Well the name was a smashup of LA Guns and Axel Rose.Actually, it was a melding of L.A. Guns (Tracii Guns, Ole Beich, and Rob Gardner, shortly to be replaced by Saul Hudson [Slash], Duff McKagan, and Steven Adler) and Hollywood Rose (Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin), the two bands from which the founding Guns 'n' Roses lineup emerged. To be honest, of all that ever had anything to do with Guns 'n' Roses, I like Izzy Stradlin's post-G'n'R music best. There's something to be said for the people who don't forget the roots of the music even if they're pressing them through a contemporary filter.
I remember the 1960s Nirvana. They were a classic example of a name being better than the music. (Blue Cheer is another such example, though if you think about it their debut, Vincebus Eruptum, is one of the great guilty pleasures of its era, assuming you can envision an after-hours jam between Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience at which an abundance of booze was consumed before they began playing and Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Jack Bruce had been invited to give their vocal cords the night off.)
Some other classic band names: Talking Heads, Mott the Hoople, Blodwyn Pig (if you don't remember much about them, folks, try to imagine the original Jethro Tull on laughing gas---the band was the brainchild of original Tull guitarist Mick Abrahams, as it was---which is one reason I enjoyed Blodwyn Pig far more than Jethro Tull, and still think that way of Ahead Rings Out), Hawkwind, the Yardbirds, the Mothers of Invention (maybe the best name a record company forced on a band: they called themselves, originally, just the Mothers, but Verve insisted on "of Invention" out of fear that people would think the band was into some sort of sexual deviancy or some such rot, even though "mothers" as they meant it referred to a sort-of jazz musicians' slang referring to particularly vibrant playing), Ten Years After, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes (love the name, love the music), Vanilla Fudge (the name was way better than most of the music, though they had their moments), Foghat (RIP Lonesome Dave Peverett and Rod Price), Roxy Music . . .
But then we're The New Originals...Funny you should say that---I rather liked the old Originals; at least, the Originals who cut one of Marvin Gaye's best compositions (the doo-wop referencing "Baby, I'm for Real") and took it top twenty in 1969-70 . . .
I think The New Originals was an early name for Spinal Tap...
And I saw Blue Cheer once (a few years ago). They put on a good show with a contemporary psych band (The Black Angels). Some of the excesses of the debut album were true of all acid rock albums of the late 1960s.