How 100 Bands Got Their Names

Some of these stories are well known--a lot of them are not--Alice Cooper's band was called Nazz, but Todd Rundgren also had a band by that name, so Alice went with the name of the character he portrayed onstage as the name of his band...AC/DC used a name Angus and Malcolm Young's sister suggested from the voltage designation she saw on a vacuum cleaner (some say it was a sewing machine, but you get the idea)...Bob Zimmerman became Bob Dylan when he took the name of the star character of the TV western "Gunsmoke," Matt Dillon....The name "Buffalo Springfield" came from a brand of steamroller that was outside the place where Steven Stills and Richie Furay were living....find out how bands came to be called Black Sabbath, Cheap Trick and many many more, here.