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​This day-by-day diary of Frumious Bandersnatch's live, studio, and private activities is the result of three decades of research and interview work by Bruno Ceriotti and Alec Palao, but without the significant contributions by other kindred spirits this diary would not have been possible. So, we would like to thank all the people who, in one form or another, contributed to this timeline: David Denny, Brian Hough, Jack King, Jack Notestein, Ross Hannan, Corry Arnold, Herbie Herbert (RIP), Susan Krieger, Jim Nixon (aka Oakland Dupree, aka Jack Duane), Brian Prindle, Brian Voorheis, Michael Parrish, Colin Hill, Bobby Winkelman (RIP), Jimmy Warner (RIP), David L Mahler, Brad Vicknair, Christopher Hjort, Josh Harris, Mike Somavilla, San Francisco Chronicle, Ralph J. Gleason, Bill Burgess, Stevie 'Key's Roseman, Douglas Trost, Ron Potts, Rob Frith, Jack Eskridge, Mark Lashley, Jimmy Fassio, Marie Fassio Mikkelsen, Brad Kelly, Alan Macomber, Bruce Tahsler, Rusty Young, Dick Dixon, Ingemar Pijnenburg, Kevin Parrish, Terry Ross, Vicky Ross, Toni Skinner, Denise Alverson, Los Angeles Free Press, Berkeley Barb, Oakland Tribune, The Argus, The Press Democrat, The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Good Times, Daily Transcript, Contra Costa Times, Concord Transcript, Palo Alto Times.

September 1966
Once referred to as "the most promising San Francisco original band to NOT get its chance to record and tour!" by Jack King, the band's only member who played with them from the beginning until the end, Frumious Bandersnatch emerged from a semi-pro college band called The All Night Flight (a name lifted from disc jockey Russ 'The Moose' Syracuse's overnight program on KYA, the leading Top 40 music radio station in the Bay Area). The story begins at the Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, Contra Costa County, California, where the band was putting together by freshmen David William Denny (b. Thursday, February 5, 1948, Berkeley, Alameda County, California) on vocals and rhythm guitar, and Jimmy David Fassio (b. Thursday, December 25, 1947, Lafayette, Contra Costa County, California) on vocals and lead guitar, both formerly of The Breakers (and also boyhood friends since they grew about 100 meters apart on a street out in the country in Lafayette), Brian Hough (b. Brian Trenchard Hough, Tuesday, September 28, 1948, Benicia, Solano County, California) on bass, formerly of The Sixpence, and Jack Eugene King Jr. (b. Tuesday, October 5, 1948, San Francisco, California) on lead vocals and Barry Alan Woolf (b. Thursday, May 13, 1948, Alameda County, California) on drums, both formerly of Shades Blue Ltd. "Barry and I enrolled at Diablo Valley College beginning in the autumn of 1966," confirms Jack King, "As fate would have it, also attending that fall were three guys from rival high school bands. We all met, talked and threw our lot in together and along with Barry and myself formed the All Night Flight. With my original songs we drew a lot of attention." By the way, in Shades Blue Ltd., Barry Woolf was the sax player and sometimes flutist while Jack King was the drummer (he played that instrument also in both the jazz band and the marching band at Pleasant Hill High School), but in their new band "Barry was playing drums in order for Jack, a jazz oriented and highly skilled drummer, to front the band as a Marty Balin type lead singer, singing such self-penned teen classics as 'Here I Stand' and 'All Night Flight'," recalls their future manager Jim Nixon. 

THE ALL NIGHT FLIGHT #1 (SEPTEMBER 1966 - APRIL 1967)
1) David Denny vocals, rhythm guitar
2) Brian Hough bass, vocals, maracas (only when they played live Donovan's 'Fat Angel')
3) Jimmy Fassio vocals, lead guitar
4) Jack King lead vocals
5) Barry Woolf drums
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The All Night Flight #1, 1966/67 - from left: Brian Hough, Jim Fassio, Jack King (kneeling), and David Denny (Barry Woolf wasn't there the day of the photo because he was probably getting high somewhere!)

The All Night Flight #1, 1966/67 - from up to down: David Denny, Brian Hough, Jack King, and Jim Fassio (Barry Woolf wasn't there the day of the photo because he was probably getting high somewhere!)

The All Night Flight #1, 1966/67 - from left: Jim Fassio, David Denny (up), Brian Hough (down), and Jack King (Barry Woolf wasn't there the day of the photo because he was probably getting high somewhere!)

The All Night Flight #1, 1966/67 - from left: Jim Fassio, Brian Hough, David Denny, and Jack King (Barry Woolf wasn't there the day of the photo because he was probably getting high somewhere!)

The All Night Flight #1, 1966/67 - from left: David Denny, Brian Hough, Jack King, and Jim Fassio (Barry Woolf wasn't there the day of the photo because he was probably getting high somewhere!)

Jack King and Brian Hough in front of Jimmy Fassio's parents house in Lafayette, Fall of 1966

from left: Jim Fassio and Jack King, 1966/67

Jack King, 1966/67

David Denny, 1966/67

Brian Hough, 1966/67

David Denny, 1967

David Denny, 1966/67

Brian Hough, 1966/67

Brian Hough, 1966/67

December 1966: ‘Annual Sadie Hawkins Dance,’ Gymnasium, Skyline High School, 12250 Skyline Boulevard, Oakland, Alameda County, California 
The All Night Flight played at the so-called Sadie Hawkins Dance, a usually informal dance sponsored by a high school, middle school or college, in which, unlike traditional dances where the men chase the women, female students invite male students. This one, held at the Skyline HS, was sponsored by the Spartan Service Society members.
 
December 1966: cafeteria, Diablo Valley College campus, 321 Golf Club Road, Pleasant Hill, Contra Costa County, California
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The All Night Flight #1, Diablo Valley College's cafeteria, December 1966 - from left: Barry Woolf, Mark Madrid (friend), Jack King, David Denny, Jim Fassio, Brian Hough, and Bill Pollard (friend)

Early 1967: Gymnasium, Miramonte High School, 750 Moraga Way, Orinda, Contra Costa County, California

The All Night Flight #1, Miramonte High School, Early 1967 - from left: David Denny, Jim Fassio, and Jack King

David Denny, Miramonte High School, Early 1967

The All Night Flight #1, Miramonte High School, Early 1967 - from left: Jack King, Brian Hough, and Barry Woolf

from left: David Denny and Jim Fassio - Miramonte High School, Early 1967

 
Friday, January 27, 1967: ‘V.I.P. Club Battle of the Bands dance,’ Pleasant Hill Country Club, 3250 Withers Avenue, Lafayette, Contra Costa County, California
From 8:30pm to 12:30pm, the All Night Flight, the Bent Blues, and Little Jimmy and the Good Timers played the latest top 30 songs for continuous dancing. They were competing with three other bands who played at another “battle of the bands” dance held at the same venue in February for a bid to the third dance of the series which determined the winner. The winning band auditioned with four major recording companies. 
 
Saturday, February 11, 1967: Orinda Community Church, 10 Irwin Way, Orinda, Contra Costa County, California
From 8pm to 11pm, the All Night Flight provided live music entertainment for a high school fellowship dance. 

Sunday, February 19, 1967: Fillmore Auditorium, 1805 Geary Boulevard at Fillmore Street, Fillmore District, San Francisco, California
The All Night Flight, alog with another local band called The Wheel, did a non-billed audition set, opening for The Blues Project, Canned Heat Blues Band, and The Mothers of Invention. Lights by Headlights. The show, which lasted from 2:00pm to 7:00pm, was presented by the great late promoter Bill Graham, and was kiddies free!
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Tuesday, March 21, 1967: Columbus Recorders (aka Columbus Recording, aka Columbus Studios), (into the basement of) Columbus Tower (aka Sentinel Building, aka Flatiron Building), 916 Kearny Street, North Beach, San Francisco, California
The All Night Flight entered Columbus Recorders for an “audition recording session” for the studio's owner, the late Kingston Trio's manager and producer Frank Werber, who co-founded with the folk trio a production company called Trident Productions back in 1965. The band recorded three original songs: Jack King’s ‘The All Night Flight’ and ‘Here I Stand’, plus ‘For You’, “an instrumental that I believed David Denny wrote and was very amateurish”, recalls Brian Hough. However, they failed the audition (“the producer, Jon Sägen, was openly disdainful towards us as we were playing”, adds Brian), so Werber never signed them and the tracks remained in the company's vault until 2008 when, at least ‘Here I Stand,’ was finally released in the UK, on the Various Artists 2-CD compilation: ‘Sing Me A Rainbow: A Trident Anthology 1965-1967’ (Big Beat Records CDWIK2 283).   
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Sing Me A Rainbow front cover

Sing Me A Rainbow back cover

Friday, March 31, 1967: ‘The Midnite Swim - Sophomore Class Dance,’ Gymnasium, Pleasant Hill High School, Pleasant Hill, Contra Costa County, California
One show, from 8pm to 11pm. 

April 1967
The All Night Flight hired a manager, a New York transplant and fellow freshman drama student named James C. ‘Jim’ Nixon (b. Saturday, December 20, 1947, Binghamton, Broome County, New York). “Back on campus at DVC there are two longhairs always hanging on the quad surveying all the chicks, as if they could bed each and every one of them,” recalls Jim. “Oh my! were they Cocks of the Walk! Who were these preening roosters? Brian Hough and Jack King… little did I know that these two guys would eventually become best friends of mine for life. It turns out that Brian and Jack were in a band called All Night Flight. ANF played a lunchtime concert on the quad one day, and out of the blue I went up to Brian and Jack and asked ‘you guys need a manager?’ I don’t even know where that came from. They said I could co-manage with a guy named Rick Anger. I said OK. The guys called Rick ‘Reach Under’ because he was gay, most likely. So we had business cards with my name on one side, Rick’s on the other and after Rick departed, I scratched his name and number off with pen as I gave out the cards. I hustled as many gigs as I could from my old man’s telephone in Moraga and by hitchhiking to nightclubs like Frenchy’s in Hayward, to get auditions. Pops George Nixon might have been proud of my salesmanship, if he didn’t dislike rock culture so much. There was a big band leader, Sal Carson, who played with many stars and was the leader of the SF 49ers band (Jack’s dad Jack King Sr. played trumpet). Sal would call me periodically and throw bookings my way …schools and such. Sal was so cool on the phone and gave me so many gigs and I wish i could have thanked him more profusely.”
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April 1967
Jimmy Fassio received his draft notice (he enlist in the Air Force) and had no option than quit the band. He was replaced on lead guitar by Jack King and Barry Woolf's old friend and bandmate George Tickner (b. George Tyndall Tickner, Sunday, September 8, 1946, Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York), formerly of Shades Blue Ltd. “Things were progressing well,” recalls Jack King, “Tickner and I began collaborating on songs and we were generating a lot of interest.”
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THE ALL NIGHT FLIGHT #2 (APRIL 1967 - JUNE 21 or 22, 1967) / FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH #1 (JUNE 21 or 22, 1967 - AUGUST 1967)
1) David Denny
2) Brian Hough
3) Jack King
4) Barry Woolf
5) George Tickner lead guitar
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business card, 1967

pin button, 1967

 
Friday, April 21, 1967: ‘The Mardi Gras Turn-about,’ Gymnasium, Del Valle High School, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California
The dance, which started at 8pm, was sponsored by Del Valle High School’s GAA (Girls Athletic Association).  

Early June 1967
Through their new manager Jim Nixon, the All Night Flight found a new rehearsal space, a large two-story warehouse located in the Fifth Avenue Marina, a really rad community of artists in the Embarcadero neighborhood along the Oakland Estuary. It was next door to a drug paraphernalia manufacturer called Squirkenworks. “I had scouted and rented the upper loft of this old warehouse space,” confirms Nixon. “The realtor, J.W. Silveira, let me have it for $75 a month, which we paid with gig money. We had a stage setup, couches and chairs, and you could hang on the rear door landing, smoke a joint, and watch big ships silently glide on the water on their way to San Francisco Bay and the Pacific… kinda surreal. It was a very hip rehearsal and party spot. Brian [Hough] took some Indian style tapestries from Cost Plus and cordoned off a corner of the big space, put in a mattress and candles and called it Brian’s Ballroom. I guess that’s where he cracked the books for his Diablo Valley College studies.”
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Jack King and Brian Hough rehearsed at the warehouse, 1967

A recent photo of the warehouse in Oakland (that round tree wasn’t there in 1967)

June 1967: 'Miramonte High School's All-Nighter Dance,' chartered ferry boat cruise on San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, California
“We were contracted by Miramonte High School of Orinda (very upscale and white) to play their 'all -nighter' dance, a Bay Area HS end of school year tradition,” confirms Jim Nixon. “It was June 1967, and we were going on a chartered ferry boat cruise on San Francisco Bay. At the pier in San Francisco, we waited for the always late Barry [Woolf]. He finally shows with his girlfriend Denise, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy banker. The lady chaperone said no she can’t go (prior resentments). I took a stand that the band wouldn’t play unless she was allowed on the boat with us. The chaperone/principal relented and Barry was in my corner for the rest of his short life.”

