Another music thread --- when did bands stop using "the" in their names ?

[emeraldknight47]

Tons of 70s & 80s bands/groups didn't use 'The'

Yaz
Bourgeois Tagg
One to One/One 2 One
Ambrosia
Ace
Alphaville
Chilliwak
Asia
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds..........

Ambrosia---yes, thoughts of warm, summer evenings with your best girl.

Asia---rocking out to some early to mid-eighties prog-rock!!

ELP---mellowing out with some seventies prog rock...

Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds---non-coitus interruptus.

Chilliwak----

[daz71]

them
tages
shocking blue
honeybus
eire apparent
h.p. lovecraft
zen

[megomania]

Tons of 70s & 80s bands/groups didn't use 'The'

Yaz
Bourgeois Tagg
One to One/One 2 One
Ambrosia
Ace
Alphaville
Chilliwak
Asia
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds..........

[Brazoo]

If Herman's Hermits is disqualified then according to Wiki Small Faces formed with that name in '65, so they seem like a close second.

[Brazoo]

Hmm. Going through the names my guess is that the earliest formed band listed so far is Herman's Hermits. They originally formed as Herman & the Hermits, but I don't think they released anything under that title.

[J.B.]

Misfits, though I think their first album had "The".

[Iron Mego]

Talking Heads.

[cockyhoskins]

Thin Lizzy

[emeraldknight47]

Molly Hatchet
Blue Oyster Cult
Paul McCartney and Wings (or sometimes just Wings, goes either way)
Bad Company
Badfinger
Jay and the Americans
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Evanescence
Bats for Lashes
Abba
Aerosmith
Ambrosia
Bee Gees
Barenaked Ladies
Boston
Kansas
Camera Obscura
We Are The Fallen
Chicago
Def Leppard

[Mr.Marion]

Metallica
Green Day
Refused
Black Flag
Radiohead
Great White
Duran Duran
Joy Division
Nine Inch Nails
Earth,Wind, and Fire

[emeraldknight47]

Asia
Foreigner
Styx
Journey
Loverboy
Blonde
Triumph
Dokken
King Kobra
Whitesnake

[Brazoo]

Love
Egg
Traffic
Uhh...maybe Small Faces?

[Brazoo]

Cream
King Crimson
Red Krayola
Buffalo Springfield
Herman's Hermits
T. Rex

[Brazoo]

Genesis
Hot Tuna
Yes
Kraftwerk
Roxy Music
Can

[Brazoo]

It drives me crazy when bands go by both. I get all OCD when I import albums into iTunes and band names come up as (for example) The Pixies or Pixies depending on the album. I always fix it.

Captan Beefheart and HIS Magic Band or THE Magic Band also drives me nuts.