Rock Names

Yesterday I picked up a remainder copy of Rock Names from ABBA to ZZ Top: How Rock Bands Got Their Names, by Adam Dolgins. Looking through such a reference, naturally one thinks about what to call one’s own hypothetical band; and I thought up The Baroques. (Or maybe Baroke Blokes? There’s already a band named Barolk Folk.)

I can see the cover: the band dressed in Louis XIV style, with huge curly wigs (but in bright colors), banging away on chrome pipe organ and electric mandolin . .

On the front cover of the second album, one of the players, in the same 18c duds but now frayed, stands hitchhiking, showing the title Flat Baroque on a cardboard sign; on the back the others burn instruments in a kettledrum.

Later: Shoulda looked it up. Les Baroques were a Dutch band 1965-9. Flat Baroque is both an instrumental by Richard Carpenter and a blues label; Flat Baroque and Berserk is an album by Roy Harper.