Ashara wrote: >I remember the warm-up band was The Ultimate Spinach. >Never heard of them then or since.
Per http://members.home.net/hartmangs/uspinach.htm: Late-1960s psychedelic band from Boston, Massachusetts, in three incarnations. The first lineup (Ian Bruce-Douglas, Geoffrey Winthrop, Barbara Hudson, Richard Nese, Keith Lahteinen) recorded the eponymous first album. The second, Russell Levine replacing Lahteinen on drums, recorded Behold and See. (Bruce-Douglas later formed The Apocalypse, Bloodlust, and Azlbrax. I haven't heard of any of these bands.) Version three jettisoned all but Hudson and Levine, and added Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, which is the Steel Dan connection rumored about all these years. They recorded the contractual obligation album. I had a lot of records in the 1960s, but never by these guys. That name was typical of psychedelic bands -- Electric Prunes (great), Chocolate Watch Band, Strawberry Alarm Clock, H.P. Lovecraft, Jefferson Airplane, Dukes of Stratosfear, Golliwogs, Charlatans... For further info, read Ralph Gleason's THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE AND THE SAN FRANCISCO ROCK SCENE ... if you can find it! At the back is a list of the 250+ bands then flourishing in the Bay area. Now we all know more than we ever wanted to. Gil
