HEY!! I've got a great new idea for a band name. It's really brilliant... wait for it now... THE BEATLES!!! Yes? BEATLES! Insecty like Buddy Holly's Crickets but with an 'A' so it's got BEAT in it! What d'you mean, it's taken??
If this group's originality in choosing a name is anything to go by, forget it. How bloody irritating is this? Someone must have told them by now and still they go ahead, operating under another group's moniker. The original 1960's Rascals might well have have swiped their name from The Little Rascals of film & TV fame but their prefix made it clear that they were not "Little" but "Young" and when, two years into their run of worldwide hits, they chose to legally dispense with being 'Young' (they'd always hated it - a promoter's idea) they carried on releasing hit singles and albums for a further four years under the plain, simple and (almost!) totally original... THE RASCALS banner. I mean Dirk was obviously influenced by Humphrey but Bogarde was Bogarde and NOT Bogart. Only two letters in it but DIFFERENT all the... um... same!
Surely a matter of time before the legal hammer slams down on such impudence, forcing the British trio to lumber on as The Rascals UK or The Liverpool Rascals, or some other lumpen variation that will make clear to all how lazy and downright impolite these particular chancers insist on being. Fresh is one thing and I'm well aware how some phlegm-rolling 'rebels' will cheer on any uncouth impertinence but this is also theft... and that will always piss-off the majority.
Once they do the decent thing, their music might well be worthy of investigation. It's not now. They look great and I've heard they're not half bad. Whatever they are, they'd be a damn site better if they could manage to choose their own name.
