks, which they made a chain of and used that chain to secure the stack. After the show, they looked at the chain of padlocks, and decided that their name should be "Padlock Chain". The other explanation is that they just opened the vocabulary on two completely random pages and picked out two random words.
sooo Blink-182's name is just because someone already had it and they just added random numbers to differentiate? like what we do on say games when our name is taken and we just add like numbers at the end lmao
Blur where originally called Seymore but where asked to change it by their label. They got given a list and picked the first one. That's the only band name story I know but links in nicely with Skynyrd
There is an iconic chilean band called "Los jaivas" (you MUST listen to them, they are awesome). Look for how they got the name. I hope you enjoy. =D I could tell you, but it´s more fun to look for it.
For me the origins of the name my chemical romance is quite interesting. The bassist Mikey way and singer Gerard way where working at a book store they came across a book by Irvine Walsh on the back it had the line 5 taels of chemical romance this quote stuck with the way brothers just after 9/11 when Gerard managed to get a band together (including his brother mikey) they where deciding a name for the band mikey put forth the quote of chemical romance but they didn’t think it was quite right so Gerard (who had been struggling with pill addiction in other words a chemical romance) added the personal my.
Actually I was riveted by the advertisement of some guitar company installing frets on a fingerboard but SG....your video was great too. BTW, I also wrestle with the thought of cutting my hair and there's no shortage of advice. It just takes so dang long to grow it and only about a minute to loose it all. Good luck with your decision :-)
Subscribed 😁 when I searched RU-vid for how bands got their names you were the only search to pop up. 😁 Hope you make more. I would love to know how U2, Metallica, and many other bands got their names. I bet some are fascinating.
Greetings from Vancouver, great vids! Could you do a video on string care? I find so many guitarists don't know how to stretch strings to make bending better right after re-stringing. Also thoughts on double stop bends staying in tune on guitars with trems? Thanks!
The New Yardbirds were together for a short time to basically fulfill contracted obligations. In fact, they were threatened with lawsuit action for using the Yardbirds name. The rest of the story is as told - Entwistle and Moon, etc....
Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam is a huge basketball fan and liked the name of a player at that time, Mookie Blaylock. Record label hated it, so they changed to Pearl Jam. Their first album though had 11 songs was titled Ten. That was Mookies jersey number
I dont remember where i read it but, another version of how Led Zepplin got the name was something like Page and i think a manager were in a bar talking about adding another guitarist to the New Yardbird and the manager said that it would go over like a Led Zepplin (i think it was in the book The Hammer of the Gods)
absolutely no disrespect meant here. but i had to chuckle at the way you said "akron ohio" lol (i live there) the A is long like in "apple". Def not trying to be a smartass. Love your videos dude. Keep up the good work! :D love your vids about theory and overcoming different mental states. :D
1:09 not true. they didn't relie on the Yardbirds name. The Yardbirds booked a Scandinavian tour for fal 1968 and Page jsut fullfilled the obligations. Mid-tour they changed the name. The name was indeed suggested by Keith Moon some time after forming of the band.
The Lynard Skynard thing about people saying, "oh yeah, he's great," reminds me of Billy Talent. Ive heard too many people say, "yeah, I've heard of him." Like..dude..smh
Me and my bandmates listed a whole a4 paper of words that "sounded metal" and then we picked two, ended up with Demonic Kingdom. Six years in and we´re still jamming. A defunct band got named Mastino cause I´d recently seen videos of mastiff dogs. My first band got named after the singer and the bassist yelled nonsense words at each other and someone blurted out MAGWA!
My daughter went to see The Black Keys, (Nov 2019) and I'd heard of them, but origin of name helps...a bit. But Joe Walsh joined them on stage for a jam.
Sensei, do a Part Two of EVERYTHING! Tell you what : do another band name video, and I will assemble a long list of synonyms for "weird" so that you can do more weird pedal videos. Now, doesn't that seem reasonable? Let me know, and I will get started immediately.