BANG was developed from a need to produce real-sounding band names. As anyone who has been in a group knows, when members or musical styles change, a discussion invariably takes place about changing the band's name.
The usual procedure is that each band member proposes a few band names. These are discussed and the top five or ten names are voted on. during this process, one of three scenarios often plays out:
Try revealing the BANG-produced band names first. Then, after the discussion dies down, you can toss in your real (i.e., hand-crafted) names right before the final vote. Your proposed monicker may not be the final choice, but at least it'll make the finals!
BANG (Band Automatic Name Generator) was originally produced for download in 1995. Its innovative "name engine" could theoretically produce over two billion unique names! To make it easier than ever before for band members to come up with fun, fresh names, we rewrote the name engine for use with a javascript-enabled Netscape or Internet Explorer web browser (version 3 or higher).
BANG Online version 2 was introduced in April 2002. More multiple word names are now produced, plus we removed the banner ad sponsor that insisted on spawning multiple popup windows. Now BANG is faster, more fun, and easier to use than ever.
In July 2007 we brought out all the picks folks sent us from the 1995-2002 era BANG, tossed 'em in a bottle bank we found in a Las Vegas gift shop, and introduced Karmaware. We'll update the site every month to see how our project is doing. Help us fill the bottle!
Enjoy!
If you believe in Karma, send us a guitar pick. We won't promise you'll get a recording contract, but mysterious and wonderful things have happened to those who took a moment to say thanks. In return, you may see your band's name and home town on the BANG site!
The BANG Project
As of 8-20-2007, the pick bottle weighs in at 2 lbs. 15.5 oz. Can you help me fill the karma bottle?
Do the picks have to show my band's name?
No. Any pick will do.
How many should I send?
One pick helps a lot! If 1 out of 100 BANG users sent a pick, we'd have the bottle bank filled in no time. Of course, if you really want to be nice, you could send in two or three!
How much do picks weigh?
Just for fun, we took out a postage scale and put an empty, legal sized (No. 10) envelope on it. Then we started adding guitar picks to it. After a dozen picks, the combined weight was still only half an ounce. Therefore, we estimate that 2 dozen picks can be sent for a single first class US postage stamp.
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