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15 Apr 15 - 03:45 PM (#3702031) Subject: bluegrass band names From: GUEST,Hihi the kiwi 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? |
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15 Apr 15 - 05:28 PM (#3702049) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: Jack Campin 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). |
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15 Apr 15 - 06:24 PM (#3702058) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: pdq 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. |
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15 Apr 15 - 06:53 PM (#3702060) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: Jack Campin 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. |
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15 Apr 15 - 07:57 PM (#3702070) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: pdq No, Bill Clifton worked for the Peace Corps. US gov but certainly not related to the CIA. |
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15 Apr 15 - 10:57 PM (#3702095) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: Wesley S Has "The Kiwi Mountain Boys" been used already? |
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16 Apr 15 - 02:20 AM (#3702107) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: GUEST,Hihi the Kiwi 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) |
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16 Apr 15 - 02:42 AM (#3702109) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: The Sandman Coarse Buffaloes AND the ryegrass boys, Ryegrass and the Bourbon deep throats, Wheatgrass and the Kentucky deep throats. coarse buffaloes OR the Ryegrass deepthroats |
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16 Apr 15 - 02:58 AM (#3702112) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: The Sandman Blue Canaries and the deepthroat boys, both are grasses[informers] |
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16 Apr 15 - 08:48 AM (#3702164) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: GUEST,Desi C Maori Madmen All Black & Tans The Dodo deliverers Thunder From down under |
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16 Apr 15 - 08:52 AM (#3702166) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: GUEST,gillymor Kiwi Ramblers/Rambling Kiwis |
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16 Apr 15 - 10:22 AM (#3702198) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: Jack Campin There are innumerable <something> Valley Bluegrass Bands. Petone Rice and the Hutt Valley Bluegrass Band? |
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16 Apr 15 - 08:49 PM (#3702342) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: BanjoRay Frodo and the Lords Of The Tonerings |
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17 Apr 15 - 12:45 AM (#3702369) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: PHJim 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. |
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17 Apr 15 - 03:01 AM (#3702382) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: GUEST,achmelvich a few years ago i used to see the 'Limestone Cowboys' at wee gigs in n.yorkshire |
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17 Apr 15 - 03:21 AM (#3702384) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: BobL And inevitably, Milton Keynes have the "Concrete Cowboys"... |
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17 Apr 15 - 04:31 AM (#3702388) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: eftifino 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! |
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17 Apr 15 - 06:21 PM (#3702567) Subject: RE: bluegrass band names From: Jack Campin 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/] |