My First Band. (is that a Playskool toy?) The year was 1987, we were a '70s-'80s rock cover band, and sitting around trying to come up with a band name. I don't remember the other submissions, but as a joke I said "How about The Schmaltz?". Everyone loved it--except me! but since it was actually my idea, I couldn't veto. Such were the loose and unwritten bylaws of the group.

And thus was born The Schmaltz. I think we had maybe 2 paying gigs (one of which included a by-necessity (another long story) extended-to-20-minutes version of Pink Floyd's "One of These Days") before our bass/guitar player left to go peddle his religion. Good times, good times.

After The Schmaltz came a couple more bands, but since this is the thread about first band names, you don't get to know them. And I'm absolutely not going to tell you the name of my current band. It's just too horrific to put into print.

ORIGINAL: tarsier

My First Band. (is that a Playskool toy?) The year was 1987, we were a '70s-'80s rock cover band, and sitting around trying to come up with a band name. I don't remember the other submissions, but as a joke I said "How about The Schmaltz?". Everyone loved it--except me! but since it was actually my idea, I couldn't veto. Such were the loose and unwritten bylaws of the group.

And thus was born The Schmaltz. I think we had maybe 2 paying gigs (one of which included a by-necessity (another long story) extended-to-20-minutes version of Pink Floyd's "One of These Days") before our bass/guitar player left to go peddle his religion. Good times, good times.

After The Schmaltz came a couple more bands, but since this is the thread about first band names, you don't get to know them. And I'm absolutely not going to tell you the name of my current band. It's just too horrific to put into print.

If I remember my German slang, doesn't Schmaltz mean lard or cooking fat?

FUTURE GENERATION KIDS (FGK)

followed by:

DEATH CIRCUS

followed by:

THE INSOLENT MINORETY (wrong spelling intended)

Deparate Din

This being a play on words regarding the comic book character Desparate Dan.

doesn't Schmaltz mean lard or cooking fat

Apparently literaly it does. but it really means "sentimental or florid music or art".

sentimental or florid music or art

carefully left out the words 'excessive' and 'maudlin' from that definition, I see.

ORIGINAL: tarsier

doesn't Schmaltz mean lard or cooking fat

Apparently literaly it does. but it really means "sentimental or florid music or art".

My parents used to speak a slang when I was growing up, so I'm not sure which words are real or which are just some of theirs.

ORIGINAL: marcos69

ORIGINAL: tarsier

doesn't Schmaltz mean lard or cooking fat

Apparently literaly it does. but it really means "sentimental or florid music or art".

My parents used to speak a slang when I was growing up, so I'm not sure which words are real or which are just some of theirs.

Which slanguage is slang derived from?

That's a riot Space as it was around 1977 when Dirt Cheap was playing. Were we in the same band in a parallel universe?!?!

ORIGINAL: bapu

ORIGINAL: marcos69

ORIGINAL: tarsier

doesn't Schmaltz mean lard or cooking fat

Apparently literaly it does. but it really means "sentimental or florid music or art".

My parents used to speak a slang when I was growing up, so I'm not sure which words are real or which are just some of theirs.

Which slanguage is slang derived from?

Don't know, but my parents used to speak what was called Plattdeutsch, a kind of low German that a lot of the German immigrants that ended up in Texas spoke.