Okay, before you shoot off, three stipulations:
1/ first ROCK band
2/ keyboard man predominantly (or ONLY) plays the moog
3/ no one-offs or single track... (so something like Monkees "Daily Nightly" doesn't count.)

Don't know if it's correct, but thought I read somewhere that Graham Bond (Organisation) was the first.

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Oh yeah. That's it.

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Lothar & the Hand People-live
Paul Beaver-on record

That's according to Wiki, but I doubt they know as much as the Prince.

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Lothar had a live LP out back then?
don't think either lp was live.

Anyways, did they not use sound generators alla Lemmy? And theremin.

Also, Wallace is saying the moog used as a keyboard instrument (melodically) - not just effects.

Beaver & Kraus would be the place to go cos they had first hands on it (probably even before commercial models came out) and had a hawking stall at Monteray.
But they were not a proper BAND.

For same reason, you cant say Tontos Expanding Headband - that was keys-based unit.



Clue: surprizingly enough, the band Im thinking of is Canadian.

Please refrain from being a cunt and (predictably) facilely looking it up on Wiki.

Mastermen are Mastermen and Wiki's are reeky.

Canadian you say?
The first band that springs to mind is Syrinx. I still remember watching 'Here Comes The Seventies' on CTV... the Syrinx track Tillicum was the theme song.

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You are hot on the trail Marksie , but not quite there.


On another forum they give me United States of America,. I think first lp was late '68.

But trouble is, its not a moog -think they were doing some custom one-of type jobby.

The lp I am thinking of was released 10/1/69.

Here is a clue might help you if you dig on internet: coverart was designed by artist that did some Procol Harum covers.

Clue #2 wont help you much - band was known to play live with 3 drummers

Clue #3 - bass player died rather peculiar: kept to his room for days on end. Another member was murdered by his wife.

Oops! Mistake: member was not murdered by his wife. (Wallace was thinking of another band altogether.)

Once a cunt,always a cunt Wallace as you would of course know.
I could have pretended I knew but at least said where I'd found the info.
And live meant on stage, not vinyl.

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Sorry, Wisdom.
That came out sounding harsh. and snobby.
Didn't mean it, old bean.

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Okay, reason Im bringing this lp up at all on this forum is...to Princiepoos ears at least it sounds quite UK popsike-ish.

Sure many here would dig it.

Apology accepted.

A couple of Canadian bands that I thought had somewhat of a UK sound were The Paupers and The Collectors.

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Right then.
Paupers and Syrinx are close.
What came between (on same record label)? And Bob's yor uncle.

Before you guess the lp and start giving Wallace the aggro:
yes, its true that the keysman in question is NOT listed as a band member (only musician) on the back cover of the lp.
But:
1/the manager considered him good enough a band member,

2/he played live on the most important gig (and astounded the audience with the 6 foot tall origional commercial moog model - which later burned down!)


3/he played in the studio on 5 or 6 of the tracks of the lp, which is pretty well the whole deal.


So then, my statement is somewhat debatable. Depends how deep an anorak one is.

Skip Prokop left The Paupers to form Lighthouse, but I don't think they were on the same label.

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Was it Kensington Market's 'Aardvark' album?

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Right on!




Popsikers get this.
(Much better than their first lp, "Avenue Road".)
Not sure if its out on cd. Assume so.

The keysman in question is John Mills-Cockell. He later on went to make maybe three solo lps on the same "True North" record label that Paupers (and later on, Bruce Cockburn were on.)

Prior to this he was leader of Intersystems and had 2 (3?) lps.
Wallace does not count the Intersystems lps as first in this case because:
1/ not a proper band but more of a project/commune deal (Situated in a large upper loft on George St. ,Toronto, only John was a proper musician. The other three were, i beleive, a painter, a sculptor and a architect student.)

2/ you cant call Intersystems rock. Its more of spoken word psych-weirdness. The moog was not being played harmonically as an instrument, but more like a sound generator.