Was it Page that said something like "We'll sink like a lead balloon?" High School Coach? Combo of two blues greats.
I'm pretty sure this has been up here before... Someone (I think Moon from The Who) supposedly said that Led Zep sucked and that they would go down like a lead balloon. Lynyrd Skynyrd comes from the name of one of the dudes teachers in school. Don't know about Pink Floyd though...
I know that Led Zepplin got their name from a critic who in an article wrote that they had as much of a chance of going to the top as a lead zeppelin. They liked the name, and took it.
I'm pretty certain that Pete Townsend coined the name. This was his reaction upon hearing about the new band that Jimmy Page (then of the Faces) was forming. Something like that.
From a Led Zep fan site... __________ In 1967, Robert Plant and John Bonham come together in The Band Of Joy. In March of the same year, Jeff Beck releases a solo single entitled "Hi Ho Silver Lining," which is backed with a Page composition entitled "Beck's Bolero". This song is recorded by Page, Beck, Nicky Hopkins, John Paul Jones, and Keith Moon. At this session Moon and John Entwistle, who are tired of The Who's infighting, discuss forming a band with Page and Beck. It is here that Moon announces that they should call the group Lead Zeppelin, because, "...it'll go over like a ***in' lead balloon!" (The "a" was later removed from "Lead" so that Americans would pronounce it correctly.) (John Entwistle claims that it was _he_,not Moon, who invented the name. Entwistle: "Led Zeppelin is a good name, isn't it? I made it up. Everybody says Keith Moon made it up, but he didn't. About four years ago I was realy getting fed up with the Who.... And I was talking with a fellow who is the production manager for the Led Zeppelin now. I was talking to him down in a club in New York. And I said, 'Yeah, I'm thinking of leaving the group and forming my own group. I'm going to call the group Led Zeppelin. And I'm going to have a an LP cover with like the Hindenburg going down in flames, and, you know, this whole business.' And like two months later he was working for Jimmy Page and, like, they were looking for a name, and so he suggested Led Zeppelin, and Page liked it, and they came out with the same LP cover that I'd planned." This "production manager" would have been Richard Cole, which suggests that Cole was responsible for naming Led Zeppelin. However, in the absence of definitive proof either way the Keith Moon version will stand.) http://www.led-zeppelin.org/reference/assorted2.html
Where did Dave Matthews Band get their name from? hold on, I think that joke was used in the first thread, also...
Pink Floyd got their name by combining the names of two old blues musicians. But I can't remember each of their full names.
Really? 'Cause pink floyd is also the nickname for some whales' um.. private parts (whaling term, I think). I'd always wondered which got the name first.
