THE PEANUT BUTTER CONSPIRACY CDs available from booksmusicfilmstv.com - in association with Amazon
With a name redolent of the '60s, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy were an LA psychedelic rock and pop group.
Coming out of The Ashes (literally, the latter being a folk rock combo) in 1966, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy consisted of, initially, Lance Baker Fent on guitar, John Merrill on guitar and vocals, Alan Brackett on bass and vocals, Jim Voigt on drums (Ashes drummer Spencer Dryden had gone off to join Jefferson Airplane), and Barbara 'Sandi' Robison on vocals.Their most enduring song, 'Turn On A Friend (To The Good Life)' made little impression chartwise, though it was one of the best psychedelic songs of 1967. Their 1966 single, produced by Gary Usher, 'It's A Happening Thing' just sneaked into the Billboard Top 100. Curiously, Glen Campbell was one of the session musicians the band used on their first album, the wittily titled 'The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading'. The band undertook a final tour before splitting in 1970.
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