The Steel Guitar Forum

Lets see- in the most early adolescent stages
of my garage band...

The Humane Protractor -(our favorite by popular acclaim)
The Ruggs
Salmon River Stompers
Heavenly Peyote Stew (our "mescaline period")
Wildness Springs (our "back to the land" era)

as it later happened
Home Delivery (got stuck with that one quite a long while- 20+ years)

not quite there- Tequila Mockingbird

The hills (w/a Small h --- & still using this one - the other two folks have been hanging out with me since the earliest, above... )

Beeline, Fulton County Line, Gin Palace Jesters, Blue Lorraine, and my favorite for many reasons - Funeral Home Photographer.

Gabriel

Elm Creek Spit Band , Jumpin Mullets (current band)

Lost Prairie - 3 piece country-rock band (late 80's-early 90's)
Homemade Jam - 5 piece top 40 country (in the 80's)
Nashville Overdrive - 3 piece country (early 70's)
The Rising Sun - Rock (late 60's)

Recently:

I.S.O.P - (Western ala Roy Rogers, Gene Autry. I.S.O.P. stands for the Illegitimate Sons of the Pioneers, or I Shot Old Paint, whichever you prefer.)
The Bafflers (If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance. . .)
TDC Band (Too Dam Country)

and my favorite:

The Moron Fishin' Tackle Choir

Liver Ronstadt

Wild Bill Yonder

Bingotherapy

Greasy Spoon

The Wild Bunch

1970's; Sounds of time, Fox mountain boogie band, Memphis

1980's; Rodeo wind, slim tucker, new sounds of nashville (yeah, right) Silver buckle band, Brian sklar & Prairie fire

1990's; Westwind, Spring coule, Lorille Brooks

present time; Brian Sklar & The Tex pistols, Bandera

and a thousand one night gigs who's names I cannot recall!



Emmons D-10 Nashville 1000/400 Lexicon mx200
Tele........boss pedals

Pain and Inflammation

Blue Water Special
Tiger Sky
Big Frog

Been in lots of bands but most unique and
funny name was a band in Vietnam. I was the singer and guitar player and another forum member Jim Florence from OK was the steeler. We called ourselves "Rick Rickles and the Rice Paddy Rangers"
Had Shirts made with a man on a water buffalo with a mask and wearing shower clogs. Turned out to be quite well known in Vietnam. Hadn't thought much about it till I saw this post.
Doc

The Titans - early - mid 60's
66' I played with a group of guys in Nam - if memory serves we called ourselves "Pink Panther". Great pickers and I wonder what ever became of them?
21st Century - late 60's
Wagoneers late 60's
Gravel (a little bit of rock 70's - 80's
Staff musician with the Range Country Show 90's
now it's with who ever calls for a sideman.

Geo

Bands I Have Played With

Barnyard Trio 1964
The Tornados 1964
The Sensations 1965
The Countrysiders 1966
The Unexpected 1966
The Zyme 1966
Coconut Conspiracy 1967
The Disturbed Users 1967
George’s Boys 1968
Joy 1968
Joy (2) 1971
Joy (3) 1972
Arnold Most Orchestra 1973
Whatever 1973
It’s All Right 1977
The Heart Throbs 1978
Forever 1979
Russian River All Stars 1979
Surge 1981
RSX 1984
You 1984
Eliot Kidd Band 1984
Menage 1985
Goin South 1993
Ramona’s Band 1993
Paul Norup 1993
Bounty Hunter 1994
Kelly & the Cowboys 1994
DK Richards 1994
Julie Taylor Band 1995
Lloyd Stout Band 1995
Untamed 1995
Wild Card (S. CA) 1995
Brother Ernest 1996
Sam Morrison Band 1996
Leather and Lace 1996
Spaghetti Western 1996
The Joey D. Band 1996
Silver Star * 1996
Fit 2-B Tied 1997
Country Store 1997
Appaloosa 1998
Winslow 1998
Western Justice 1999
Dustin James Band 1999
Wild Card (N. CA) 1999
Rosemarie’s Band 1999
90 Proof 1999
Jun Sumundo 1999
Savin Rock 1999
Medicine Man 2000
Sorci&Tomich 2000
Loose Cannon 2000
Cheyenne 2001
Jolly Ranchers 2001
Longhorn 2001
Lisa Kolarich 2002
Shanon Rider 2002
Silverspur 2006
Dave Russell 2002 - 2007

