On the Dull Men’s page on Facebook someone has said he can’t think of a band that contains two people with the same first name. There has been some sensible and quite daft suggestions.
I’m sure we can do better.
Over to you
Same name, same Band.
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Well Bellowhead were fronted by the two Johns, except one of them had lost his H.
John Bonham and John Paul Jones?
Dr Feelgood:
John Martin (the Big Figure)
John B Sparks
John Wilkinson (Wilko Johnson)
Lee John Collinson (Lee Brilleaux)
Four out of four (sort of)!
… and John Wilkinson was replaced by John “Gypie” Mayo, who in turn was replaced by John(ny) Guitar (ex-Count Bishops).
In Fairport’s complicated history there was a line up, albeit one which never recorded, made of 4 men called Dave.
@Gatz can only think of two 3Dave lineups. Swarb pegg mattacks and Rea Pegg Swarb (drummer at the time was Tom Farnell)
You have to do some juggling, as I don’t think this line up ever performed let alone recorded, but in 72 you could have Peggy, Swarb, DM and Rea.
Isn’t this the quartet that recorded a lot of dismal tracks for an unreleased album at the Manor (included on the recent 7CD FC box set from Universal)? I haven’t heard them but I understand it was a rubbish line-up.
They Might Be Giants is the duo of John & John.
When they expanded to a five-piece in 1994, the other three guys were called Dan. Hence “The Band Of Dans” was born.
Stones: Micks Jagger and Taylor
The Spiders – Micks Ronson & Garson.
Hmmm…some from ‘ull would argue strongly that Garson is only an affiliate arachnid, not the full Spider. The correct answer is, of course, Micks Ronson and Woodmansey.
Ah. I think of Woody as ‘Woody’.
Garson was easily the best paid.
Touchy subject amongst the Spiders cognoscenti…I seem to spend half my online life fielding the endless snark about ‘how badly Bowie treated the Spiders’.
Maybe. But Mike Garson was the best paid. It was the only way Bowie could get him to join the band.
That’s called “Local weighting”. The amount Woody’s wage was worth in Hull was the same as what Garson’s wage was worth in LA.
The Three Johns
As we all know, The Wurzels included both Reg Quantrill and Reg Chant in their original line-up.
Mel B, Mel C and Mel W (W left before the first album to work as a chimney sweeper in Bromsgrove).
When chim-chim-charoo become 1?
Sorry…
Bryan and Brian in Roxy, with a reasonable bet that Mr and Mrs Ferry wouldn’t give their son a soft southern affectation of a y.
I’m not so sure. I used to know the comic writer/artist Bryan Talbot, and he comes from a long line of Wigan miners.
Bryan Talbot?! Respect. I still hero worship my 80s comic artist icons – Mick McMahon, Kevin O’Neill, Glenn Fabry, Dave Gibbons, etc etc. I loved Bryan Talbot’s Nemesis stuff.
I was a student in Preston at the time (Bryan’s wife Mary, these days a comics writer herself, was one of my tutors in my first year). Bryan was the main mover and shaker in the Preston SF group and thanks to his contacts we had a great list of guests, including Dave Gibbons (with Alan Moore to promote the collected edition of Watchmen) and Glenn Fabry from your list of heroes.
There were too many other comics artists and novelists to remember, but reading Neil Gaiman’s introduction to a collection of Bryan’s art it seems that his appearance was the very first public event of the the kind he ever did. I still have my copy of Violent Cases from that night, with a sketch of a gangster that Dave McKean draw for me when he was a guest at a later date.
Likewise! The recent Alice In Sunderland is an amazing piece of work.
This is true. I loved AiS
The Band of Susans were so called due their initial line-up featuring three members called Susan.
When I had a band with some mates all of us had a wife/girlfriend called Sue. I wanted to call us the wives of Sue. I was right over ruled.
Loved the band of Susan’s.
Quite right. You were The Husbands Of Sue.
Michael & Mickey in the Monkees.
Paul Rodgers and Paul Kossoff in Free
Can we also include band members real names?
If so then James Williamson and James Osterburg in The Stooges
Michael and Mike in R.E.M.
The band David and David
Duran Duran was stiff with Taylors was it not
Taylor, Taylor, Roger Taylor, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb.
EDIT: Oh! You wanted first names. Sorry
Not a band (as far as I know), but I used to think it was funny when the three barmaids at the Rovers Return were Liz, Bet and Betty.
For a year or two, back in the early to mid 70s, ELO had Mike Edwards, Mike d’Albuquerque and Mik Kaminski.
Mike d’Albuquerque…?
Are you sure that wasn’t a hapless former drummer from Spinal Tap?
Rogers Waters and Barrett.
Syd was Rog, but Rog was George.
Further Johns:
Two in the Sex Pistols – Messrs Lydon and Ritchie at your service. After leaving that band, Lydon clearly thought he couldn’t possibly be the only John in his next one, so it was one John Wardle to the low-frequency rescue.
The Eagles had Don’s Henley and Felder.
The Blockheads had a couple of Charlies for a few years.
But Charlie wasn’t a real Charlie. He was a Hugh.
Great Swedish popabillyrhythm’n’blues combo Wilmer X has had two Jalle and two Mats. Though not all four at the same time.
Not too surprising having double Mats’s, but considering how rare it is to find one Jalle, two of those in the same band must be some kind of record (and I don’t mean a vinyl one)!
They are the only two Jalles I’ve heard of, I think. You’re on to something. They deserve more credit for having had two members called Jalle.
Fleetwood Mac have had four people called Bob pass through their ranks over the years
Bob Welch
Bob Weston
Plus Bobby Hunt (fill-in keyboard player in 74) and Bob Brunning (first bass player before John McVie joined the band)
The earlier incarnation of ABC had two Marks….Lickley and White
Thin Lizzy had a couple of Brians,Downey and Robertson.
Considering the word Band is capitalised in the OP, I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned Danko and Manuel.
John Siegler (bass) and John Wilcox (drums) in Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, mid-1970s.
Richard Coughlan and Richard Sinclair in Caravan.
Leon Patillo and Leon “Ndugu” Chancler in Santana, circa 1974.
You only need to look at Santana v1 for Mike Shrieve and Mike Carabello.
I was really scraping the barrel with that last one, and then I remembered Ian Gillan and Ian Paice, still together in Deep Purple today.