Santa Barbara Machine Head | |
Years Active: | 1967 |
Associated Acts: | The Birds, The Creation, Deep Purple, The Faces, The Pretty Things, The Rolling Stones, Tomorrow |
Genre: | Electric blues |
Label: | Immediate Records |
Past Members: | John "Twink" Alder Kim Gardner Jon Lord Ronnie Wood |
Santa Barbara Machine Head were a short-lived British electric blues combo that formed and disbanded in 1967. They recorded three instrumental songs together for Immediate Records; "Albert", "Porcupine Juice" and "Rubber Monkey", written by Jon Lord and Gus Dudgeon, released in 1968 on the compilation album Blues Anytime Vol. 3. All four members later went on to achieve success and notoriety with other bands.[1] [2]