OFF: 2001's Top 100

[Chuck Rosenberg]

In a message dated 1/3/02 2:54:17 PM Pacific Standard Time,
henderson.120 at OSU.EDU writes:

> P.S.  The one obvious thing that came to me when perusing this list...if you
>  wanna make it these days, your band name has to contain exactly no
>  properly-spelled English words, and preferably no "words" whatsoever.
Which
>  I guess means that the time is right for me to launch a band with the name
I
>  always thought would be the coolest...Spagh Pomoy.  Never was sure where to
>  put the umlauts though.  Over the 'a' would ruin the correct pronunciation
>  (spog).  Alright, I know the rest of you invented bandnames while in High
>  School study hall too...let's hear 'em.  (Note:  The Ozric Tentacles were
>  named in this manner, although it was really breakfast cereal names they
>  were inventing.)  Waszin Chizzi was one of the others I remember inventing.
>  To date, no band has actually taken any of my names by random chance, but
>  now I better register them given the current trend.  :)

funny, though...I was critisizing newer bands for putting random words
together for names...then realized that BOC had done something
similar...though more thought and probably Sandy Pearlman's weird mythos had
something to do w/the latter...

Chuck