Each month or so I put together the new schedule for our musicians and singers.  I find out people’s availability, pick the worship sets and feature music and then send it out for everyone so that they know when they’re playing.

I like keeping groups of musicians together in specific bands to create continuity (for a season) and, because all of our musicians are incredibly talented I want to avoid calling these bands, “Band 1, 2 or 3″ or “Band A, B or C.”  There’s no JV here, we’ve got a lot of great players and I don’t want there to be a spirit of competitiveness in our group.

So as a substitute for the generic numbers or letters, I like to give the bands names.  Last time around I named them after Lucky Charms Marshmallows and now I’m looking for new names.  No one really knows the names of the individual bands and most people would just say the Clovis Hills Band and that’s totally fine; this is pretty much for my amussment and for the amussment of the band members.

To help me, I googled “Band Names” and found this site: http://www.bandnamemaker.com/

It’s great!  You can put in your own key words and it will generate something using those or just let it go randomly and be amazed.  So far, I’m narrowing it down between “Noise Spine,” “Refried Disco,” “Flushed of the Lumpy,” and “Flabby Mystery and the Loving Worship.” 

Oh the internet!  I tell you, if this world wide web thing catches on, it’s gonna be huge!