Get back to the “Wonder” years with the Strawberry Alarm Clock, performing at an April benefit concert in downtown L.A.
The Care Concert features SAC doing a “vintage” set of its classic psychedelic sounds, along with a “One-Hit Wonders” show by the local collective the Tribe. The “Wonders” set will include some of the original artists behind those one-off hits. They are expected to include Billy Vera, Walter Egan and Elliot Lurie.
The show is Saturday, April 23, at the Palace Theatre on South Broadway.
The event from the Get Together Foundation also includes a silent and live auction, and VIP packages. All ticket proceeds go toward GTF’s newest program, a music enrichment program for underprivileged youth.
So does the Strawberry Alarm Clock qualify as a one-hit wonder? Rock Cellar asked bassist and singer George Bunnell:
“We fully understand the tag ‘one-hit wonder’ as it applies to our band. Sometimes we’ve just let it go by, but given a fighting chance we may beg to differ. … When your first single (‘Incense and Peppermints’) goes to No. 1, it’s a hard act to follow,” Bunnell said.
Although album-oriented (like many late ’60s bands), SAC released almost a dozen singles after “I&P,” including “Tomorrow,” which cracked the top 25 on Billboard.
The Strawberry Alarm Clock are Bunnell, keyboardist Mark Weitz, drummer Randy Seol, guitarist Howie Anderson and percussionist Gene Gunnels. (Multi-instrumentalist Steve Bartek will be working the Coachella festival with Danny Elfman’s “From Boingo to Batman to Big Mess and Beyond!” show.)
The light shows for the the Care Concert come via Robert Jacobs’ Midnight Sun, Richard Young’s Wizzard Lightshow and Andrew Platt‘s Stranger Liquids.
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