As they moved to gigs at Vancouver venues, their instrumentation included acoustic and electric guitars, banjo, fiddle, washtub bass, washboard, tambourine, harmonica, and drums amongst others.

This essentially electrified bluegrass lineup played standards, including 'Pistol Packin' Mama', the Brothers Johnson's 'Get The Funk Out of My Face', Nancy Sinatra's 'These Boots Were Made For Walkin', 'Rock Island Line', 'Wasbush Cannonball' and speedy punked up and humorous versions of other country and western, funk, punk, and pop classics.

[4][5] Carr went on to producing film and television including Gough Lewis's 1997 controversial Sundance Festival winner "SEX: The Annabel Chong Story".

In 1991 Carr and Johnson opened a comic, cult video and cappuccino bar called Pop Media Culture.

All of the band's original members eventually left; replacing them over the years have been long time stalwarts Rob Thomson (guitar / vocals), Ike Eidsness (drums) and Paul Gould (mandolin / banjo), as well as Keith Rose (Roots Roundup), Ford Pier (SNFU, D.O.A.)

The Hard Rock Miners performed frequently at Vancouver's Railway Club;[8] in later years, the band hosted a monthly singalong there.