If That Is Your REAL Name

Ongoing History of New Music

Curiouscast

Music History, History, Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.8 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This is a show all about fake names…sure we could spend an hour talking about how people like Courtney Love and Elton John and Madonna use fake names on hotel registers…or we could go into how Bono’s real name is “Paul Hewson” and Deadmau5 has “Joel Zimmerman” on his driver’s license and that lorde is really Ella Yelich O’Connor… We could talk about how singers and bands sometimes perform gigs under fake names to throw off the press…the Foo Fighters, The Arcade Fire, Metallica, The Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Franz Ferdinand, REM, Kaiser Chiefs, Led Zeppelin, The Clash and hundreds of others have done that… But no, we’re going to kick it up a big notch…we’re only interested in real bands—big bands—who have released albums under fake identities…or, at the very least, have tried to obscure their identities for whatever reason…they’re side projects, yes, but very special ones… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing
0:04.3	history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon Music, included with Prime.
0:12.3	All right, sir, you sign your name right here, and we're good to go.
0:18.3	There we are.
0:19.8	And now some ID. I thought you said we were good to go. Oh, we are. We are. Yep, yep, yep, yep. It's just a formality. But I don't have any ID. Oh. At least not with that name on it. Oh, what do you mean? I mean, the name there, the one I just signed, it's not my real name.
0:37.8	You're not Arnold Ziffel?
0:40.3	Look, you've heard of Paul McCartney, right?
0:42.7	Oh, yes.
0:43.6	Well, when he used to sign into hotels, he used the name Paul Ramon.
0:47.8	Oh.
0:48.1	So was not to raise any suspicions.
0:50.1	And when the band the Ramones were looking for a name, that's where they got their inspiration.
0:56.0	Oh.
0:59.3	And what does that have to do with our little transaction?
1:02.0	Well, I'm a famous musician, too.
1:06.5	No, you're not.
1:08.2	You're someone who's trying to get out of paying for a meal with a credit card.
1:12.1	No, really.
1:12.9	Haven't you ever heard of musicians using pseudonyms?
1:15.9	That's what I'm doing.
1:17.3	It's a security thing, see?
1:19.4	Oh.
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