Frumious Bandersnatch Band

If any one group can legitimately qualify as the "great lost psychedelic band", then Frumious Bandersnatch is that group. The few tantalizing glimpses of the combo afforded by their solo release from the 1960s gained an enormous reputation. The subsequent fortunes of its members in groups like Journey and The Steve Miller Band have only added to the phenomenon. The name, derived from Lewis Carroll's proto-psych 'Jabberwocky', has an exciting air of psychedelic mystery to it. So, after years of wishful thinking on the part of psychedelic music aficionados all over the world, we are proud to present our brand new 2002 limited purple vinyl LP release by these West Coast legends entitled "The Studio Takes".

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Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
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The only thing that doesn't come with this unprecedented, multi-artist 4 CD boxed set chronicling the San Francisco sound of the 1960s is the flowers for your hair! Released to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the psychedelic, free-spirited Summer Of Love - that began just after the historic Monterey Pop Festival in June '67 - LOVE IS THE SONG WE SING: SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS 1965 - 1970 weighs in at 77 tracks totaling over 4 hours of music.
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Where were you in 1969?
Frumious Bandersnatch -1969- GG Park

This is a picture of us then in Golden Gate Park Do You Remember?

Our CD is finally mixed! Daniel East is putting his artist's touches to the covers & inside pages, using David Denny's photography to complete the package which will be mass produced by Disc Makers and on sale in March 2008, on the internet and in music stores everywhere.
Call your local radio station and request your favorite songs from the new Frumious Bandersnatch CD entitled "THE FLIGHT OF THE FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH".
Song list & lyrics

Frumious Bandersnatch's original five members Ross Valory, Bobby Winkelman, David Denny, Jack King and Jimmy Warner. (Ross is still touring with Journey). These following songs are early on in the project.

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"When You Touch My Hand" ©1997 RP Winkelman Tunes - Music by RP Winkelman, Lyrics by Linda Wallimann

"Swaying" New 11-8-05 ©2002 Monima Music - Music by David Denny, Lyrics David Denny & Kathy Peck.

"My Heart Is Yours Tonight" ©2002 - Music and lyrics by Jack King.

Frumious signing album cover at Sy Klops Studios
Left to right: Jack King, Bobby Winkelman, Ross Valory, Jimmy Warner & David Denny

"The Studio Takes", NOW available
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Bandersnatch - Golden Songs Of Libra
(The Studio Outtakes) LP (get624) The few tantalizing glimpses of the combo afforded by their sole release from the 1960s have engendered an enormous reputation. The subsequent fortunes of its members in groups like Journey and the Steve Miller Band have only added to the phenomenon. Even the name, derived from Lewis Carroll's proto-psych 'Jabberwocky', has an enticing air of psychedelic mystery to it. Frumious Bandersnatch were amongst the second wave of the 1960s San Francisco rock renaissance, but they had no allegiance to folk or jazz or any of the other influences that shaped the major players such as the Dead or the Airplane. Instead, the group came together in the culturally-arid environs of Contra Costa County in the East Bay, over the hill from politicized Berkeley and working-class Oakland and a world away from cosmopolitan San Francisco itself. All the future members of the group came from a solidly white suburban rock & roll background; i.e., surf, blue-eyed R&B and British Invasion. That makes the earnestness of their later musical achievement all the more extraordinary.
Alec Palao
180 gram PURPLE vinyl.
(upc: 8013252 362415)
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