Feb 192013
 

A day late, but I don’t believe we’ve ever done a Last Man Standing on Rockers With Presidential Names. Of the 41 (?) distinct United States President surnames, is there a rocker who shares each surname?

For the purposes of this Last Man Standing—and to avoid, say, 392 rocking Washingtons—let’s limit ourselves to one rocker per Presidential name.

Ex-US Townspeople are invited to add the names of rockers who share the name of one of their own country’s political heads of state, but keep it to names of heads of state, please.

As always, don’t bogart that thread: limit yourself to 1 entry per post. Thank you.

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  60 Responses to “Last Man Standing: Rockers With Presidential Names”

  1. BigSteve

    Talking Head Jerry Harrison (William Henry Harrison).

  2. Clarence “Patches” Carter (Jimmy “Peanuts” Carter).

  3. Suburban kid

    George Clinton

  4. I was going to say Bush, but instead will go with Kate Bush.

  5. Suburban kid

    That means I can suggest

    Frankie “Sea Cruise” Ford

  6. John Quincy Nixon. Might as well get the self-serving submission out of the way before my bandmates.

  7. underthefloat

    Mick Taylor-Zachary Taylor

  8. Roy/James (15) Buchannan

  9. Suburban kid

    Steven Tyler / John Tyler

  10. machinery

    Ike Turner. Yeah, yeah not a surname …

  11. Brian/Nancy/Woodrow Wilson

  12. Rita Coolige (Calvin)

  13. saturnismine

    Mike Kennedy of Audible and Lefty’s Deceiver.

  14. Suburban kid

    Robert Crossroads Lyndon Johnson

  15. Smooth jazz saxophonist Grover Washington Jr

  16. underthefloat

    John Wesley Harding (Warren Harding)

  17. Suburban kid

    Jeffrey Lee Pierce (Gun Club) / Franklin Pierce

  18. Then the Philadelphia contingent of the mid- to late-80s might remember the drummer from The Balls, Dave Eisenhower. That was his name, right?

  19. Bill “the” Monroe “Doctrine”.

  20. Suburban kid

    Bryan Quincy “Summer of 1769” Adams

  21. Michael “Old Hickory” Jackson.

  22. hrrundivbakshi

    “William Henry” Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads)

  23. hrrundivbakshi

    Of course, hundreds of great bands have performed and recorded at the Millard Fillmore, but I assume that doesn’t count.

  24. hrrundivbakshi

    “Abraham” Linkin Park?

  25. hrrundivbakshi

    Buffalo Lee Ulysses Simpson Grant

  26. bostonhistorian

    Isaac Rutherford B. Hayes

  27. bostonhistorian

    Andrew Johnnie Johnson

  28. underthefloat

    Thanks. This prevents me from inducting and then asking for a Webb Pierce ruling (a bit of rockabilly in his history)….

  29. Plus points for astounding punctuation…

  30. I’m running the high side here: Frankie Yankovic and the James K Polk-a…

  31. bostonhistorian

    Reverend James Grover Cleveland

  32. Please see first entry, way above.

  33. Sure. W.H. was already played, but what about Benjamin “George” Harrison?

  34. hrrundivbakshi

    The crazy world of Chester A. Arthur Brown

  35. bostonhistorian

    William McKinley Morganfield. I know I know, it doesn’t count.

  36. Zappa vocalist “I Like” Ike Willis

  37. cliff sovinsanity

    Don’t forget Carnie and Wendy from Wilson Philipps, although I don’t know if they “rock”.

  38. cliff sovinsanity

    Drummer for The Jayhawks Tim O’Reagan. Can I get away with that O’ ?

  39. ‘A WOP BARAKA LOOOBA, A WOPOBOMA BOOM’

  40. saturnismine

    Yes! Good one, mod!

  41. My choice Rory Buchanan of “Hey Joe, “Further Down the Road” and what I hope to have tonight “Sweet Dreams”
    15th president James Buchanan from PA.

  42. Double dipper: Roosevelt ‘Hound Dog’ Taylor. That’s for President Roosevelt and President Hound Dog.

  43. bostonhistorian

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt “The Honeydripper” Sykes

  44. bostonhistorian

    More non-qualifying LMS attempts because I’m obsessed with using every president’s name: Leslie Millard Fillmore West and Camper Van Buren.

  45. mockcarr

    Or Madison Square Garden

  46. mockcarr

    Blind Lemon Jefferson – no quotes needed since I believe he was actually blind…

  47. Bostonhistorian, you may have to keep at it. I think Taft is still on the board.

  48. Happiness Stan

    In honour of our head of state over this side of the pond – Queen

  49. I don’t know how I thought of this guy, but Jamie Hoover of the Spongetones.

    http://www.jamiehoover.net/

    Maybe his ties to Bill Lloyd came to mind.

    Last Man Standing!

  50. Unless there’s a plain old “Reagan” I didn’t see the “O’.”

  51. bostonhistorian

    Yeah, you’d totally be last man standing if I hadn’t already covered Herbert Hoover above.

  52. bostonhistorian

    Meh, I’ve lost interest now.

  53. cliff sovinsanity

    Henry Rollins was born Henry Lawrence Garfield, as in your 20th president James A. Garfield.

  54. cliff sovinsanity

    Carole King shares the last name with Canada’s 3 times non consecutive Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Not only is he on our 50$ dollar bill, he also saw Canada through the great depression and WWII. King’s government had a hand in the creation of the CBC and the National Film board which gave us that Rock Cinema Verité short film from a few weeks ago. He championed Canada’s independence from the British Monarchy. And to top it off he was into séances and Ouija Boards.

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