bluegrass band names

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: Jack Campin
Date: 17 Apr 15 - 06:21 PM

We have a local group called Southern Tenant Folk Union. They leave the reader to work out what the acronym is.

Seems to me that a group based in Petone has a better right to the brand name "Faultline" than this lady:

http://bluegrasstoday.com/faultline-jesse-gregory/

[edit: I see it's been done: http://www.faultline.org.nz/]

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: eftifino
Date: 17 Apr 15 - 04:31 AM

A few years ago, a pal of mine had a band called Farmer's Union Creole Kings. They went to a festival in Adelaide and were told to take the name off the bass drum, because of the initials!

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: BobL
Date: 17 Apr 15 - 03:21 AM

And inevitably, Milton Keynes have the "Concrete Cowboys"...

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: GUEST,achmelvich
Date: 17 Apr 15 - 03:01 AM

a few years ago i used to see the 'Limestone Cowboys' at wee gigs in n.yorkshire

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: PHJim
Date: 17 Apr 15 - 12:45 AM

I played in a band with Dobro player Reg Buck. We were called "Buck & Loose Change".
Another BG band we named after a tractor. We were called "McCormick".
If you live near a river, "The ______ River Boys".
If you do blue material, maybe "The Grassholes" would work.

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: BanjoRay
Date: 16 Apr 15 - 08:49 PM

Frodo and the Lords Of The Tonerings

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: Jack Campin
Date: 16 Apr 15 - 10:22 AM

There are innumerable <something> Valley Bluegrass Bands.

Petone Rice and the Hutt Valley Bluegrass Band?

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 16 Apr 15 - 08:52 AM

Kiwi Ramblers/Rambling Kiwis

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: GUEST,Desi C
Date: 16 Apr 15 - 08:48 AM

Maori Madmen
All Black & Tans
The Dodo deliverers
Thunder From down under

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Apr 15 - 02:58 AM

Blue Canaries and the deepthroat boys, both are grasses[informers]

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Apr 15 - 02:42 AM

Coarse Buffaloes AND the ryegrass boys, Ryegrass and the Bourbon deep throats, Wheatgrass and the Kentucky deep throats.
coarse buffaloes OR the Ryegrass deepthroats

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: GUEST,Hihi the Kiwi
Date: 16 Apr 15 - 02:20 AM

Thanks Jack, the name generator is perfect
its for Wellington bluegrass society, based at Petone Library , tomorrow night from 7.30pm
there is a website if anyone knows how to do those links( I'm useless with computers)

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: Wesley S
Date: 15 Apr 15 - 10:57 PM

Has "The Kiwi Mountain Boys" been used already?

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: pdq
Date: 15 Apr 15 - 07:57 PM

No, Bill Clifton worked for the Peace Corps. US gov but certainly not related to the CIA.

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: Jack Campin
Date: 15 Apr 15 - 06:53 PM

Somehow I missed hearing him then (I was mostly in Auckland at the time).

Hamilton County only exists in the bluegrass imagination - the county around Hamilton is Waikato.

Somewhere I read that Clifton was working for the CIA while he was spreading the bluegrass gospel round the globe in the 60s and 70s. Oh well. If only they'd all been that harmless.

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: pdq
Date: 15 Apr 15 - 06:24 PM

Off subject a bit, but there is a recently-released CD called: BILL CLIFTON & THE HAMILTON COUNTY BLUEGRASS BAND "Two Shades of Bluegrass." It was recorded in 1970 when Bill Clifton was our de facto Ambassador of Bluegrass to several countries.

Subject: RE: bluegrass band names
From: Jack Campin
Date: 15 Apr 15 - 05:28 PM

This one

http://www.mandolincafe.com/archives/bandnames/

should generate "The Grassy Grass Grasscutters" at some point.

Being a bit more local, Paspalum and the Prickly Feet?

(Where in NZ are you? My brother played bluegrass mando in Hamilton for a bit).

Subject: bluegrass band names
From: GUEST,Hihi the kiwi
Date: 15 Apr 15 - 03:45 PM

our local bluegrass society has set out a challenge, scratch up a band, invent a name,
and do a two song floor spot. we have got the songs but can't think of a name
so what do you call a New Zealand trio, comprising of a jazz musician, a country music player and an old folkie trying to play bluegrass?