 Dustin Kensrue and Teppei Teranishi knew each other from school and had played in a band called Chapter 11 . Teppei recruited his skate park friend Eddie Breckenridge to play bass , who then brought his brother Riley on as a drummer . In 1998 , before their first show , they realized they needed a name . Hard @-@ pressed for time , they decided to go with the name ' Thrice ' out of desperation . Thrice was initially an inside joke between the band members , and they were going to use it only temporarily for their first show . However , they began to gain fans with the name , and people started to associate them with it , so they were forced to keep it . 
