16th January 2008: Second Band Meeting.
Pizza at Mike’s then the pub. Started talking about names again. It is so hard to find something good that hasn’t already been done. Started looking in all sorts of places for inspiration – books, poems, computer games… Came up with
- Restitution
- Silverthorn
- Populous
- Manic Minor
- Jet Set Willy
- Kind Acts of Randomness
- Intangible
- Obscure Rules
- Feist
amongst countless other suggestions. It got very very silly. At one point Adam went to the loo and came back and said
“You know, for me, music isn’t just a job. It’s a Rockupation”.
So this started all sorts of silliness regarding words beginning with “Oc”
- Rocktopus
- Rocktogon
- Rocktopedal
- Rockupy
And so on…
Anyway, after some time and still no agreement, we moved onto genre and possible songs to learn. We agreed that balance was important:
1. Covers and original material:
Appropriate ratio of song types
Leading to ‘Pie Chart’ being suggested as a name…
2. Appropriate Level of Cheesiness:
We agreed that our choices should follow a normal distribution:
That is, a small number of not cheesy songs and a small number of exceedingly cheesy songs, and mostly songs around the moderately cheesy area. The band name should probably fall somewhere around the mean too. I knew that module in statistics would be useful one day…
3. Possible songs to learn:
- Welcome to the jungle
- Why can’t this be love?
- Put your hands on
- Living on a prayer or You give love a bad name
- You oughta know
- God gave rock and roll to you
- Paint it black
- She sells sanctuary
- I am the one and only
- We built this city
- Alone
- Everything about you
- Total eclipse of the heart
- Eye of the Tiger
- Hero (theme from Spiderman)
- Bring me to life
- Rockstar (Nickelback)
- Something by Aerosmith
- Something by ACDC
- Something by Deep Purple and/or Rainbow
Anyway at this point Adam had to leave to play football (?) but cheered us all up by striking his ‘Guitar Hero’ pose. Lots to do and to think about here. And still no agreement on a name!!!
Robb said,
January 17, 2008 at 3:30 pm
This is amazing! You have got to love the cheese value of the cheesy-o-meter!! Genius!!
The musings of a bored not-a-housewife. « Muffinmn0302’s Weblog said,
January 17, 2008 at 3:39 pm
[...] Ruth has of course looked into the statistical possibilities of the band and produced some graphs: [...]
doctorruth said,
January 18, 2008 at 9:05 am
Why thank you. Who would have thought that BSc level stats has actually become something useful in everyday life?!
stoods said,
January 18, 2008 at 10:07 am
Who thought cheese would be referenced so much in a band blog!!!!
doctor ruth said,
January 18, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I know! Hope you approve.
For those interested in more cheese, check out http://www.cheese.com !! It’s the ‘number one resource for cheese’!!
Robb said,
January 21, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Rockult
Rocktarine
Rockular Injuries
Rockupational Therapy
Rockupado (ala fountains of wayne)
doctor ruth said,
January 22, 2008 at 1:12 pm
All good!
What about Rocktober?
Bart Maverick said,
January 24, 2008 at 9:38 am
I still think Rockquiem is a good name
Robb said,
January 24, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Carole suggests Roque Fort. Graeme said “Feel The Cheese” – I think that could be a name!
http://changingworship.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/the-musings-of-a-bored-not-a-housewife/#comment-77
jonbirch said,
January 24, 2008 at 12:54 pm
this post is a work of genius! the graphs and charts are very funny and remarkably accurate. hilarious!
how about ‘smell my cheese’ as a name?… no? … oh alright!
what about ‘rockult practise’? hmmm, maybe the wrong vibe.
or ‘roquefort ruth and the cheesemongers’? my personal favourite!
Robb said,
January 24, 2008 at 1:28 pm
And Jon thinks this is a ‘work of genius’
http://asbojesus.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/357/#comments
A high acolade indeed
doctor ruth said,
January 25, 2008 at 8:57 am
Thank you all! I do like the idea of ‘roquefort ruth and the cheesemongers’ but the other members of the band might not be so happy!
Laura said,
January 26, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Rockforth