Sunshine Skiffle Band

Formed in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California, USA, in 1966 The Cleanliness And Godliness Skiffle Strap comprised Annie Johnson (vocals, guitar, mandolin, woodblocks), Phil Marsh (vocals/guitar) and Richard Saunders (bass). These were all ex-members of the moment Action Jug Music group, a Berkeley-based, politically-inspired group that Country Joe AS WELL AS THE Fish evolved. There is also a drummer, Poultry Hirsh, within the founding line-up but he remaining to join Nation Joe AS WELL AS THE Seafood, and was changed by Pookey Neil. Hank Bradley (vocals/flute/mandolin) and Brian Voortees (vocals/harmonica/acoustic guitar) became a member of for Greatest Hits which, while pleasant in its correct, sounded out-of-date because of modern acid-rock and psychedelic noises. The band split up in 1968, however the pursuing yr some ex-members had been featured within the Masked Marauders an recording that for some time was regarded as by Bob Dylan functioning under a pseudonym, though it really was the work from the rock and roll article writer Greil Marcus. The Masked Marauders also parodied the Beatles and Mick Jagger, amongst others, however the joke, vulnerable at best, shortly wore thin.