In the interest of harnessing the power of these interwebs, I recently asked my Facebook friends to help compile a list of the best musician names. Real or fake, no reflection on the music they made -- just cool sounding names, designed for celebrity and art and entertainment. Feel free to add your own.
My first 10:
Overend Watts
Noddy Holder
Iggy Pop
Bev Bevan
Jobriath
Keith Moon
Ghostface Killah
Screaming Lord Sutch
Robert Fripp
Stiv Bators
Subsequent contributions:
Johnny Echols
Frankie Venom
Lemmy
Flea
Johnny Rotten
Sid Vicious
Fee Waybill
The Edge,
Chuck D.
Flava Flav.
Mick Jagger
Nick Cave
Viv Albertine
Grandmaster Flash
Kool Moe Dee
LL Cool J
Eddie Vedder
Chai Pig
Joey Shithead
Stevie Nicks
Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee Ramone
Johnny Marr (for the francophones)
Elvis Presley
Ferlin Husky
Johnny Paycheck
Red Sovine
Buck Owens
Johnny Thunders
Tom Verlaine
Merle Haggard
Gene Pitney
Hank Snow
Ernest Tubb
Conway Twitty
Sheb Wooley
Neko Case
Lucinda Williams
Siouxsie Sioux
Muddy Waters
Grace Slick
Engelbert Humperdinck
Billy Idol
Freddie Mercury
Ringo Starr
Thelonious Monk
Julie Ruin
Loretta Lynn
Howlin' Wolf
David Fathead Newman
Bing Crosby
Blue Mitchell
Bix Beiderbecke
Acker Bilk
Bootsy Collins
Cannonball Adderley
Chick Corea
Cozy Powell
Coxy Cole
Duke Ellington
Fats Navarro
Cab Calloway
Richard Groove Holmes
Jaco Pastorius
Ma Rainey
Pops Staples
Teo Macero
Elvis Costello
Robbie Robertson
Shelby Lynne
Smokey Robinson
Dagmar Krause
Syd Straw
Mars Bonfire
Jello Biafra
Gladys Knight
Chaka Khan
Pat Smear
Nash Kato
Joe Strummer
Prince
Marilyn Manson
Lefty Frizzell
Woody Guthrie
Buddy Guy
Rob Zombie
Beck
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