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Wow, what an overwhelming response. To clarify:

- Welfare Mothers and Sedan Delivery are both Neil Young tunes, from the Rust Never Sleeps record

- I think I can get away with naming the band after a Neil tune without being a cover band because, well, there's a moderately successful band out there called Powderfinger (another Neil tune from the same album), and another called Aqualung (a Jethro Tull record/song)

- Junior Achiever is already a band

- We were originally going to be the Urban Achievers (the name is a reference to the Big Lebowski) but found out there was a band with the same name from Chicago who had taken all the good web domains

- The Others Disagree and Brocolli are both good ones, I might consider them

- Come on, nobody likes Sedan Delivery? I think that's the best bet

We're not a groovy hippy band. We're a no-bullshit Crazy Horse-style rock band with healthy doses of Canadian roots-rock and Southern rock. Sedan Delivery still gets my vote. Please, continue with your suggestions, and thank you.

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isn't creating a band name / persona / identifier one of the key things in the creative process? why wouldn't you want to keep hold of that nice and tight to the vest?

I doubt Robert Zimmerman put an ad in the paper saying hey, give me a cool name...

just a thought.

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I think Sedan Delivery is limiting. I've never been a fan of band names that are simply song titles.

I'd put The Welfare Mothers in the same category as Special Ed & The Musically Challenged, both being unprofessional and offensive.

As far as any useful input goes, I got nothing; I'll think about it.

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isn't creating a band name / persona / identifier one of the key things in the creative process? why wouldn't you want to keep hold of that nice and tight to the vest?

I doubt Robert Zimmerman put an ad in the paper saying hey, give me a cool name...

just a thought.

Point taken. I suppose I was just looking to see whether I had any support for Sedan Delivery or the Welfare Mothers.

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No support for Errin'?

Other than my little play on words, there, I'd need to hear the band before making suggestions.

I agree, though, that I am not a fan of song-names for a band. I would assume that a band called "Sedan Delivery" was a full-on cover band. If you're not, don't use a name like that. If you are; don't expect to go too far as a band, other than playing little gigs to local Neil-fans.

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