a repost from my MySpace blog: "Bert is an ugly man"

July 27, 2007 - Friday

bert is an ugly man so as some of you know im not too fond of the used's newest album/single. that said...i found something funny when i was 14...early freshman year i started my first band and we came up with a list of potential band names (and some are damn good and im considering them now for my new band..) anyway... one of the names sugested (probably by my bassplayer, johnny layton) was "Used" so i went to the interweb and looked for The Used's biography according to wikipedia.com "Biography On October 5, 1999 a 4-piece band known as "Dumb Luck" was formed by Quinn Allman, Jeph Howard, Branden Steineckert and Ashton Johnson. Not long after the release of their EP, Dumb Luck went through a few line-up changes. Dumb Luck was short-lived. Eventually the band was forced to change its name. They changed it to "Used" when singer Jeph Howard moved to bass and Bert McCracken took over the vocals [...] In 2001, the band finished the demo and he got them signed to Reprise Records all within a few months of meeting them. "Used" then had to change their name to "The Used" when it was discovered that a Boston band had already used that name. " thought it was funny we had the idea first. thats all i got...happy weekend. love, ben