Hi Faith,

Interesting post!
We were not so easily put into a category...like surf music or country rock or blues, etc. The writers of the day didn't know what to do with us. The fact of the matter is neither did we! We were almost all 17 or 18 years old at the time...only our keyboard player Mark Weitz was old enough to drink....but didn't. We all came from different parts of the music spectrum. Mark was a classically trained pianist who picked up on the Farfisa organ which had its own unique sound. Ed King had been a bass player turned guitarist. He had been studying music theory as well as taking from blues guitarists and electric guitarists. Lee Freeman played street guitar and blues harmonica. H later got a sitar and started using it on some of our recordings. I phad been taking jazz bass lessons and playing in surf rock bands. Randy Seol was an old school jazz drummer who also played vibes. Gene Gunnels was a straight rock drummer...he played on Incense then quit and came back for the fourth album. He and Randy are in our current line-up as is Steve Bartek who played flute and co wrote several songs on our first album. Steve was classically trained and jazz influenced. Put all that together and you get the multiple labels they tried to tag us with. We were never overtly trying to fit into any of those boxes.