Where did the alkaline trio get their name from?

Answer 1

Matt Skiba, Rob Doran, and Glenn Porter were the original members of the Alkaline Trio. Alkaline means "basic" and trio obviously means "three."

Matt Skiba basically just looked up a word in the dictionary. Then he added trio to it. Obviously he didnt make it that far into the dictionary

The story about Matt flipping through a dictionary for a band name is true--he got as far as alkaline and stopped.

Confirmed athttp://www.amiright.com/artists/alkalinetrio.shtml