Posted by: webroach
Re: why do they have to soil a good bandname? - 23/03/2004 00:39
This has less than nothing to do with a bad hippie band. It has to do with a common intentional misspelling.
Many years ago, there were people who did the same thing as hackers (media definition) / crackers, but with phones. The were known as "phreakers".
Same thing.
Posted by: tahir
Re: why do they have to soil a good bandname? - 23/03/2004 04:26
It's not a band name but for an early example of bad spelling by Rock Bands look no further:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDCASS80311071356501546&sql=A6jd6vwxva9ek