Despite the publicity from the chicken incident, the band’s second

Despite the publicity from the chicken incident, the band’s second studio album, Easy Action , produced by David Briggs and released in June 1970, fared even worse than its predecessor, entirely failing to chart within the Billboard Top 200. Around this time, fed up with Californians’ indifference to their act, they relocated to Pontiac, Michigan , where their bizarre stage act was much better received by Midwestern crowds accustomed to the proto-punk styles of local bands such as the Stooges and the MC5 . Despite this, Cooper still managed to receive a cream pie in the face when performing at the Cincinnati Pop Festival . Michigan remained their steady home base until 1972. “L.A. just didn’t get it,” Cooper stated. “They were all on the wrong drug for us. They were on acid and we were basically drinking beer. We fit much more in Detroit than we did anywhere else.”