Wicked Lester

This is a list of bands that you may (or may not) know who once had a stupid name, but later changed that name to something more recognizable.

Wicked Lester is now known as KISS
Rat Salad is now known as Van Halen
The Polka Tulk Blues Band is now known as Black Sabbath
Free Beer is now known as Barenaked Ladies - This wasn't groundbreaking. Several bands in the 70s, 80s, and 90s called themselves "Free Beer."
Pen Cap Chew is now known as Nirvana
Rainbow Butt Monkeys became Finger Eleven - But nobody cared because numetal is queer.
Tony Flow and the Miraculusly Majestic Masters of Mayhem is now known as The Red Hot Chili Peppers. - Under any name, thou dost smell of a sire's ejaculate.
Atomic Mass turned into Def Leppard. - Best drummer of all time. ;)
On a Friday morphed into Radiohead and remained gay.
Sweet Children got signed but still changed their name to Green Day.
Duck Tape changed the band's name to Blink-182 because it was cool to have numbers in your band's name in 1990. They should have kept the original name.
The Young Aborigines changed their band name to The Beastie Boys because for some reason the word aborigines was problematic.
Megadeaths became Pink Floyd and then some idiots in metallica kicked a guy out of their band for drinking too much (metal + alcoholic = metallica) That guy went on to form the band Megadeth.
Naked Toddler became Creed. Both names suck and both bands suck too. Why in God's name would you name your band Naked Toddler? Fucking pedophiles. Also, Scott Stapp is a joke.
Soft White Underbelly became Blue Öyster Cult. They also would tour using their previous name.
Unique Attraction turned into Boyz II Men
Chicago Transit Authority shortened their name to Chicago. They got rid of the other two words because they were receiving legal threats from the real Chicago Transit Authority.
The Golliwogs changed their name to Creedence Clearwater Revival but they had already been The Blue Velvets as well.
'Composition of Sound changed into Depeche Mode, but they should have changed their name to Depress Mode.
Pud became The Doobie Brothers. Probably a good idea.
The Salty Peppers added a few new members and became Earth, Wind & Fire.
The New Yardbirds were told by Keith Moon that their name sucked, so they changed it to Led Zeppelin.
Xero had a ton of names before they became Linkin Park. They chose "Linkin" because the domain name for "lincoln park" was already taken.

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