A third single, “Where the Sour Turns to Sweet” / “In Hiding”, was released in June 1969.
When the album was released in March 1969, it became a commercial failure because many record shops filed it in the religious music section upon seeing the title.
In 1969, the band went through lineup changes (Gary Ziegelman—former lead singer of Buffalo Clancy—on lead vocals, Fisher on guitar, Fossen on bass, James Cirrello on guitar, Ron Rudge on drums, and Ken Hansen on percussion) and took on a new name, Hocus Pocus.
Tom Scholz first started writing music in 1969 while he was attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he wrote an instrumental song, “Foreplay”. While attending MIT, Scholz joined the band Freehold, where he met guitarist Barry Goudreau and drummer Jim Masdea, who would later become members of Boston. Vocalist…
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They regrouped in mid-1969 to discuss their future, for their offers in further education might result in the group splitting up.
Braunstein played his final show as Soft White Underbelly’s lead singer in the spring of 1969. His departure led Elektra to shelve the album recorded with him on vocals.
In late 1969, Genesis retreated to a cottage owned by Macphail’s parents, in Wotton , Surrey, to write, rehearse and develop their stage performance.
However, a bad review of a 1969 Fillmore East show caused Pearlman to change the name of the band – first to Oaxaca, then to the Stalk-Forrest Group. Pearlman also gave stage names to each of the band members (Jesse Python for Eric Bloom, Buck Dharma for Donald Roeser, Andy…
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The result, From Genesis to Revelation , was produced at Regent Sound in ten days during their school’s summer break in August 1968.
A second single, “A Winter’s Tale” / “One-Eyed Hound”, followed in May 1968, which also sold little.