Tuesday, June 20, 1967: Orinda Country Club, 315 Camino Sobrante, Orinda, Contra Costa County, California
The Orinda Country Club hosted the "First Annual Far West Invitational Junior Championship Tennis Tournament' from June 19 to 25, and the All Night Flight provided live music entertaintment during a Tuesday night barbecue held in honor of the young partecipants. 

The All Night Flight #2, Orinda Country Club, June 20, 1967 - from left: George Tickner, Barry Woolf, Brian Hough, David Denny, and Jack King

Oakland Tribune (June 23, 1967)

Oakland Tribune (June 23, 1967)

Wednesday, June 21 or Thursday, June 22, 1967
The All Night Flight changed their name to Frumious Bandersnatch (Brian Hough came up with the name), after a character from the Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem Jabberwocky, included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. “As I remember, I was at the college one day and was told by the others: ‘We're changing our name to Frumious Bandersnatch’,” recalls David Denny. “I laughed my head off. ‘What??!! No way in hell are we gonna become ‘Frumious Bandersnatch’!’ I couldn't even say the name at the time, but I gave in.” Curiously, in 1966-67, there was another Bay Area band ncalled Frumious Bandersnatch (they even played at the Fillmore Auditorium), but they later changed their name to Our Kind apparently right before The All Night Flight “stolen” that name. 

Friday, June 23 - Saturday, June 24, 1967: New Orleans House, 1505 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, Alameda County, California
Also on the bill: Motor. Lights by Dirt. 
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Berkeley Barb (June 23, 1967)

 
Friday, July 7, 1967: 'Light Show Dance', Lafayette Veterans Memorial Hall, 3780 Mt Diablo Boulevard, Lafayette, Contra Costa County, California
Also on the bill: Beggars Opera, Blue Light District. The show, which lasted from 9:00pm to 1:00am, was presented by The Benevolent Society.
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Friday, July 14, 1967: 'Light Show Dance', Lafayette Veterans Memorial Hall, 3780 Mt Diablo Boulevard, Lafayette, Contra Costa County, California
Also on the bill: Blue Messenger, The Sandwich. The show, which lasted from 9:00pm to 1:00am, was presented by The Benevolent Society.
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Sunday, July 16, 1967: ‘Canyon Store Benefit,’ yard, Canyon Elementary School, 187 Pinehurst Road, Canyon, Contra Costa and Alameda Counties, California
Frumious Bandersnatch played at an outdoor happening sponsored by a group of Canyon residents to raise money to re-open  the vandalized Canyon Store as a Youth Center, and to help prevent the purchase of property in the area. Also on the bill: The Youngbloods, Country Joe and The Fish, Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, Paul Arnoldi, Notes From The Underground, Just Us Family, Blackburn and Sow, Sandy and Jean, Phil Ochs, Mark Sange. Lights by Benevolent Society.     

Saturday, July 22, 1967: 'A Fantastic Flight of the Mystic Balloon', undeveloped six-acre canyon between the private Cara Loma Park Club and the Buckeye Ranch only accessible at end of Springhill Road, Briones Regional Park, Lafayette, Contra Costa County, California
Also on the bill: Country Joe and The Fish, Opus III, New Salvation Army Band, Don Holland, Clark Miller Trio, Rodger Collins, Majestic Sounds, Maggie's Farm, Virtues, Blues Union, Steve Miller Blues Band. A planned 12-hour (from 9:00am to 9:00pm) outdoor happening presented by Cerebral Circumflex (a production company run by a guy named Rick Townsend), that at some point was ruined by a residential group, the Springhill Improvement Association, who voted to encourage District Attorney John A. Nejedly in declaring the promoter and the bands a “Public Nuisance,” alleging a violation of zoning ordinances. A judge filed a temporary injunction and finally only six of the twelve scheduled acts perfomed in front of about 2,000 people, before “the cops came and shut it down during the Steve Miller Blues Band’s set,” recalls David Denny. “Hot day, bad vibes, neighborhood hassless and, eventually, litigation,” adds Brian Hough. “But hey, I was high, so WTF.” While complaints were alleged about excessive noise - probably with some justification - the principal issue seemed to be the threat of the ‘hippie element.’ Anyway, Frumious Bandersnatch were one of the six acts that played that day, along with Country Joe and The Fish, Opus 3, Rodger Collins, Steve Miller Blues Band, and New Salvation Army Band. On Monday, July 31, Steve Miller Blues Band, Country Joe and The Fish, and Opus III, appeared in the Martinez Court House for the crime of playing music, as well as Rick Townsend for violating Catch-22.    
 

Oakland Tirbune (July 26, 1967)

Contra Costa Times (July 30, 1967)

Oakland Tribune (August 1, 1967)

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Friday, July 28 or Saturday, July 29, 1967 (?): 'Family Day', field, Lafayette Elementary School, 950 Moraga Road, Lafayette, Contra Costa County, California
Also on the bill: The Virtues, and others.

Friday, August 4 - Saturday, August 5, 1967: Haight A Espresso Coffee House, 776 Haight Street, Lower Haight, San Francisco, California
One show each day, started at 9:00pm. 

August 1967
David Denny left Frumious Bandersnatch. “The band was going thru some unorganized time,” recalls David. “George [Tickner] would show up hours late after hanging with a person on a boat in the harbor. Also some people George were hanging with started jamming with the band and I felt like this was starting to go nowhere so I quit for a while, although at that point I really didn't know what to do with my life.” Anyway, the band replaced him a lead guitar player named Bret Alan Willmott (b. Monday, November 22, 1948, Oakland, Alameda County, California), formerly of the Barons. At the same time, Barry Woolf was fired from the band so Jack King can reverted to his natural instrument: the drums. “It was decided, primarily by Jack King and George Tickner, to put Jack on drums and let Barry go, for his lackluster drumming and tardiness,” confirms Jim Nixon. “Jack, George, and Barry were bandmates previously with Shades Blue Ltd. (including jazz trombonist Steve Turre), so this firing rocked Barry's teen world hard, as his whole life was defined by being in a band. He took to leaving home, living on the streets of Berkeley and injecting methedrine. [Later] I would spend much time talking to him and encouraging him to get off speed and back to music.” [In 1969, off speed and back in Lafayette, Barry returned to play with a band called Wizard]. Last but not least, Frumious Bandersnatch hired a chick singer named Kathy ‘Kaja’ Doria, formerly of Peter Wheat and the Breadmen. “Our opening number was a pounding number [titled] ‘Gotta Believe’ music by George Tickner, [and] lyrics by yours truly,” also recalls Jim Nixon. “Drummer Jack King and bass player Brian Hough provided the irresistible backbeat and the audience was instantly won over.”​

​FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH #2 (AUGUST 1967 - NOVEMBER 1967)
1) Brian Hough
2) Jack King now also on drums
3) George Tickner 
4) Kaja Doria lead vocals
5) Bret Willmott lead guitar​

  
Friday, August 25, 1967: ‘Summer Dance,’ Gymnasium, Ygnacio Valley High School, 755 Oak Grove Road, Concord, Contra Costa County, California
Frumious Bandersnatch played at a summer dance sponsored by the Concord Elks Club. Over 400 students attended the dance with a net profit of $70, which benefited the Ygnacio student body, treasury and in the future may be transferred to a charity project.  

Saturday, August 26, 1967: ‘Montgomery Ward’s back-to-school show,’ Montgomery Ward Mall, adjacent to Ward’s Pleasant Hill Store, Contra Costa Shopping Center, 2302 Monument Boulevard, Pleasant Hill, Contra Costa County, California  
One show, started at 2pm. 

Friday, September 1 - Saturday, September 2, 1967: Haight A Espresso Coffee House, 776 Haight Street, Lower Haight, San Francisco, California
One show each day, started at 9:00pm.
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Frumious Bandersnatch #2, outside Haight A Espresso Coffee House, San Francisco, September 1 or 2, 1967 - from left: Kaja Doria, Jack King, Bret Willmott, George Tickner, and Brian Hough

 
Sunday, September 24, 1967: Constitution Park (aka Provo Park), 1901-1999 Allston Way at Grove Street, downtown Berkeley, Alameda County, California
A free afternoon outdoor concert. Also on the bill: Initial Shock. Frumious Bandersnatch played using Initial Shock's PA system. “One day, Stu Feldman of Motor called me and offered me a gig working for the City of Berkeley booking weekly free concerts in Provo Park,” recalls Jim Nixon. “No pay, naturally, but who cared. His predecessor was Ron Barnett, manager of Oakland soul band The Loading Zone. Ron was viper in those days, smoking joints from dawn till dark. My coordinator from the city was a lady named Lenore who was muy simpatico. So I booked Country Joe and the Fish, Mad River, The Loading Zone, Steve Miller Band, Charlie Musselwhite Blues Band, Purple Earthquake to headline the shows every Sunday afternoon. Three bands each concert. Of course I booked my own band many times to appear as well as my pals Motor and Hasting Street Opera also Haymarket Riot. My phone rang off the hook. The hardest part of this gig was procuring a PA system each week, as the city had no budget to provide one. When a band called me to play, my first question was ‘do you have a PA?’ I was called often by local African-American soul bands and tried to get one on each Sunday. One band, The Initial Shock, called and when asked if they had a PA … Oh yeah did they! They were a power rock group with a stage full of Kustom Amps and PA System which they let everyone use. They got these Naugahyde wrapped, tuck and roll Kustom speaker cabinets and amps from a hustler guy from KC named Roger Calkins who had a music store on Market in San Francisco. Initial Shock weren’t memorable, musically, but boy were they generous!” “Provo Park Sundays in the sixties was a fabulous time!,” continues Nixon. “Real hippie happenings, people picnicking on the grass, getting high, dancing and playing, enjoying the music and the vibe… families and young people and old Berkeleyites enjoying the rich festival-like scene. No cops, no trouble. Women, men, boys and girls of all races and description attended. There were always two guys in complete army uniforms with all sorts of decorations like model airplanes on the shoulders. General Waste More Land and General Confusion if memory serves. These guys were protesting the Vietnam War and this being Berzerkely. I Always greeted them cordially ‘General! How are you today?’… fabulous times… eventually I gave up the gig, but Lenore would call on me to book indoor school gigs for the city and I chose my friend Charlie Musselwhite and his blues Band to play.”
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Frumious Bandersnatch #2, Provo Park, Berkeley, September 24, 1967 - from left: Kaja Doria, Jack King, Bret Willmott, and Brian Hough

 
Friday, September 29 - Sunday, October 1, 1967: The Matrix, 3138 Fillmore Street, Marina District, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: The Other Half, The Charlatans. Lights by Chance. Frumious Bandersnatch's performance from October 1 show was recorded and a couple of songs, Jack King’s ‘Now That You've Gone’ and Jack King & George Tickner’s ‘Cheshire,’ were released in 1996 only in the UK, on their posthumous CD: ‘A Young Man's Song’ (Big Beat Records CDWIKD 169). ‘Now That You've Gone’ was a charming Marty Balin-styled folk-rocker that was typical of King's writing at that time, while ‘Cheshire’ was an early arrangement of King and Tickner’s ambitious, multifaceted song, that bears interesting comparisons with the version that was recorded a year later by a new line-up of the band for their infamous self-titled EP. Of note is Bret Wilmott’s opening guitar fusillade, pitched halfway between East-West Mike Bloomfield and Fifth Dimension Roger McGuinn. “It's an assault, just manically out of control, and it's effective, but Wilmott was not a melodic player,” recalls Jack King about ‘Cheshire.’ “George Tickner would write great themes, which I would turn into songs. With ‘Cheshire,’ I knew I wanted to make it more than a single song, I wanted to make it a suite.”

A Young Man's Song front cover

A Young Man's Song back cover

​Friday, October 6 - Saturday, October 7, 1967: 'Dance Lesson', Western Front, 895 O'Farrell Street at Polk Street, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Sons Of Champlin (6-7), Morning Glory (6), Dr. P.H. Martin's Magic Medicine Show (7; filled in for the advertised Initial Shock). The Western Front was a new venue run by the original Family Dog proprietors. 

 
Friday, October 20, 1967: Maple Hall Community Center, 13831 San Pablo Avenue at Church Lane, San Pablo, Contra Costa County, California
Also on the bill: The New Concepts, The Mind Blowers. Lights by Provo. The show, which lasted from 8:00pm to 12 midnight, was presented by The Miss Fire Society.
 

