We were actually a five-piece, I was the singer, there were four

We were actually a five-piece, I was the singer, there were four other musicians (including Brewer), but I wasn’t playing anything in that band, the Fabulous Pack (so renamed after Knight had gone). I just stood up front and sang. We got waylaid; we were out in Cape Cod in a summer beach house, a little cabin, and it was winter. We had the worst snowstorm in the history of the world and we got stranded there for weeks in February of 1969. We were melting down snow to have water to drink and mix with our oatmeal that didn’t have any butter or sugar and that’s all we were living on. These two other players were married. When we got home (to Flint), the two guys that were married, their wives were gonna divorce them and the band broke up. We got all these gigs coming up and now we don’t have a band. I said, “We ought just do a three-piece” and Don said, “Do you think we can?” And I said, “If we get the right bass player we can.” We started looking and went out to Delta Promotions in Bay City where this company that sent us out to the Boston area to do these gigs [was located] and we were going to give them a piece of our minds. But while we were sitting in the outer office waiting to get in, there was somebody in their rehearsal hall playing. You couldn’t hear it very good, but you could feel the bass coming through the wall and I said, “Ooh, listen to that bass player, that guy’s getting down under that. We gotta see who that is.”