BS: 'Your Blues Name'

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Jim Krause
Date: 10 May 02 - 03:01 PM

Harrumph, using the formula, which I didn't bother to do the first time (how typical) I came up with Boney Dog Smith. I muuch prefer Blind Chester "Crawdad" Johnson.
Jim

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: HuwG
Date: 10 May 02 - 09:16 AM

Celtic Soul: perhaps there aren't any pretty livers in Blues (unless it is said sardonically by a Medical Examiner or Home Office Pathologist ...

However, is this system trying to tell me something ?

"Brown Liver Jones"

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Jim Krause
Date: 09 May 02 - 10:59 AM

Fort--Oops, typo alert. Shoulda been Euphoria String Band There, even got a blue clicky in.
Jim

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Bill D
Date: 09 May 02 - 09:12 AM

Screamin' Gumbo Dupree

...but Fortunato has the right idea, (in this town, he may remember, our dearly departed bluesman, Dave Olive, was once led onstage at the Getaway wearing dark glasses and introduced as "Blind Harry Palms"..other incarnations included "Blind Ethnic Feedback")

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 09 May 02 - 08:39 AM

Pretty Liver Hopkins?

Aint no pretty livers in BLUES!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: English Jon
Date: 09 May 02 - 06:18 AM

Boney Parker, but I still prefer the Disability/Fruit/President method (as in Blind Lemon Jefferson):

Lame Prunes Kennedy.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Gloredhel
Date: 08 May 02 - 11:24 PM

Crippled Boy Hopkins? But...I'm a girl!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Mr Happy
Date: 08 May 02 - 10:18 PM

my handle could be a number of options:

fat boy jackson

bony brown pegleg

jailhouse skinny brown

reverend blind drunk foulmouthed deaf wheelchairbound arsehole stammering illegitemate foundling

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Mr Happy
Date: 08 May 02 - 09:10 PM

YOR

you're not really galled, are you??

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: NightWing
Date: 08 May 02 - 01:59 PM

Boney Legs Rivers or Brown Rivers, depending on which version of my name I use. The second sounds like the pollution problem Back East. *LOL*

BB,
NightWing

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: GUEST,Gretchen
Date: 08 May 02 - 01:08 PM

My blues name is Big Foot Parker. I am a woman, and wear a size 11 shoe. Coincidence?? Maybe-maybe not!?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: GUEST,Guestgirl
Date: 08 May 02 - 12:57 PM

Blind Gumbo Lee? Well, I am hard of seeing...

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Fortunato
Date: 08 May 02 - 12:37 PM

Well Jim, you spelled it Eupnoria and I spelled in Euphoria. From way back here in Silver Spring it could be two different bands. I'll go check the picture for fools grinning. cheers, chance

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Leeder
Date: 08 May 02 - 12:31 PM

This is unfair! There's no provision for people with three given names. I don't know whether I'm "Fat Fingers Parker" or "Fingers Dog Parker", which is quite an identity crisis, to be sure!

At least there's no confusion as to my Authentic Indian Name (see my recent thread on that topic).

A. John R. Leeder

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: CapriUni
Date: 08 May 02 - 12:14 PM

"Gravy Back Jackson".... Hmmm. Has a nice ring to it, but it sounds awfully messy.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: GUEST,Gravyback Jackson
Date: 08 May 02 - 09:36 AM

mine is better

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: CapriUni
Date: 03 May 02 - 07:03 PM

The list says that I'm Fat Lemon Lee ...

Does that mean I gotta watch out for folks puttin the squeeze on me?!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Troll
Date: 02 May 02 - 11:13 PM

Peg-leg Sugar Washington? Dat don't soun like th ol' troll to dis child.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Susan A-R
Date: 02 May 02 - 10:27 PM

Blind Harp Jackson. Hmm, got the first part right.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: DancingMom
Date: 02 May 02 - 09:37 PM

Blind Hips Gumbo.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Jim Krause
Date: 02 May 02 - 02:06 PM

Fortunato, One and the same as what? That's me with the stupid grin on my face if you've seen the photo where we linked arms while standing in front of our instruments. Or, in the close-up, I'm the guy with the fiddle on the left side of the photo.
Jim aka Blind Chester "Crawdad" Johnson

PS, the other thing I like about the new blues name is that there are three US Presidents alluded to: Chester A. Arthur, Andrew Johnson and of course everybody's favorite, LBJ.
Crawdad

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Rolfyboy6
Date: 01 May 02 - 08:21 PM

We have Shatnerization.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: GUEST,Desdemona at work
Date: 01 May 02 - 03:44 PM

Headachey Pineapple Adams!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Fortunato
Date: 01 May 02 - 03:40 PM

According to the formula I would be Crippled Eye Davis. I prefer Blind Lemon Pledge. Or Blind Funk Earwax.

