I wouldn't want to give away a great name (I do have one in mind if I ever get a hard rock band together again), but the first band I ever named was when I was in high school. It was called Jango, after Django Reinhardt (although technically my bassist and I named us after our guitar instructor's cat not realizing he was named after the great gypsy guitarist).
In college I had an acoustic duo and we called ourselves Soma Holiday, which is from the book "A Brave New World." We formed an electric band as well and that was called "Jack Frost & The Hooded Crow" after a Jethro Tull song. That was our drummer's idea. We all thought it was a stupid name until we did a few campus interviews and we each pretended to be Jack Frost and the rest of the band was the Hooded Crow.
In college I had an acoustic duo and we called ourselves Soma Holiday, which is from the book "A Brave New World." We formed an electric band as well and that was called "Jack Frost & The Hooded Crow" after a Jethro Tull song. That was our drummer's idea. We all thought it was a stupid name until we did a few campus interviews and we each pretended to be Jack Frost and the rest of the band was the Hooded Crow.