See what sort of friends I have ...

[ericcoleman]

My friend Brad, who, probably wisely, is not on LJ, but he does read this occasionally. Sent me a list of double bills of sorts of various bands. So my question is, does anyone have anything to add? I think my favorite is

Beach Boys II Men
Beatles Paul & Mary Ford
Big Country Joe & The Fish
Billy Paul Revere & The Raiders
Blind Faith Hill
Bruce Springsteenage Fanclub
Cold Blood Sweat & Tears For Fears
Crosby Stills Nash & Young Rascals
Dave Clark Five Man Electrical Band
Dave Mason Proffit
Dexter Gordon Lightfoot
Donovan Morrison
Elton John Paul Jones
ELOjays
Fleetwood Mac Davis
Frank Black Flag
Gloria Estefantastic Johnny C
Grateful Dead Kennedys
James Taylor Dayne
Janis Ian Dury
Kenny G Love & Special Sauce
Lou Christie Minstrels
Manfred Mannheim Steamroller
Mike McGear Daddies
Millie Small Faces
Minutemen Without Hats
Mungo Jerry Butler
Pacific Gas & Electric Flag
Paul Desmond Child & Rouge
Roger McGuinness Flint
Rolling Stone Temple Pilots
Sandy Denny Wilson Pickett
Simply Red Hot Chili Peppers
Stevie Ray Vaughn Monroe
Theminem
Tangerine Dream Academy
Woody Herman’s Hermits
Yoyo Mahavishnu Orchestra
Yoyo Mahogany Rush

Comments

[erik]

Gary Puckett & The Union Gap Band
ABBA Flock Of Seagulls
Swing Out Sister Sledge
Meredeth Brooks & Dunn
Concrete Blondie

[erik]

Rick James Taylor

[erik]

Minnie Rippertones On Tail

[ericcoleman]

These are all good, but I think this is my favorite.

[erik]

Tony! Toni! Toné! Bennett
Ravi ShanCars
Arctic Monkees
Fun Boy Three Dog Night
Boiled In Led Zeppelin
Fountains Of Wayne Newton
Puddle of Muddy Waters

[erik]

KMFDMenem
Villi Vanilli Ice
EmenemC Hammer
Four Non Blondie
Saw Doctor Hook
Fairfield Foreigner
England Dan & John Ford Colee Greenwood
Olivia Newton John Lee Hooker ("A How How How How can you mend a broken heart?")

[erik]

B-52-Live-Crew

[tollermom]

So far, I think B-52-Live-Crew and the Ravi ShanCars are my favorites...

[erik]

Allan Shermanfred Mann
Tom Lehrerth Wind & Fire
LudaKris DeBurgh
Mel Tormaynard Ferguson
Esquevelvet Underground

[erik]

Y&T Bone Burnett
BB Kingston Trio
Hüsker Düke Ellington

[erik]

Nat King Coldplay

[shadowcat48li.livejournal.com]

Moody Blues Traveler
Hayseed Dixie Dregs

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Henry Rollins Stones
The great Luke Skeeter Davis
Yo Yo Ma Ma & Pa Pa
Eric Coleman Hawkins

[barondave.livejournal.com]

The Nick Atoms Mith
Steeleye Spandau Ballet
Donovan Morrison
Apollo 10,000 Maniacs

[barondave.livejournal.com]

PDQ Bachman Turner Overdrive
Brave Combo Didley
Worm Quartet Noires

No, I better stop.

[ericcoleman]

I do like the local reference ... I have 2 of their records somewhere ...

[ericcoleman]

And PDQ Bachman Turner Overdrive is WAY up on my list of favorites.

[ericcoleman]

Should that be Yo Yo Mamas and the Papas ???

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Depends on the rules of the game. Technically, by splicing band names together, yes. But I couldn't resist formatting the second name the same as the first. Perhaps more euphonic is

Yo Yo Ma Mas & Pa Pas

[ericcoleman]

You still didn't have any S's

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Picky picky picky. The plural was implied.

[ericcoleman]

No, it wasn't. We're talking accuracy here.

[hardly-angelic.livejournal.com]

Bonnie "Prince" Billy Idol
PJ Harvey Danger
AC/DC Talk
Wet Wet Wet Willie

[hardly-angelic.livejournal.com]

Iggy Pop Will Eat Itself
Blood Sweat and Tears for Fears
Ian Hunters and Collectors
Ringo Starcastle
Queens of the Stone Temple Pilots
Frijid Pink Floyd

[hardly-angelic.livejournal.com]

Moody Blues Traveler
Little Walter Becker
Cheap Trick Daddy
Big Head Todd Rundgren
Blind Lemon Pipers
R.E.Minem

[hardly-angelic.livejournal.com]

Ike and Tina Turner Overdrive
Terry Jacks Mannequin
Jack Bruce Springsteen
Marvin Gaye Bikers on Acid
Ben Lee Greenwood
Ben Harper's Bizarre

Portmanteau movies

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Apropos of almost nothing, when Shockwave did this sort of thing for movie, we called them Portmanteau Movies (after Lewis Carroll):

From "Period Pieces", Minicon 27, 1992:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Earnest,
License To Kill A Mockingbird,
The Twelve Angry Chairs,
Honey, I Shrunk the Bismark,
Seven Amadeus in May,
and the Australian bondage film, Tie Me Up, Tie Me Kangaroo Down.

Okay, I cheated a bit. Picky picky picky.

Re: Portmanteau movies

[shadowcat48li.livejournal.com]

oooh.., these i like, I started a thread of this style on my LJ before seeing this post. we've been butchering movie titles on alt.callahans and #callahans irc since around 96 IIRC

Re: Portmanteau movies

[shadowcat48li.livejournal.com]

its cheating a little bit, but how about
Little Shop of Rocky Horrors

Re: Portmanteau movies

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Close. Better: The Last Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Re: Portmanteau movies

[ericcoleman]

Another favorite there ...

Re: Portmanteau movies

[shadowcat48li.livejournal.com]

Fiddler on a hot tin roof

Re: Portmanteau movies

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Let me know about threads. Somewhere in my text files are huge lists of Right Brained Theater conceptually juxtaposed double features, portmanteau movies/books and other random things only some of which made it to a Shockwave performance. I was bored at work a lot in the 80s.

Re: Portmanteau movies

[shadowcat48li.livejournal.com]

heres the movies thread I started
http://shadowcat48li.livejournal.com/63103.html?mode=reply

I have a compiled text file of what we've come up with over the years, but its really too big to post here. I will e-mail it

[braider.livejournal.com]

I once did a literary version of this -

Portrait of the Lady as a Young Man, by Henry James Joyce

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

So good.
....You have to write it.

[braider.livejournal.com]

I've never quite been able to figure out what the plot should be.

I suppose, in part, because I only sat and listened in discussions of "Portrait of a Lady" and never read most of it for class.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was, on the other hand, hilarious. I love when he "committed adultery".

[gomeza.livejournal.com]

Trans-Siberian Light Orchestra
George Michael Jackson (cheating?)
The The Go Gos
Future Soundgarden of London Underground (A TRIPLE-BILL!)
Twisted Sister Sledge

[ericcoleman]

I was amazed that it took this long for someone to come up with a The The title.

And Twisted Sister Sledge is brilliant