Average Music Trivia: What's In A Name? | 10 Questions

Answer: Small Faces

Marriott left Small Faces to form Humble Pie with Peter Frampton and the remaining members needed a lead vocalist and guitarist to replace him. In came Ronnie Wood on guitar and Rod Stewart on vocals, both from the Jeff Beck Group and Faces, one of the greatest rock n roll bands ever, was born.
Wood and Stewart alongside Ian McLagan on keyboards, Kenney Jones on drums and the great Ronnie Lane on bass had chart success with "Stay With Me" (1971), "Cindy Incidentally" (1973), "Pool Hall Richard" (1973) and the wonderfully titled "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Even Take the Dog for a Walk, Mend a Fuse, Fold Away the Ironing Board, or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings)" (1974) before calling it a day.
Wood went on to become a member of the Rolling Stones, Jones replaced Keith Moon in the Who and McLagan worked with many music greats including the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Joe Cocker and Bruce Springsteen.
Ronnie Lane was sadly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1977 which curtailed his music career and Rod Stewart went on to become quite the successful solo artist.

Answer: Starship

Jefferson Airplane were at the forefront of the psychedelic music scene with tracks such as "Somebody To Love" and "White Rabbit" (both 1967) but the band split in 1972 with several members going on to form Hot Tuna while Kantner and Slick formed Jefferson Starship.
Hot Tuna achieved album chart success in USA but Jefferson Starship were the better known of the two splinter bands, having hit albums in USA, UK, Canada and Australia as well as singles chart success with "With Your Love" (1976) and the mega selling "Jane" (1979).
After Kantner left the band in 1984, there was a further name change with the band now known as Starship and further chart success for Slick as they had hits with "We Built This City" (1985), "Sara" (1985) and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" (1987).

Answer: New Order

Both Joy Division and New Order have released some stand out tracks, but first a look at their names. Joy Division were named after the camp brothels (Freudenabteilungen) found at Nazi concentration camps such as Auschwitz and for this the band attracted a fair amount of negative publicity. When they made the decision to rename themselves, following the death of Curtis, they were determined to not be caught out again and spent months debating and rejecting new names.
The Sunshine Valley Dance Band, The Immortals, Stevie And The JDs, The Witch Doctors Of Zimbabwe and Warsaw were all names that were rejected before they saw a newspaper headline: "The New Order Of The Kampuchean Front" and decided to run with this, shortening it to just New Order, which they felt also fit well with their new start as a band.
Unfortunately none of the band knew that "new order" is used many times to describe a vision for the future in "Mein Kampf" (1925) by a certain Adolf Hitler, and this only reinforced the completely inaccurate and negative view that the band were all right wing Nazi sympathisers.
Musically, Joy Division will always be remembered for the massive and haunting hit, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (1980) which was released a month after the death of Curtis, while New Order had several huge hits including "Blue Monday" (1983), "True Faith" (1987), "World In Motion" (1990) and "Krafty" (2005).

Answer: Billy Talent

"Watoosh!" (1999) wasn't a huge seller but it got the band's name out there, so it was unfortunate that they then had to change their name after being threatened with legal action from an American band also named Pezz. It certainly didn't harm the boys though, as under the new moniker Billy Talent taken from Michael Turner's novel "Hard Core Logo" (1993), they would go on make the Canadian top ten with their first five albums between 2003 and 2016, as well as having success on the Canadian singles charts with top ten hits such as "Devil in a Midnight Mass" (2006) and "Rusted from the Rain" (2009).

Answer: Sublime with Rome

Yep, as they were prevented from continuing with the name Sublime, the band simply added "with Rome" and thus avoided any law suits.
Prior to Nowell's death from a heroin overdose, the band had a hardcore legion of fans through their many live shows and great tracks such as "Date Rape" (1992), "Smoke Two Joints" (1992), "What I Got" (1996) and "Santeria" (1997).
With Ramirez on vocals, the success has continued as the band has seen the albums "Yours Truly" (2011) and "Sirens" (2015) chart in the top 40 of the Billboard 200 in USA as well as releasing more great ska rock with tracks such as "Panic" (2011) and "Wherever You Go" (2015).

