I had previously asked for information on this band but soon after found an interview with bob harvey on line who furnished much new material on the bands formation and history with the following taken from my youtube channel. ~ an interesting name for an interesting band...formed end of '62/early '63 when a banjo and flatpicker (lee cheney/chuck mccabe & finally mike mindel) were singing harmony together at hoots when bob harvey heard and asked to join but was told they didn't need a singer but a bassist! so bob went out and got a double bass and the group then named themselves 'the slippery rock string band'...they actually got to play in vietnam with bob hope! ...they started playing around the city particually at 'coffee & confusion' but they wanted to move on to bigger things and venues such as 'the drinking gourd' which was the place for folkies to play...it was there one day that bob heard two musicians talking about forming a folk-r...
A complicated history with little known about the band and in particular exactly where they were based....it must have been fairly local to the city where as you can see they played the 'matrix' who in it's early days seemed to feature local bands...the band at this time was : jeanie piersol/john oxendine/bing nathan/terry clements & henry salas....peirsol had in fact been afounding member of the 'greast society' back in '65. The band was in existence from '66-'67 playing a mix of psychy-garage and gigging on a fairly regular basis going on the posters i've found... They played the matrix 21/22/23rd march and then again 1st & 2nd april '67....they then again played the matrix april http://youtu.be/Jo6Qh0310to http://youtu.be/X7NyBBkpUok 7/8/9th.... Then suddenly darby slick from the great society joins the group after the society's break up in late '66....darby had recently returned from india where with peter van gel...