Berkeley Barb (October 20, 1967)

Friday, October 27 - Saturday, October 28, 1967: 'Dance Academy', Western Front, 895 O'Farrell Street at Polk Street, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: The Amazing Charlatans, Triple AAA (Anonymous Artists of America). “I booked a gig for the band at the Western Front, a psychedelic ballroom in San Francisco (now Mitchell Brothers erotic emporium),” recalls Jim Nixon. “The gig was memorialized with a Stanley Mouse poster of a refrigerator shaped woman with tiny button saying ‘fuck’… I’m sure you can buy it online (you can... the red one for $850). I think the pay check of about $200 bounced after I cashed it at Wells Fargo in Moraga and distributed it to the band. They hounded me with phone calls for several years, often waking me up in the morning… wish I could have paid it back.”

Sunday, October 29, 1967: 'Berkeley Arts Festival', Constitution Park (aka Provo Park), 1901-1999 Allston Way at Grove Street, downtown Berkeley, Alameda County, California
Frumious Bandersnatch played on the second day of a two-day free outdoor festival which lasted from 1:00pm to 6:00pm. Also on the bill: Loading Zone, Mad River, Triple Chord Music Box.
 
Sunday, October 29 - Monday, October 30, 1967: The Matrix, 3138 Fillmore Street, Marina District, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: The Charlatans (29-30), Recurring Love Habit (29).
 

Fall 1967: 'School Dance', Student Union, University of Nevada campus, 1664 North Virginia Street, Reno, Washoe County, Nevada
“A guy from Orinda, California, [named] Paul Buswell, now a student at University of Nevada, booked the band along with another Contra Costa County group, Little Jimmie and the Goodtimers, to play a big dance at the school,” recalls Jim Nixon. “Road Trip! So we drove up in a few vehicles, me in George Tickner’s red '63 Chevy convertible with the top down, tripping on acid. It was a sunny, clear day with snow capped Sierra Mountains on the vista. What could be better?”

November 1967
Out of the blue, Frumious Bandersnatch disbanded after all their equipment was stolen from their Oakland waterfront warehouse. “This was very cool until one night the warehouse was robbed,” confirms Jack King. “With all our equipment gone and no means of replacing it, the band folded.” “It was just so disheartening,” he adds. “We always felt it was the Oakland Police Department that did it, because they'd always come down there and harass us. We had no way to replace the equipment, we were just 19 year-old hippies with no dough. So we ended up breaking up not because we didn't want to continue, but because we couldn't play.” “Everyone‘s stuff except for George’s was stolen,” also recalls Jim Nixon. “George had taken his equipment home. There is conjecture (not by me) that he knew it was coming. Bret Willmott’s friend, Dave Sahadi, lost a very expensive Sunn bass amplifier, which he had loaned us. Poor Dave moaned to me for months until he accepted the loss. For all intents and purposes, this rip off was the demise of Frumious Bandersnatch.” So, at that point, Jack King went back to college, Kaja Doria went to play with Dandelion Wine for a year (then she retired but continued to write both secular and Christian music), Brian Hough split to tramp around Western Europe (at least until he returned home where he goes solo under the name of ‘Johnny Stallion’, and then he played with The Skip Spence Band, The Joker, Fandango, Oakland Dupree and The Dictators of Love, Sweet Tooth, Buckshot, LaDeana Band, The Wasted Rangers, and others), George Tickner retired from the music business and got into medical school (at least until he resumed his music career and played with Faun, Wizard, Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders, and Journey), while Bret Willmott first went to play with Dandelion Wine for a month, then became a popular guitar teacher at a music store in Berkeley, then enrolled at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts (where he later became professor in the guitar department), then he wrote three acclaimed guitar instruction books and a variety of magazine articles, then he conducted guitar clinics in the US and Europe, and finally released several solo albums.
  
December 1967
After a month or so, Jack King came up with the idea of reforming the band. “I began looking around for the best available talent and constructed the new and eventually more notorious Frumious Bandersnatch,” he confirms. The first available talent was the band's former founding member David Denny, while the next couple were two new faces: Ross Valory (b. Ross Lamont Valory, Wednesday, February 2, 1949, San Francisco) on vocals and bass, and James P. ‘Jimmy’ Warner (b. Thursday, June 24, 1948, Washington D.C. - d. Sunday, February 5, 2012, in a care home in Benicia, following a brave fight with cancer) on vocals and lead guitar, both formerly of Little Jimmie and The Goodtimers, and Gentle Annie. It was the Goodtimers' manager, roadie and maybe drummer, Walter James Herbert II (b. Thursday, February 5, 1948, Berkeley – Monday, October 25, 2021), aka ‘Herbie,’ aka ‘Bud,’ who came up with the idea of putting together the two best players in that band, Valory and Warner, with King and Denny (who Herbie know because he also attended Diablo Valley College). “[The Goodtimers played with them at the University of Nevada sometime earlier], and I heard that Frumious was gonna break up,” recalls Herbert. “I just said ‘Fuck it! I like that name, we'll take the name and put a new group together’, so I took Jack and David, and put them with Ross and Jimmy.” At that point, Herbie painted Frumious Bandersnatch's name over that of the Goodtimers on his '56 Chevy panel truck in honour of his friends’ new outfit, and was naturally elected road manager of the band. Meanwhile, Jim Nixon was again hired as manager of the new band too. “I get a phone call from Jack King regarding putting a new band together and was I interested in management?… Hell yeah! you don’t have to ask me twice,” confirms Nixon. “I loved the music business, despite careening from one heartbreak to another. If nothing else, I was good at booking gigs and pep talking. I was so lucky and blessed by this turn of events, as these guys were to become my lifelong compadres… through thick and thin, good times and bad.” Also at that point, Nixon going under the blues harp-playing alter ego of ‘Oakland Dupree.’ “We called him Oakland Debris!,” recalls David Denny. “But Jim was the one who inspired the whole meaning of what we were doing. He was the one who was saying we had to live together, we had to drop acid together, we had to be as one to really get the essence of what this was all about. He was a horrible businessman, but he had the concept.” “Okland Dupree was a name I thought up, as a combination of living in Oakland and the Grateful Dead’s ‘Dupree's Diamond Blues’,” also recalls Nixon. “You had to be there to understand those times. Sure, I said, ‘Let’s take acid and live together like the Dead, and rehearse and rehearse and get so tight,’ and it did work.” Anyway, the new-look Frumious Bandersnatch still missed a piece on their lineup, a rhythm guitar player with a strong soulful voice named Robert Paul 'Bobby' Winkelman (b. Monday, January 26, 1948, Alameda County, California - d. Tuesday, December 26, 2023). “Our first meeting went splendidly… but there was one more ingredient to be added to this joint, a lead singer,” confirms Nixon. After started his music career with a couple of amateur bands called the Moonrakers, and the Peace Mongers, Winkelman became one of the area’s top frontmen with the Epics, perhaps Contra Costa County's top teen outfit, whose lone 1967's single, ‘Homesick / Humpty Dumpty,’ was rightly regarded as a punk rock classic at the time.
 
Monday, January 1, 1968
In order to persuade Bobby Winkelman away from the locally successful Epics, the Frumious Bandersnatch had to drive down to Monterey (where the Epics had a club residency) on New Years Day, and literally kidnap him. “I'd just finished playing a set, and Herbie, Ross, Jimmy and Jack came and grabbed me, literally picked me up, put me in Herbie's panel truck and took me to a friend of Ross' house in nearby Carmel,” confirms Bobby. “They said ‘Well, you've got to be in our band!’ It was a friendly abduction, I went smiling, but they got me. It was easy because I wanted to do something different.” Now the “new” Frumious Bandersnach were officially born. “This band was very strong. Good players, good singers and most importantly, good original material,” points out Jack King. “So we were set on our adventure,” recalls Oakland Dupree. “Seven of us and we decided it was all for one and one for all… equal partners of everything… seven ways, the five musicians and Herbie and I. Herbie told me this was the template they used later for Journey.”
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FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH #3 (JANUARY 1, 1968 - OCTOBER 19, 1968 (?))
1) David Denny vocals, lead guitar
2) Jack King lead vocals, drums
3) Ross Valory vocals, bass
4) Jimmy Warner vocals, lead guitar
5) Bobby Winkelman vocals, rhythm guitar
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Frumious Bandersnatch #2, outside Ross Valory's house, Lafayette, 1968 - from left: Bobby Winkelman, Ross Valory, Jack King, Jimmy Warner, and (up) David Denny

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​January  1968
At the urging of Oakland Dupree, the new outfit immediately moved in together on Valory's parents' estate on Happy Valley Road in Lafayette. “The band wound up living in an A frame on a hill in Lafayette courtesy of Ross’ parents Mark and Kay Valory and their generosity… they even graciously invited me for Thanksgiving one year,” confirms Dupree. “We lived in an A frame on his [Ross] parents property high on a hill in Lafayette,” also recalls David Denny. “Ross live up in a tower that you had to climb a few stories on a latter to reach his room…what a cool place it was.” “Meanwhile FB Snatch (the abbreviation we stenciled on our amplifiers and speaker cabinets) got tighter as a band and as friends,” adds Dupree. “I booked some gigs, we started rolling, and things were very copacetic for the most part, despite some struggles (like eating) and setbacks.” As recalled by Dupree, it was here that the fledgling group woodshedded and worked tirelessly on developing their sound. Their new repertoire drew on several sources: material from the old line-up, like the perennial set-opener ‘You Gotta Believe’ written by Jack King and George Tickner, which the latter would teach to the band, thereby extending his influence upon Frumious; further melodic gems from the pen of the prolific Jack king, and tunes that newcomer Winkelman proffered, such as the upbeat, infectious ‘Chain Reaction.’ “The Epics actually did a much hipper version of that song,” points out Bobby. “But with Frumious, on the ranch, we were all for one and one of all. There were no ego problems, we really made a point of that. We were a family, and the idea was to grow mentally and spiritually, and we were trying to change the world, to make it a more positive place.” This spiritual unity that the band were developing had a powerful effect upon the songs. Though dirt poor, surviving hand-to-mouth on the meagre income from shows and the magnanimity of Valory's family, the Bandersnatch were experiencing a bonding that went beyond the cliché of, then prevalent, communal living. No further proof of this is needed than Jack King's majestic ‘What Is A Bandersnatch?,’ which with its Jorma Kaukoken-esque intro and melodic bass runs, was a highlight of the band'es early shows. “That song was a validation of my friendship and my feelings for the other members of the band,” confirms Jack. “What is a Bandersnatch? It's something deeply personal, beyond friendship, it was a commitment to ideals. We were young and vain and posturing, but really the core of it was the inspiration and ability to bring positive energy to the world through our music - Bobby and I were both in sync on that, and David's playing at the start of the song just absolutely captures the essence of that time period.”     

Early 1968: The New Monk, 2110 University Avenue at Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, Alameda County, California
"There was an nightclub to open on University Avenue, to be called the New Monk that I booked Frumious in to open it up," recalls Oakland Dupree. 