The year indicated is the first year I played with that band and does not indicate when, and if, I stopped playing with them.
I didn’t purchase my first pedal steel guitar until the end of 1993, so in all bands before that, I played guitar, bass, keyboards, or a combination of them. After that point, I played at least some steel in most of the bands indicated, and many of them about 50% or more on pedal steel guitar.
There were three totally different versions of the band “Joy”.
I would estimate that there were another dozen or so one-nighters throughout the years, but I don’t recall the names of the bands.
That would bring the total number of bands to approximately 70.

-- Marc

Couldn't hold a job, huh?

One of the first bands I played in was named "Captain Hooks Magic Water Show Band". (Sgt. Peppers era)

I still have a business card with the name printed in the fat psychedelic Peter Max letters.

We didn't do drugs, but we sounded like we were trippin'!!

Man, some of you guys are really prolific ...
Well besides the country groups I can't remember the names of WAY BACK, there was The Happy Harmonies, The Saints, The Harmonaires, Redemption Singers, The Sons of Song, The Floridians, Southern Grace which was the last weekend travel group I retired from (not difficult to tell what kind of stuff we did !)

The Galaxies
The Pitmen
The Floyd Dakil Combo
Blue Lucy
The Cowboy Crew
Tejas

The Sons of Pitch

The Country Sunday Singers (gospel)
The Country Gentlemen
The Country Rebels
The Shade Tree Band
The Country Club Band
Backroads Express
Victree Express
Bud Brown and The Tri R Country Band

Zeek Green and the Rhythm Rouser's
J.B. Chisolm and the Chisolm trail riders
Butch Wax and the Glass Packs (50's 60's band)
Gordon's Good Time Party Band.
Larry Garnand and the Texas Trail Riders
The Rick Will Rock a Billy Rowdy Ruckus Show
Buckshot(current band)

Started playing in 1963

AAA Blues Band (blues)
The Jumpin' Mudcats (blues)
Mike Swavely and the Chrome Magnatones (rockabilly)
Red Apple Juice (bluegrass/old-time/classic country)
Big Mo and the Mezcaleros (roots rock)
The RailLiners (Alt-country/Americana)
Rustlanders (Alt-country/Americana)
Kris Kehr and the Stone Poets (Alt-country/Americana)
The Four Horsemen of the Oppossum Lips (surf punkabilly y'alternative whatever)

Most of the jazz people I've played with eschewed band names. Maybe they had something there - ya' know, just play music and to the devil with names, image, and all that rot.

From start to today:

Rock Therapy
Arvern'Boppers
The Return Of Sir Richard Grenville (!)
The Bootleggers
Captain Swing
Les Coyotes (for 20 years this very year!)

Lost Highway
Late For Supper (as in, call me anything you want, but don't call me Late For Supper)
The Unstrung Heroes
The Westernaires
I sat in with a band that alternated week to week between The Driftin' Ramblers and The Ramblin' Drifters

"The Sons of Pitch"

Good one Jim!

If I can run this picture thing ? I noticed several Rambling, Rambler, Band names, !! This was my first ever getting paid for playing Lap Steel with this group, 1944 in Bay Area of California, Yep, They called us ,( An Okie Band ) the name Country,was mot used back then,,,,,HM

Captain Fishlips and his Undersea Canyon Boys

Methyl Ethyl and The Ketones. Actress Amy Madigan was Methyl Ethyl.