Photos or pictures please! I haven't the foggiest notion of what a Perring is.
Speaking of fog, where did Foghat get their band's name?
I remember my days as a salesman for Lew Weinburg at 100 South Main Street in Memphis, where Kangols were the rage. I understand they are still on the market, and still have a following.
Posted by jean-pierre at August 27, 2004 11:30 PM“My brother and I, long before I was in music, were playing this word game, kind of like Scrabble. . . . We were making up silly words, and foghat was one of them. We thought it was hilarious. We used to laugh about this sort of nonsensical word. Years later, we tried to use it in one of the early blues bands I was in. We tried to get the singer . . . to change his name to Luther Foghat, and he wouldn't do that. Then, when we formed the band [that would become] Foghat . . . we were going to be called Brandywine, which is a horrible name for a band. At the last minute, I suggested the name Foghat. I did a drawing of a guy in a hat with fog coming out of it . . . . The label said, ‘All right, that's fine,’ and the band agreed to it and said, ‘At least we've got a logo.’ So that's it – no real deep meaning to it. . . . We liked it because it had no meaning really, it was just a name, and it didn't tie the band to anything. . . .”
—Lonseome Dave Peverett, quoted in Rock Names: From ABBA to ZZ Top: How Rock Bands Got Their Names by Adam Dolgins (Citadel Press, 1993)