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As in 'you thought you were the cool fool..." ya know.

We went through a bunch and man a bunch of them were already taken. I did a pretty decent search and couldn't find this reference as a band name although when I just made up a page at myspace for the band I had to add 'band' after 'cool fools' cause these 2 teen girls had 'coolfools' lol! I didn't get the sense that they were a dead cover band -tehe.

Here's the page - bare bones at the moment

http://www.myspace.com/coolfoolsband

Will be dressing it up shortly.

I'll repeat this later but as of now our 1st gig is at The Rye Roadhouse in Rye NY on 11/6

http://theryeroadhouse.com/

Friday night 11:00 to 2am - I'll be drinkin some coffee that night!

Other board members here in the band (as noted before) hgregs and mkaufman

Very cool! Congrats, guys!

Yeah band names are a bitch ......
They ARE all taken !
Very cool and good luck !

Hey bill, I like the band name. Good luck with the upcoming gig

We grabbed Crazy Otto - even though there is one in Florida. If worse comes to worse, we will split the country at the Mississippi River.

"Cool Fools": like it!

Also like the jester holding the huge bud!

very cool guys.. but bill whats up with the mongo distortion in the scarlet thats up on the page, ur tone normally isnt that way?

A very good name. Was Kool Fools taken. That would be a good name too.

strumminsix wrote:Very cool! Congrats, guys!

Tx ss, I may be leaning on you for some creative input on the ms page

TJ wrote:Yeah band names are a bitch ......
They ARE all taken !
Very cool and good luck !

Yea some of the ones I liked that were gone

Great North Special
Northbound Train
Blue Light Rain
to name a few.

GT wrote: Hey bill, I like the band name. Good luck with the upcoming gig

Thanks gt, should be fun. Been a while.

denverEd wrote:We grabbed Crazy Otto - even though there is one in Florida. If worse comes to worse, we will split the country at the Mississippi River.

I actually thought about that - is there a distance away from you that it'd be ok? lol!

Chuckles wrote:"Cool Fools": like it!

Also like the jester holding the huge bud!

I Searched around and found a bunch of jesters - I couldn't copy my favorite one - it's for sale though - I may inquire about it. A real psychedelic looking jester guy dancing with really bright colors.

GP wrote:but bill whats up with the mongo distortion in the scarlet thats up on the page, ur tone normally isnt that way?

Yea pat that's not typical, though i don't think it's overbearing. I sure didn't remember dialing it in that way during that practice and I didn't remember it sounding like that. We played Eyes into Scarlet that day and I really only had some slight OD going on I suppose. You can really hear it more in the bass notes. So no, not normal for me - though it is kinda interesting if there's just a touch.

old man down wrote:A very good name. Was Kool Fools taken. That would be a good name too.

I don't know OMD - though a friend suggested, albeit kinda after the fact, to use Cool FoolZ with the z instead of the s.

Thanks, I kinda like it as it evokes sorta that we're not taking ourselves TOO seriously with this. Though of course putting out the best effort possible IS a serious thing though in the grand scheme of things it's just a band playing music they have a passion for. Hopefully we'll do it well enough that people will want to listen!

Or to borrow from the title of the anime classic: FLCL ("Fooly Cooly")

I can't get over the number of Dead cover bands going around in the States. I'm gonna check some of you guys out when my wife and I go to the over for a holiday in the second half of next year. Has anyone considered "The Ungrateful Dead" or is that a bit too disrespectful.

Billbbill -

For sure congrats on getting a name. T Jedi hit it man, so many are taken. We went through literally 20 or more. My wife and I tried one night with a song book in hand. So many phrases/wordings are taken.

A major score to get something unique!

Best of luck with your band.

Fretful Dave

Harvestwind wrote:I can't get over the number of Dead cover bands going around in the States. I'm gonna check some of you guys out when my wife and I go to the over for a holiday in the second half of next year. Has anyone considered "The Ungrateful Dead" or is that a bit too disrespectful.

I guess it's the free market at work - evidently there's demand to be met - though it's all relative I suppose. I like Harvestwind! That'd be a cool name! I think I might have actually thought about that one - probably taken anyway

FretfulDave wrote:Billbbill -

For sure congrats on getting a name. T Jedi hit it man, so many are taken. We went through literally 20 or more. My wife and I tried one night with a song book in hand. So many phrases/wordings are taken.

A major score to get something unique!

Best of luck with your band.

Fretful Dave

Thanks a bunch Dave!

You ain't kiddin - I went through the whole annotated GD lyrics book - all 500+ pages - I have to admit I skipped over some of the lesser known tunes - and this was actually my third pick tho it was the winner in the group vote. My # 2 was one of our bass players picks - Learning To See - and my #1 was one of mine - Blind Man's Hand. But Cool Fools it is!