<Li> Alexisonfire--from contortionist stripper, Alexis Fire, which nearly resulted in a lawsuit from the stripper's representatives . </Li> <Li> Alice Cooper--Alice Cooper was a band before frontman Vincent Furnier started a solo career under the same name . Allegedly, Alice Cooper was the name of a spirit members of the band came in contact with through a ouija, though Furnier has also claimed that he wanted their name to contrast with their sound, and Alice Cooper sounds like somebody's grandmother . </Li> <Li> Alice in Chains--The name was taken from lead singer Layne Staley's previous group, the glam metal band Alice N' Chains . Staley shed some light on the subject in a Rolling Stone article in 1992: "The name came from a side project of my old group (Alice N' Chains). We were going to have this band that dressed up in drag and played heavy metal as a joke ." Alice N' Chains' bassist Johnny Bacolas explained the name in the 2011 book Everybody Loves Our Town: A History of Grunge . Bacolas and Russ Klatt (the lead singer of Slaughter Haus 5), were at a party in North Seattle talking about backstage passes . One of the passes said "Welcome to Wonderland", and they started talking about that being an Alice in Wonderland - type thing, until Klatt started saying, "What about Alice in Chains? Put her in bondage and stuff like that ." Bacolas thought the name "Alice in Chains" was cool and brought it up to his Sleze bandmates and everyone liked it, so they changed the name of the band . Since three of the members had very Christian mothers, they thought spelling it "Alice N' Chains" made it not sound a bondage name . After Staley left Alice N' Chains, he contacted his former bandmates and asked for permission to use the name with his new band with guitarist Jerry Cantrell . </Li> <Li> The All - American Rejects--The "All - Americans" and "the Rejects", both suggested to the band as names, were merged . </Li>

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