Saturday, February 3, 1968: Gymnasium, Las Lomas High School, 1460 South Main Street, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California
One show, started at 8:00pm.
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David Denny, Las Lomas High School's Gym, February 3, 1968

 
February 1968 (?): Pacific High Recording Co., Sausalito, Marin County, California
During this month (according to Jack King, although other sources say April-May) the band entered Pacific High, a very small recording studio opened a few years earlier by music engineer Peter Weston, and recorded three songs: Jack King’s ‘Hearts to Cry,’ Bobby Winkelman’s ‘Mysty Cloudy,’ and a new version of King & Tickner’s ‘Cheshire,’ that were released later that same month (again according to Jack King, although other sources say June or August) on the now infamous deep red translucent extend play, ‘Frumious Bandersnatch’ (Side A: ‘Hearts to Cry / Mysty Cloudy’ - Side B: ‘Cheshire’), “which I de facto produced and conceived, inspired by Country Joe and The Fish’s EP (not their music, but the concept),” recalls Oakland Dupree. “I contributed this idea to the band as a marketing tool and maybe win us a major recording contract.” “We pressed 1000 copies on purple vinyl, which today are valuable collector's item,” continues Dupree. “It is now worth hundreds of dollars to collectors. Sheee-it!… just saw one for sale at $1200! I sold a hundred or more to this mysterious hippie dude from Seattle called The Super Adaptoid… wonder if he adapted to 2020. [Anyway,] I still have one [copy], if all else fails, to sell for groceries.” The album was distributed locally through their own label called Muggles Gramophone Works, which was “a nod to marijuana, in fact there is a weed plant drawn on the back cover,” concludes Dupree. “I arranged the photography and artwork for the EP, Pacific High’s Peter engineered and put the product together and he was invaluable to its completion… we were disappointed to have to truncate a jam off a song (Cheshire) for record space. I went out and sold them all… wish we’d pressed more.” [The EP was reissued in the 1980s on a two coloured sleeve: black lettering on green field]. In 1995, the three songs were included in a Various Artists CD compilation released only in the UK and entitled: ‘Nuggets From The Golden State - The Berkeley Eps’ (Big Beat Records CDWIKD 153). Only ‘Heart to Cry’ was also included over the years in another three different Various Artists compilations; first only in the UK in 1983 on the album ‘Endless Journey Phase Three’ (Psycho 19), then only in Germany in 2000 on the CD ‘Endless Journey Phase I’ (Chocolate Fireguard CHOCCD1), and finally in 2007 on the 4-CD box set ‘Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970’ (Rhino Records R2 165564). In 2003, a previously unissued alternate version of ‘Hearts to Cry’ and a previously unissued full-length version of ‘Cheshire’ were released in Italy on their posthumous album: ‘Golden Sons Of Libra (The Studio Outtakes)’ (Get Back GET 624). Anyway, evidence suggests that the group may have been considering a full-fledged album at the time, because on that same recording session, apparently the only one they did with that line-up, they also recorded three other tracks: ‘Chain Reaction (Winkelman),’ ‘45 Cents (King, Winkelman, Denny, Warner, Valory),’ and ‘Pulpit Huff (aka ‘Pulpit Hough’) (King).’ All of these remained unissued until 1996 when they were finally released in the UK, on their posthumous CD: ‘A Young Man's Song’ (Big Beat Records CDWIKD 169). In 2003, ‘Chain Reaction’ and ‘Pulpit Huff’ were also released only in Italy on their posthumous album: ‘Golden Sons Of Libra (The Studio Outtakes)’ (Get Back GET 624).
 

EP front cover, 1968

EP (side A), 1968

EP 1980s reissue (front cover)

EP back cover, 1968

EP (side B), 1968

EP 1980s reissue (back cover)

EP 1980s reissue (side A)

Nuggets From The Golden State - The Berkeley EPs (front cover)

Nuggets From The Golden State - The Berkeley EPs (inside cover)

Nuggets From The Golden State - The Berkeley EPs (CD)

Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 (front cover)

Golden Sons Of Libra (The Studio Outtakes) (front cover)

Golden Sons Of Libra (The Studio Outtakes) (side A)

Nuggets From The Golden State - The Berkeley EPs (back cover)

Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 (back cover)

Golden Sons Of Libra (The Studio Outtakes) (back cover)

Golden Sons Of Libra (The Studio Outtakes) (side B)

​​1968: The Ark, Gate 6, Sausalito, Marin County, California
Also on the bill: Freedom Highway, The Transatlantic Railroad. One show, from 9:00pm to 6:00am.

 
1968: The Irwin Street Warehouse, 502 Irwin Street, San Rafael, Marin County, California
Also on the bill: Kindergarten, plus an unidentified "hippie blues band".

1968: Speedway Meadow, Golden Gate Park, 25th Avenue at Fulton Street, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Canned Heat. “We befriended Canned Heat after doing a free concert in Golden Gate Park together in 1968,” recalls Oakland Dupree. “That day, when FB Snatch was playing, Bob ‘The Bear’ Hite kept nudging me ‘…these cats are motherfuckers! …’ I made friends with Larry ‘The Mole’ Taylor the Heat’s bass man that day in the park also… great guy… Rest In Peace.”

Saturday, March 2, 1968: cafeteria, Berkeley High School, 1980 Allston Way, Berkeley, Alameda County, California
Also on the bill: Mad River. One show, from 9:00pm to 1:00am. 

Berkeley Barb (March 1, 1968)

Friday, March 8 - Saturday, March 9 (and maybe also Sunday, March 10), 1968: Straight Theater, 1702 Haight Street at Cole Street, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Mad River (8-9), Curley Cooke's Hurdy Gurdy Band (8-9). Lights by Brotherhood of Light (8-9). Frumious Bandersnatch were advertised to play at the Straight Theater only on March 8 and 9 (one show each day, from 9:00pm to 2:00am), but a live tape of one of their performances there survive and was dated as March 10, when actually the Straight presented only "free music" without any mention of Frumious Bandersnartch or any other acts. So it's possible that (a) the date on the tape box was written down wrong, or (b) the band played unbilled also on March 10. Anyway, a couple of songs taken from the above mentioned tape, a medley of Jack King & George Tickner's 'You Gove Believe' and King's 'Judgement Day', plus Jack King's 'What Is A Bandersnatch?', were released in 1996 only in the UK, on their posthumous CD: 'A Young Man's Song' (Big Beat Records CDWIKD 169).

Thursday, March 14, 1968: Gymnasium (?), Balboa High School, 1000 Cayuga Avenue, Mission Terrace, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Santana Blues Band, Celestial Hysteria. Lights by Garden of Delights. The show, which started at 8pm, was sponsored by the Peace and Freedom Festival and admission was free and open to the public.  

Wednesday, March 20, 1968: 'KMPX Strike Fund Benefit', Avalon Ballroom, 1268 Sutter Street at Van Ness Street, Polk Gulch, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Blue Cheer, Kaleidoscope, Grateful Dead, Jeremy Steig and The Satyrs, Charlie Musselwhite Southside Sound System, Santana Blues Band, Clover, Creedence Clearwater Revival (canceled), All Men Joy (canceled), Black Swan (canceled), Ace Of Cups (canceled).
  
Friday, March 29 - Saturday, March 30, 1968: Carousel Ballroom, 10 South Van Ness Avenue at 1545 Market Street, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Grateful Dead, Chuck Berry, Curley Cooke’s Hurdy Gurdy Band. Lights by Edison Light Co. Frumious Bandersnatch were not billed on the poster printed for these shows (March 29-31), but the Contra Costa Times newspaper dated March 24, advertised them to play there on March 29 and 30, maybe as a last minute addition or to fill in for the opening act (Curley Cooke’s Hurdy Gurdy Band). 

Sunday, March 31, 1968: 'Benefit for Port Chicago Vigil (aka Benefit Grass Bust / Port Chi Vigilers)', New Orleans House, 1505 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, Alameda County, California
Apparently Frumious Bandersnatch filled in for the early advertised Country Weather Band. Also on the bill: Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, Mad River, Notes From The Underground. One show, from 6:00pm to 1:00am.
 

Berkeley Barb (March 29, 1968)

 
Wednesday, April 10, 1968: ‘Dance in the Grass,’ Baseball Field, Pleasant Hill Park and Recreation District, 147 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, Contra Costa County, California
A free happening (which lasted until 10pm) sponsored by the Pleasant Hill Youth Commission and held to publicized the existence of Eastwest, a teen drop-in center. Also on the bill: Antique Shop, Beggar’s Opera, Bering Strait, Country Weather, Fox, Queen Lily’s Soap.   

Friday, ​April 19 - Sunday, April 21, 1968: Carousel Ballroom, 10 South Van Ness Avenue at 1545 Market Street, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Santana Blues Band, Erma Franklin. Lights by North American Ibis Alchemical Co. One show each day, started at 8:30pm. “Once at San Francisco’s Carousel Ballroom, we were were working a gig when Bobby Winkelman introduced me to Peter Tork of The Monkees,” recalls Oakland Dupree. “He looked me in the eye and warmly said ‘I feel like I’ve known you all my life’. I couldn’t tell if this was LA bullshit or not, but took it as a compliment…”
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Berkeley Barb (April 19, 1968)

Sunday, April 28, 1968: Constitution Park (aka Provo Park), 1901-1999 Allston Way at Grove Street, downtown Berkeley, Alameda County, California
A free afternoon outdoor concert started at 2:00pm. Also on the bill: Charlie Musselwhite, Crome Syrcus.

Berkeley Barb (May 3, 1968)

Friday, May 3 - Saturday, May  4, 1968: Concord Coliseum, 1825 Salvio Street, Concord, Contra Costa County, California
Also on the bill: Archie Bell and His Drells, Overbrook Express. One show each day, from 8:00pm to 12 midnight.
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Sunday, May 5, 1968: 'Rock Dance - McCarthy for President Benefit', Straight Theater, 1702 Haight Street at Cole Street, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Youngbloods, Country Weather, A.B. Skhy Blues Band. One show, from 4:00pm to 8:00pm. 
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Thursday, May 16 - Friday, May 17, 1968: Straight Theater, 1702 Haight Street at Cole Street, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California (Frumious Bandersnatch canceled?)
Also on the bill: Mad River (canceled?). Lights by Straight Lightning. Frumious Bandersnatch, along with Mad River, were advertised to play here on May 16 and 17 (one show each day, from 9:00pm to 1:00am) according to a postcard printed by Straight Theater, but in a supposedly more contemporary Berkeley Barb's editions of May 10 and May 17, Indian Headband (16), All Men Joy (17), and Curley Cooke's Hurdy Gurdy Band (17) were instead advertised to play there on the same two nights.  
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Thursday, May 30, 1968: ‘Benefit,’ football field, Acalanes High School, 1200 Pleasant Hill Road, Lafayette, Contra Costa Country, California
Also on the bill: Steve Miller Band, Loading Zone, Country Weather, Family Circle, Maggie’s Farm, Beggars Opera. The show, which lasted from 11:00am to 6:00pm, was a benefit for the Mol, Lafayette’s Teen Drop-In Center. “The gig was on a flatbed truck on the football field at Acalanes,” recalls eyewitness David L Mahler. “The residents on the hill behind the high school called the police about the noise so in mid-concert they turned the truck around so that the bands played back toward the high school.”
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Friday, May 31 - Saturday, June 1, 1968: Concord Coliseum, 1825 Salvio Street, Concord, Contra Costa County, California
Also on the bill: Country Weather.
 
Sunday, June 2, 1968: Constitution Park (aka Provo Park), 1901-1999 Allston Way at Grove Street, downtown Berkeley, Alameda County, California
A free afternoon outdoor concert started at 2:00pm. Also on the bill: Notes From The Underground, Daemon.
 
Friday, June 14 - Sunday, June 16, 1968: Avalon Ballroom, 1268 Sutter Street at Van Ness Street, Polk Gulch, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Clear Light, Buddy Guy. Lights by Little Jo's Electroluminescence. These shows, which lasted from 9:00pm to 2:00am each day, were promoted by Family Dog, a production company run by the great late Chet Helms, former manager of Big Brother and The Holding Company. 
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Berkeley Barb (June 12, 1968)

 
Friday, June 21 - Saturday, June 22, 1968: 'In Dance-Concert', Kaleidoscope, 6230 Sunset Boulevard, Downtown Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California 
Also on the bill: The Byrds (21-22), Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (21-22), plus Dr Terror's House of Horrors film. Lights by Bob Holt. Two shows a day, 9:00pm and 11:00pm, promoted by Canned Heat's manager Skip Taylor. "The Kaleidoscope was an interesting venue," reflects Oakland Dupree. "They had a circular rotating stage. Picture a pie cut into three identical pieces… each of the three bands had a section to set up their gear and drums back to back forming a triangle in the center. After the first band's set, the crew took the mikes and stands off the circle, and rotated the stage so the second band’s equipment set up faced the audience, and the stagehands set up the mikes, same process for the headliner. Very cool and efficient." 

Sunday, July 7 - Wednesday, July 10, 1968: Sanctuary, Highway 50, South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County, California
Also on the bill: Queen Lily Soap, Chambers Bros. Lights by New Bop City. One show a day, from 9:00pm to 1:00am. 
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Sunday, July 14, 1968: outdoor venue, Canyon, Contra Costa and Alameda Counties, California
Also on the bill: Dancing Food And Entertainment, Shiva's Headband, Country Weather, Curley Cooke's Hurdy Gurdy Band, A.B. Skhy. Lights by Midnight Supply Light Company.
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Berkeley Barb (July 19, 1968)

 
Wednesday, July 17, 1968: Straight Theater, 1702 Haight Street at Cole Street, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Mad River, Kwan-Ditos. One show, from 9:00pm to 2:00am.   
 
Friday, July 19 - Saturday, July 20, 1968: Hippodrome, Front Street at West G Street, downtown San Diego, California
Also on the bill: Bo Diddley, Maya.
 
Sunday, July 21, 1968: 'Benefit', Actor's Workshop, 55 Colton Street, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Flamin' Groovies, Tom Boo. The benefit, which started at 8:00pm, was sponsored by The Haight Referee Group and it was held to help pay bail money for the kids picked up in the street sweep.
 
Sunday, August 11, 1968: Constitution Park (aka Provo Park), 1901-1999 Allston Way at Grove Street, downtown Berkeley, Alameda County, California
A free afternoon outdoor concert. Also on the bill: Charlie Musselwhite, Shiva's Headband.

