The Wizards from Kansas

The Wizards from Kansas were an obscure country-psych rock group from Kansas. In 1968, four from the five primary members (in the Kansas City region) produced a music group called New Western world, and started playing within the Lawrence, Kansas region, at night clubs and celebrations, near Kansas School. Guitarist Robert Manson Crain, from California, became a member of the group shortly thereafter, expanding to some quintet. In those days, the guys had been contacting themselves “Pig Newton”, after that Pig Newton as well as the Wizards from Kansas. The name Pig Newton was evidently among their inside jokes, nevertheless, as there is no one called Pig within the group. The music group would often constitute tales about Pig Newton to confuse people, based on Crain (whose tracks, incidentally, are acknowledged to either “C. Manson Roberts” or Mance Roberts). The five-man group performed shows in the neighborhood region, and in the summertime of 1969, toured the east coastline. They were asked to try out the Fillmore East in nov that yr, a gig that resulted in them on offer several record deals, that they initially rejected. Finally, towards the finish of the entire year, Mercury Information persuaded the music group to indication a agreement. The label repetitions did not just like the “Pig” section of their name, nevertheless, and produced the group drop it. Half a year later on, in July and August of 1970, the Wizards From Kansas documented their eponymous debut recording, The Wizards From Kansas, in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. The recording was released in Oct, but weekly before its discharge, drummer Marc Caplan and bassist Bob Menadier chose that they’d rather enjoy jazz rather than rock and still left the music group to go after those interests. Without music group to market the record, Mercury dropped interest as well as the record sank with out a track. The Wizards From Kansas disbanded quickly thereafter. (Incidentally, Marc Caplan isn’t exactly the same Marc Caplan who was simply the business lead vocalist within the Chicago-area garage area rock combo Small Boy Blues). In 1993, the Afterglow label re-issued the band’s lengthy out-of-print record on Compact disc for the very first time. In 2002, the Texas-based Rockadelic label announced programs to reissue a vinyl-only discharge that claims to contain five music off their Mercury record, alongside previously-unreleased demos — including several documented for Elektra — and live monitors that were documented in a cathedral.