AA & The Doctors band name meaning

(1979-now, NLD) – Thanks to the unsurpassed Pop Archive in Groningen in the Netherlands we know that AA & The Doctors is only one of many names Albert ‘Appie’ Alberts coupled to his rock band. 

Alberts, who gets his inspiration from amongst others John Coltrane and Charlie Parker, performed in the past with formations that went by the following names: AA & the Horny Horns; AA & the Prostitutes; AA & the Symptoms; AA & the Juveniles; AA & the Breeze; AA & the Blue Boys; AA & the Offwhites and The Moderno’s. 

The most significant band name however remains AA & The Doctors, a reference to the fact that Appie got his degree certificate. 

Trivia: Appie Alberts managed to reach the national press with his invention of a kind of biologically decomposable plastic.