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On Monday, Coach Leonard Skinner — the beloved high school teacher and namesake of Lynyrd Skynyrd — passed away at the age of 77, and a little piece of frat rock died with him. A sad event for lovers of Southern jukebox-jams everywhere, to be sure, but also a reminder of a pretty good band name back story. It got us thinking about our favorite, unexpected band names and where they come from. Virginia Woolf stories, slang terms for speed, poorly understood foreign terms: all are fodder for some pretty excellent handles. So, in memory of Coach Skinner, we've compiled the etymology of 10 famous band names.
The Steely Dan page made me think of a song I learned in college in 1973. The Big Iron Wheel is close to the version I learned. (It is a long page. Use your browser's page search function to search for "wheel". Cntl-F in many cases.)
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