One of America's greatest, most influential, and legendary cult bands,
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came out of the San Francisco area in 1965 playing greasy, bluesy, rock & roll dashed with a liberal sprinkling of British Invasion panache, in an era soon to be dominated by hippie culture and hyperextended raga-rock freakouts. Caught in a double bind of playing the wrong kind of music at the wrong time (as well as not looking the part),
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were almost completely forgotten as the Fillmore/Avalon Ballroom scenes, dominated by the Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, et al., rendered them anachronistic. The plain truth, however, was that despite not being in tune with the zeitgeist,
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made great music, and managed to sustain a career that lasted for over two decades.
What made
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such a formidable band was the double dynamite supplied by guitarist Cyril Jordan and singer/wildman Roy A. Loney.