Frumious Bandersnatch

Don’t assume all worthwhile SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA psychedelic band of the later ’60s surely got to record frequently, or in any way. Frumious Bandersnatch had been perhaps one of the most prominent illustrations, their output limited by a meager (if great) three-song EP that hardly anyone beyond the area noticed. The band’s stinging guitars had been very similar to those utilized by Jefferson Airplane’s Jorma Kaukonen, Quicksilver Messenger Assistance, as well as the Moby Grape; their harmonies, as well, had been quite close however you like to the Aircraft and Grape, with vibrating lead vocals within the mildew of Marty Balin or the Grape’s Bob Mosley. The music group were actually shaped over the bay from SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in Contra Costa Region, and changed employees several times within their short lifespan (1967-69). Curiosity from many record companies found naught, as well as the band’s just launch was a three-song EP independently label, pressed inside a level of 1000 and distributed locally. Constructed around the wonderful acid-rocker “Hearts to Cry,” it provided strong proof their skills, but no additional releases had been forthcoming before their separation. A minimum of four Frumious alumni, nevertheless, would play in Steve Miller’s music group through the 1970s (Bobby Winkelman, Jack port Ruler, Russ Valory, and David Denny); Valory and another Frumious veteran, George Tickner, had been founding people of Journey, who have been managed from the roadie for Frumious Bandersnatch, Herbie Herbert. A great deal of Frumious recordings had been unearthed through the vaults for reissue within the 1990s for the British Big Defeat label.