The Mome Raths Outgrabe Dept.

Frumious Bandersnatch were one of the great left coast acid guitar/harmony bands to be exhumed during the First Era Of Psychedelic Rediscovery - that post-Nuggets, pre-internet period when you'd discover albums through dealers' lists, collectors' stores and record fairs. Very occasionally the heavens would open, sending a ray of light into the skunky back room of some thrift store, and you'd fall upon an album you just knew was the real thing. Not Frumious Bandersnatch, though - their only contemporary release was an e.p. on the Muggles Gramophone Works micro-label in '68 which attained mythic status. Official release of any kind would have to wait until '96, when Big Beat served up a slew of great tracks, but not the e.p., in a generic cover that screamed archival release and a title (A Young Man's Song) more suited to a Rod McKuen album. I pimped it up as Black Box with a band shot that tells us everything we need to know (basically, that these guys would eat blotter from a police desk).

Golden Sons Of Libra, another collection of previously unknown material, again without the e.p., turned up in 2003. I've added the e.p. tracks as a politeness to the consumer, but left the cover (the original Muggles Gramophone masterpiece) alone.

Band members went on to fame and success with Steve Miller, Journey, Faun, or avoided both in the unjustly obscure and soon-to-be-FoamFeatured™ Bonaroo.

What was far out is far out. What was Furthur is Furthur.