band_names raze the only ones that ever stuck for me were accidents or juvenile jokes thrown at hastily-assembled projects i didn't think would last long enough to need a name. the few times i sat down and tried to invent something, the results were less than inspiring. case in point: when i was eighteen and dumping all my anger and depression into the songs i was improvising in the studio with a rhythm section made up of high_school friends, i had to come up with a less contentious moniker than the one we wore for a gig at a dinner banquet. i have a list somewhere of all the possibilities i compiled, none of which felt appropriate. my favourite might have been "the tyson show" — acknowledgment of the way my drummer had warped what was once a creative collective into an excuse to massage his own ego while shutting me down in my own band. everything that came before us the night of the show lasted hours longer than it should have. by the time we took the stage, our audience had dwindled from a few hundred people to a dozen or so friends and family members. i didn't bother introducing us. we just plugged in and played. problem solved. 250427 what's it to you? who go blather from