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A blugrass band, "Squatters Last Rites"

This is a great post. Some real head spinnin' band names out there.

I played with a few bands myself starting in 1988.

*Flat Busted
*Southern Comfort
*Whiskey River
*Rum Boogie Band
*Mason Dixie Band
*Rebel Pryde
*Shades Of Texas
*The Whirlwind Band
*The Posse
*South Bound
*Brownstone Band
*8 Second Ride
*Howlin' Jack and the Night Owls
*The Entertainers
*The Road Dawgs
*The Trashy White Band
* And my current gig is Ryan Weaver & RYDE

JW

Liarsmoon
Trio Grande
Restless
High Lonesome Band
Rawhyde

We played at a place where they had a "Name The Band" drawing. We drew the Jolly Stompers.

I've seen some bands that wouldn't want to hear what the crowd called them!

I'm currently playing steel with two bands, Az. Gunsmoke Band, and The Wild Horse Band. Both classic country with some new stuff mixed in.

Larry

John McFarland Roadshow-
Starbuck-(pre coffee shop)
Johnny Hilton Band-
Easy Money-
Cowboy Fever-
Will Miller and Honky Tonk Fever-
Oklahoma River Bottom Boogie Woogy Band-
The "Lealands"-
Savannah-
Canyon All Stars-
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Fire Mountain
Tumbleweed
The Sodbusters
Boogaloo Buz and the Blisterin' Pickers
The Fabulous Nightcrawlers
Max Q
Bandella

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Dick Saintclair's Western Troubadors

Midnight Express

Easy Country

Borderline

Here's some of my previous groups:
- The Boomtowners
- Rick and the Keens
- Guys and Dolls Dance Band
- Newt Laird and the Cadillac Cowboys
- The Hot Taskers

Mike..

I've been jobing out since 1958 and have forgotten a bunch of names. Here is some of them.

Mr.B and the Chevelles
Concords
Green River Ordinance
Ramblin Rangers
Men of the West
Country Jam
Tennessee Volunteers
Texas Music Co.
Crossover
The News Boys
Texas Tradition(current)

I put 5 musicians, who only I had met,
in a NYC practice hall with a DAT machine.
I started the recorder and we improvised
for 45 minutes. Took a break and improvised
for another hour.

Threw the result on a cassette,
played it in a bar just for the giggles,
and got a booking...
For $750 for the night.
Art house / performance artist crowd.

I called the band 'The Free Radicals'
We actually played 3-4 gigs off that tape.

Played with lots but these are the ones that I was actually a part of.

Jim Lynn and the Generation Gap (guess what era that was?)

Good Ole Boys (Guess where that came from?)

Buck DeShaw and Magnum Gold

Sweetgrass Country

Montana Ponies

Trickrider (present)

1 - Missouri Twosome
2 - Dryfork Ramblers
3 - Country Blue Notes
4 - Country Showmen
5 - Country Royals
6 - Strickly Business
7 - Easy Rhythm
8 - Osage Drifters
9 - Sonny and Partly Cloudy

1954/1958: Tex Carson and “The Smokie Valley Troubadours”
1958/1962: Curley Herdman and “The West Va. Boys”
1962/1966: Dick Rich and “The Town And Country Boys”
1971/1972: Billy Walker and “The Tennessee Walkers”
1977/1978: Stonewall Jackson and “The Minit Men”

I once worked with a group called the "Shick Kickers" no shick.

Fun post

On the Big Island:
The Shimmersville Sheiks
Loafer's Glory
The Booger Hole Revival ( a "booger" is West Virginia poetica for the ghost of a person who has died a violent death. The "holler" where this occurred is a booger hole. We spent a lot of time explaining the name so we became the Back Road Travelers)

On St Croix:
The Honky Conch Angels
Outlaws in Paradise

Next I want to play in Jim Cohen's band: The Sons a Pitches

The first band was The Vibratones in 66.
In 70 it was Sonata Ru which was a
Soul band with black singers/horn players, B3 player and me playing the drums. In around 78 it was The Goldrush band with me on drums,
79-82 it John Paine and Pleasure, B3/A100 organ/drummer combo with a sax/flute/claronet player on Fri-Sat and sometimes had a guitar player and bass player (Sonny Lamair from Exile) until I started on steel guitar in 81 and currently it's been The Vibratones surprisingly. I guess all things do come back around. As of the next band of my own it'll be The Nashville Garage Band.

The late, great Tom Morrell has them all beat!

The Time Warp Top Hands.

Coolest name for a band I have ever heard!

The Velvetones
The Gators
The Confidentials
The Conways
The Nashville Sounds
The Nashville Express
The New Edition
Cotton Mouth
Foxfire
Country Grass
and a few I have forgotten, which is probably good!!

Ernie

The 1st band I played with I was only 9yrs old played on the radio every Sat morning the Country Drifters 1954.

Warren Figler an his Hoe Down Boys. 60's " Scotty an my Dad played in this band before me".
Thurmond Bros Band. 60&70's
Country Aces 70's
Ozark Mountian Express 70's
Crazy Horse Band 80's
Q.I.K. Change Band 90's
Crazy Horse Band 2000
Many other short stints with bands
that I have forgot the names.

During 1964-5, some friends of mine and I went by the name of "The Strollers". We never went down in posterity: we weren't that good !
(In fact we were awful !)

Ok let me see if I can remember them all.

GOOD TIME CHARLIES (DEL REEVES)
RAMBO BAND (THE SINGING RAMBOS)
THE GEMS (JIM ED BROWN)
THE COUNTRY BUMPKINS (CAL SMITH)
THE TEXAS TROUBADOURS (ERNEST TUBB)
TENNESSEE WALKERS (BILLY WALKER)
TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS (DARRELL McCALL)
THE BANDOLEROS (JOHNNY BUSH)
CHEROKEE COWBOYS (RAY PRICE)
STATESIDERS (MEL TILLIS)
TEXAS PLAYBOYS
THE TIME JUMPERS
THE MEN IN BACK (CONNIE SMITH)
THE TEXAS COWBOYS (JODY NIX)
I'm sure I left some out. Please excuse the spelling.

The first band I was ever in was actually called 'Ten Ton Tom'. Currently playing with 'HotWingJones' changed from 'HotWingJesus' which apparantly angered some closely connected with the band.

Favorite thing I've seen on here is 'Dildo Daddy and the Vibrations'! Fantastic!

Played one night with a band called J.R.Withers and the Illinois Boys. The first song we played was "For the good times". With 3 chords, and none was a minor. Needless to say it was a long night.