Have you ever felt like an antique piece or perhaps a class apart when someone referred to your name and said “That’s a different name”? The person responding has either understood the meaning of your name or is wondering which planet are you from. Then just imagine what the names mentioned below have gone through.
Nickelback
A Canadian rock band formed by Chad, Mike and Brandon Kroeger the band’s music is generally described as alternative or hard rock. Mike Kroeger used to work for Starbucks before forming this band and would frequently say to his customers ‘here’s your nickel back’. Hence the name originated – Nickelback.
But what Mike dint know was the different versions of the name my dear friend Gautam would give when I spoke to him about the band – Dickelbick, Nickerbokers and many more I couldn’t have imagined.
Sorry Mike.
Evanescence
The Evon People as Gautam calls them; this band was formed when lead singer and pianist Amy Lee teamed up with guitarist Ben Moody. Evanescence according to the oxford thesaurus means to vanish and that’s exactly what they would do if they dared to perform in front of Gautam.
Sorry Evon guys.
Def Lepard
Joe Elliot, Rick Savage, Pete Willis and Tony Kenning came under one rood to form a rock band and the name proposed by Joe Elliot in the beginning was ‘Deaf Leopard’ – a name he came up with when writing reviews for imaginary rock bands in his English classes. The name was modified later to Def Lepard to make it sound better and also an indirect homage to Led Zepplin.
Dad wanted to call them Deaf Humans. He thought they were all deaf as they couldn’t hear their own music else they would have stopped screaming long back.
Elliot ……sorry but I love you guys.
Aerosmith
Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer were thinking of a name for the band when Krammer said he loved the name Aerosmith which popped into his head after listening to Harry Neilson’s Arial Ballet which featured jacket art of a circus performer jumping out of a biplane. Initially the others thought that Krammer was referring to Arrowsmith – the boring Sinclair Lewis novel which they were forced to read in their high school English class. That’s when Krammer said ‘Not Arrowsmith its A E
R O ……Aerosmith’. That’s how the name originated. AEROSMITH.
But even to this day most of them think that Aerosmith is the lead singer’s name. So much for their brainstorming session.
Iron Maiden
They are one heavy metal band who can compete with the noise made by 5 carpenters in the ground floor and 3 of them in the second floor when all of a sudden my landlord decided to renovate his property. This heavy metal band was formed in the year 1975 by bassist Steve Harris on Christmas Day (blasphemy I say) and the name is attributed to the movie The Man in the Iron Mask.
How I wish these guys would have watched The Ten Commandments or perhaps Ben Hur.
Even I have decided to start a rock band –
THE GARZ . At present the only members are GAutam and Rashmi (yours truly). Hence GARZ if anymore members are added we shall include one letter from their names too. I am waiting for the final outcome. So folks come feel free to join the band.
