No mate, you're thinking of...

[rcarlberg]

Supersilent = Supersister = Silly Sister = Simple Sister = Twisted Sister
guitarist/singer Mark Lang = guitarist Mark Lang = guitarist Peter Lang
Jorma Kaukonen = Esa Kotilainen
Sad Happy = Slapp Happy

[PeterG]

Steel Pulse = Steely Dan = Steeleye Span = Stealers Wheel = Asleep At the Wheel

[interbellum]

System Seven = System 7

[Joe F.]

System Seven = System 7

Funny. I used to know some of those guys in System Seven. My band at the time did a couple of shows with them. They later morphed into Mona Lisa Overdrive = Bachman Turner Overdrive.

[Brad to the Bone]

I bought two CDs from somebody named Anthony Pateras because I got him confused with Zombi's Anthony Paterra.

[bob_32_116]

Not a personal confusion of mine, but there is a band called No Man, and they are/were very different from Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness's No-Man.

[Zeuhlmate]

^^^
In Denmark we once (1972) had a band called No Name - but when looking up their album, I found out that there is at least 3 more bands with this name + No Name Big Band and No Name String band.

[rcarlberg]

There's a classical composer named Anon but his stuff is all over the map

[interbellum]

Funny. I used to know some of those guys in System Seven. My band at the time did a couple of shows with them. They later morphed into Mona Lisa Overdrive = Bachman Turner Overdrive.

Thanks for sharing. I got to know the music of System Seven through their song "Communion/The Outlaw Within" from the "Beyond Rock" compilation CD, released by For Art Sake Records. Great song! Their CD impressed me lesser.

To make full circle: Sadhappy was on that sampler too.

[bob_32_116]

There's a classical composer named Anon but his stuff is all over the map

There is a band called Various Artists, but information about them seems rather hard to come by. Every now and then they put out a new album, often a soundtrack album, but it's not possible to pin them down to a particular genre - indeed, their music seems to encompass just about every genre there is.

[Joe F.]

Thanks for sharing. I got to know the music of System Seven through their song "Communion/The Outlaw Within" from the "Beyond Rock" compilation CD, released by For Art Sake Records. Great song! Their CD impressed me lesser.

To make full circle: Sadhappy was on that sampler too.

My band auditioned to be on the Beyond Rock sampler. We played 4-5 songs for the For Art Sake guys and they selected the track they wanted us to record for them, with the caveat that we'd had to change the lyrics to remove the word "fuck". We would have also had to pay them a fee to get our song on the CD, and use the studio that one of the guys worked at to record. We declined that offer.

I believe Sadhappy was excluded from that "deal" due to them having a bit of a following in the area at the time.

[Progbear]

For a long time I thought Meri Wilson, who had a novelty hit with "Telephone Man", was the same person as Mary Wilson of The Supremes.

Pity poor Mari Wilson, talented retro pop-jazz singer who everyone thinks was that annoying “Telephone Man” bimbo:

[interbellum]

My band auditioned to be on the Beyond Rock sampler. We played 4-5 songs for the For Art Sake guys and they selected the track they wanted us to record for them, with the caveat that we'd had to change the lyrics to remove the word "fuck". We would have also had to pay them a fee to get our song on the CD, and use the studio that one of the guys worked at to record. We declined that offer.

I believe Sadhappy was excluded from that "deal" due to them having a bit of a following in the area at the time.

Sounds more like "For Money Sake". Sad story. Did you manage to get any of your music released?
Still, I like that Beyond Rock sampler a lot. And a friend of mine named his progressive rock webshop after that title.

[interbellum]

Bill Buford (author/journalist) = Bill Bruford

[rcarlberg]

Engelbert Humperdinck = Engelbert Humperdinck

[Vic2012]

Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Johnny Hates Jazz

[Joe F.]

Sounds more like "For Money Sake". Sad story. Did you manage to get any of your music released?
Still, I like that Beyond Rock sampler a lot. And a friend of mine named his progressive rock webshop after that title.

The Beyond Rock sampler is fun. It brings back a lot of (mostly) good memories. I'm still good friends with a couple of guys from the other bands.

Yes. We ended up releasing a couple of EP's on cassette. That's how it was done back then.

[Vic2012]

The Goo Goo Fighters = The Foo Foo Dolls.

[viukkis]

Bill Buford (author/journalist) = Bill Bruford

= Saxon singer Biff Byford

[Rarebird]

Bill Buford (author/journalist) = Bill Bruford

When I wanted the Bill Bruford book, I ended up with a Bill Buford book, which was returned.

[Rarebird]

Greg Lake - Lake

[rcarlberg]

System Seven = System 7

Is there some meaning to the name, that explains why two separate bands chose the same so-far-as-I-know meaningless name?

[interbellum]

Is there some meaning to the name, that explains why two separate bands chose the same so-far-as-I-know meaningless name?

Don't know if this is the answer, but according to this wiki it might have something to do with Macintosh... Nice to see the two S7's mentioned.

[Halmyre]

Bryan Adams = Ryan Adams




Also,

Peter Hammill= Peter Michael Hamel (ambient electronic musician who was with a German band called Between)

Peter Hammill - Claire Hamill. An easy mistake.

[rcarlberg]

Peter Hammill - Claire Hamill. An easy mistake.

Dorothy Hamill