OK so I chose this mostly for the band's name, but the song is enjoyable and, like the name, very late-Sixties California.
And Frumious Bandersnatch did have an interesting afterlife. After they split in 1969, having recorded just one EP, four members joined the Steve Miller Band. Later, in 1973, one of the four and the band's manager became founder members of Journey.
So they were far from shunned.
Who would have thought of calling a band Bonzo do da band?!
ReplyDeleteOops Bonzo DOG do da band!
ReplyDeleteMuggles Gramophone works indeed. As this preceded J K Rowling by so long, I thought that I would check on Wikipedia. According to QI muggle was a 1930s jazz slang word for someone who uses cannabis and "Muggles" is the title of a 1928 Louis Armstrong and his band recording. This may be the connection.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment, Laurence, but you'll have to explain what Rowling has to do with this record as I've not read her books.
ReplyDeleteIn her books it's a term for people without magic powers, which led me to wonder whether the word had other meanings before hers, and so to Wikipedia. As the record was 1968, the cannabis link seems a likely one to me.
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