As for finger eleven’s first name - Rainbow Butt Monkeys - Black isn’t so quick to own up to that embarrassing moniker.
    “We were looking at anything to help us with a name. Balderdash cards, the dictionary, Trivial Pursuit - anything. That’s how bands end up with a name like Trademark 1987, by getting it off a board game.”
Deciding on finger eleven was a step above Rainbow Butt Monkeys and Trademark 1987, but the name has generated some speculation as to what exactly the Eleventh finger represents.
    “Most commonly, people think it’s a penis. That’s hands down the most common interpretation. Other people think if you put your middle fingers up in the air together that’s finger eleven. Neither is right. It’s funny how people are always looking for the sexual reference. We could be called ‘Ice Bucket,’ and people would wink and say, ‘Ice Bucket. Yeah I know what you mean.”
    “Actually it comes from one of Scott’s lyrics from the first album on the song ‘Thin Spirits.’ We were all rehearsing, and it’s hard to hear Scott above all the noise we make, and that line just came through loud and clear above everything. We asked him what it meant, and he said it was about a sixth sense or a third eye pointing you in a true direction. We all liked it, and since it’s very rare that we all agree on something - it passed the test, and we had a new name.”