where did the name cage the elephant come from
Cage the Elephant The band's name, according to lead singer Matt Shultz, came from an incident in 2006 where a mentally disturbed man approached the band after a show. He hugged Shultz and kept repeating the sentence "You have to cage the elephant" over and over.[2]
Old Bet The first elephant brought to the United States was in 1796, aboard the America which set sail from Calcutta for New York on December 3, 1795.[4] However, it is not certain that this was Old Bet.[2] The first references to Old Bet start in 1804 in Boston as part of a menagerie.[1] In 1808, while residing in Somers, New York, Hachaliah Bailey purchased the menagerie elephant for $1,000 and named it "Old Bet".[5][6]