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The Apes of Wrath
Motordude Zydeco
The Poison Oakies
The Half Fast Band
The Cajun Bandits
The Lei-Aways
Ukebox
Old Puppy
Cari Lee and the Saddle-ites
Johnny Dilks and his Visitation Valley Boys
THe Cotton Pickers
The Plain High Drifters
Champagne Unlimited
The Blues Consultants
The Waltzing Mice
and many many more

My current band..."The Weezul Brothers"

I played in the Dead Livers and am now playing with the Broken Hearts . Am about to play with a band called the Dead Leaves . These bands have been kinda alt country .

Group Therapy (1964)
Ronin
100 Miles of Sheep Jokes
C-33
Ugly Janitors of America
Dee Lannon and the Rhythm Rustlers
Radio Ranch Straight Shooters
Tokyo 77
Gully Walkers
Incontinentals
Mobile Homeboys
Sugar Balls and the 18-Wheelers
Tack

How far back can we go with this? I started my first band when I was 22 called the Harmonica Trio. I also filled in for more than few road trips with a few others.

Currently, on a regular basis
Western Gentlemen
Golden Times
Tumble Weed

I did a five week road stint with
"Jerry Murad's Harmonicats
Then a few road trips with a couple of names that didn'have named bands.

Let's see. Some headscratchin.
From the beginning.

The Wabash Ramblers.
The Jim Dracup trio.
The Chancellors.
The Mustangs.
The January Company.
The Leftovers.
The New Brick Window.
Brandywine.
Country Edition.
Country Class.
Buckshot.

And a few others that escape me at the moment.

In my college years I played in a small group called
Riff Raff Henry and the Mudhole Gap Brigade.

Currently I play with two bands:
Driftwood
9 O'Clock Curfew

For some reason, this last name gets odd looks when it's on a marquee.

OK, (boy these are bad):

Telshiah (I believe the neck grip Spock used on "Star Trek")

Nick Cognito and the Seclusions

Alter Ego

9-1-1 (pre nine-eleven, this was back in '87, big hair band)

Sugarbuzz (yes, sticky-sweet 70s and 80s pop)

Glad

I've always thought a definite SRO name for a band would be "Tonight Free Spaghetti Dinner".

Brian

Let's see. There was

All American Show Band
Catfish South
Home Brew
The Footsteps
The Desparados
The Lawson Band
Hunter'd Proof(Named after the leader, David Hunter.

to name a few.

Ken

Mostly Bluegrass & Country Bands over the years...I know I've forgotten some!:

The V.I.P.'s
The Country Ramblers
River Valley Bluegrass
Goldrush
Country East
Cabin Fever
New Brunswick Country Showcase
Buckshot
Roanoak
Lost Highway
The Valley Jamboree
The Old Lamplighters
Family Reunion
Old, New, Borrowed & Blue
Cider Hill
The Salty Dogs
Bottoms Up
Silver Dollar Express
Harmony Ridge
Classic Country

* Blieders Creek
* The Rider Band
* Possum Gap
* Lil Bit Country
* Larry Nolan and the Bandits
* Hot 'N Dusty
* Southwind
* Low Water Crossing
* The Dodge Boys
* County Line Band
* The Good Ole Boys Texas Dance Band

A few escape me in the early years.......
Although Silver Dollar comes to mind
I played house band for a year in a "Knock ém down Drag ém out Pub"here in Brisbane....we were the Red Rock Trio......cant remember how many of us were in it !!
My wife Lyn and myself played in a club in town for six years in John E Brown and the Rebels...John E was actually George

Then Lyn and I started ""Country Rebellion " .....had about 20 years as one of the busiest bands around......we were very fortunate

The 1st in 1959 was the Galaxies then came many others. My present band is the Country Travelers.
Don

A motley collection for sure.

Risk-A
flow
New Horizon Country Band
The HAT
Windrush
Johnny, Polly, Esther and Those Fabulous Leisure Suits
Daughty Rich Daughty Rich Band
Zebra
La Ferte Alais Orchestre de Fanfare
Riverside Orchestra
Minetta Creek Bluegrass Band
Fun Gus
Chinese Firedrill
Irish Cream
Trad Players Anonymous
X. S. Baggage
Big Budha Blues Band
Duke Of FM
Loose Wingnuts
Torq
Ginmill House Band

Assorted individuals as band leaders on a nightly basis.
And not including longterm mixing gigs with occasional sitins

So many it's hard to remember, but just some of the odd ones:

Chuck Steak and the A-1's
The Instant Brothers (a rotating-member jam band)
Beaver Creek (not named after anyplace in Colorado, and I'll say no more)
The Knuckledusters

My personal favorite,. still used when I have to put something together for a special occasion gig:

The Rocky Mountain Barking Spiders

(airline pilot code for...errr...."hey, there's a Rocky Mountain Barking Spider loose in the cockpit. Can't hear it, but its breath is terrible")

The Skunk Band back in the 70s.

Currently, the Shakin' Martinis

The Honky Dreads.
I was the musician of the group.

Little Latin Larry (Horowitz)and the Lupe Louies
featuring the Latin-aires and the Luscious Latin-ettes
featuring Bubbles McChocolate and Fifi LeBod

Richard Bass (Of Faron Young fame) and I were in The Can't Hardly Playboys a few years ago.
Also a band called Free Booze, but the club wouldn't put our name on the sign outside.

a couple of my favs

Bob Gully and the Exploding Pintos
(anyone know Bob?)
Driving Sideways and it's derivitive, Sideways Jr.
Leaky Canoe
In Cahoots

1972
"Micks, Spics & Wops" derived from the ethnic makeup of the band...
couldn't get any gigs after the first one, so the name got changed to
"Sleaze" which did get booked, and which became a franchise that lasted a decade or so after I left... I think the original bass player may still book gigs with that band name yet some 35 years later

The Jolly Hockeysticks

- Uncle Dirty
- Salsa Brava
- Tequila Mockingbird
- Lonestar Cattle Company
- Loose Gravel
- Cheap Suits
- The Pickups

Dynamics
Ougie & The Ougots
Major Boles & the Blue Valley Boys
Swinging Texans
Wildfire Band
currently Country River Band

Some others that I chose to forget. hehe

Bill Ferguson

I'm sure I'm forgetting some but:

Rude Boys
Trouble Boys (hmm, some sort of theme here)
The Few
PsychoTec
Slower
Stompbox
The Westmorelands
High School Fag
Placer
Chevy Heston