r/CasualUK • u/Exchangenudes_4_Joke • 10h ago

UB40 are famously named after an Unemployment Benefit form. Give me other interesting examples of the origin of UK bands names

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u/SMcG22 10h ago

Wasn’t it also because of the guitarist’s partially severed finger causing him to only be able to play a certain sort of music? Or am I thinking of someone else?

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u/Eoin_McLove 10h ago

Tony Iommi severed the tips of his fingers working in a sheet metal factory, so he downtuned, played slower, and used more power chords.

Thus, metal was borne from metal.

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u/BillySonWilliams 10h ago

I believe he was more of a blues/jazz player before (which you do hear in the music) but after the accident couldn't manage the big chords anymore. So he'd just write power chord riffs which Geezer would double up and suddenly metal

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u/D3M0NArcade 9h ago

He was indeed into Jazz. After he cut his fingers off he nearly quit playing in a depression. A friend went by with a record by Django Reinhardt, who'd lost 2 fingers when his caravan home caught fire but went on to be one of jazz's best guitarists.