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December 23, 2006, 06:11:12 AM »
There was a great early death/thrash metal band named Slaughter who lost their name to a corporate glam band. There was also a similar, old school Christian metal band named Incubus who had their name stolen as well. Also, I'm certain there was a mediocre punk band that released an album called Chinese Democracy.
Any other examples you guys know of?
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December 23, 2006, 10:29:53 AM »
No, but I do remember that Warrant named their third album "Dog Eat Dog" in the early 90's, which prompted the band Dog Eat Dog to name their next LP "Warrant."
Still makes me smile.
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The glam band Slaughter was named after their lead singer, Mark Slaughter. Not another metal group.
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They still took the name away from an established band. The glam band was formed in 1988, and the death/thrash band goes back to 1984, and had an album out by 1986. They're known for being one of the first death metal bands (or at least close enough), they had Chuck Schuldiner in the band for a while (they named an album Fuck Of Death
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When you're naming your band, you shouldn't take another's name, and if you do so by accident, you should change the name.
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Suede sued Suede for the rights to the name - and won, but which is the real Suede, ah who knows...
Nirvana sued Nirvana for the name - but strangely didnt seem to get anywhere despite having the name a long time before Cobian stole it
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Slash had to call it Slash's Snakepit because there was an all girl band named Snakepit who were threatening to sue at the time, I think, and of course Supernova now has to be billed as Rockstar Supernova-I'm sure things like this happen a lot
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Quote from: Eric on December 23, 2006, 12:42:37 PM
Slash had to call it Slash's Snakepit because there was an all girl band named Snakepit who were threatening to sue at the time, I think,
i thought it was the reord company that decided to call them slash's snakepit to sell more records and not slash or a girlband, think when he refers to them he only says "the snakepit" or "snakepit" and think i've read that too, can anyone confirm these 2 theories?
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Quote from: Walk on December 23, 2006, 12:02:53 PM
They still took the name away from an established band. The glam band was formed in 1988, and the death/thrash band goes back to 1984, and had an album out by 1986. They're known for being one of the first death metal bands (or at least close enough), they had Chuck Schuldiner in the band for a while (they named an album Fuck Of Death
), and they were accused of doing too many grunts in their songs by the Celtic Frost singer. They weren't a huge band, but they weren't obscure in the metal scene, either, at least until their name was stolen.
When you're naming your band, you shouldn't take another's name, and if you do so by accident, you should change the name.
normally id defend the glam band because i think death metal is a pile of shit, but slaughter (glam one) actually were a crap glam band.
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Quote from: CheapJon on December 23, 2006, 12:46:54 PM
Quote from: Eric on December 23, 2006, 12:42:37 PM
Slash had to call it Slash's Snakepit because there was an all girl band named Snakepit who were threatening to sue at the time, I think,
i thought it was the reord company that decided to call them slash's snakepit to sell more records and not slash or a girlband, think when he refers to them he only says "the snakepit" or "snakepit" and think i've read that too, can anyone confirm these 2 theories?
thats the way i heard it
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prolly a stretch, but i say bon jovi ripped off of van halen. ya no, a guy has a two part last name, then he decides that it would make a good band name. o wait, van halen already did that. its not really a stolen name, but just a stolen idea, really. then again, all of this may very well be fueled by the fact that i hate bon jovi with fiery passion.
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Quote from: Izzy on December 23, 2006, 12:53:16 PM
Quote from: CheapJon on December 23, 2006, 12:46:54 PM
Quote from: Eric on December 23, 2006, 12:42:37 PM
Slash had to call it Slash's Snakepit because there was an all girl band named Snakepit who were threatening to sue at the time, I think,
i thought it was the reord company that decided to call them slash's snakepit to sell more records and not slash or a girlband, think when he refers to them he only says "the snakepit" or "snakepit" and think i've read that too, can anyone confirm these 2 theories?
It could be both of these are true-Slash mentioned in the '95 piece (I think there is a link in the interviews section on this site) about the all girl band in Calif.-it's in the Rolling Stone magazine-he kind of laughs about it I think and says he dosen't want to get into it-but I also have no doubt the record company would have wanted Slash's name on it for sales purposes.
thats the way i heard it
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Quote from: Eric on December 26, 2006, 07:26:02 AM
Quote from: Izzy on December 23, 2006, 12:53:16 PM
Quote from: CheapJon on December 23, 2006, 12:46:54 PM
Quote from: Eric on December 23, 2006, 12:42:37 PM
Slash had to call it Slash's Snakepit because there was an all girl band named Snakepit who were threatening to sue at the time, I think,
i thought it was the reord company that decided to call them slash's snakepit to sell more records and not slash or a girlband, think when he refers to them he only says "the snakepit" or "snakepit" and think i've read that too, can anyone confirm these 2 theories?
thats the way i heard it
It could be both of these are true-Slash mentioned in the '95 piece (I think there is a link in the interviews section on this site) about the all girl band in Calif.-it's in the Rolling Stone magazine-he kind of laughs about it I think and says he dosen't want to get into it-but I also have no doubt the record company would have wanted Slash's name on it for sales purposes.
dude you gotta learn to quote correctly, i fixed it for ya now
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Sorry bout that-I'm not a computer person-thanks
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The Skid Row example than?
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The name "Nikki Sixx" is a rip-off.
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Quote from: Izzy on December 23, 2006, 12:42:12 PM
Suede sued Suede for the rights to the name - and won, but which is the real Suede, ah who knows...
Nirvana sued Nirvana for the name - but strangely didnt seem to get anywhere despite having the name a long time before Cobian stole it
the other band called nirvana were paid off.
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December 28, 2006, 07:35:43 AM »
As far as I know there isn't any law protecting a band with their name, but ah well.
The Raconteurs are named The Saboteurs here in Australia because some band here had the same name and wouldn't accept a payment to jointly use the name.
Also: the Charlatans are knowns as Charlatans UK apart from UK (duh), Death From Above had to put a '79 at the end of their name if i'm not mistaken, Snow Patrol were called Polar Bear but that guy form Jane's Addiction had a band with the same name. There's many more i'm sure.
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