What's in a Name?

I have a very common name. It seems thousands of people have it. The best known is a former American football player from the 1980's-2000s. A different Bruce Smith won the prestigious Heisman Trophy as the best collegiate American football player in 1941. Others with the name are poets, politicians, academics, artists, and yes, musicians.

I could have taken a stage name, like Gordon Sumner (Sting) or Saul Hudson (Slash) did. But this is the name my parents gave me. So I figured the easiest thing to do was stick "this" in front of it, so no one would get the idea that I was "that" Bruce Smith.