Add a Letter to Form Different Bands Word Puzzle

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I’m Martha Barnette.

And I’m Grant Barrett.

And on the line is the hero of the hour, John Chaneski, our quiz guy.

Hi, John.

Oh, boy, I’m the hero.

Thanks, Grant.

Hi, Martha.

Hello.

Now, you know what goes along well with words is music.

Yeah.

And this week’s quiz is very simple.

I’ve added a letter to the name of a famous recording group, and then I’ve described the new group or their change of occupation or their oeuvre. You tell me who they are now.

Oh, boy.

Okay?

Okay.

Let me give you an example.

Okay.

Billy Joe Armstrong, Mike Durnt, and Trey Kuhl are trading in their instruments for a lime-colored delivery truck.

Now they’re known as Green Dray.

Oh, no.

Wow.

Green Dray.

Yes.

Okay.

So an extra letter any place in the name.

Is that right?

That’s right.

One extra letter.

I’m predicting a lot of silence.

Well, we’ll see.

We’re just going to add one letter to each band name.

Here we go.

Let’s hear it.

Did you get a stain on your baggies?

Is your bushy, bushy blonde hairdo not blonde enough?

Then you should call on these former surfer dudes, dude.

So Beach Boys.

The Bleach Boys.

The Bleach Boys.

Yes.

Very nice.

If you check the appropriate box on your driver’s license, like this 60s band, we’ll love you madly.

Your organs could save a life.

Huh?

60s bands.

So something about the doors.

Oh, if you take…

The donors.

I was going to say the donors.

The donors.

Yes.

Great.

Mick and the boys are spending all their time trying to get a rise out of people on the Internet.

Don’t give them the satisfaction.

The trolling stones.

That’s them, the trolling stones.

Hell’s bells.

This Australian band is taking the beltway to hell.

They’re forming an organization to pool campaign contributions somewhere in our nation’s capital.

Akadeka.

That’s what they’re sometimes called, Akadeka.

ACDC becomes…

Oh.

So it’s a PAC?

It’s a PAC DC?

Oh.

PAC DC, yes.

Nicely done.

Well done.

They’re one of the most influential rock bands of the 60s, and you can still see them performing today.

But now they’re embracing their roles as pedantic linguists, constantly correcting folks on their usage of subjective and objective pronouns.

The whom.

The whom.

Yes.

So strange, but kind of right, I guess.

I don’t know.

Sad to say, this 70s, 80s art pop and new wave band have stopped stopping Making Sense and have opted to hang out at their ex-girlfriend’s place of work and send her unsolicited messages.

Stalking heads.

The stalking heads, yes.

Very sad.

Donald Fagan and Walter Becker’s group are reeling in any expletives in their songs to a sort of Ned Flanders level.

Steely dang.

Pretty good.

I was going to go with steely darn.

Steely Dang works just as well.

I certainly will.

Well, I’ll see you guys in the front row at the concert.

Thanks so much.

You did great.

Oh, that’s nice.

Thank you.

Talk to you next week, John.

See you then.

That was a good one.

Thanks, John.

Bye-bye.

Bye.

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