Bard DuPont

Bard Dupont was the initial bass participant for the fantastic Culture, the great psychedelic group that included a pre-Jefferson Aircraft Sophistication Slick. Dupont was functioning at the postoffice and informing co-workers, falsely, that he performed bass within a rock and roll group. This led a colleague to desire him to get hold of guitarist Darby Slick, who was simply buying bass participant for the fantastic Culture. Despite the fact that Dupont confessed to Slick that he couldn’t play bass in any way, Slick asked him to understand, since his locks was already lengthy enough to meet the criteria on visible grounds. Dupont do have got a semi-famous get in touch with in the folk globe, as in NY he previously been a roommate of folk guitarists (and documenting artists) Tag Spoelstra and Tom Paxton. Although Dupont do write some music within the Great Culture, including “Very pleased Blues” and “Shazam,” they evidently were never performed by the music group. According to articles in the ’60s SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA rock and roll fanzine Cream Puff Battle, he contributed towards the group first “Don’t Speak to your Dad,” later modified in to the instrumental “Dad.” He do impact their repertoire by recommending “Deep Blue Ocean” (which he previously noticed Spoelstra sing) and Peggy Lee’s “I’m a female” as ideal materials, although these once again didn’t make it to their long lasting repertoire. Dupont is certainly on the fantastic Society’s sole one, “You to definitely Love”/”Free Suggestions,” and a prosperity of Fall months demos which have been released on the Given birth to to Be Burnt CD. Nevertheless, the music group were dissatisfied along with his bass playing, and in addition experienced he wasn’t acquiring music seriously plenty of, and he was changed by Peter Vandergelder in early 1966. He later on managed the Clothing, which included for a while Bobby Beausoleil, later on a notorious person in the Charles Manson Family members. He also performed in the obscure ’60s Californian organizations the Demon Enthusiast as well as the Venus Flytrap.