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was Zack Attack a real band?! :P

This should be awesome. Frozen Kumquats forever!

This Derby could be and SHOULD BE the best derby ever. Come on, do some cool rock bank designs and leave the cats, turtles and crap out of it. I know Woot must be sick of these poor selling shirts they've been selecting lately. Maybe if a decent shirt would print, they might be able to afford royal blue and slate shirts again.

Looking for some totally badass death metal parody bands please!

Wow... I have no idea where to find inspiration or examples for this type of shirt. Go figure this would have to be the topic for my first derby attempt ever. /facepalm

Any help/suggestions/places to look?

runnerfrog13 wrote:Wow... I have no idea where to find inspiration or examples for this type of shirt. Go figure this would have to be the topic for my first derby attempt ever. /facepalm

Any help/suggestions/places to look?

Look within. There ye shall find what ye seek.

So I have SUCH A SOLID IDEA and googled it and found a garage band that never made it and died in 2005 with the same band name...
otherwise there is no precedence...

Should I scrap the idea since "NO REAL BANDS" or do local dead garage bands that never had an agent and never cut an album not count?

Awesome! I still get compliments every time I wear my The Sex Drugs t-shirt from the last time woot did this!

Every idea I come up with seems to share the name of an actual band or musician...

tomspc wrote:This Derby could be and SHOULD BE the best derby ever. Come on, do some cool rock bank designs and leave the cats, turtles and crap out of it. I know Woot must be sick of these poor selling shirts they've been selecting lately. Maybe if a decent shirt would print, they might be able to afford royal blue and slate shirts again.

Withstanding the urge to argue the validity of the above statement, I give you this:

Enjoy!

Can someone explain to me how to vote in these derbys? I've been looking all over, I'm signed in but I can't figure out how to vote for the t-shirts I like!

Envoy wrote:Can someone explain to me how to vote in these derbys? I've been looking all over, I'm signed in but I can't figure out how to vote for the t-shirts I like!

You can't vote until you've bought a shirt. That could be the problem.

oakenspirit wrote:So I have SUCH A SOLID IDEA and googled it and found a garage band that never made it and died in 2005 with the same band name...
otherwise there is no precedence...

Should I scrap the idea since "NO REAL BANDS" or do local dead garage bands that never had an agent and never cut an album not count?

Personally, I'd say if the name was never trademarked then it's fair game. Anyone could up and say they had a garage band by any name. Nevermind that they never recorded anything, never trademarked anything, never made shirts and only did covers...

Thanks for the reply panyan, but I have bought plenty of shirts from woot in the past, so I don't think it's that.

ochopika wrote:Withstanding the urge to argue the validity of the above statement, I give you this:

Enjoy!

Thanks for proving my point!

This is my idea for Bigfoot Ballet Banjo Ensemble....

I just like the name.

Envoy wrote:Thanks for the reply panyan, but I have bought plenty of shirts from woot in the past, so I don't think it's that.

The voting for this derby is closed. You won't be able to vote again until noon tomorrow in the new derby.

Do bands in say..games/cartoons count as real? O.o

kurokami wrote:Do bands in say..games/cartoons count as real? O.o

actually yeah probably..dont see why those wouldnt be :x

tjschaeffer wrote:Every idea I come up with seems to share the name of an actual band or musician...

Let A=(every possible band name in every language in all the lands)
Let B=(some garage band somewhere)

∀ {A} ∃ {B}

(Sorry, really bad joke - but I'm convinced it might be true!)

tomspc wrote:Thanks for proving my point!

...glad I could help.

Update on the work in progress... I decided on the band name "Bigfoot Banjo Ballet". Hope I can find time tomorrow to finish this one off. Bed time...

So is Spinal Tap a real band, a fake band, a real fake band, or fake real band?

I haven't posted in the Pre-Derby Thread for a while. But here is my idea... any comments?

Title: The Name is Copyrighted

Trying to decide between my two Heisenberg designs:




And I also have one more for a faux metal band:

Does a DJ or MC counts as a band?

lkackman wrote:Update on the work in progress... I decided on the band name "Bigfoot Banjo Ballet". Hope I can find time tomorrow to finish this one off. Bed time...

I would go to this concert.

shikausstan wrote:I haven't posted in the Pre-Derby Thread for a while. But here is my idea... any comments?

Title: The Name is Copyrighted

Love the purple, but not feeling the black tee. :/ Not sure how it would look on another color though. One of the greens, maybe?

