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Rock N Roll Experience: What does the band name, Portugal. The Man, mean?
John: I guess when we came up with the name it was like 3 years ago so it has a little less to do with the band now then it did at that point, but basically we wanted to give the band a person's name without necessarily giving it one of our names so we wanted to kinda have that David Bowie is Ziggy Stardust, The Beatles are Sgt. Peppers, we wanted that kinda feel to it, like that bigger than life, like back when you knew those people by name. We wanted to give it that name & still have it represent the group of people because we always knew it was going to be a group project. It started with the bass player Zakk & I, & we knew we were going to play together from then on, so a country was just the best way of going about representing a group of people & "The Man" just stated it was a person & not just a country.
Rock N Roll Experience: "Why did you choose Portugal?"
John: Honestly, it was just a random choice..it was something that I thought for a really long time would be a really cool person's name, even before it was the bands name, I always throught Portugal would be really cool as a person's name & I guess it came about the same way most names come about...it sounded best ha ha
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