Ongoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: More band name origins

If there’s one topic that never gets old it’s how bands got their names.

  • White Reaper took their name from a Halloween decoration that featured the Grim Reaper dressed in a white cloak. J
  • uly Talk is derived from that optimistic feeling you have in the middle of summer when you’re young. The “talk” part refers to how the band believes all their songs are conversations.
  • And if we look at 3 Doors Down, that came from a broken sign they saw in a friend’s backyard in Foley, Alabama that read “doors down.” Since there were three of them in the group at the time, they just added that number to the phrase.

Friday’s Ongoing History Daily post on the origin of the term “psychedelic music” can be found here.

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