Only minutes away from seeing how many cats, turtles and ninjas will be in this derby! Can't wait. Got my air-sick bag ready and a bottle of Pepto! Let's roll!

Am I crazy or is this a repeat of a previous derby?

Just wondering if there will be any enforcement of the "No real bands" rule, and if many of the artists either don't know how to use Google, or they just know what rules won't be enforced.

The Procrastinators, The Meows, The Hipsters, The Walkers, Pushing Daisies, Band Aid, The Battles (which is also a resubbed design from the England derby with no significantly altered artistic elements) and a design in the fog with an obvious photo in it.

I suppose we will see what Monday brings.

tomspc wrote:This Derby could be and SHOULD BE the best derby ever. Come on, do some cool rock bank designs and leave the cats, turtles and crap out of it. I know Woot must be sick of these poor selling shirts they've been selecting lately. Maybe if a decent shirt would print, they might be able to afford royal blue and slate shirts again.

I think Ramyb has poisoned this sight way too much... this derby had soo much potential but just look at what is mostly in there... cute animal crap!! or just cute crap in general. and most of the really good artists have gone away. its kinda sad really

jakeline wrote:Awesome! I still get compliments every time I wear my The Sex Drugs t-shirt from the last time woot did this!

i have tha shirt as well and love it!! back then we had some great designs to choose from... this time though it looks like slim pickings B^( at least so far anyways

FWIW, it looks like black WS blanks are gone. Truly, I don't know What It's Worth: woot has been good about printing colors they allowed in the Derby rules and WS sells the fewest shirts (by far) of the ten adult sizes so I doubt the missing blanks will have much of an impact on sales - but I thought the artists might appreciate the heads-up for however little it's worth.

The full list of what's missing is over in the Reckoning thread.

lkackman wrote:Update on the work in progress... I decided on the band name "Bigfoot Banjo Ballet". Hope I can find time tomorrow to finish this one off. Bed time...

Awesome. I too would so go to this concert.

Fun topic. Who hasn't heard a weird phrase somewhere & thought "that would be a great band name"? In grad. school we came up with the Fascist Doves as our imaginary band - which I would love to have a shirt for but of course I don't draw.

I'm no designer, but if I was, I would definitely try to make a Richie Tozier's All-Dead Rock Show shirt from Stephen King's It for this derby.

(The part in the book where IT welcomes Richie home by posting a flyer that says:

RICHIE TOZIER MAN OF 1000 VOICES RETURNS TO DERRY LAND OF 1000 DANCES

IN HONOUR OF TRASHMOUTH'S RETURN CITY CENTER PROUDLY PRESENTS THE RICHIE TOZIER 'ALL-DEAD' ROCK SHOW

BUDDY HOLLY RICHIE VALENS THE BIG BOPPER FRANKIE LYMON GENE VINCENT MARVIN GAYE

HOUSE BAND JIMI HENDRIX LEAD GUITAR JOHN LENNON RHYTHM GUITAR PHIL LINOTT BASS GUITAR KEITH MOON DRUMS SPECIAL GUEST VOCLAIST JIM MORRISON

WELCOME HOME RICHIE!

YOU'RE DEAD TOO!")

I'm not sure how many have read the book, or how many would get it or remember that part, but I just thought it would be a fun idea. It wouldn't have to have ALL that wording (I don't think it would fit, ha ha) but some sort of reference to the All-Dead Rock Show scene would be awesome! And definitely a shirt I would wear =)

And I just remembered that you can't have any real band names so a lot of the wording wouldn't work anyway, so there's that. But the All-Dead Rock Show is definitely fictional

Is it my imagination or is a significant number of these designs just for fictional bands, not for concert tour shirts for the fictional bands? Or just ripped off slightly changed real band names?

Thirdbase9 wrote:Is it my imagination or is a significant number of these designs just for fictional bands, not for concert tour shirts for the fictional bands? Or just ripped off slightly changed real band names?

A lot of shirts sold at concerts don't list the tour stops. That said...yeah, a lot of rips.

neuropsychosocial wrote:FWIW, it looks like black WS blanks are gone. Truly, I don't know What It's Worth: woot has been good about printing colors they allowed in the Derby rules and WS sells the fewest shirts (by far) of the ten adult sizes so I doubt the missing blanks will have much of an impact on sales

Even with the new Anvil sizing? My SO now gets WS in Anvil vs. WL in AA.