![]() One day Skynyrd was rehearsing at a club in downtown Jacksonville. We became good friends and went through some interesting experiences together. ![]() Skynyrd was our opening act for most of the tour. And THAT's how I met Ronnie Van Zant and the rest of Lynyrd Skynyrd. We were able to stop the bogus band in its tracks and then decided WE should do the tour ourselves. While the "Clock" was sitting at home and out of work, we received word that our former manager had put together a bogus "Clock" and had booked a 3-month tour of the South. We tried, through various incarnations, to revive the music but just couldn't come up with another "Incense.".įunny how things work out. By this time, internal conflicts caused the departure of Bunnell & Seol. The record company didn't like our next album so they brought in some outside writers for our third album. We recorded a follow-up tune called "Tomorrow" which charted as high as #14. The Strawberry Alarm Clock appeared on some of the top television shows at the time (including The Jonathan Winters Show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) and a couple of movies ("Psych-Out" and, later, "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"). Despite the record going to #1 in November, 1967, Munford never joined the band. No one in the band could sing the tune so the vocal was done by a friend of ours, Greg Munford, who also had a local band. Our manager's explanation? "This is what you have to do to break into the music business." What? Give away something you wrote? Neither Mark's name or my name appeared on the credits. In a month we received our lyrics in the form of sheet music and a demo tape. Our manager took our music track to a producer in Hollywood. The story behind the song, "Incense and Peppermints," is a fascinating one.as well as a hard lesson learned! Mark Weitz wrote the bulk of the music and I wrote the bridge. When I got home from the band meeting resulting in the name change, my mother simply said "You've GOT to be kidding." The band consisted of me on lead guitar (and a lot of bass on the 2nd, 3rd & 4th albums), Lee Freeman (rhythm guitar), George Bunnell (bass), Mark Weitz (organ), and Randy Seol (drums). We were originally called Thee Sixpence but decided to change our name to something ntemporary(?). The Strawberry Alarm Clock was my psychedelic band from California and reached the top of the charts with "Incense and Peppermints" at the height of the flower power era in 1967.
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