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Did you know that Led Zeppelin got their name from someone telling Jimmy Page his new "supergroup" would go over like a "lead zeppelin"?

In part two of this three-part article, find out how Grandma Pearl and Starbucks Coffee contributed to forming the names of some of your favorite bands.

• Hootie and the Blowfish. This foursome met while in college at the University of South Carolina, where Darius Rucker doled out nicknames to many of his friends. He called one friend Hootie because of his owl-like eyes and another Blowfish for his puffy cheeks. When these two walked into a party together, someone yelled, "Hey look! There's Hootie and the Blowfish." And the wacky bandname was formed.

• Incubus. One band member read about this mythological creature, called an incubus, that came into villages at night to impregnate the women without anyone knowing. He thought it was a cool name.

• Jethro Tull. In an interview, Ian Anderson said that when the band first formed they were so bad they were never allowed in the same venue twice. As a result they changed their name frequently. "Jethro Tull" was the name they were using when they were noticed by a record company.

• KMFDM. Their name came from "kein mehrheit fur die mitleid," which basically translates to "no compassion for the majority."

• Less Than Jake. One of the band members' parents owned an 80-pound English bulldog named Jake. They treated him like a king, giving him takeout food and his own private space on the couch, so everything else in the house was "less than Jake."

• Metallica. Lars Ulrich's friend was thinking of names for an underground metal magazine. "Metallica" was one possibility, and Lars liked the sound of it so much, he suggested another name for the magazine and kept "Metallica" for the band.

• Nickelback. Bassist Mike Kroeger was working at a Starbucks Coffee in Vancouver, where coffee was selling for $2.95 to $4.95 a cup. He was so used to telling customers, "Here's your nickel back," that when the band was trying to come up with a name, "nickel back" stuck in his head.

• Our Lady Peace. The band chose this name from a 1943 poem called "Our Lady Peace," by Mark Van Doren.

• Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder's grandma, Pearl, supposedly made a peyote jelly/jam, which as kids they called Pearl jam.

• Queen. Freddie Mercury liked the name for the transvestite connotation and the glamorous image of queens as royalty.

If you enjoyed this, read Part One.

Written by Alexis Garcia

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