Merrell Fankhauser and H.M.S. Bounty
Merrell Wayne Fankhauser is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Exiles, Fapardokly, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and MU.
After cutting some fine folk-rock and psychedelia on ultra-rare records with his group the Exiles, guitarist, singer, and songwriter Merrell Fankhauser moved to Los Angeles, retitled his backing group H.M.S. Bounty, and recorded a fine, if obscure, slice of pop-psychedelia in 1968, Things. They became the house band for The Cove at Pismo Beach, where one memorable night they played a 30 minute version of their song "Rich Man's Fable" to placate a biker gang who had taken over the club.There were problems within the band too. The drummer, Larry Meyers, was becoming unreliable. This resulted in the band playing at least one show at a military base with a drummer from the audience.
The diverse offerings on the group's sole LP recalled such fellow Californian heavyweights as the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Moby Grape, and even Captain Beefheart. They weren't quite in the same league as those legends, but the album has a light and enigmatic air all its own, and is well worth investigation by fans of late-'60s West Coast psychedelia.
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This post was edited on 3/16 11:54 PM by Top Row Dawg
Drivin' Sideways (Down A One- Way Street)
Merrell Wayne Fankhauser is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Exiles, Fapardokly, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and MU.
After cutting some fine folk-rock and psychedelia on ultra-rare records with his group the Exiles, guitarist, singer, and songwriter Merrell Fankhauser moved to Los Angeles, retitled his backing group H.M.S. Bounty, and recorded a fine, if obscure, slice of pop-psychedelia in 1968, Things. They became the house band for The Cove at Pismo Beach, where one memorable night they played a 30 minute version of their song "Rich Man's Fable" to placate a biker gang who had taken over the club.There were problems within the band too. The drummer, Larry Meyers, was becoming unreliable. This resulted in the band playing at least one show at a military base with a drummer from the audience.
The diverse offerings on the group's sole LP recalled such fellow Californian heavyweights as the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Moby Grape, and even Captain Beefheart. They weren't quite in the same league as those legends, but the album has a light and enigmatic air all its own, and is well worth investigation by fans of late-'60s West Coast psychedelia.
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This post was edited on 3/16 11:54 PM by Top Row Dawg
Drivin' Sideways (Down A One- Way Street)