Sunday, August 18, 1968: ‘Play in the sand - dance groove,’ Deno and Carlo's Naval Base (aka Muir Beach Lodge), Muir Beach, Marin County, California
An afternoon free outdoor concert. Also on the bill: Devil’s Kitchen, Orange Jud. Co., Spring Fever. 

Saturday, August 31 or Sunday, September 1 or Monday, September 2, 1968: 'Sky River Rock Festival & Lighter Than Air Fair - Benefit For American Indians & Black People', Betty Nelson's Organic Raspberry Farm, a 40-acre pasture on the banks of the Skykomish River, just outside Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington  
The 1st annual edition of the Sky River Rock Festival was held from Saturday, August 31 to Monday, September 2. Also on the bill: Boogie (31-1), All Men Joy, Black Snake, Buffy St. Marie, Byron Pope Ensemble, Congress Of Wonders, Country Joe & The Fish, Dr. Humbeads New Tranquility String Band, Flamin' Groovies, Freedom Highway, Gale Garnett, H.P. Lovecraft, Juggernaut, Marvin Gardens, Mystic Knights Of The Sea, Nina & Catana, Phoenix, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Salvation, Santana, Sons Of Champlin (2), Grateful Dead (2), Big Mama Thornton (2), James Cotton Blues Band (2), Dino Valenti, Youngbloods, Anonymous Artists Of America, Blues Feedback, Sandy Bull, Cleanliness And Godliness Skiffle Band, Country Weather, Easy Cbair, John Fahey, Floating Bridge, Mitch Greenhill, It's A Beautiful Day (2), Kaleidoscope, Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, My Indole Ring, New Lost City Ramblers, Peaut Butter Conspiracy, Richard Pryor, Billy Roberts, San Francisco Mime Troupe Marching Band, Alice Stuart Thomas, Josh White, Buddha (MC). Lights by Retina Circus.
 

Friday, September 6 - Sunday, September 8, 1968: Retinal Circus, 1024 Davie Street at Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (canceled)
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misprinted poster

Friday, September 6, 1968: ‘Street Festival’, Lytton Plaza, 200 University Avenue, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California
Also on the bill: Stonehenge, Boogie. One outdoor show, started at 7:30pm. 
 
Wednesday, September 25, 1968: ‘Benefit for Peace & Freedom Cabaret,’ Fillmore West, 10 South Van Ness Avenue at 1545 Market Street, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Steve Miller Blues Band, Flamin' Groovies, It's A Beautiful Day, The Womb, Cleveland Wrecking Company, Santana, Country Weather, Pitschel Players, Black & White Dialogue Inc. Lights by The Garden of Delights. The benefit show, which lasted from 6:00pm to 2:00am, was organized by the Peace and Freedom Party to raised funds for a proposed Peace and Freedom Cabaret.   
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Sunday, September 29, 1968: 'Free You Be-In', El Camino Park, across from Stanford Shopping Center, 101 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California
Also on the bill: Steve Miller Band (with Carlos Santana as guest), Freedom Highway, Phoenix, Youngbloods (canceled), Quicksilver Messenger Service (canceled), Ace Of Cups (canceled), Cold Blood (canceled), Flamin' Groovies (canceled).
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Frumious Bandersnatch #3, El Camino Park, Palo Alto, September 29, 1968 - from left: Jack King, David Denny, and Jimmy Warner

Frumious Bandersnatch #3, El Camino Park, Palo Alto, September 29, 1968 - from left: Bobby Winkelman and Ross Valory

Tuesday, October 1, 1968: 'Love-U District Festival - Benefit For New American Community', University District, Seattle, King County, Washington
A street festival/benefit sponsored by U District Merchants and presented by Asuw, which started at the crossroad between University Way Northeast and Northeast 47th Street at 7:00pm, and then at 11:00pm moved to Drumheller Fountain (aka Frosh Pond) on Northeast 45th Street and Brooklyn Avenue, until sunrise. Also on the bill: Santana, Youngbloods, Country Weather, Juggernaut, Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, Congress Of Wonders, Alice Stuart, Cliff Wagner & The 2nd Coming, Floating Bridge, Caliope, and "the lovely Diane doing her dance of death". 
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Sunday, October 6, 1968: Constitution Park (aka Provo Park), 1901-1999 Allston Way at Grove Street, downtown Berkeley, Alameda County, California
A free afternoon (1:00pm to 6:00pm) outdoor concert. Also on the bill: Sons Of Champlin, Santana, Youngbloods. Ross Valory's last gig with the band. Ross' replacement, Jack Notestein, was by chance in the audience that day. “Yes, I moved to Berkeley [from Sarasota, Florida] and was living with my older brother when I went to a free concert at Provo Park,” confirms Jack. “I was captivated by Santana, Sons Of Champlin and a group of youngsters about my age… FBSnatch (Herbie later coined that one when stenciling our equipment for ID at concerts).”
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Berkeley Barb (October 4, 1968)

 
Sunday, October 20, 1968 (?)
A couple of weeks after saw the band played at the Provo Park, Jack Notestein (b. Jasper Benton Notestein, Tuesday, January 25, 1949, Sarasota, Florida), formerly of The Last Knights, The Total Strangers, and The Hi Five, replaced Ross Valory on vocals and bass (Valory went to play with Faun, Wizard, Steve Miller Band, and Journey). “I wasn't bored with Frumious, but I had other musical things I wanted to do,” recalls Ross about why he decided to quit the band. “I was sort of chasing after George Tickner and his music, for which I had a great affinity [Valory subsequently joined Tickner in the band Faun].” “Ross Valory, our heart and soul as an on stage performer, has decided he wants to move on and all the persuasion by me, Herbie and the rest of the band members will not sway him,” also recalls Oakland Dupree. “George Tickner and Jonathan Ayers have somehow enchanted him, is my belief, and there is no talking him out of leaving. We, as a band are shell shocked.” “In many ways it was a sort of immature or premature decision, and maybe I didn't give it a chance,” adds Ross. “I did have certain regrets about leaving. I really missed everybody, but Jack Notestein was certainly a worthy replacement. He could sing and play well.” “Ross Valory left the band and this left a big hole but was soon filled by the very capable Jack Notestein,” confirms Jack King. “I had been jamming with the owner of Prune Music in Berkeley - mostly easy blues stuff - and he told me that FB was looking for a bass player,” recalls Jack Notestein. “[So] I contacted Jim Nixon and he set up the audition. Obviously, they were frantic to find a replacement for Ross early enough so [their forthcoming] Fillmore gig [in November] didn't need to be cancelled. [So I] drove to Ross' family compound off Happy Valley Road in Lafayette where they practiced and we seemed to be a good fit. Ross was hepful and I even stayed a night or two in his ‘tower.’ Liked his dad a lot. I played by ear, as we all did, and quickly picked up their original music. It took at least 2 weeks to feel comfortable with the material. I enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate on the original tunes. Our stars seemed to be aligned as I too was an Aquarius in good company. We had 4 weeks to learn 2 sets for a Fillmore gig with Moody Blues.” By the way, before Jack Notestein was hired, their former bass player Brian Hough also auditioned for the job and “[he] has held it against me and Jack King for a half-century,” recalls Oakland Dupree, “but time heals all wound… even in rock and roll, however [he] channels Bob Seger… rock and roll never forgets. Today [he] is a highly skilled Fender electric bass guitarist.”
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FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH #4 (OCTOBER 20, 1968 (?) - MARCH or APRIL 1969)
1) David Denny
2) Jack King
3) Jimmy Warner
4) Bobby Winkelman
5) Jack Notestein vocals, bass
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Frumious Bandersnatch , 1968/69 - from left: Bobby Winkelman, Jack King, David Denny, Jack Notestein, and Jimmy Warner

Frumious Bandersnatch #4, 1968/69 - from left: Jack King, Jack Notestein, David Denny, Bobby Winkelman, and Jimmy Warner

Frumious Bandersnatch #4, 1968/69 - from left: David Denny, Jack King, Bobby Winkelman, Jack Notestein, and Jimmy Warner

​November 1968: Golden State Recorders, 665 Harrison Street, San Francisco, California
"Nick Venet of Capital Records paid for a Frumious Bandersnatch demo session at Golden State Recorders with 'The Baron' Leo De Gar Kulka, the original bouncing Czech, at the controls," recalls Oakland Dupree. "He was famous for 'Tequila' by The Champs." That day the band recorded Jack King's 'Woodrose Syrup' and Bobby Winkelman's 'Can-A-Bliss'. However, they failed the audition and the deal never materialized. "I'll cop the error there, doing the long songs," continues Dupree. "I wanted to show off the band’s instrumental prowess and had them record a long jam tune. BIG mistake! I didn’t realize Venet had produced The Beach Boys, the best vocal group of all, and used the Wrecking Crew, the greatest studio players there were. They might have wanted to hear hits. We should have submitted our best pop melodies and harmonies. I really fucked up on that one. To top it off, we had a lawyer, Richard Hodge, and he's the one who made those decisions, though under my direction. He's the one who played hardball with the record companies, seeking a large cash advance on royalties. Ralph J. Gleason, citing Creedence Clearwater Revival, advised me to forget about the huge advance and get a record out on the market, no matter the label, and get royalties later and make money touring. Of course Ralph had an interest in Fantasy, CCR’s label, but still his counsel was sound and I failed to heed it. We should have done a deal for less of an advance, just to get an album out. The band deserved to a have a well-produced album, and if it's my fault that they didn't, then I accept culpability for it. We also should have shortened our name to FB Snatch for easier marketing and commercial purposes." Anyway, the two tracks remained in the Capitol's vault at least until 1996 when they were finally released in the UK, on their posthumous CD: 'A Young Man's Song' (Big Beat Records CDWIKD 169). In 2003, 'Woodrose Syrup' and a previously unissued full-length version of 'Can-A-Bliss' were also released only in Italy on their posthumous album: 'Golden Sons Of Libra (The Studio Outtakes)' (Get Back GET 624).
 
Thursday, November 21 - Sunday, November 24, 1968: Fillmore West, 10 South Van Ness Avenue at 1545 Market Street, San Francisco, California
Jack Notestein's debut gigs with the band. Also on the bill: Moody Blues, Chicago Transit Authority. Lights by Holy See. These shows, which lasted from 8pm (or 8:30pm) to 2am, were presented by the great late Bill Graham. “He liked the band,” recalls Oakland Dupree. “Bill's validation meant the world to us and boosted our flagging confidence.” In fact, when Graham started his own booking agency, Millard Agency, sometime later, he signed Frumious Bandersnatch too. “One day Bill said, ‘OK, we’re starting this Millard booking agency, do you want to be with it?’,” confirms Dupree. “So we signed with them, but we had a nemesis in the person of agent Barry Imhoff, the guy who dealt with us there, who eventually not doing anything for us and sabotaged our booking possibilities. He says, ‘Sorry, can't get you any dates, nobody wants you,’ so due to lack of gigs, we were forced to quit the agency and I went back to booking the band, almost instantly filling our calendar, getting all these high school dates, making money - not the greatest aesthetically, but people loved to hear them out in Contra Costa and all over the Bay Area.” “A couple years later, our partner and pal Herbie, now working for Santana, exacted just payback on Barry, essentially reducing him to the piss boy on Santana’s tour. He deserved it,” concludes Dupree.  
 

Berkeley Barb (November 15, 1968)

San Francisco Examiner (November 17, 1968)

Billboard (March 22, 1969)

Thursday, November 28, 1968
"Bill Graham had us and all SF bands to Fillmore West for Thanksgiving dinner and afterwards we sat on the floor of the ballroom and watched the Bob Dylan movie Don’t Look Back (1967) which Bill had projected on a large screen," recalls Oakland Dupree. "Thanks for the great memories, Bill!" 

Friday, December 20 - Saturday, December 21, 1968: Sound Factory, 1217 Alhambra Boulevard, Sacramento, California  

Late 1968/Early 1969: Spartan Stadium, San Jose State College campus, 1257 South 10th Street at East Alma Avenue, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California
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Frumious Bandersnatch #4, outside the Spartan Stadium, San Jose, 1968/69 - from left: Jimmy Warner, David Denny, Jack Notestein, Jack King, Bobby Winkelman, and Herbie Herbert

Bobby Winkelman, Spartan Stadium, San Jose, 1968/69

Frumious Bandersnatch #4, Spartan Stadium, San Jose, 1968/69 - from left: Jack Notestein, Jack King, and Jimmy Warner

Saturday, January 11, 1969: 'Dance Concert', Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 1351 Maple Avenue, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California
Also on the bill: Youngbloods. Lights by Garden Of Delights. One show, from 8:00pm to 12 midnight, presented by P.S.A.
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The Press Democrat (December 29, 1968)

The Press Democrat (January 6, 1969)

  
Thursday, January 16, 1969: 'Support The Oakland 7! Benefit Rock Dance', Pauley Ballroom, Student Union Building, UC Berkeley (University of California at Berkeley) campus, 2475 Bancroft Way at Sather Road, Berkeley, Alameda County, California
This concert, which started at 8:00pm and was sponsored by Stop The Draft Week Defense Committee, was a benefit for the so-called 'Oakland 7', a group of anti-Vietnam War activists arrested for allegedly conspiring to organize an illegal demostration in October 1967 (they were acquitted in March 1969). Also on the bill: Sons Of Champlin, Mad River, Other Half, Mint Tattoo, Steve Miller Band, All Men Joy, Little John, The Lamb, Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, Chet Helms (MC). Lights by Optics Illusion.
 

