. . . But also because that’s one of the most awesome band names I’ve ever heard.
I wouldn't exactly call theirs an "awesome" band name, though it is distinctive enough in its antonymous way. I can think of a lot more awesome band names, regardless of what you did or didn't think of their music. From Quicksilver Messenger Service and the 13th Floor Elevators right on down to Oasis, Rage Against the Machine (great name, good music, meatheaded-Marxist lyrics, alas), and Nirvana. (I always thought that was a great name for the band even if their guiding force's life and inner demons were anything but Nirvana . . . )
I can think of others, too: Blue Oyster Cult, Radiohead, Everclear, Paul Revere and the Raiders (he went through a lot of contortions convincing people Paul Revere really was his name---his given and middle name, in fact), Cream, Grand Funk Railroad (a great name but a so-so band who had a few good selections but whose music was anything but funky in the classic sense), Ministry, Magazine, Mountain, Public Enemy (even if you despise rap/hip-hop you've got to love that name), Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (one of the few rap groups I could listen to without getting sick), Wire, Cactus (great name, insufferable music, though there's a hell of a story behind the name), Icicle Works, the Grateful Dead (you had to love the name even if most---not all---of their music was a snooze), Phish, the Frost, Stone Temple Pilots, Guns 'n' Roses (the name was great; a couple of their songs were good), Television, Savoy Brown (I loved their music and their name), Humble Pie, the Brooklyn Bridge (RIP Johnny Maestro and I still say "Welcome Me Love" was your best record), Squeeze, AC/DC, the Clash, the Kinks, the Who, and, needless to say, the Beatles, to name a few . . .
Well the name was a smashup of LA Guns and Axel Rose.
Some of those other names weren't unique (there had been a Nirvana in the 1960s).
But then we're The New Originals...
You forgot The Randy Disher Project.