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While an associate of Faith FORGET ABOUT from the first ’80s until his departure in 1993, Jim Martin’s crushing rock guitar riffs served as a significant and main force within the band’s sound. Blessed in Oakland, CA on July 21, 1961, Martin started playing electric guitar as an adolescent, emulating …

The Ballads were an Oakland, CA, vocal group that came together in 1961. The associates had been Nathan Robertson, Jon Foster, Rico Thompson, and Lesley LaPalma. Their Ventura one “God Bless Our Appreciate” visited amount eight R&B, amount 65 play summer 1968. It might be their just charting one, though …