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West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The

Real Name:
Bob Markley - Dan Harris - Shaun Harris - Michael Lloyd - John Ware - Ron Morgan
Profile:
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band was a bizarre combination of three well-heeled teenagers (brothers Dan and Shaun Harris and their school mate Michael Lloyd), and an even wealthier, thirty-something attorney called Bob Markley. Markley secured the group a recording deal with Reprise Records, where they made a series of strange records. While they scored no hits for the label, the band's most famous composition was 'Smell Of Incense'. which was covered to great effect by Southwest F. O. B., among others. The song was composed by Markley with a later addition to the band, guitarist Ron Morgan. As the composition reveals, Morgan was a highly talented (he later played with The Electric Prunes and a very early edition of Three Dog Night) and troubled individual. He died in 1989. Although the fate of the group svengali Bob Markley is, at present, unknown, Lloyd and the Harris brothers recently reunited to record some new WCPAEB music.
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Discography

Releases:
Volume 1 (Album) (4 versions)   Fifo Records ... 1966
Part One (Album) (6 versions)   Reprise Records ... 1967
Vol. 2 (Album) (6 versions)   Reprise Records ... 1967
Transparent Day (LP, Comp)   Edsel Records 1986
Vol. 3: A Child's Guide To Good & Evil (Album) (3 versions)   Reprise Records ... 2001
Where's My Daddy? (LP, Album)   Amos Records  
Appears On:
Velvet Belly (2xCD, Album, Ltd) Shifting Sands Playground Music Scandinavia 2003
Tracks Appear On:
Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets From The WEA Vaults (CD, Comp) Smell Of Incense Rhino Handmade 2004
The Sounds Of Monsterism Island Volume One (Comp, Album) (2 versions) A Child's Guide To Goo... Forever Heavenly ... 2005
Nuggets Volume 9: Acid Rock (LP, Comp) I Won't Hurt You Rhino Records (2)  
Unofficial Releases:
Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol. 1 (CD, Comp, Unofficial) A Child's Guide To Goo... Purple Lantern Records  
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