WHO IS AT THE DRIVE-IN?

[driveingirl]

Can someone pleeeease tell me why they call themselves "At The Drive-in"? They don't seem to have anything to do with Drive-in theatres! Where did they get the idea for this name?

[motherprussia]

they take their name from a poison song...

yes, the hair-metal band from the 80s...

[driveingirl]

thats kinda crap. what if someone who is a drive-in enthusiast like me wants to make a band and call themselves At the Drive-in, its a perfect name and now they cant cuz some punks took it

[motherprussia]

haha, yeah, the reason really sucks, but it's true...

[driveingirl]

ya that seems gay. well atleast they broke up so the name's free now

[Rubberneck]

haha...glad that you seem to share our enthusiasm for their music

[driveingirl]

LOL Ive never heard them before. I learned of they're name while looking for drive-in memoribilia on Ebay. I am passionate about drive-in theatres so it kinda got my attention when i saw there's a band called At The Drive-in. I was just kinda mad when i found out they have nithing to do with them.

[Bishop]

Boohoo?

I'd give them a listen before you bash the good name of "At The Drive-In".

[driveingirl]

Oh Im not saying they're music sucks. Im sure its good. I just think its dumb they called themselves At The Drive-in when they dont even have anything to do with drive-ins.

[soniktruth]

driveingirl said:

Oh Im not saying they're music sucks. Im sure its good. I just think its dumb they called themselves At The Drive-in when they dont even have anything to do with drive-ins.

but they do , my dear.......the band name dates back to the early eighties....when the "cold war," haunted the minds of us americans....the russians, (U.S.S.R. then), el salvador, cuba(posing as mexicans) take over the southern part of america.....they attempt to "re-educate" us with the wisdom of marx and lenin....the troublemakers would be "gassed" at a local drive-in...hundreds of tents used to gas americans for being capitalists....hence the name AT THE DRIVE-IN


AND THEY USED GAS MASKS LIKE THIS






THank you for your time

from an AT THE DRIVE-IN enthusiast to a DRIVE-IN enthusiast....#nosmileys#nosmileys#nosmileys

[MercurySolo]

I don't see why you think it would be stupid for the band to have the name At the Drive-In without their music having anything to do with drive-in theatres (which kick ass, btw, grew up watching the skyline drive-in in Barstow, California) for example:

The Beatles: Nothing buglike about their music

Pink Floyd: neither pink nor had a guy named Floyd (to the best of my knowledge

The Smashing Pumpkins: nothing to do with halloween or pranks (except for the 1979 video, 8 years after they chose their band name)

Led Zeppelin: No relation to the Von Zeppelin family and do not sing about dirigables, just hobbits and orcs.

Sex Pistols: not really about sex or guns (unless you think Johnny and Sid were dicks)

Hole: well, that one fits

But it's kind of silly to think that every band name has to be about whatever their band name is.

btw, I have a film student friend who is doing a doc about the drive-in theatres of California... should be good when he's finished.

[driveingirl]

[glow=red,2,300]Oh LOL, I dont mean they're music should have anything to do with Drive-ins, I mean they should atleast promote them somehow like a pic on the cover or something nothing more than that. Maybe they could have filmed a vid there.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
That drive-in documentary sounds sweet! I'll wanna see that for sure when it comes out. Glad you enjoy the Drive-in! Its the greatest place on earth, I think.[[/glow]

[Bradley]

Mercury, reminding you that the Beatles were spelt with an "ea" and Beetles as in the bugs are spelt "ee".
All music has a "beat", and the Beatles happened to be one of the biggest xponents of a musical style called "Mersey Beat" in the early 60s, refering to the wave of popular rocknroll band coming out of Liverpool at that time. So now it doesn't sound so ridiculous or random does it? The name was no doubt a play words; the beat of music and the bugs you refered to.
Is this thread for real or just some kind of sick joke?!

[sez]

paran0id_andr0id said:

I made a stencil out of that gas mask, it looks rather cool.

Editied because I appear to be a retard. Ever so sorry.

[Bishop]

It was sarcasm...

[MercurySolo]

Bradley said:

Mercury, reminding you that the Beatles were spelt with an "ea" and Beetles as in the bugs are spelt "ee".
All music has a "beat", and the Beatles happened to be one of the biggest xponents of a musical style called "Mersey Beat" in the early 60s, refering to the wave of popular rocknroll band coming out of Liverpool at that time. So now it doesn't sound so ridiculous or random does it? The name was no doubt a play words; the beat of music and the bugs you refered to.
Is this thread for real or just some kind of sick joke?!

I knew that the name had to do with music beats, I just never made the Mersey Beat connecton. I've been listening to the White Album a lot in my car lately... I used to really like Revolution 9, but now I think it's just organized noise. Maybe 'cause I'm getting older, or just 'cause I quit heavy drugs long ago.