List of Anonymous Musicians?

[jbsegal]

The Residents
Nash The Slash
...
Who else?
(and yes, I know that Nash is almost certainly Jeff Plewman, and I know about all the "The Residents are Hardy Fox and Homer Flynn" stuff, but really, I'm in search of "Musicians who can play a gig, and then hang out at the bar after and NOT be recognized".)

Comments

[bluepapercup]

Not sure what you mean by this...musicians who wear disguises or costumes on stage?

[jbsegal]

That's a baseline minimum.
For Nash and The Res, there are vanishingly few pictures of them (if any) out of costume out there. While Nash's real name is known (according to Wikipedia, though the text seems to leave it below absolute certainty), The Res have yet to ever admit who they really are.

[deguspice]

Does the Blueman Group count?

[jbsegal]

Y'know, I'm not sure. I don't think so.
They don't pretend to be a single band - it's know that there are many troupes of Blue Men around the country... Similarly, I wouldn't call Stomp a band.

[whitebird]

Well, you could have said that about KISS for quite a while...

And, oddly enough, I know someone who used to live next door to The Residents.

[en_ki]

But do you know The Landlord?

[whitebird]

I do not know if The Residents owned their own home or not. I'd hope so, given how many albums they've put out...

[ckd]

Lordi seems to qualify.

[jbsegal]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomi_Putaansuu doesn't have a picture of the lead out of makeup, but certainly they get points off for extensive biography. :)

[bluepapercup]

Hmmm. My first thought was GWAR, but I know that a couple of the members have done interviews out of character...

[jbsegal]

Yeah, GWAR was certainly one of my early possibilities but again (as with Lordi, above), they lose points for their real names being well known, and having extensive biography available online.

[bluepapercup]

Okay, fair enough. I'll think about this a little more. :)