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Originally Posted by 5thWiggle
... [RANT] How many line-up changes can a band have and still be allowed to have the same name?!!??!... [/RANT]
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 5thWiggle
... [RANT] How many line-up changes can a band have and still be allowed to have the same name?!!??!... [/RANT]
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My baby brother has been a professional musician for his entire life, when he was a teenager he started a band called
“The White Sidewalls” (Swanee is the one on the left) that specialized in ‘50s rock and roll. His band became quite successful in the Eastern Minnesota/Western Wisconsin area. After 20 or so years, he lost the rights to the name to a promoter that he had hired and started another band which was also successful, but not as successful as The White Sidewalls.
After about 20 years of legal wrangling, he regained rights to the name and morphed his “The Original Knights of Rock and Roll” back into
The White Sidewalls, even using some of the original musicians.
So to answer your question, a band can have the same name even if it’s not the same band!