Ever get an idea for a band name that’s just so good, you almost wish you had the musical talent to pull a band together just so someone would use that name? Ironically, I had an odd brain fart tonight and had the idea for the perfect heavy metal band name. And as a rule, I’m not a metal guy. Got nothing against it, and not gonna claim for a moment that I don’t have any metal at all in my vast and cool and unsympathetic library of shiny round things, but I’m just seldom in a metal mood. But I could just about get into one for a name like this:
The great thing, I can already see the merchandising blitz and the overall creative plan. The first album would have the be called “This Too Shall Pass”, and the T-shirts would be awesome:
In the greatest tradition of Primus, I’d work overtime to make sure that the fans would be hip to the trendily ironic catchphrase “Flatus BLOWS!”
(Not sure what it means? Um…click here. Hey, I did say it was a brain fart…)
Back in 1996 I was living in Spokane and had just put out my first issue of In-Tune Magazine. I sent a copy of the first issue of the music magazine to my dad, who sent me back a letter ribbing me, stating that I wasn’t anybody until I had interviewed Vomit. He even included lyrics to a fake song from Vomit, called “We’ve Got the Guts (And We Can Prove It)”.
Funny thing is, via Google I now see that there ARE bands named Vomit. Classy. I’d take Flatus over that, anyday. Er, wait.