"Could be the same bass but if you want to argue with me I won't put up much of a fight. I think the photo has been flipped and you could argue there is a neck position PU and not just reflections."
No arguments from me, Frono. They were a short-lived, strictly east coast band and I'd never been east of Denver when they were active, so I didn't even know they'd existed til recently. That being the case, I can hardly claim to be an authority about them or their equipment. I just ran across that video on YouTube while randomly searching for new (to me), "off-the-beaten-path" psychedelic bands. Noticed what appeared to be an SF bass in the album art and then dug up the interview. That's basically all I know about them.
Side Bar: I've been trawling for obscure, mid-1960s/early-1970s psyche bands for quite awhile now, trying to find decent quality stuff that I missed back in those days. There sure were a lot of really terrible bands back then (one reason why many of them remain "obscure") , many of them poorly-recorded (adding insult to injury). I've found some real gems as well, but there's a very high percentage of "chaff". The longer I search, the fewer pleasant surprises I come across, though it does still happen. Unfortunately, there are also some decent songs that are seemingly difficult-to-impossible to obtain either from i-Tunes or re-mastered and re-released on CD. Seems like a significant number of bands of that era lost legal control of either their catalog or the band name or both, hindering re-release during subsequent years.
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