There must be tonnes of fictional bands out there, whether it be from TV, films or albums or whatever else. I'll give a couple for starters. Sexual Chocolate, The New Originals. There must be tonnes more out there. Go.....
The Monkees (for a little while anyway) The Ruttles The Larry Davis Experience The Masked Marauders Gangsta B****es Suburban Terrorists Viking Funeral Chris Gaines
Turtles - Battle Of the Bands - they pretend to be a different band for each song on the album The Recess Monkeys and the Queen Haters from SCTV
The One Three One Doorway – Music from One Three One: A Time-Shifting Gnostic Hooligan Road Novel by Julian Cope Julian Cope invented a whole host of fictitious bands for his novel 131, some of which he recorded songs or even whole albums. Some remain entirely fictitious. Also, Ming Tea (Austin Powers) remains my favourite fake band, though they did a couple songs. Not sure where fiction becomes reality.
Utopia Avenue from the recent David Mitchell novel of the same name. Of course, there's also Spinal Tap and Stillwater from Almost Famous.
The Sophisticatos from The Odd Couple Blind Mellow Jelly from Sanford and Son - I Want my daddy's records!
Happy Kyne and the Mirthmakers - Fernwood Tonight The Sacred Cows - Get Smart The Bedbugs (w/Lowell George) - F Troup The Wayouts - Flintstones The Warts (played by the Seeds) - Mothers In Law
Can’t forget the Carrie Nations, from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. (EDIT: I see someone else also cited them while I was typing) Also, on a similar front, here’s a thread I started a couple of years ago on “fictional music”, ie music created to exist in the reality of TV shows and movies: What's your favourite piece of "fictional music"?
Interestingly, Otis Day and the Knights were a fictional band in Animal House, but DeWayne Jessie bought the rights and formed a real band under that name.
Sick Dick and the Volkswagens in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, creators of the song "I Want To Kiss Your Feet"
"Disaster Area" from the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy... "Disaster Area are a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones and are generally regarded as not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but also as being the loudest noise of any kind at all."
They came to my college back in the 80s! I remember I was confused how a fictional band could be touring as a real one. I didn’t actually attend the gig but apparently original Knights bassist (and blues guitar great) Robert Cray didn’t show up.
I think that's a great film, with some great songs. Vesuvius from the film 'The Rocker'. I mainly bought the film for the Pete Best cameo, but there are some decent mock commercial hard rock songs there. The other, more indie styled, band in the film A.D.D. is good too. In the soundtrack the songs are credited to actor Geiger. https://youtu.be/mlQsffKPreI?list=PLUnMhWA6GHtgR0bY_p8eEWHeZ4hZ45-dg I don't know if The Blues Brothers were ever a fictitious band. They certainly didn't remain one. EDIT: Just for completeness sake. here's the Pete Best Cameo from 'The Rocker'. Apparently Pete had a line but it was cut and I've never seen the 'extra' with his line. https://youtu.be/EOizIcOulD8
