10 Bands Who Had Terrible Names Before They Were Successful
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers
If there was an award for the least catchy name ever, Red Hot Chili Peppers would win it for their previous moniker: 'Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem'!
Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?
While Red Hot Chili Peppers may be one of the longest names in rock music, any journalist trying to fill their word count would be delighted to come across RHCP's moniker between 1982 and '83, which we'll just call 'Tony Flow' for now.
The band - made of up Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons - first performed at the Rhythm Lounge to a modest crowd of 30, which saw them open for Gary and Neighbor's Voices with a largely improvised set that included a poem from Kiedis called 'Out in LA'.
Thankfully, their name change came in 1984 with the release of debut album The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the group have undergone a few line-up changes with John Frusciante and Chad Smith ultimately joining Kiedis and Flea.
The funk rock legends have never looked back and have gone on to become one of the biggest rock bands on the planet; although you do wonder just how posters and t-shirts may look had the band stuck with the moniker of Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem!