 Everybody in the choir started calling him Hootie, and his best friend, who was also in the choir, had these big cheeks and could do the Dizzy Gillespie thing, and I started calling him the Blowfish. And they walked into a party one night, and I was like, hey, Hootie the Blowfish. And I just really thought, man, that's a good name for a band. I went to the guys, and I was like, well, how about Hootie the Blowfish? And we didn't have another better name, so we said, oh, whatever, we'll just keep it until we find something different.