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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
I suggested "A Band on Ship" as a name. That went over like a lead anchor, LOL.

You're probably familiar with how the band Led Zeppelin got their name.

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From wiki...

The band completed the Scandinavian tour as the New Yardbirds, playing together for the first time in front of a live audience at Gladsaxe Teen Clubs in Gladsaxe, Denmark, on 7 September 1968.[18]

Later that month, they began recording their first album, which was based on their live set. The album was recorded and mixed in nine days, and Page covered the costs.[19]

After the album's completion, the band were forced to change their name after Dreja issued a cease and desist letter, stating that Page was allowed to use the New Yardbirds moniker for the Scandinavian dates only.[20]

One account of how the new band's name was chosen held that Moon and Entwistle had suggested that a supergroup with Page and Beck would go down like a "lead balloon", an idiom for disastrous results.[21]

The group dropped the 'a' in "lead" at the suggestion of their manager, Peter Grant, so that those unfamiliar with the term would not pronounce it "leed".[22]

The word "balloon" was replaced by "zeppelin", a word which, according to music journalist Keith Shadwick, brought "the perfect combination of heavy and light, combustibility and grace" to Page's mind.[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin#Early_years:_1968.E2.80.9370

189 posted on 02/12/2016 9:53:54 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ETL

Heh. You know Townsend really dislikes Led Zep? (the music)


205 posted on 02/12/2016 10:07:07 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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