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Jimbo
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:58 pm
The Pope of Pop!
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 44533 Location: Long Island, NY Bannings: Banned??? Moi???
dustydan wrote:
How 'bout books?
Uriah Heep (Dickens character)
Shadowfax (Gandalf's horse)
Frumious Bandersnatch (from "Jabberwocky")
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Linda
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:00 pm
Helpful Librarian
Joined: Day WAN Posts: 197138 Location: IMWAN Towers Bannings: If you're not nice
Artful Dodger (Dickens)
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RobertSwanderson
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:16 pm
Bigger and Better!
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 52207 Location: WGBS
Holding Jethro Tull in my pocket for the "Bands Named After Agriculturalists" thread.
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Tuna
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:23 pm
Still Not A Dalmatian In A Jaunty Beret
Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 36135 Location: Humid
Uriah Heep was my first pick. So 'umble.
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Jimbo
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:24 pm
The Pope of Pop!
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 44533 Location: Long Island, NY Bannings: Banned??? Moi???
The Bible
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Invisible Pedestrian
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:25 pm
Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 26163
Genesis
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Jimbo
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:25 pm
The Pope of Pop!
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 44533 Location: Long Island, NY Bannings: Banned??? Moi???
Tuna wrote:
Uriah Heep was my first pick. So 'umble.
So 'eavy.
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Jimbo
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:26 pm
The Pope of Pop!
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 44533 Location: Long Island, NY Bannings: Banned??? Moi???
Supertramp
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Charles
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:33 pm
Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine
Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 16815 Location: Outside society
The Doors of Perception
Pittsburgh Penguins - 2016-17 Stanley Cup Champions!!!!!! 1991, 1992, 2009, 2016, 2017 Hail Atlantis!!!!
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Jimbo
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:43 pm
The Pope of Pop!
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 44533 Location: Long Island, NY Bannings: Banned??? Moi???
Veruca Salt (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory)
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Steve
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:57 pm
What do you call a camel with three humps?
Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 58174 Location: Indiana
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Invisible Pedestrian
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:21 pm
Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 26163
Marillion (from Lord Of The Rings)
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RobertSwanderson
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 5:20 pm
Bigger and Better!
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 52207 Location: WGBS
The Archie's
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Jimbo
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 5:42 pm
The Pope of Pop!
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 44533 Location: Long Island, NY Bannings: Banned??? Moi???
Edward Bear (of "Last Song" fame--Winnie the Pooh's real name)
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RobertSwanderson
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 5:59 pm
Bigger and Better!
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 52207 Location: WGBS
Jimbo wrote:
Edward Bear (of "Last Song" fame--Winnie the Pooh's real name)
When I was a kid, I was told that he was the other son of Max Baer Sr.
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(T)Eddy
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:41 pm
Hold yourself together, (T)Eddy----it's only IMWAN
Joined: 02 Jul 2009 Posts: 11767
If Star Trek books counted as literature, what about T'Pau?VIDEO
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Lawrence Talbot
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:58 pm
Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 8791 Location: State of Insanity
Not sure if this counts- Zooey Deschanel was named after Zooey Glass, from JD Salinger's "Franny and Zooey".
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Jimbo
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:58 pm
The Pope of Pop!
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 44533 Location: Long Island, NY Bannings: Banned??? Moi???
New Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey novel)
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the 801
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:16 pm
Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 88
Mott the Hoople (Willard Manus novel)
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RobertSwanderson
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:39 pm
Bigger and Better!
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 52207 Location: WGBS
Jimbo wrote:
Moby (...Dick--he's really related to Herman Melville)
Moby Grape.
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NoPhoneNoPoolNoPets
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:44 pm
Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 3050 Location: West of the fields
The Fall (named after the novel by Camus)
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Steve
Post subject: Bands Named After Books/Literary Characters
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:48 pm
What do you call a camel with three humps?
Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 58174 Location: Indiana
Killing an Arab (Cure song, refers to the book The Stranger by Albert Camus)
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