...fuckin' finally.
Personally, I hadn't a damn problem with Triple6Poser. Sure, I never came up with it. Jordan wrote a song called 'Triple6Poser' (which, knowing him, he's probably lost in the mess of 1's and 0's that is his hard-drive) and I liked the concept.
I found it 'funny'.
When Eddy was looking for a band and I was looking for a band and Jay was listening to both of us on seperate occasions talking about how we were looking for a band, I had no idea what I was going to play, I had no idea what it'd be about, and I really couldn't have cared less how it may or may not turn out. All I had was a name.
Triple-6-Poser.
Soon the band grew, the style formed, the music evolved, the band-mates got to know each other and the line-up got shifted about. Now Jay is in the land of Oz (and the fucker hasn't written yet, much to my annoyance and his mother's worry), Eddy's on vocals and his drum-mentor Alex is now on drums. All we need now is a bassist to make our lives complete.
As much as many people thought it was a shit name, I sure as shit didn't (wouldn't have named the band that if I thought it was shit to begin with). If anything, I liked the name more than ever when people started to hear about us because the name alone did it's job:
It causes
reaction.
Take two parts 'what a shit name' with one part 'why
are they called that to begin with' and mix the whole shebang in a big bowl of 'did they just use the word
poser in their name?'
Before you ask, yes, I know the word 'poser' is mis-spelt. It's intentional. It beefs up the 'poser factor'.
I liked that reaction. The varied responses of 'what the
fuck!?' and 'ok...' and so on. Come on, let's be honest here: I liked the fact that you punters thought it was shit! Made you curious, didn't it?! Whilst
Eddy may have hated the reactions from the public when told what the band's name is, I loved it. I bathed in it. And let's face facts, ladies and gentlemen: who gives a flying-
finger-fuck
what the name is?! If you heard the material from the awesome foursome of Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy and Jimmy Chamberlain, when you found out they were named 'The Smashing Pumpkins' wouldn't you have wanted to smash one of the said pumpkins over Billy's bald head?!
So why the name change? Well, apart from the points I mentioned in earlier posts and
Eddy despising it thoroughly, there is also another reason. To be honest, it's the only reason I'm going along with it (yes, the truth is out), and I'm about to tell you, so prepare youself for...
The Final Chapter in the Book of NameI've never been in a band that took itself too seriously. I remember when I was in a band with Jordan called Crap Budget Tattoo, and me and the guitarist Cibai knew it was going to break up when he said he wanted to rename the band 'Deviant'. How did I know the band would break up by the name? Simple.
It wasn't
fun.
Fun was all I wanted. I wanted to play punk and ska, maybe a bit of blues and rock n' roll. Jordan wanted to tap into alternative and industrial (note to all bands out there: not having a drummer does not mean you have to become an industrial-electronica band. Unless that's what you want to do). So we broke up. Two different directions.
During uni, myself and Man Method wrote a little ditty we recorded, and needed a name for the whole 'act'. We turned to the poster behind us of the movie 'Swingers' and promptly named ourselves 'Gettanightlife'. Why?
It was
fun.
Khaimano was a nickname someone gave me and has no inklings of seriousness whatsoever. Y2k can either stand for 'Yes 2 Kapitalism' or 'Yenaddey 2 Kapla Ikan', depending on our moods.
Fun names.
With Triple6Poser, everything was fun too, but it wasn't
fun fun. The band evolved and started going into a certain direction. One which would call for the band to take itself seriously for once. And strangely, I wanted to go this way too.
(
For some reason I'm suddenly reminded of John Cleese stepping into the world of non-comedy with Kenneth Brannagh's 'Frankenstein'. Sorry about that. Back to the plot.)
You see, if Eddy wasn't the frontman now, I would've fought to keep the name, because that name suits
me. If I was the frontman, I'd want a name that suited me because I'd be
representing the band. And I don't take myself seriously much. Eddy's a fucking funny guy, he'll make you laugh your left nut off, but he's also very passionate about what he believes in.
Triple 6 Poser doesn't suit a band with Eddy as the frontman. We are very different.
Saiful put it best when we met up with him. We were chilling at Betty's Cafe when Saiful mentioned he saw the video of our performance and wanted to congratulate Eddy on his performance. In particular, his voice. We both asked what he meant, and he replied what I think was something along the lines of:
"Khai's voice is good, but it's a very punk-rock voice. [Eddy's] voice is the complete opposite, it's very rock. It's like two sides of a coin."
I'm comfortable with the name change because I'm no longer the first person you focus onto on stage. I'm comfortable with it because it suits the music. I'm comfortable with it because it's actually a decent fucking name, and I have Julia to thank for that (apparently she'd had the name for ages. Speak up, woman!) And most of all, I'm comfortable with it not being a cheeky name. A silly name. A
fun name. It's about time I bloody grew up, and there's always Y2k to serve my urge to use the word pee-pee in a sentence. The new name is badass. The new name is rockin'. The new name is tough-as-fuckin'-nails.
Triple6Poser, R.I.P. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to
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Now go kick some ass.