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refugee 
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 Posted: August 17 2011 at 08:06 |
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^ Thanks for clearing things up!
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He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
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OT Räihälä
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Joined: August 09 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 514 |
Posted: August 17 2011 at 12:51 |
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10cc is ten centilitres = one decilitre = one tenth of a litre = 1,75 pints
Here are some names of Finnish prog bands: Höyry-kone translates to Steam-engine. The band wrote the name like that because they wanted it to sound old-fashioned. Alamaailman vasarat = Hammers of the Underworld Tasavallan presidentti = President of the Republic Haikara = Stork Kaamos = Polar darkness, the period when the Sun doesn't rise during the winter behind the Polar Circle Kalevala = the name of the Finnish national epic Nurkostam = the first syllables of the band members, Nurmi, Koski & Tamminen Tabula Rasa = latin for empty (plank) painting Viima = cool, stormy draught Taipuva luotisuora = Bending plumb-line
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refugee
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Posted: August 17 2011 at 13:14 |
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^ Nice! Still Id like to add something (that probably many of you know):
Tabula rasa. (Latin for: a blank tablet.) A phrase used by Locke to describe the human mind at birth. His contention was that innate a priori knowledge is a fiction and that only experience can furnish the mind with ideas. (A Dictionary of Philosophy, edited by Jennifer Speake.) |
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He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
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CCVP
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Joined: September 15 2007 Location: Vitķria, Brasil Status: Offline Points: 7971 |
Posted: August 17 2011 at 20:16 |
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interestingly enough, there is something that dicks like very much that smells like fish. Coincidence?  |
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chefrobb
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 11:47 |
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Jethro Tull.....the inventor of the seed screw; used for sowing fields
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chefrobb
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 12:20 |
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Black Sabbath- originally Earth.....changed their name off of a movie marquee to be something "dark". Barclay James Harvest......random words literally pulled from a hat
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presdoug
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:17 |
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Dzyan-name taken from the nickname occult figure Madame Blavatsky gave for what she claimed she uncovered in the late 19th Century amounting to a sort of Indian Book Of Creation
Dedalus-name taken from figure in Greek mythology, Icarus and Dedalus flew towards the sun-Icarus's wings melted, and he fell, but Dedalus kept on going Il Baricentro-translates directly as "the center of the circle" Focus-they were looking for a name that would indicate "focusing on solving your problems, versus escaping from them" |
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zappaholic
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 20:54 |
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Hawkwind were so named because Nik Turner had a nose like a hawk's beak and was obnoxiously flatulent.
Between the Buried And Me took their name from the lyrics of "Ghost Train" by the Counting Crows. Hatfield & the North took their name from a highway sign going out of London. Meshuggah took their name - Yiddish for "crazy" - from a dictionary of American slang. The Mars Volta are named after a film technique used by director Federico Fellini. The Moody Blues started out as the house band at a pub owned by the Mitchell & Butler brewery. At first called the M&B Five, they renamed themselves based on the initials - at the time they were trying to project a dark, moody image and were playing mainly blues-based material. Edited by zappaholic - August 19 2011 at 21:07 |
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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Starhammer
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Joined: April 14 2011 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 86 |
Posted: September 17 2011 at 20:44 |
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SBB : First known as Silesian Blues Band then later as Szukaj, Burz, Buduj which is Polish for Search, Break Up, Build.
Queensr˙che : Were originally called "The Mob". The name is derived from a song on their EP "Queen of the Reich", and is the only known use of the letter Y with an umlaut in English. It was used to soften "Queensreich" and not confuse the band with Nazism. Magma : "Back in 1966, I had written a piece and I was already in a band with Bernard Paganotti, who became a bass player. Already, I was searching for the right word. The tune I wrote back then was called Nogma. I was looking for the word Magma, but didn't know it was what I was looking for. One day the band didn't have a name at the time, and they were standing in fornt of a fairly well-known club in Paris. The club management told me if you don't have a name, you can't come and play tonight. So we went for coffee, at the shop next door. I thought deeply, you know, and the word Magma came out. At the same time, I founded Univeria Zekt. I wrote this down on the receipt from the coffee shop and kept it." - Christian Vander. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum : The name comes from a small group of Dadaists, Futurists, and artists named the Sleepytime Gorilla Press who owned and operated what they called a "museum of the future" which was "anti-artifact, non-historical and closed."The "museum" opened on June 22, 1916 (the same date as the bands' first concert, 83 years later). The exhibit was a fire which caused wide chaos and confusion. The following day the museum was closed (hence the name of the first album). The name itself apparently comes from a poem called "Of the Future Hides the Past," written by Museum members Lala Rolo and Ikk Ygg. |
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Camel_APPeal
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Posted: September 19 2011 at 19:27 |
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That's incorrect; 10 cc is ten cubic centimeters = 10 mililiters = one hundredth of a litre = 0,0175 Imperial pints (0.021 US pints). Cool picture, though!! |
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cstack3
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Posted: September 20 2011 at 12:05 |
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How'd they come up with something as obscure as Emerson, Lake & Palmer?
GTR obtained their name from the abbreviation "gtr" written onto masking tape & pasted onto the slider of the studio mixing board for the guitar input! I believe I read that in a Steve Howe interview years ago.
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sherrynoland
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Posted: September 23 2011 at 02:04 |
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FLASH - Ray Bennett: "The
Flash name was picked on a night out with the boys. Peter Banks and Colin Carter
and a journalist (Chris Welch) threw around ideas -- though I wasn't there. I think
the idea was something short, easy to spell and remember. No great
meaning involved."
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engrwulf
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Posted: December 24 2011 at 07:48 |
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Interesting
 Thanks for sharing all of this good stuff :)
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BaldJean
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Posted: December 24 2011 at 08:43 |
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according to Tibor Kneif, author of a German rock lexicon, Premiata Forneria Marconi were actually named after an Italian sweets shop |
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 A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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ClemofNazareth
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Prog Folk Researcher Joined: August 17 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4659 |
Posted: December 24 2011 at 08:57 |
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GYGAFO - Supposedly the band were in a studio playing and an annoyed engineer threw them out saying "Get Your Gear And F**k Off". Uncle Dirtytoes - The band says it comes from an old Welsh saying that loosely translated means "can these foul socks, so soiled with meaning, yet be changed?" Pearls Before Swine - A quote from the Bible (Jesus' famed 'Sermon on the Mound' in Matthew 7:6): Sigmund Snopek III - Named after his father Sigmund Snopek II |
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
Albert Camus |
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presdoug
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Posted: December 24 2011 at 11:00 |
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Dies Irae-which translates as "Wrath of God" |
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Dean
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Posted: December 24 2011 at 11:19 |
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or...
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What?
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frippism
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Posted: December 25 2011 at 08:14 |
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I'm trying to look up how ELP got their name but I couldn't find anything. Can it be a lost species of albatross?
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There be dragons
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BaldJean
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Posted: December 25 2011 at 08:55 |
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literally "Premiata Forneria Marconi" means "Prize-awarded Bakery Marconi" |
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A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: December 25 2011 at 09:43 |
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Named after a Fleet Street law firm in London.
Edited by The Dark Elf - December 25 2011 at 09:44 |
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
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