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Mumbo Gumbo (1992-1995, Auckland)
Glen Moffatt - vocals/guitar
Red McKelvie - vocals/accordion/occasional guitar
Jono Lonie - vocals/fiddle/mandolin
Alastair Dougal/Neil Hannan - bass guitar
Ian Thomson - drums
Cajun crossover band whose uniqueness saw it taken to heart by the Irish pubs of Auckland and Whangarei. Glen left when the Cajun music was slowly replaced by jigs and reels. Occasionally worked, with or without Lonie and with McKelvie on lead guitar, as functions band variously titled Red Dog Band, Red McKelvie Band, Ian Thomson Experiment.
The Cartwrights (circa 1992, Auckland)
Glen Moffatt - vocals/rhythm guitar
Robin Galley/Jeremy Dart/Warwick Fowler - lead guitar
Red McKelvie - pedal steel guitar
Jono Lonie - fiddle/mandolin
Lee Cooper - bass guitar
Murray Pomare - drums
A brief precursor to Guns For Hire. Plenty of Commander Cody and Gram Parsons. All but Cooper and Fowler served long stints in Guns For Hire.
Wild Bill (1992, Auckland)
Glen Moffatt - vocals/rhythm guitar
Warwick Fowler - lead guitar
Marian Burns - vocals/fiddle
Graham Wardell - bass guitar
Phil Parker - drums
Rehearsed a lot, recorded a demo, never did a gig. By that time Robin Galley had introduced Glen to the Java Jive Cafe country music night, that eventually evolved into Guns For Hire, and the rhythm section that would make up the Cartwrights. Marian Burns went on to become Marian Burns.
Bandanna (1991, Hastings)
Glen Moffatt - vocals/rhythm guitar
Richard Nicholson - vocals/lead guitar
Paul du Fresne - vocals/bass guitar
Ivan Sawyer - drums
Brought together by Jim Toner for a late 1991 residency at Hastings' Stortford Lodge Hotel, since demolished. Nicholson's pedigree stretched back to time with Midge Marsden's Country Flyers, du Fresne was late of Central Hawke's Bay country rockers Ambush.
These Things Happen (1990-1991, Napier)
Glen Moffatt - vocals/rhythm guitar
Liam Farris - vocals/lead guitar
Mark Luscombe - vocals/harmonica
Popular live act performing note-perfect (usually) covers of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the Beatles, James Taylor, etc. This trio's potential was never fulfilled, with Glen crusading the country path with the Colonials, and Luscombe a busy Napier lawyer.
The Colonials (1990-1991, Napier)
Glen Moffatt - vocals/rhythm guitar
Ian Turbitt - vocals/lead guitar/harmonica
Tamihana Johnston - vocals/bass guitar
Simon Beattie - drums
Taking the hard road in Hawke's Bay -- 100% country, with a healthy injection of Turbitt and Moffatt originals. Recorded and sold DIY cassette 'Living in Overdrive'.
The Infamous James Gang (1988-1990, Napier)
Glen Moffatt - vocals/rhythm guitar
Pete Toner - vocals/bass guitar
Rick Toner - vocals/keyboards
Simon Beattie/John Bickerstaff/Rick Toner - drums
Graeme 'Mouse' Keelan/Ian Turbitt - vocals/lead guitar
Steve Matheson - roadie/driver
"We never knew Joe Walsh had a James Gang." If the Overtones was Glen's introduction to professional entertainment, the Infamous James Gang was his initiation to the debauchery of life on the road. Keelan's former life as a gang member and Bickerstaff's born-again Christianity were poles apart.
Jim Toner & the Overtones (1987-1988, Napier)
Jim Toner - vocals/rhythm guitar
Adrienne Toner - vocals
Glen Moffatt - vocals/rhythm guitar
John Bailey - lead guitar
Pete Toner/Ron Lowe - vocals/bass guitar
Arty Pole - drums
Glen's introduction to professional entertainment. Jim Toner invited Glen to replace Palmerston North-bound Rick Toner. Unfortunately, Pete Toner departed soon after, but Glen and both Toner sons were soon to join up in the Infamous James Gang.
Bless This Mess (1987, Napier)
Glen Moffatt - vocals/rhythm guitar
Simon Beattie - drums
Chris Welch - lead guitar
A lot of rehearsal -- one gig, for which Welch developed stage fright and was replaced at the last minute by Pai Fletcher. Pete Toner helped out on bass. Then Glen was recruited by the Overtones.
Scrap Metal (circa 1984-1985, Napier)
Glen Moffatt - vocals/guitar
Stephen Payne - drums
Big at the the summer camp for diabetic kids at Eskdale, Scrap Metal's showstopper was the donning of long wigs and sunglasses for Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It". Long hours in the wool shed of the Payne farm. The White Stripes of their time.
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