Naming A Rock Band - True Story

It was 1991 and Nirvana had just released their groundbreaking rock and roll album, Nevermind. Many bands were formed after hearing it, and I belonged to one of them.

We did all original material in a hard rock, punk style. We had several songs ready to record, and it was at that point we starting brainstorming a name.

There were four of us, and each had what he thought was the perfect name. However, the other three invariably shot it down. Some of the names that were put forth for consideration were Gilgamesh, Corned Beef Hash, Blue Horizons, and Lemon Trend.

Again, only the person who came up with the name liked it. We weren't arguing, but with the recording date looming the pressure was to derive a name was tangible.

Then...

Somebody said, "how about Laconic Yak?"

Silence.

Blank stares.

Nobody liked the name. We all agreed it wasn't really a good name. But, what counted is that we all agreed we didn't like it. That put an end to the debate, and that's how we chose the name.

We recorded a demo and broke up a few months later. Over the years we lost touch. However, we recently reconnected over Facebook and we are writing and practicing new songs and plan on being in the studio in April.

I will post a track or two here as soon as it's ready.

Rock on!