Brown Falcon by Zac Brown

At one point back in NYC Phil, Jim and myself were struggling to name our little project. Before becoming ocho we were The Zac Brown Triage, thankfully briefly the Zac Brown Band, (!) and also Brown Falcon. The Brown Falcon moniker stuck around for a while. It was a time, around 06 or 07 when the "the" band names were going our of flavor in the indie rock world and predatory animal names were really coming to the fore. The most popular of which being "wolf+whatever" So I was feeling pretty good about the Brown Falcon thing. Good tidings. So then I'm hanging out at Pianos or some such Lower Manhattan breeding ground, before or after mine or someone else's show. And I'm talking to this slick cat with greasy hair and a leather members only jacket covering what is basically a shipwrecked french pirate look and so of course he's like "what's the name of your band man?" And I'm like "Brown Falcon, dude" And greasy Francois is like "NO WAY! I'm in a band called Black Falcon" Now, in retrospect we should have played a show together or maybe formed a massive Falcon conglomerate to take on the Wolf kids, but instead, right then in my head I was all "fuck this falcon thing man, I've got some t-shirts left over from my solo album that was called "ocho" and they have a skull and cross in red on black that's pretty fucking rockin' so enough of this predatory animal bs. We are now OCHO." And so it has been ocho, through several years and members since that fateful conversation. And I'm still waiting for the "indie bands with no real Hispanic cultural connection using Spanish language names" trend to start.

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