(c’67) Kevin Smith (guitar), Phil Plant (bass), & Chris Harding (drums).

This blues / blues-based rock band practiced at Mayford Youth Club. They were known at Elite for a while, joining forces with The Late as the Late Elite Package.

On 14 December ’67 they participated in the “Living Blues” concert for Cancer Research at the Civic Hall, Guildford with Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, Tony “Duster” Bennett, Chicago Northwestern System, Dr Brown’s Gospel Medicine, and Electric Blue.

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Smith, who would later joined Unicorn, played a white Telecaster. Harding went on to play with Christine Perfect’s band, along with bassist Martin Dunsford who many years later played guitar with the Tamla Tigers Motown & soul band. While with Perfect, Harding appeared on her debut, eponymous, solo album which was released in ’70 just after she’d left Chicken Shack and before joining Fleetwood Mac. The LP was re-released in ’76 as ‘The Legendary Christine Perfect Album’.

Plant went on to play in Poppa Ben Hook, subsequently going on to play with Stomu Yamash’ta’s Come to the Edge and another of Yamash’tu projects: Red Buddha Theatre, as well as Woody Woodmansey’s U-Boat. In ’76 Plant played bass on the soundtrack to ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ and more recently performed with Roxi and the Blue Cats. Sadly, he passed on 4 April 2025.

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Picture courtesy of Ben’s Collectors Records