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Strategies & Market Trends : Piffer OT - And Other Assorted Nuts

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To: Lost1 who wrote (4105)9/14/1999 9:30:00 PM
From: Edwarda  Read Replies (3) of 63513
 
steely who? the original band names

by tom schiller
F ew people know that before Steely Dan became Steely Dan, the boys performed and toured under 7,566 other names as part of a test marketing research investigation. In 1973, aided by the Windsor Unimax 5000 computer system, a test market research investigation was initiated by Jack Tafoya, a prominent record company executive with a penthouse apartment in the Brill building. As a result, the computer came up with 9,087 of the best names for the burgeoning group. Here is a list of the top fifty leading to the final selection:

Penis Whip

Ocular Fillibrator

Oceans of Chocolate

Marsupial Soup

Thorax

Hard Donut

Slime Unit

Chucky Upchuck

Thigh Patties

Cold Stone Sea Monkey

Virginia Mastic Wiener Whistle

"The"

Conniption and Connivin'

The Blabberworks People

False Intelligence

Nabokov

The Pewterberg Faction

Shunt

The Lipstick Lizards

Sucktion

The Rambling Whippoorwills

Hi Jinx on Ice

Small Doses

Saliva, the Movie

Luvburst

Pennsylvania 911

Don and Greg

The Cuticles

Boric Acid

Shredded Brain Compote

Carolina num nums

The Don't Fucks

Sliding Curve

Bleckfast at Tiffany's

Road Hummer

Radical Pattycake

Thunderhurl

Iron Jaundice

Hard-as-steel Man

Strong Man

Steel Men

Steel-eye Pan

Steely Bob

Steely Robert

Steely Shiela

Sheedy, Allie

Sheedy Dan

Shelly Mann

and finally....

Steely Dan
Source: Arnold Jeevis Never Heard of 'Em: Musical Groups' Original Band Names, Putnam and Rowes, Berlin, 1981.
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