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This audio download has educational purposes, to help you learn, remember and evaluate if you need to buy this album. The exclusive rights belong to the copyright creators of the album. Line up / Musicians Ted Eubanks - keyboards, 12 string guitar Terry Horde - lead guitar Chris Lyons - drums Keith Manlove - guitar Danny Ogg - bass Bill Simmons - lead vocals Tracks Listing (Previously Unreleased Complete Version) Fog (Original Single Master) Of Time (Original Single Master) Prisoner (Previously Unreleased Complete Version) By Day (Previously Unreleased Complete Version) I Cry (Previously Unreleased Mix) From The Wrong Side Of Town (Previously Unreleased Version) (Original Single Master) Of Time (Previously Unreleased Outtake) Of Time (Previously Unreleased Outtake) Of Time (Previously Unreleased Complete Version) Fog (Previously Unreleased Complete Version) By Day Prisoner From The Wrong Side Of Town (Original Single Masters) From The Wrong Side Of Town (Previously Unreleased, Discarded Outro) Houston, TX, United States ,Psychedelic Rock “In the Spring of 1963, The Bar Eights were formed, with Fillmore High School classmates Danny Ogg and Terry Horde on lead guitar and drums, respectively, Timmy Thorpe on bass, and Dale VanDeloo on saxophone and vocals. Essentially, The Bar Eights were a Rip Chords cover band, with a few Lou Christie covers mixed in for variety. Aside from a few coffee bar gigs and a sock hop, The Bar Eights failed to establish themselves even semi-professionally over the next two years. When VanDeloo reportedly attacked Ogg with a mic stand during an argument over who would get the taller riser, The Bar Eights were no more. Then, one sweltering afternoon in the Summer of 1965 at Clem's Music in downtown Houston, it happened. Chris Lyons was hanging around the store recruiting talent for a new band he was forming. He had already earmarked drummer Eddie Sura and keyboardist Jimmy Spicher, and was looking for a guitarist and bassist. Danny Ogg entered the store with hopes of trying out the new Danelectro that Clem had in. When Chris asked him to join, he agreed, but only under the condition that his friend Timmy Thorpe, who had just gotten laid off from his job at the glass factory and was bored out of his mind, play bass for them. Lyons agreed, taking on Thorpe sight-unseen. After a few rehearsals, it became painfully obvious that Sura was not working out. According to Ogg, “Eddie kept yelling at everybody, particularly Timmy, 'cause he couldn't keep good time.“ When Ogg ran into former Bar Eight bandmate Terry Horde at Clem's the following week, Ogg offered him the drummer spot in the band. Horde agreed. By that weekend, The Pla-Boys were playing their first gig, at St. Regis College for the Arts. In the audience that night was a man who would change their lives... Ted Eubanks, an avant garde composer and fixture of Houston's mod scene, caught The Pla-Boys' act. Their set consisted mostly of covers of such garage greats as Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs and ? and the Mysterians. As Eubanks puts it, “They were playing this garage crap! It was horrible. But something about them struck me... I think it was their chemistry“. Eubanks immediately approached the band after the show and offered to take them over. They agreed. But Eubanks decided that before anything was to become of them, a few changes would need to be made. First, the music. Eubanks immediately began injecting original numbers into the group's repertoire, and dissuaded them from the typical garage fare they had been playing. Second, the image. The Pla-Boys basically looked like something right out of a Frankie and Annette movie, with matching grey sport suits. But Eubanks got them good and “psychedelicised“, dressing them in beads, mod suits, and the like. Finally, the name. From this moment forth,The Pla-Boys would be known as The Lemon Fog. see more infos Released 20 September 2011 (Archival)
