The Gravel Spreaders play bluegrass versions of popular rock songs from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Part shtick, part cover-band, but ALL fun, high-energy music that will knock your socks off and bring a smile to your face.
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Write a reviewPrice range: $500 - $7000
Languages: English
Gig length: 30 - 180 minutes
We come out in matching garage cover-alls and play bluegrass-inspired arrangements of popular rock, hard rock, metal, and country songs. We are not so much a bluegrass band as rock band that plays bluegrass instruments. It's high energy, funny, and very tight. We are all professional musicians with tons of experience. It's great to dance to, and generally, unless told not to, our language can get pretty risque.
2 Albums, available online or CD:
Metal Hee-Haw (2012)
Skidmarks (2015)
The Gravel Spreaders is what happens when a metal-head hopped up on moonshine, spite and Hank Williams III uses sweet talk and coercion to coax three musicians into wearing coveralls and playing twang instrumentals of hair-metal covers.
Thus, The Gravel Spreaders was born. Singing lead and slapping the hell out of his trusty Bandit, Bud Hole leads a motley crew consisting of mandolin masher and jaw harpist, Dr. Buck Knife, dobro-slider and gitter-picker, Uncle Mungar, and banjoleer and high-pitched harmonizer, Buzzy “secret sauce” Do-Well through a debut album consisting of 13 songs of lust, remorse, Satan, beer, and the trailer-park hits of yesteryear, blue-grass style. The result: the birth of Gravel-Billy.
With a set list that covers Johnny Cash, Ozzy, Rage Against the Machine and everything in between, the Spreaders remind us that nothing is sacred.
Bud (Tom Beyer), Doc (K.S. Haddock), Uncle Mungar (Mark Ungar) and Buzzy Do-Well (Pete Feltman) are long-time Bay Area multi-instrumentalists who collectively have several albums, movie scores, and San Francisco Fringe Festival awards to their credit. Look up The Gravel Spreaders on Facebook and at (link hidden) . Buy their music on iTunes or buy the physical album by emailing (email hidden) .
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Preferably, live, we mic our amps, have stage monitors, and a soundperson.
We use 4 microphones and 4 amplifiers.
We are a banjo, upright bass, mandolin, and guitar.
Saturday
The Lost Church
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Cover Songs
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Been Caught Stealing
Cum on Feel Feel the Noize / Immigrant Song mashup
TNT/Smells Like Teen Spirit mashup
Number of the Beast
Crazy Train
Walk This Way
I Wanna be Sedated
Brick in the Wall/Folsom Blues mashup
You Shook Me All Night Long
Aqualung/Easy mashup
Fat Bottom Girls
Loser
Killing in the Name
Cocaine Blues
Hard to Handle
I Ain’t Drunk, I'm just Drinking
Mr. Brownstone
Rock U Like Hurricane
White Lightning
Back in the Saddle (Aerosmith)
Breaking the Law
Rainbow in the Dark
Rebel Yell
Rehab
Are You Drinking with Me Jesus
7 Nation Army
Hank Williams Medley (Hank 1, 2 & 3)
Eastbound and Down
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Girls
Electric Eye / Hellion
ORIGINALS
I'm Going to Beverly Hills (original)
No Drugs (original)
Plastic Bottle of Whiskey (original)
Up the Creek (original)
The Ballad of Darth Bitter (Original)
Little Red Wine (original)
You Kicked My Heart in the Nuts (original)
Can O Lingus (Original)
Shut Your Filthy Mouth (original)
Hayseed Dixies
Hair Metal of the '80s
Classic Rock
Steve'n'Seagulls
We can bring all equipment required, but our PA is not good for anything but a small room. For anything bigger, you'll need to provide a PA and soundperson
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