San Francisco Express Times (January 14, 1969)

Berkeley Barb (January 10, 1969)

Berkeley Barb (January 10, 1969)

Friday, January 31 - Saturday, February 1, 1969: TNT-Alpine Meadows, one mile south of Olympic Valley (aka Squaw Valley) in the Powder Bowl, about ten miles West of Lake Tahoe, County Of Placer, California
 
Monday, February 24 - Thursday, February  27, 1969: The Matrix, 3138 Fillmore Street, Marina District, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Mickey Hart and The Heartbeats (24-26). 
 
Saturday, March 1, 1969: Walnut Creek Armory, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California
Frumious Bandersnatch and Spector Majore played a benefit dance to help out the San Francisco Youth Guidance Center. 

Saturday, March 1 - Sunday, March 2, 1969: Fillmore West, 10 South Van Ness Avenue at 1545 Market Street, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Grateful Dead, Pentangle. Lights by Brotherhood of Light. These shows, which started at 8:30pm each day, were presented by Bill Graham. Frumious Bandersnatch filled in at last minute for the "illness" Sir Douglas Quintet. "The evening began with a disappointment, as illness caused the slated Sir Douglas Quintet to be a no-show on Saturday," confirms eyewitness Michael Parrish. "In their place was Frumious Bandersnatch, who again delivered a solid set of straight rock and roll. As was the convention up until sometime in 1969, the show's format called for all three bands to play twice, so the opening set was less than an hour in length." "Bill Graham fired them [Sir Douglas Quintet] because he [Doug Sahm] brought up Martin Fierro's Shades of Joy during their set after Bill said no," points out Oakland Dupree. "I was hanging out and Bill hired us to finish the weekend [Saturday and Sunday]… too bad it came on those conditions, personally I loved Sir Doug and Shades of Joy - as did Jerry Garcia  who was  not  pleased with Bill for his actions, but was still gracious with us as he was a musician's musician."
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Frumious Bandersnatch #4, Fillmore West, Marchy 1, 1969 - from left: Bobby Winkelman, Jack Notestein, and Jack King

Friday, March 14, 1969: 'Dance-Concert', Pavilion Building, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, 344 Tully Road, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California
Also on the bill: Santana, It's A Beautiful Day, Stained Glass, Country Weather. Lights by Missionary Lights. Sound by D-Hi. The show, which lasted from 8:30pm to 1:00am, was presented by N.B.C. Productions. 

 
Friday, March 28, 1969: Gymnasium, Las Lomas High School, 1460 South Main Street, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California
The show, which lasted from 8:00pm to 11:30pm, was presented by Los Lomas. Also on the bill: Amigos. Lights by Spectral Euphoria.
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Saturday, March 29, 1969: 'Rockarama!!! 5 Days Of Music At The Avalon Ballroom', Avalon Ballroom, 1268 Sutter Street at Van Ness Street, Polk Gulch, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Clover, Shades Of Joy, Country Weather. Lights by Holy See. The show, which lasted from 8:30pm (or 9:00pm) to 2:00am, was presented by Sound Proof.
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Berkeley Barb (March 21, 1969)

 
March or April 1969
The band fired Jimmy Warner (he subsequently retired from the music business and became a very talented water color painter and stained glass artist in Benicia, California, where he had a artists shop called Lotus Sun Designs). "We were all getting to a frustated point we couldn't figure out how to get past this wall that we had gotten to," Jimmy recalls, "and that was really frustrating for a hard-working band. We were all high-energy guys so we were pretty intense with each other. How do we do this, what do we do, c'mon let's go. I looked at it kinda the same way Ross had done. We just got to that point: do we cook it longer, or do we take it out of the oven, change the recipe, what is it? We couldn't figure out what it was. So I just said hey, packed up, moved to San Francisco, and became a hippie!" "I was not in on the decision to let Jimmy go but for some reason, the idea behind it seemed to be a 'renewal' or 're-shaping' of the group image…whatever that was," Jack Notestein recalls. "We thought we were 'evolving' and I was never sure why we asked Jimmy to leave. It wasn't his decision and I think it was an attempt to keep the boat afloat. 'Corporate efficiency.' There may have been feelings of which I was unaware, but I did like Jimmy a lot and he projected well on stage. He added a spark on stage that I certainly lacked. His solos sounded like he was wielding the 'Vorpal Blade'. It was bitter-sweet and Jimmy took it well." "We were really just in different places, and the kind of things we were beginning to do just did not lend themselves to his style," Jack King explain. "Jimmy was Ross' friend, and when Ross left there wasn't the personal chemistry between the rest of us and Jimmy, that Ross had had with him. [So] we went on as a quartet. We were evolving and improving as singers, writers and players." 
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​FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH #5 (MARCH or APRIL 1969 - SEPTEMBER or OCTOBER 1969)
1) David Denny
2) Jack King
3) Bobby Winkelman
4) Jack Notestein
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​Sunday, April 6, 1969: Constitution Park (aka Provo Park), 1901-1999 Allston Way at Grove Street, downtown Berkeley, Alameda County, California
A free afternoon (1:30pm 'till sundown) outdoor concert sponsored by the Berkeley Park and Recreation Department. Also on the bill: Sons Of Champlin, Lamb, Ace Of Cups, All Spice Rhythm Band.
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Berkeley Barb (April 4, 1969)

​Friday, April 11, 1969: 'The Big Gig', United Auto Workers Hall, 45201 Fremont Boulevard, Fremont, Alameda County, California
Also on the bill: Loading Zone, Whytehaven. Lights by Abercrombie. The dance, which lasted from 8:00pm to 1:00am, was sponsored by the student body of Williamson High School in Fremont. 

The Argus (March 27, 1969)

The Argus (April 10, 1969)

Tuesday, April 22 - Thursday, April 24, 1969: Avenue Theatre, 2650 San Bruno Avenue, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Linn County, Boogie, plus film shorts from the 30s. One show a day, from 8:00pm to 1:00am, promoted by Sounds Unlimited. On Thursday, supposedly during their rehearsals for the upcoming evening show, Frumious Bandersnatch were filmed by KQED, a Bay Area Educational Television Association, for a unidentified television show hosted by the late Bob Clark. The band played live (with no audience) Bobby Winkelman's 'Rosemary's Baby', Jack King's 'Woodrose Syrup' and 'LKT' (the latter a song about Jack's girlfriend of the time), plus a new song titled 'Paper', an off-the-cuff thing done on the spot and credited to King, Denny, Winkelman, Notestein, and even Bob Clark! These four tracks remained in the KQED's vault until 1996 when, at least two of them, 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Paper', were released only in the UK on their posthumous CD: 'A Young Man's Song' (Big Beat Records CDWIKD 169). 

Spring 1969: Gymnasium, San Ramon Valley High School, 501 Danville Boulevard, Danville, Contra Costa County, California
Also on the bill: Johnny Stallion. Lights by Spectral Euphoria. Frumious Bandersnatch also backed up their former founding member Brian Hough, aka Johnny Stallion, that day. "I did maybe three or four 50's songs with them backing me up," Brian confirms. "I don't remember the songs."
 
May 1969 (?)
Jack Notestein and his girlfriend Nancy, along with David Denny and Bobby Winkelman, rented a house at 10 (?) Carmello Road in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California. "[There] we set up our new practice space in the cellar so the whole group was there almost daily," Jack Notestein recalls. "Nancy and I were married [on June 29] in the beautiful back yard which faced east, looking out at Mt. Diablo. Could have bought it back then for $80K but that was not in our budget back then."
 
Friday, May 16, 1969: Gymnasium, Campolindo High School, 300 Moraga Road, Moraga, Contra Costa County, California
One show, from 8:00pm to 12 midnight. Also on the bill: Grateful Dead, Velvet Hammer. Lights by Primastic Revenge. "We were anxious about playing with The Dead but to us, it seemed the kids there appreciated our energy and we played well," recalls Jack Notestein. "Owsley was there as always and had an interesting contraption that looked like a trolley conductor's coin dispenser attached to his belt from which he could 'dispense' droplets of 'magic'. The group began to feel 'inspired' about 2 songs into our set…it was truly an out of body experience and as I remember, we were all glad to be able to play, sing and look normal doing it. You never forget that feeling…" "Frumious Bandersnatch opened for the Grateful Dead at Campolindo and Bear (Owsley Stanley) dosed most of the student body with LSD," also recalls Oakland Dupree. 
 

Frumious Bandersnatch #5, Campolindo High School's Gym, May 16, 1969 - from left: Jack Notestein, Jack King, Bobby Winkelman, and David Denny

Frumious Bandersnatch #5, Campolindo High School's Gym, May 16, 1969 - from left: Jack Notestein and Jack King

Saturday, May 17, 1969: Pleasant Hill Park, 147 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, Contra Costa County, California
A free afternoon (1:00pm to 6:00pm) outdoor concert. Also on the bill: Lazarus, Country Weather, and more.
  
Sunday, May 18, 1969: Peninsula Crisis Intervention Center (aka The House), Westminster House of the First Presbyterian Church, 457 Kingsley Street, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California
Frumious Bandersnatch, along with the Freedom Blues Band and Dark Carnival, played a free afternoon drop-by session from 2pm to 6pm.  

Friday, May 23 - Sunday, May 25, 1969: 'The Aquarian Family Festival - Free with Love', football practice field near Spartan Stadium, San Jose State College campus, at the corner of East Alma Avenue and Senter Road, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California
The Aquarian Family Festival was held at a football practice field across from the Spartan stadium, in the San Jose State College campus, in conjunction with and in contrast to the most famous '2nd Annual Northern California Folk-Rock Festival', which was held that same three days at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, less than a mile away. It was presented by Dirt Cheap Productions in co-operation with the Institute For Research and Understanding, The 13th Tribe, The Druid Corporation, the San Jose State Experimental College, and the San Jose Free University. It was a free festival and all the bands played for free. Apparently the organizers simply called every band they knew, and a lot of them showed up. The agreement with the San Jose State College required that people could be present only during the performance of music. Because part of the purpose of the concert was to provide a safe place to stay for tens of thousands of people traveling to town to attend another concert being held in town about a mile away at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, music had to be performed continuously from the start at 12 noon on Friday until the close of the festival at 4:00pm on Sunday afternoon. Thus the festival featured 52 hours of continuous music. The crowds were huge, with tens of thousands going in and out every day. The festival was produced in 10 days at a total cost of $968 by approximately 30 people who were volunteers with the Institute for Research and Understanding whose Dirt Cheap Productions unit produced the concert. Assistance was also given by the musicians' cooperative Druid Corporation House and the San Jose Free University. Legal services were paid for by the band Led Zeppelin which did not perform at the festival (they were already booked to perform at the "rival" Northern California Folk-Rock Festival). A specially constructed stage allowed one band to set up while another played. Apparently, bands simply showed up at the site and signed up, like signing up for a tennis court. Besides hippie solidarity, playing a free concert was a good way for a local band in the Bay Area to get known. Somewhere between 20,000 and 80,000 people attended the Festival, and for many of these groups this would have been the biggest crowd they had played for. Also on the bill: Ace of Cups, Womb, Linn County, All Men Joy, Throckmorton, Tree of Life, Weird Herald, Last Mile, Crabs, Gentle Dance, Nymbus, Crow, Divine Madness, Rubber Maze, Birth, Red Grass Green Smoke, Libras, Sable, Greater Carmichael Traveling Street Band, Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, Glass Mountain, Denver, Beggars Opera, Elgin Marble, Joy of Cooking, Lamb, Sons of Champlin, Mother Ball, Sounds Unlimited Blues Band, Zephyr Grove, Morning Glory, Rising Tide, Old Davis, Mad River, High Country, Sandy Bull, Warren Purcell, Flamin' Groovies, Living Color, Stoned Fox, Rejoice, South Bay Experimental Flash, Mt. Rushmore, Steve Miller Band, Boz Scaggs, Scratch, Jefferson Airplane (25), The Jimi Hendrix Exprience (25; came late and couldn't play). Lights by MU. Master of Cerimonies: Eric 'Big Daddy' Nord, and Norman Lane (former child star of Quiz Kids, a radio and television series of the 1940s and 1950s). 
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Friday, May 30 - Saturday, May 31, 1969: Poppycock, 135 University Avenue at High Street, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz County, California 
One show each day, started at 9:30pm. Also on the bill: Beggar's Opera. Lights by Glare. A live tape of Frumious Bandersnatch's performance from one of these two shows survive (broadcasted live on KZSU-FM, Stanford University’s radio station), and one song, Jack King's 'Black Box', was released in 1996 only in the UK on their posthumous CD: 'A Young Man's Song' (Big Beat Records CDWIKD 169).
 
