{"id":1045,"date":"2007-12-05T23:35:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T04:35:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T16:07:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:07:25","slug":"last-man-standing-bands-named-after-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-bands-named-after-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Bands Named After Band Members Who Are Not the Best-Known Members of Their Own Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>If it&#8217;s not clear what list of particular rock oddities I&#8217;m hoping we can exhaust, think about the <strong>Spencer Davis Group<\/strong>. When you and your rock nerd friends sit around and talk about Spencer Davis Group, do you ever talk about poor Spencer himself? Do you ever give him props for whatever instrument he played? Could you pick him out from a police lineup or Spencer Davis Group album cover? Probably not. Spencer Davis is nowhere near the best-known member of the group that bears his name.<\/p>\n<p>Four bands immediately come to mind for this thread, along with a fifth band that is named after two band members who are not the best-known members of the band they founded. I&#8217;m banking on the fact that there are more than the five examples I have in mind. Let&#8217;s get it on! But first, remember the one rule in Last Man Standing competitions: <em>Only one entry per post!<\/em> You may not post a list that hogs multiple entries. Now, let&#8217;s get it on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s not clear what list of particular rock oddities I&#8217;m hoping we can exhaust, think about the Spencer Davis Group. When you and your rock nerd friends sit around and talk about Spencer Davis Group, do you ever talk about poor Spencer himself? Do you ever give him props for whatever instrument he played? <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-bands-named-after-band\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}