Answer: Chicago

Chicago were originally named Chicago Transit Authority and this was the name that adorned their self titled first album in 1969.
The album did respectably, reaching the top 20 on the Billboard 200 in USA and the top ten in the charts in Canada, UK, Netherlands and France where it hit number one.
While the public were fans of the jazz rock fusion the band brought, the real Chicago Transit Authority were not so keen and threatened the band with legal action, forcing them to shorten their name while they were mid tour promoting the album.
The name change certainly didn't harm the band though as Chicago went on to have many top ten albums and Billboard Hot 100 number one hits with "If You Leave Me Now" (1976), "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" (1982) and "Look Away" (1988).

Answer: The New Cars

Cars split up in 1988, with the band members releasing solo albums and chances of a reunion seemed slim, especially when founding member Benjamin Orr died in 2000.
In 2005 though, Cars resurfaced as guitarist Easton and keyboard player Hawkes recruited Todd Rundgren on vocals along with former Meat Loaf bassist Kasim Sulton and ex Tubes drummer Prairie Prince.
The New Cars released their debut album, "It's Alive!" in 2006, which featured only three new tracks, the remaining 15 tracks being Cars songs or Rundgren songs.
By 2007, Rundgren had grown disenchanted with the band who broke up after he left to continue his solo career and in 2010, Easton and Hawkes reunited with surviving Cars members Ric Ocasek and David Robinson to get the original band back together again.

Answer: Keith Moon

The Yardbirds had achieved success with two mighty fine guitarists in Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and when Beck left in 1966, a young upcoming Jimmy Page filled the slot admirably.
Vocalist Keith Relf and drummer Jim McCarty left the band in 1968, leaving Page and bass player Chris Dreja to put together a new line up before an upcoming tour of Scandinavia. They recruited vocalist Robert Plant and drummer John Bonham before Dreja decided he too had had enough and left to pursue his dream to become a photographer.
Page recruited John Paul Jones, whom he knew from session work and this new four piece completed the tour as The New Yardbirds.
Following the tour, it was decided a new name was needed and during a meeting with members of The Who, drummer Keith Moon suggested the new band would go down like a lead balloon.
The spelling of "lead" was altered to avoid confusion and the balloon became a Zeppelin as this was the largest balloon.
There are also stories that it was Chris Dreja or Moon's bandmate, John Entwistle that came up with the name, and others that assert it was Moon but he was referring to a proposed supergroup consisting of himself, Page, Entwistle and Jeff Beck, but whatever the real story, we can be certain that from The New Yardbirds came quite possibly the greatest rock band ever.

Answer: Heaven & Hell

After Ozzy left the band in 1979, they recruited former Rainbow vocalist Dio as his replacement. The first album from the new line up was "Heaven And Hell" (1980), which performed better than the last two releases with Ozzy and reached the top ten of the Billboard 200 in USA.
Dio stayed with the band for the next album, "Mob Rules" (1981) before leaving to form the band Dio and was replaced by former Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan for the "Born Again" album (1983).
In the years between Dio's departure in 1982 and 2006, Black Sabbath used several vocalists including Eric Singer, Glenn Hughes, Ray Gillen and Tony Martin, along with brief reunions with both Ozzy and for 1992's "Dehumanizer" album, Dio.
By 2006, the band had realised they had two distinct sets of fans, those who were Ozzy diehards and those who looked back fondly on their work with Dio, so a new band was formed, named Heaven And Hell, which played just the Dio era Black Sabbath tracks and none of the Ozzy.
The new band also released an album, "The Devil You Know" in 2009, but sadly disbanded in 2010 following the death of Dio.

Answer: Panic At The Disco

The simple act of simplifying their name by omitting the exclamation point caused outrage among Panic's fans, with letters and emails being written to music publications as well as to the band and record company.
The outrage certainly didn't stop fans buying the new album though as "Pretty. Odd." (2008) reached the top ten in the album charts in UK, Canada, Australia and in USA on the Billboard 200.
Fans were nonetheless relieved when for the third album, "Vices And Virtues" (2011) the band was once again known as Panic! At The Disco, and the exclamation point remained for all future releases as well.