Stage Names?

I was in a punk band in 2001. We all had stage names. The bass/lead singer called himself Adam Slander; the guitarist was Dicky Trick; and my name was Razor Burns.
 
This story seems apropos on Memorial Day. At one point I was in a band while also in the military (as a senior NCO, or sergeant). I was asked to escort the mother of a servicemember who had been KIA in Afghanistan to a Memorial Day service. Unfortunately, I think the toll of losing her son and age combined had done a number on this poor lady, and so she screwed my name up. She started calling me Tony, and even though throughout the day she would ask me if she had my name right, and I would very gently correct her, she would keep calling me Tony.

I made the mistake of telling this story to my bandmates, and that is how I got the stage name of Tony. I left that band a few years ago and I have never told my bandmates in any other band that story ever again, for fear of becoming Tony again.
 
I go by Rey Charles as a musician for a couple reasons:

1) It worked once, it can work again. ;)

2) My name doesn't roll. My true name is Preston Reyburn Charlesworth Rice... So Rey Charles is there, and easy.

It just makes things easier for me, and helps me keep my personal life and my business separate if I need that.
 
My drum teacher dubbed me "Hammahead" or "Hamma" (hammerhead, after the shark, pidgin style).

He's a licensed massage therapist as well as a drummer/teacher, and when I lay facedown on his massage table the first time, he started giggling. After ducking the question for a few minutes, he explained that the visual made him think of a hammerhead shark.

So it's that or Sticks/Styx, which is what one of the guys in my band calls me.

(There's one more I can't think of right now, given to me by an enthusiastic audience member and which is shouted occasionally at a gig.)
 
You folks do realize that you are responding to a thread from 2009!
The OP hasn't signed on since that year.
 
I was into rap in high school (I know, I know...). People used to ask me to freestyle at parties in late high school/early college. My stage name then was White Chocolate.

Quoted for hilarity.

White Chocolate! I just peed my pants! Just be advised Phil, I intend to haunt you with this nickname relentlessly just like I remind everyone that my good friend Anon kept her own personal record of the daily temperatures in Sydney for like 15 YEARS! That's nuts!
 
Ninja.

Aside from an unhealthy obsession with ninjas... A friend got a job at a local pub. All of her friends showed up to her first night on the job, which was karaoke night, and also Halloween. I showed up dressed as a ninja and sang Turning Japanese.
 
2009 or not, fun thread.

I'm called Bill Brasky at the bars. They talk about me a lot. Followed by a round of shots.

I must be legendary

:)
 
Hello,

I'm Harry Wetbottom.... pleased to meet you.

Chicks usually say "yuck"

But seriously...

how about

....and on the Electric Bass ...... SKIDMARK!
 
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I'm the only member of my band who doesn't have a shoe-related name: they are Diamonte Sandal, Ruby C. Lipper and Philippe Pheloppe (for you non-UK English speakers, a flip flop is a type of beach shoe, called, somewhat unnervingly to us Brits, a thong in Australia). We have just recruited Sir Hunter Wellington-Boote.
 
I'm the only member of my band who doesn't have a shoe-related name: they are Diamonte Sandal, Ruby C. Lipper and Philippe Pheloppe (for you non-UK English speakers, a flip flop is a type of beach shoe, called, somewhat unnervingly to us Brits, a thong in Australia). We have just recruited Sir Hunter Wellington-Boote.

You should be Purple Kicker
 
hmm Magenta bit thin for drum / music shoe nicknames

a couple of late day tired attempts....

U.R Sole (Soul)

B. Tup Sneaker

Sole Sista

Welsh Rarefits
 
Welsh Rarefits

That made me chuckle!

It's ok, I'm not after a shoe name, my own simple moniker is perfectly good enough: the Hon. Magenta Stardust Reinhardt.
 
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