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A second-division Uk psychedelic band using a tangled background, Elmer Gantry & the Velvet Opera recorded several albums within the Green Floyd/Soft Machine/Tomorrow/Fine mildew in the later ’60s without approaching near establishing a good identity of their very own. Originally a London spirit band known as Five Proud Walkers, they threw their great deal along with psychedelia after helping Green Floyd at an early on 1967 present. Vocalist Dave Terry transformed his name to Elmer Gantry, following the evangelist performed by Burt Lancaster within a 1960 film. A 1967 record (Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera) demonstrated some promise, especially on the even more psychedelic tunes, also if the group flitted from soul-mod to sitar agreements to British whimsy without actually investing in anything too exclusive. Gantry aka Terry still left the band following the initial LP, as well as the group ploughed on as Velvet Opera, launching Trip a Hustler’s Wish on United kingdom CBS. But Gantry’s lack reduced these to a relatively faceless entity, plus they sounded like psychedelic bandwagon jumpers on the later initiatives. Drummer Richard Hudson and bassist John Ford became a member of the Strawbs, and acquired some success within the U.K. being a duo in the 1970s. Gantry became notorious for taking part in the “artificial” Fleetwood Macintosh that toured the U.S. in 1974; that group renamed themselves Stretch out and had a high 20 strike in Britain which was inspired with the sordid occurrence, “Why Do You Perform It?”