Jim, I have seen a picture of the Euphoria String Band. Are they one and the same?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Jim Krause
Date: 01 May 02 - 02:42 PM

Can I change mine? It should have been Blind Chester "Crawdad" Johnson. Some of you who have seen the Eupnoria String Band will appreciate the change.
Jim

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: mack/misophist
Date: 01 May 02 - 11:58 AM

I was named by the doctor, which makes me Jailhouse Liver Lee. If my mother'd had her way, I'd be Blind Pickles Lee. Which is worse?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: GUEST,Dagenham Doc
Date: 01 May 02 - 07:25 AM

Crippled Fingers Dupree.... ouch!! ..but cool.

Doc

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: VoxFox
Date: 01 May 02 - 07:16 AM

Another distant ( or is that disturbed) relative to the Lee clan, Jailhouse Hips Badboy Lee. The Hips fits so I guess I'll wear it. *BG* VF

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: GUEST,Owain
Date: 01 May 02 - 07:02 AM

Red Fingers Washington...must've been caught red handed!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Mountain Dog
Date: 01 May 02 - 12:54 AM

Old Money Jefferson here, you all. A moniker that sets with me jes' fine; a name that perches on my wafer-thin form as jauntily as my slightly battered silk top hat, its brim dipped just above my cracked and cloudy monocle. Pull up a tattered silk settee whilst I amuse you with a few of my self-penned favorites: "Ain't Got No Lovin' Baby to Share My Chateaubriand" "Thirty Years of Cognac Tears" and "Nobody Knows the Securities and Exchange Commission-Related Troubles I've Seen! (or "Blues in A for Kenny Lay").

Yes, I've paid my dues to sing the blues - and I have the receipts on file to prove it!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: YOR
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 09:03 PM

Ha! My most replied to thread ever (I know, rookie!!!) in any forum, of course the Mudcats are up to the task. Gald everyone enjoyed it.

You know, I found this no fun to use family names. All the last names the same just didn't do it. Especially my 4 brothers, all 5 of us have a first name that starts with 'R', and with the last name being the same, BORING! And yes I was called by the dogs name many times by my parents.

Enjoy, Roy

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: mooman
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 08:51 PM

The Moolette comes out as Brown Gumbo Lee so another member of the ever-expanding Lee family.

mooman

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 06:26 PM

We have a folksinger around these parts called Curly Boy Stubbs. Fo' real. He's playing with Rick Fielding in the near future.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: gnu
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 06:18 PM

Ugly Boney Red. But I'm fat ! Oh, maybe that's it... kinda personal really.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 06:16 PM

Skiffy Saunders is mah Blues Name. Don't fagget it!

George W. Bush comes out as "Ugly Sugar McGee", and the MAN is coool!!! But he ain't got rythm.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 06:08 PM

From the invitational it is

Blind Bones Thompkins.


I like Peter's method better though

Mental Banana Butt (I'm mental, bananas are, and butt covers every president we ever had).

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: GUEST,Midchuck downstairs
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 04:58 PM

Having named our daughter "Andrea Katherine," it's best she never finds out about this thread...

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: hesperis
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 04:33 PM

Crippled Rivers? Actually, that's appropriate in an odd way...

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: lady penelope
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 03:42 PM

I'm not sure about mine....Jailhouse Back Bailey, but I really like Parker's ......Sleepy Gumbo Davis! : )

TTFN M'Lady P. ( AKA Snowball Burns!!!!! )

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: fat B****rd
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 03:24 PM

I'll have to borrow ine of my Father's middle names to become Crippled Pickles Davis.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: gnomad
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 03:17 PM

Sleepy Legs Davis eh? Reckon I can cope with that, it is an improvement on some names I've been called.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Jim Krause
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 02:59 PM

Blind Lester "Crawdad" Johnson.
Jim

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: NELLIE
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 02:33 PM

We came out as me - Boney Bradley - def. not boney Francis - my other half - hollerin' bones bradley - pretty apt! 1 daughter peglegs fingers K bradley 2nd daughter - fat liver bradley

good fun

Jenny - alias boney bradley

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: MMario
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 11:19 AM

Depends on what century today is, by my possible names range from 'blind Davis' to 'Jailhouse Liver DuPree'

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: mooman
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 11:09 AM

I'm Skinny Eyes Lee and Lady McMoo, who is the real blueser in the house, is Sleepy Bones Lee!

mooman

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 10:18 AM

Jailhouse Harp Jenkins - I like it! I'm an Irish felonious janitor, or something...

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: jeffp
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 09:01 AM

"Boney Bones Bradley" Sounds repetitive and redundant to me. *G*

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Fossil
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 08:56 AM

Whoo- ah!

"Fat Dog Brown"

Don't step on me!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 08:48 AM

Another recruit to the Lee Family here, my name comes out as "Fat Baby Lee", otherwise I'm just "Screamin'" (or "Sugar" or "Bailey", depending whether the "W" from Walrus is a fist, middle or last initial). The bit I can't stand is, I AM fat, I don't need it in my name to remind me.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: GUEST,Amy
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 08:44 AM

Fat Fingers DuPree! Yay!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: RichM
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 08:42 AM

Skinny Fingers Lee???

