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*** It's also implied in the movie that his name is Floyd Pinkerton. Which contradicts the phone call, although it could be that Floyd Pinkerton took the stage name of Pink Floyd. The kids in his youth call him, "Pinky".

** Referenced in the season 4 finale of [[Bones]].

* Jethro Tull often had the same problem. They took their name from the Englishman (1674-1741) who invented the seed drill.

** This was referenced in ''[[Armageddon]]'', when Oscar Choi (played by Owen Wilson) says to a NASA psychologist (played by the legendary Udo Kier), "I tell you one thing that really drives me nuts, is people who think that Jethro Tull is just a person in the band." (To which the psychologist replied, "Who is Jethro Tull?")

* Similarly, [[Franz Ferdinand]] named themselves after the archduke whose assassination served as a catalyst for [[World War I]]. However, surprisingly few people make the assumption that it's a person rather than a band, perhaps because "Franz" sounds like an unlikely name for a Scot and the archduke was a rather famous figure. Which still didn't stop at least one talk show host has asked them which was named Franz Ferdinand. And wasn't joking.

* Country band Sawyer Brown sometimes has this problem. They took their name from the road where they originally rehearsed.

** Likewise, in early interviews in North America, the UK band [[Catherine Wheel]] were asked, "Who's Catherine?" The band was named for the British term for a firework that spins rapidly when lit, which in turn is named for the torture device allegedly used to martyr Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

* Coconut Records sounds like a record label. In fact, it's Jason Schwartzman's solo act. That's right; it's not even a band name, it's a ''pseudonym''.

* Similarly, there are only three people in Ben Folds Five. One of them, however, is actually Ben Folds. When asked why they go by the name "Ben Folds Five" when there were only three members, Folds replied "Because Ben Folds Three sounds dumb." Ben Folds has since broken up with the five, and tours with two other musicians under the name of ''Ben Folds''.

* [[Billy Talent]] contains no person named William Talent. They're named after a character from the Canadian ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]'' homage ''[[Hard Core Logo]]''.

* In one episode of the American ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]?'', Ryan Stiles referred to Kid Rock as a band. After Drew Carey pointed out that he's "[[I Am the Band|just one guy]]", they spent the rest of the episode joking about the mix-up.

** The band is actually the Twisted Brown Trucker band.

* Originally [[Alice Cooper]] was just the name of the band. After the band broke up, lead singer Vincent Furnier changed his name, thus averting this trope afterward.

** Before the band broke up, they referenced this trope in the song "Be My Lover":

* A similar example: when Robin Trower left [[Procol Harum]], he formed a new band. The band was named...Robin Trower. No real difference in practical terms, though it might be surprising to find their albums under "R" instead of "T".

* Alternately, [[Marilyn Manson]] is the name of ''both'' a band and its [[Face of the Band|infinitely more well known]] lead singer (and no, not one of the albums credited to "Marilyn Manson" is a solo effort by their singer, despite the fact he's the last remaining original member of the band at this point).

** [[Aphex Twin|Aphex]] ''[[Aphex Twin|Twin]]'' is the of ''one'' man, Richard David James. However, according to [[The Other Wiki]], the "twin" refers to his twin brother who died at birth.

** Similarly, M-Project is not, in fact, two people, but is just another pseudonym for DJ Chucky, although in this case it's intentional.

 

* Salt-N-Pepa consisted of Cheryl "Salt" James, Sandra "Pepa" Denton... and, um, Deidra "DJ Spinderella" Roper.

** On the other hand, it was an accurate name: it's the band started by the Allman Brothers.

* None of The Statler Brothers were named Statler and just 2 of them were actually brothers.

* Never mind that [[Jamiroquai]] is basically [[I Am the Band|lead singer Jay Kay's show]]. It's the name of the ''band'', not the guy in the [[Nice Hat|fuzzy chapeau]].

* It's a shame [[Pantera]] died, he was a good guitarist. But hey, at least [[Motley Crue|Tommy Lee's]] still alive and kickin as the most kickass rock singer of all time!

* When [[Procol Harum]] performed on a talk show, they were naturally asked which one was Procol.

* [[Daniel Amos]] is not the name of anyone in the band, but rather two books of the Bible.

* Even though most/all members of Eisley are related, their shared last name is [[Du Pree]], not Eisley. The name is just a holdover from the band's former name, Moss Eisley, a barely disguised ''[[Star Wars]]'' reference.

* Similar to the above examples, [[Judas Priest]] is the name of the band itself, not the name of the singer of the band.

** ...which was named after a Bob Dylan song, "[[wikipedia:The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest|The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest]]."

** To further complicate things, Oberst has both a solo career and another band, The Mystic Valley Band.

*** Both of these are more recent, and in part likely due to Oberst's frustration at being called Bright Eyes, especially given that Walcott is also a member of The Mystic Valley Band. On the other hand, the confusion is somewhat understandable given that several solo Oberst songs were released under the Bright Eyes name, most notably the single "Lua", on account of how Oberst drizzled them out over time and just put them on Bright Eyes albums (not exactly unusual, especially given that a lot of these are basically your nigh-obligatory "lead singer with acoustic guitar" tracks that pretty much every band of that sort puts out).

 

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