Tuesday, June 17 - Thursday, June 19, 1969: George's Log Cabin, 2629 Bayshore Boulevard, Visitacion Valley, San Francisco, California
Also on the bill: Beggars Opera. One show each day, from 9:00pm to 2:00am.
 

Berkeley Barb (June 13, 1969)

Friday, June 20, 1969: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, 7000 Coliseum Way, Oakland, Alameda County, California
Also on the bill: Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, Grass Roots, Flamin' Groovies, Smyth (cancelled). The show, which started at 8:00pm, was presented by KSAN in conjunction with Concert Associates. 

​Saturday, June 21, 1969: De La Salle High School, 1130 Winton Drive, Concord, Contra Costa County, California
Also on the bill: Beggars Opera. One show, started at 8:00pm.

Tuesday, June 24 or Wednesday, June 25 or Thursday, June 26, 1969
After the failed deal with Capitol Records the previous year, another possible deal with another major label, MGM Records, also failed that year. "We were set to sign a multi year, multi record deal with MGM Records, when a personal issue between one of our troop and MGM's A&R rep, blew up and killed the deal," confirms Jack King. "We were devastated! We had scraped and clawed so hard to land this deal, when it blew up we just couldn't go any further." "I’m shopping the band to record labels trying to get a deal. Here is where, as a band manager, I made critical errors," recalls Oakland Dupree. "Forget that I was 21 years old and that getting high and chasing women is what drove me… I had that in common with most of my contemporaries. My strategy was flawed by naivete. All the Los Angeles record bosses (A&R men and producers) had a uniform crowned by heavy leather jackets with huge lapels and collars, which naturally, we mocked. I had a meeting at the Jack Tar hotel on Van Ness in San Francisco with Richard Delvy, head of MGM records. Raul Matute and Lydia Pense of Cold Blood were there also Richard was courting Cold Blood in addition to Frumious, and CB were gigging that night at Fillmore West. I proceeded to get helplessly drunk on Delvy’s booze and put him off and destroyed my credibility as a band manager in his eyes. He did sign Cold Blood, a soul band with horns."

Friday, July 4 - Saturday, July 5, 1969: The Barn, Rio Nido, Russian River, Sonoma County, California
One show each day, started at 8:00pm. Also on the bill: Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, Weird Herald. "There was a bikers' riot there that had to be put down by the police," Jack Notestein recalls about one of these two evening shows. "Riot gear, smoke cannons and lot's of excitement. Someone from our building (one floor above us) threw a bottle at a police car and they stormed the building. Ask Jack King about that…he was wrongly accused of course."
 
Thursday, July 10, 1969: 'Black Students Union benefit for the San Francisco State Legal Defense Fund', Gymnasium, College Of Marin, 835 College Avenue, Kentfield, Marin County, California
Also on the bill: Cold Blood, Sanpaku, Sweet Linda Divine, Country Weather, Clover, Transatlantic Railroad, Katastahana.
 
Thursday, July 17, 1969: Bandshell, Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Unified School District, San Francisco, California
A free afternoon (12 noon to 5:00pm) outdoor show presented by People Space: C.O.M.E. Also on the bill: Pacesetters, Natural Soul Band, Experience Of Sound, Black Light Explosion (Zack Thompson Dancers).

The San Francisco Examiner (July 16, 1969)

Thursday, July 24, 1969: 'Canyon Benefit: Legal Defense', Gymnasium, Saint Mary's College of California, 1928 St Marys Road, Moraga, Contra Costa County, California
One show, started at 8:00pm. Also on the bill: Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, The Minks, Paul Arnoldi, The Ace Of Cups, Country Joe and The Fish, Joy Of Cooking, The Crabs. Lights by Little Princess 109. Canyon was - and remains - a tiny East Bay community, not even a town, just over the Berkeley hills. It was oddly isolated, and a lot of avant-garde filmmakers lived there. The unincorporated area was small, and had only one business that I am aware of (the General Store), so periodic benefits helped out the community. Canyon remains a unique and peculiar place, as far as I know. 
 

 
Wednesday, July 30 - Thursday, July 31, 1969: Poppycock, 135 University Avenue at High Street, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz County, California 
One show each day, started at 9pm. Also on the bill: Fritz. 

Friday, August 1 - Sunday, August 3, 1969: Fillmore West, 10 South Van Ness Avenue at 1545 Market Street, San Francisco, California
Frumious Bandersnatch filled in at last minute for Baby Huey and The Baby Sitters. Also on the bill: Everly Brothers, Sons Of Champlin. Lights by Little Princess 109. These shows, which started at 8:30pm each day, were promoted by Bill Graham Presents In San Francisco.

Saturday, August 9, 1969: ‘3rd Annual Synanon Free Fair,’ Rock Stage, 7th Street and Market Street (next to where the Grove Shafter Freeway meets Highway 880), Oakland, Alameda County, California
A 14-hour (10:00am to 12 midnight) free outdoor concert at a Street Fair in Oakland for as many as 75,000 people. The event was supported by the City of Oakland. ‘Synanon’ was a drug rehabilitation program that put addicts to work doing a variety of community activities, thus becoming a sort of self-funding entity. Synanon had good relations with the City of San Francisco, and they had put on very successful Street Fairs in San Francisco in 1967 and ‘68. The Fair itself, complete with rock bands, were free, but Synanon made money through concessions and sponsorship. Oakland seems to have felt that the city needed such a fair, but a number of things seem to make the Oakland event different from the San Francisco events. The event was held at 7th and Market Streets, not too far from Downtown, but also part of the more African American neighborhoods that had been bisected by new roads as part of urban re-development. The trace evidence of the performers and the photos suggest that the event was intentionally structured to engage both the Black and White communities, a common effort in Berkeley but not so common in Oakland. 7th and Market was approximately in the area that had seen the founding of The Black Panthers, Oakland’s most infamous export, so a multi-racial City-sponsored Rock Festival was not at all insignificant. There were two stages (Rock Stage and Concert Stage), with 14 hours of almost continuous performers. Frumious Bandersnatch performed on the Rock Stage, of course, along with (in scheduled order): Vee Jays (10-11am), Southern Comfort (11-12 noon), Phananganang (12-1pm), Marvin Gardens (1-2pm), Country Weather (2-3pm), Transatlantic Railroad (3-4pm), Synanon (4-5pm), Frumious Bandersnatch (5-6pm), Joy of Cooking (6-7pm), Flamin' Groovies (7-8pm), Everyday People (7-8pm), Country Joe and The Fish (8-9pm), Morning Glory (9-10pm), Womb (10-11pm), The Crabs (11-12 midnight). Actually Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band also performed, but because they were a last minute addition, I don't know when (scheduled order) they played.     
 
Saturday, August 23, 1969: Teen Drop-In Center, Lafayette, Contra Costa County, California
Also on the bill: Beggars Opera.

Saturday, August 30 and Monday, September 1, 1969: 'The Second Annual Sky River Rock Festival & Lighter Than Air Fair - A Benefit For Cultural & Ecological Organizations In The Pacific N.W.', 360-acre Rainier Hereford Ranch, two miles north of Tenino, south of Olympia, Thurston County, Washington 
A three-day festival (August 30 - September 1) presented by New American Community Inc. For most of the month preceding the festival, it looked as if the event would never take place. Under intense pressure from police, conservatives, and the Catholic Archdiocese, virtually every county in the area passed laws prohibiting or severely restricting rock festivals. A site in Enumclaw, 30 miles southeast of Seattle in King County, was offered and then withdrawn, and producer John Chambless scrambled to find an alternative. He ended up with a strange locale: the 360-acre Rainier Hereford Ranch, a stretch of dry grassland dimpled with miniature hillocks (left behind as some glacial prank) near Tenino, south of Olympia. The Tenino Chamber of Commerce and several adjacent property owners obtained an injunction blocking a Thurston County permit, but a sympathetic judge required the plaintiffs to post a $25,000 bond against the festival's anticipated losses. They couldn't, and at the last possible second the festival was cleared for takeoff. An estimated 25,000 people attended over three days, but the festival still lost money. Also on the bill: Gordon Lightfoot (30, 1), Terry Dolan (30, 1), Floating Bridge (30), Collectors (30), Mark Spoelstra (30), New Lost City Ramblers (30, 1), Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band (30, 1), Flying Burrito Brothers (30, 1), Crome Syrcus (30), Congress of Wonders (30), Mike Russo (30, 1), Big Mama Thornton (30, 1), Alice Stuart (30, 1), Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks (30, 1), Smith (30), Larry Coryell (30, 1), Country Weather (30, 1), Anonymous Artists of America (30), Terry Reid (30), Kaleidoscope (30, 1), Los Flamencos (30), Charles Lloyd (30, 1), Universal Medicine (30, 1), Bluebird (1), Crow (1), Guitar Shorty (1), Billy Roberts (1), Dr. Humbead’s New Tranquility String Band (31, 1), Elyse Wienberg (1), James Cotton (1), Buddy Guy (1), Sons of Champlin (1), Steve Miller Band (1), Blacksnake (1). Lights by Retina Circus. By the way, the festival was filmed. 

Saturday, ​September 6, 1969: 'Susan Zellerbach's Debutante Ball', Menlo Circus Club, 190 Park Lane, Atherton, San Mateo County, California
Also on the bill: It's A Beautiful Day. 
 
September or October 1969
Jack Notestein left the band. "Being married recently and feeling the need to get a 'steady job', I decided to look for traditional work and soon found a job with the Orinda Post Office," he recalls. "[Before that] I even auditioned with Quicksilver Messenger Service over in Marin County but Dino Valenti was looking for something different." "Jack went to work for the Post Office, married our super fan Nancy, and moved back to Florida," also recalls Oakland Dupree. "Jack is a great guy and once bailed me out of Oakland City Jail on a traffic warrant beef." "I worked there for about 18 months before moving back to Sarasota, Florida, in the fall of 1972," confirms Jack. "Too young to appreciate a steady job with good benefits. Could have retired much earlier and still play music. Oh well…the old 'fork in the road'. After returning to Florida with Nancy, both she and I found interesting jobs. I was a carpenters' helper and learned the building trade, then worked at Selby Botanical Gardens and from there, a retail plant nursery followed by a year with a landscape architectural firm. These jobs gave me more knowledge and confidence about horticulture and landscape design so I began my own business as a landscape designer. I still had my music gear and in between these jobs, I played in local groups. Roger Atlas Quartet was a jazz group where I learned to really appreciate the intricacies and wide range of jazz bass playing. Later, a 'disco' band - L'Orange - played the club circuit, touring for 3 months from Atlanta to Wichita doing all the horrible disco stuff in smoky hotel lounges. Hated it except for that one time when…but that's another story." Anyway, at that point Oakland Dupree and Herbie Herbert also left the band. "As 1969 rolls on, demoralization sets in on the Frumious Bandersnatch world and eventually Herbie and I throw in the towel on managing the band," confirms Dupree. "In retrospect I wish we could have toughed it out longer and got an album made on any label and kept going as FB Snatch." "A few weeks after Herbie and I left the band," adds Dupree, "I was hanging at the Fillmore West and ran into Stan Marcum and Ron Estrada, Santana’s management team. I told them we had broke up and Herbie was looking for a gig. Stan said something like 'Oh yeah, Herbie …right! Hey send him by' So I phoned Herbie and told him to go by Santana’s rehearsal hall, which he did and he took charge of his equipment gig along with the Villanueva Brothers, John and Jackie. The rest is rock and roll history, as he masterminded the formation and success of Journey and became a super manager/entrepreneur." Meanwhile, the three remaining guys in the Frumious Bandersnatch continued for a while as a trio booking their own gigs. 

FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH #6 (SEPTEMBER or OCTOBER 1969 - NOVEMBER 22, 1969)
1) David Denny
2) Jack King
3) Bobby Winkelman now on bass
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Saturday, October 25, 1969: 'St. Leander's Teen Club Dance', Gymnasium, San Leandro High School, 2200 Bancroft Avenue, San Leandro, Alameda County, California
Also on the bill: Fillet of Soul. Lights by Abercrombie. One show, started at 8:00pm.   
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Oakland Tribune (October 22, 1969)

Saturday, November 22, 1969: Concord Armory, 2925 Willow Pass Road, Concord, Contra Costa County, California (cancelled?)
One show, started at 8:00pm. Also on the bill: Fox, Nino Ruggerello (formerly of The Epics with Bobby Winkelman). A poster for this show exist, but the band was booked to play at another venue that same evening (see below) and the latter gig seems to be more contemporary because it was advertised that same day in the Oakland Tribune daily newspaper.
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Saturday, November 22, 1969: Gymnasium (?), Corpus Christi School, 1 Estates Drive, Piedmont, Alameda County, California
The show, which lasted from 8:00pm to 11:30pm, was sponsored by Corpus Christi Teen Club. Also on the bill: Maiden Voyage. Frumious Bandersnatch's last gig before disbanded again. "Bobby, David and I tried our hand at playing current cover songs in local bars to earn enough money to get by but our hearts were just not in it," recalls Jack King. "At that point, Frumious Bandersnatch was done. The most promising San Francisco original band to NOT get its chance to record and tour! Yeah well… Life is full of disappointments." At that point,  David Denny went to play with Beggars Opera (just sit-in once in 1969), Steve Miller Band, The Joker, Oakland Dupree and The Dictators of Love, and he also did a lot of session work; Jack King got a job teaching drums at a music store in Walnut Creek until he went to play with Wizard, The Reality Sandwich, Steve Miller Band, The Joker, and Oakland Dupree and The Dictators of Love; and last but not least, Bobby Winkelman went to play with Steve Miller Band, Bonaroo, and then goes solo. 

May 1974
Barry Woolf died for drug overdose at his home, a rented apartment he shared with Oakland Dupree in the recently constructed Lafayette Highlands, an upscale complex with pool and sauna, club room, etc. "In 1973 Barry moving in with me as a roommate in the two bedroom place," recalls Dupree. "I got him a job at Shakey’s making pizzas. I also had a fully stocked bar in the pad (bad idea). Little did either of us recognize our substance abuse problems. Barry’s year on the Berkeley street drug scene had left an indelible mark. Barry’s pop, Willie Woolf, bought Barry a motorcycle (very bad idea) to get to work and back. One night I was tending bar at Tip’s Lounge in Walnut Creek (Shakey’s Pizza was near). I served him a couple drinks and advised him to go home. He got in a wreck on the way home. After being hospitalized for a few days, he released himself early and contacted his old Berkeley druggies and shot himself up with something and passed out while I was at work. His dad found him and got him to a hospital, but it was too late. He was gone in a day or so, and all his friends and family were devastated. It was May 1974 and going to the funeral home to see his body laid out in a suit looking like a wax figure disturbed me no end. This was one reason I wish to be cremated and have my ashes dispersed in the ocean… Barry Alan Woolf 1948-1974… Rest Well my Friend (if you’ve been re-incarnated …gimme a sign!)"

Saturday April 30, 1994: 'The Tribute To Chet Helms', Maritime Hall, 450 Harrison Street at First Street, South Of Market, San Francisco, California
Frumious Bandersnatch (plus Greg Errico of Sly and The Family Stone as guest on drums) reformed after 25 years only to play this show. "When we first got back in the rehearsal room, the same magical feeling was there, twenty-five years later," Jack King confirms, "and it was profound to me that we could have gone all that time, these five people in a room, and still have it be the same. The spark and musical magic was almost immediate. We were the one group that hot away, that should have gotten a record deal and gone on and become more prominent." At the tribute, however, they played just a 2-songs set, so maybe this is why their name wasn't billed on the poster printed for this event. Also on the bill: Country Joe McDonald, Steve Miller, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Gregg Allman, New Riders, Dan Hicks, Lee Michaels, Chris Solberg, Squid Vicious Orchestra, Peter Tork, Terry Dolan, Barry Melton, Boots Hughston, Starship, Harvey Mandel, Nick Gravenites, Greg Elmore, Mitchell Holman, Howard Sales, Darby Slick, Doug Sahm and The Sir Douglas Quintet, Sky Saxon, Jerry Miller, Peter Lewis, Guy Allison, Caribbean Allstars, Wavy Gravy, Ken Kesey, Peter Coyote, Lenny Williams, Bill Ham. 
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FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH #7 (APRIL 30, 1994)
1) David Denny
2) Jack King now on guitar
3) Bobby Winkelman
4) Jimmy Warner
5) Ross Valory
6) Greg Errico drums
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​2004
Jack King, David Denny and Brian Houg reformed The All Night Flight. "As [my current band] Way Fatt began to loose steam, I recruited David Denny and Brian Hough to perfom with me at a Way Fatt show in 2004," Jack King confirms. "We were and always have been great together. After this venue and the response we received, we began rehearsing and performing around the Bay Area as The All Night Flight. Great music and pure joy! We play and perform together still, and each time is very special."

​THE ALL NIGHT FLIGHT #3 (2004 - 2013)
1) David Denny vocals, acoustic guitar
2) Jack King vocals, acoustic guitar
3) Brian Hough vocals, bass
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The Alli Night Flight #2, 2000s - from left: David Denny, Brian Hough, and Jack King

The All Night Flight #2, 2011 - from left: David Denny, Brian Hough, and Jack King

The All Night Flight #2, 2000s - from left: David Denny, Brian Hough, and Jack King

Brian Hough in the 2000s

​2004
At the same time as they started playing together again as The All Night Flight, Jack King and David Denny also reformed Frumious Bandersnatch with Ross Valory, Jimmy Warner and Bobby Winkelman. The "classic" lineup of the band reuinited to recorded over a four years period, a commemorative CD. "It was great to see and create music with everyone one more time," Jack King confirms.  
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FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH #8 (aka #3) (2004 - 2008)
1) David Denny vocals, guitars
2) Jack King vocals, drums, guitars
3) Ross Valory bass, vocals
4) Jimmy Warner guitars
5) Bobby Winkelman vocals, guitars, strings
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Saturday, March 5, 2005: unknown venue, Lafayette, Contra Costa County, California
The All Night Flight gig. 

Sunday, September 2, 2007: 'Summer of Love - 40th Anniversary', Speedway Meadow, Golden Gate Park, 25th Avenue at Fulton Street, San Francisco, California
The All Night Flight, augmented by famous songwriter and singer/guitarist Steve McCarty "in order to get the gig because we were not famous enough", as Brian Hough points out, performed at the Summer of Love 40th anniversary, a free celebrative festival held at the Golden Gate Park and which lasted from 10:00am to 6:00pm. "Over 100,000 people showed up for the event. We played just after the Jefferson Starship and just before Moby Grape. It all just seemed to make sense somehow," Jack King recalls. Also on the bill: Moby Grape (reunion, all original members), Country Joe McDonald, Taj Mahal, Lester Chambers (from The Chambers Brothers), Canned Heat, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Jessie Colin Young (from The Youngbloods), Banana (from The Youngbloods), Jerry Miller Band (from Moby Grape) featuring Tiran Porter (from the Doobie Brothers), Dale Ockerman (from the Doobie Brothers) and John 'Fuzzy' Oxendine (from the Sons Of Champlin), Michael McClure & Rob Wasserman & Jay Lane & Ray Manzarek (from The Doors), San Francisco's First Family of Rock (TBA), Brian Auger, Dickie Peterson of Blue Cheer, Chris and Lorin of the Rowan Brothers, The Alameda All Stars (from Gregg Allman Band), Terry Haggerty (from the Sons Of Champlin), Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, The Charlatans, Barry 'The Fish' Melton, Nick Gravenites Band with David LaFlamme, George Michalski (Pete Sears Dueling Keys), Freddie Roulette, Ron Thompson, Leigh Stphens (Blue Cheer) and Greg Douglass (from Steve Miller) and Pete Sears (Jefferson Starship) and Melissa Olsen, Essra Mohawk (from the Mothers of Invention and Jerry Garcia Band), Brad Jenkins, Merl Saunders (supporting the effort), Squid B. Vicious, Charles Lewis (harmonica), Jim Post (Friend and Lover, Siegal Schwall Blues Band), 'Hair Reunion' Original Cast, Long Deather (flute), Fayette Hauser and the Cockettes, Terrance Hallinan (from SF DA), Stephen Gaskin, Cindy Sheehan (political activist), Ruth Weiss (beat poet), Richard Eastman and Dennis Peron (marijuana initiative), Lenore Kandel (beat poet), Paul 'Lobster' Wells (MC), Dr Hip MC (Eugene Schoenfeld), Artie Kornfield (producer of Woodstock), Wavy Gravy, Mouse Man (bangipes), Scoop Nisker, David E. Smith (Haight Ashbury Medical Clinic), Bruce Latimer (Bruce Latimer Show), Rabbi Joseph Langer, Bruce Barthol (Mime Troupe), Doug green (MC), Howard Hesseman (schedule permitting), Benjamin Hernandez (Harts Hands and Elders), American Indigenous People's, Agnes Pilgrim and 13 Grandmas (schedule permitting), Lakota War Pony's and Harry Riverbottom (Chippewa), Merle Tendoy (6th generation of Sacagawea) Shoenie, Cheif Sunne Reyna, Albert Tenaya, Iroquois Tribe, Dakota Tribe, Jeff Jolly, Emmit Powell and the Gospel Elites.      
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The All Night Flight #2, Speedway Meadow, San Francisco, September 2, 2007 from left: David Denny, Brian Hough, and Jack King

The All Night Flight #2, Speedway Meadow, San Francisco, September 2, 2007 from left: David Denny, Brian Hough, and Jack King

The All Night Flight #2, Speedway Meadow, San Francisco, September 2, 2007 from left: David Denny, Brian Hough, and Jack King

The All Night Flight #2, Speedway Meadow, San Francisco, September 2, 2007 from left: Jack King, Brian Hugh, Steve McCarty, and David Denny

The All Night Flight #2, Speedway Meadow, San Francisco, September 2, 2007 from left: Steve McCarty, David Denny, Jack King, and Brian Hough

Brian Hough, Speedway Meadow, San Francisco, September 2, 2007

​2008: Kinder's, 333 1st Street A, downtown Benicia, Sonoma County, California
The All Night Flight played with a special guest vocalist tonight, their former manager Jim Nixon, aka Oakland Dupree.
 

The All Night Flight #2, Kinder's, 2008 - from left: David Denny, Brian Hough, Oakland Dupree, and Jack King

 
2008
Frumious Bandersnatch finally released their first (and only) official CD album, 'The Flight Of The Frumious Bandersnatch' (FMBC - FMBC00108CD; tracklist: 1. My Heart Is Yours Tonight (King) / 2. Swaying (Denny) / 3. Off Again On Again Love (Winkelman) / 4. I Miss My Baby's Love Tonight (King) / 5. I'm Falling So Deep (Denny) / 6. Sweet Innocent Thing (words by Linda Walliman, music by Bobby Winkelman) / 7. In Time (King) / 8. A Feather Falling From The Sky (Denny) / 9. When You Touch My Hand (words by Linda Walliman, music by Bobby Winkelman) / 10. Rock and Honey (words by Denny, music by Denny & Kathy Peck) / 11. Music Man (Winkelman) / 12. Black Box (King, but wrongly credited to Winkelman)'). The album was recorded at David Denny's house, and was produced and mastered by David himself, with the assistance of Lee Parvin. The pair also engineered and mixed it together with Bobby Winkelman. The band founding member Brian Hough made a "special appearance" playing bass and backing vocals on 'I Miss My Baby's Love Tonight' and 'In Time'. Another "special appearance" on the album was made by Kathy Peck on backing vocals. Sadly, however, the band break up shortly after that same year. 
 

Thursday, August 18, 2011: Kinder's, 333 1st Street A, downtown Benicia, Sonoma County, California
One show, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.
 
Friday, September 9, 2011: (in the patio of) Handles Gastropub, 855 Main Street, Pleasanton, Alameda County, California
One show, from 4:00pm to 8:00pm.
 
Saturday, May 4, 2013: 'The 3rd Annual Lafayette Community Music Festival', Town Hall Theatre Company, 3535 School Street, Lafayette, Contra Costa County, California
Also on the bill: Stevie Coyle, Paul Cotruvo & Friends, Eenor, plus a performance by THT Actors Troupe. One show, started at 8:00pm.  
 

Jack King, Town Hall Theatre Company, May 4, 2013

Brian Hough, Town Hall Theatre Company, May 4, 2013

The All Night Flight #2, Town Hall Teatre Company, May 4, 2013 - from left: David Denny, Brian Hough, and Jack King

The All Night Flight #2, Town Hall Teatre Company, May 4, 2013 - from left: David Denny, Brian Hough, and Jack King

2013
The All Night Flight also break up.