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Ultimate Spinach is a Psychedelic rock act. Their sound grew out of Verve Records. Those roots explain a lot about how Ultimate Spinach arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Kaleidoscope, The United States of America, Jefferson Airplane and Tomorrow, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Big Brother and the Holding Company and The Youngbloods, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 12 connections around Ultimate Spinach, reaching back through Verve Records and forward to Big Brother and the Holding Company. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Ultimate Spinach was a short-lived American psychedelic rock band from Boston, Massachusetts which was formed in 1967. In terms of style and national recognition, the band was one of the most prominent musical acts to emerge from the "Bosstown Sound", which was a marketing campaign posing as a regional attempt to compete with the San Francisco Sound. During the group's existence, they released three albums, with their self-titled debut the most commercially successful.
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Ultimate Spinach connections
Ultimate Spinach grew out of Verve Records, shares an orbit with The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Kaleidoscope, The United States of America and Jefferson Airplane, went on to shape Big Brother and the Holding Company and The Youngbloods. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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