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The Weekly rock quiz: Celeb band name edition
Wed, Oct 19, 2011 (5:22 p.m.)
Atlanta foursome Gringo Star plays the Bunkhouse Saturday night, and they’re not the only act band out there with a play on Ringo in its name (see: Austin’s Ringo Deathstarr). Everybody’s heard of Gnarls Barkley and the Dandy Warhols, but can you separate the real bands on this list from the ones we made up?
The Details
- Gringo Star with Hoka Key, Zach Ryan
- October 22, 10 p.m., $8
- Bunkhouse, 384-4536
1. Santa Barbra Streisand
2. Com Truise
3. Gargamel Gibson
4. Pink Floyd Mayweather Jr.
5. Coaxial Rose
6. The Samuel Jackson Five
7. Rou Leed
8 Jackson Browne vs. the
Board of Education
9. Keith Sweathog
10. They Killed Kenny Loggins!
11. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
12. Piss Pissedofferson
The answers: 2, 6, 11 and 12 are real. All the rest are fake.
Staff outtakes
We thought off a couple more ...
Brad PitBull Terrier
Geddy Lee Harvey Oswald
Englebert and Ernie
Jessica Al B. Sure
Jean-Claude Van Halen
Camper Van Halen
Selma Kayak
Catherine Zeta Jonestown Massacre
Alicia Silverstone Temple Pilots
Leave It to Sigourney Weaver
Lil Wayne Brady
Holly Madison Square Garden
Spelunking Nick's Cave
Everybody Loves Raymond Burr
Andre Agassi 3000
Tom Waits for Guffman
Dirsten Kunst
Roe vs. Dwyane Wade
Mos Def Leppard
Neil Young MC
Fat Joe Jonas
Fat Joe Montana
Fat Joe Mantegna
Steven Seagalstones
Gnarly Simon
Neil Diamond Phillips ... which turned out to be the name of a real Neil Diamond tribute band in Chicago
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