Good God!

[rcarlberg]

Also saw the band from which they came, Elizabeth.

One member of Elizabeth, Hank Ransome the drummer, went on to form Good God.

[Plasmatopia]

I love finding out about stuff like this. Pretty good.

[Lopez]

I read online that Elizabeth shared the stage with Mandrake Memorial many many times, and Linda Cohen was even their drummer(!) for a short while.

Mandrake Memorial! Have all their LPs, but never got to see them. By the time I went to college in Philly, they were already out of business.

[pb2015]

And a great singer too! FZ "interrupts" one song to shout out his amazing vocal solo on When The Lie Is So Big on the Broadway The Hard Way album

In a quiet way, Bobby Martin (or Robert Martin as he prefers to be called now) has had an interesting career - lots of Philadelphia sessions (and the Moody Blues album Octave) in the 70's, briefly a member of Orleans, then Zappa's band in the 80's and Cybill Shepherd's lover in the 90's.

[GentleFriend]

In a quiet way, Bobby Martin (or Robert Martin as he prefers to be called now) has had an interesting career - lots of Philadelphia sessions (and the Moody Blues album Octave) in the 70's, briefly a member of Orleans, then Zappa's band in the 80's and Cybill Shepherd's lover in the 90's.

Didn't know about Octave. Is he replacing the unreplaceable Mike Pinder? I don't recall hearing a sign of Pinder on Octave but I always have thought it was his last album with the Moodies. Have to give it another spin trying to spot Mr. Robert Martin ;-)

P.S. Moody Blues did fairly well without Mike Pinder (e.g. Long Distance Voyager). The opposite can't be said, sadly. He was my favorite Moody...

[pb2015]

Didn't know about Octave. Is he replacing the unreplaceable Mike Pinder? I don't recall hearing a sign of Pinder on Octave but I always have thought it was his last album with the Moodies. Have to give it another spin trying to spot Mr. Robert Martin ;-)

Martin is on the song "Driftwood" (french horn and sax I think).