Rich

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: bigchuck
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 08:32 AM

Screamin Bad Boy Lee huh? I like it. If I ever do a solo CD maybe I'll use it.
Sandy

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 08:16 AM

Just noticed...it gets spookier. I was born in (W)Ashington!

Pete (under the blankets)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 08:14 AM

Sleepy Fingers Washington. That's spooky, my mates call me Quiet Fingers...

Pete

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Midchuck
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 08:06 AM

I was advised that the way to pick a blues name was:

1) Select (at random) a physical handicap or deformity for the first name.

2) Select a fruit or vegetable for the middle name.

3) Select the surname of an ex-President of the US for the last name.

That works, but this is more definite.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: greg stephens
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 07:51 AM

Old Killer Davis. Well, not sure about the old but it's mean and cool. I'll settle for that. My partner, who does sing blues, comes out as Curly Legs McGee, not sure if she'd be too pleased by that: her legs are reasonably straight.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Devilmaster
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 04:00 AM

*sigh*

Blind Bones Lee


Steve

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: C-flat
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 02:16 AM

Jailhouse Lips Rivers! Why can't I be Skinny Lemon Jackson? No one's EVER called me Skinny before!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: alison
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 02:04 AM

Fat Red McGee... lol


slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Anahootz
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 01:56 AM

Jailhouse Liver Rivers...hmmm

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Chip2447
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 01:17 AM

Brown Bones Lee (using the given names) of Crippled Lee (using the name I go by) Chip2447

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: JedMarum
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 12:32 AM

Boney Bad Boy Lee, here

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: michaelr
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 11:29 PM

My blues name has always been Blind Draw Cricket. I like it better than the one that comes up here.

Michael

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 11:24 PM

Screamin' Fingers Jackson? Hmm. Better than my sister, Blind Fingers, I guess.

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 11:17 PM

Sorry I don't know your middle initial Garg, but the first and last come out to Ugly ------ Jones. So let's just assume your middle name is, oh, say ...Oscar....okay? Good. That makes you Ugly Mama Jones.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 11:10 PM

Ain't Listed

It's O-RIG-IN-ALL

Sincerely
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Mark Ross
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 11:06 PM

That'd make me JAILHOUSE JEFFERSON

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 11:00 PM

That Jailhouse Liver Smith sounds a bad 'un. And I suspect that Sleepy Lemon is in the same gang.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 10:55 PM

Yeah, we done it, but it's always fun and this one has some different names so who gives a turkey......Let's do it!!!!

Spaw aka Sleepy Lemon Bradley...(married to Curly Liver Bradley)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Justa Picker
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 10:52 PM

Jailhouse Liver Smith

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: ddw
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 10:51 PM

Old Legs Bailey? Not flattering, but pretty accurate -- unfortunately. Old other things, too, I'm afraid.....

Thank god for Geritol....

david

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: UB Ed
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 10:51 PM

Texas Legs Franklin?????????????

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Robin2
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 10:27 PM

Let's see, that makes me

Skinny Dog Parker

not bad :) I like being skinny

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: 'Your Blues Name'
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 10:26 PM

Texas Bad Boy McGee- am I the president??

Subject: 'Your Blues Name'
From: YOR
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 10:05 PM

I have been hanging around mudcat for a couple of years but I don't know if this has appeared here before or not. It's floating around some other forums. Its' proven to be a lot of fun. If this is a repeat, so I wasted alittle more of cyperspace.

My compliments to the unknown person who wrote this and to the any number of people who have retyped it and passed it on.

"Skinny Baby Smith" here! Over and out.

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This was pretty popular on the Taylor Guitar Forum and the Acoustic Guitar Forum. Let's see how it does here. ------------ I saw this on the Carvin Message Board and thought it was cool.

From the first list, take the name using the initial of your first name. From the second list, do the same with your middle name. From the third, your surname.

First List A = Fat; B = Muddy ; C = Crippled; D = Old; E = Texas; F = Hollerin'; G = Ugly; H = Brown; I = Happy; J = Boney; K = Curly; L = Pretty; M = Jailhouse; N = Peg Leg; O = Red; P = Sleepy; Q = Bald; R = Skinny; S = Blind; T = Big; U = Yella; V = Toothless; W = Screamin'; X = Fat Boy; Y = Washboard; Z = Steel-Eye

Second List A = Bones; B = Money; C = Harp; D = Legs; E = Eyes; F = Lemon; G = Killer; H = Hips; I = Lips; J = Fingers; K = Boy; L = Liver; M = Gumbo; N = Foot;O = Mama; P = Back; Q = Duke; R = Dog; S = Bad Boy; T = Baby; U = Chicken; V = Pickles; W = Sugar; X = Cracker; Y = Tooth; Z = Smoke

Third List A = Jackson; B = McGee; C = Hopkins; D = Dupree; E = Green; F = Brown; G = Jones; H = Rivers; I = Malone; J = Washington; K = Smith; L = Parker; M = Lee; N = Thompkins; O = King; P = Bradley; Q = Hawkins; R = Jefferson; S = Davis;T = Franklin; U = White; V = Jenkins; W = Bailey; X = Johnson; Y = Blue; Z = Allison