Their single Golden Girl was a highlight on the Montreal airwaves during the technicolour summer of 1967. They won over a restless audience at the Paul Sauvé Arena when headliners Cream didn't show, walking off the stage triumphantly - in matching underwear. Their music, at its best, crossed Beatlesque hooks with the no-barriers attack of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention.
The Rabble seemed unstoppable.
Within two years of the prestigious Cream gig, however, they were finished as a recording act, having failed to expand their fan base beyond provincial borders. They soldiered on as a live act for another year or so before officially calling it quits - more through inertia than conflict.
Ultimately, it's a typical '60s-band story: local notoriety begets a couple of still-cherished cult albums, the faint promise of larger-scale success and then ... nothing.
After hearing the below, I understand the nothing...
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