Many bands who play the North End have some pretty unique names.

But how did they pick the names?

Let's find out.

Librarians name comes from Nelson's, which is a bar in Bellingham, Washington, where I lived for a couple of years.

There's a t shirt that they had on the wall there and on the back it said, Your stationery floats through the parade of life.

I bought that shirt, but it sat home in my closet for years because it didn't fit.

I just like that phrase.

And so I just kind of combined that into a life parade.

We had an Excel spreadsheet full of band names, hundreds of band names, and most of them were not very good.

It just had kind of a frantic conference call at the last second, and that's what we came up with.

My favorite.

My favorite is Cameron and the Dad Bonds.

Actually, that's the other name for Life Parade.

The slice from PBS North.