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Bubble Puppy was a Texan
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
 psychedelic
Psychedelic music

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 rock band
Rock Band

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group was formed in 1966 in San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio, Texas

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 by Rod Prince and Roy Cox. Looking to form a "top gun rock band" based on the concept of dual lead guitar
Lead guitar

Lead guitar refers to the use of a guitar to perform melody lines, fill , and guitar solos within a song structure.In rock music, heavy metal music, blues, jazz and fusion bands and some pop music contexts as well as others, the lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays rhythm guitar, which consists of accompan...
s, Prince and Cox recruited Todd Potter; a gymnast
Gymnastics

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, saxophone
Saxophone

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 player and guitar
Guitar

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ist. With the addition of Danny Segovia, the original line up of Bubble Puppy was complete. The name "Bubble Puppy" was taken from "Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy", a fictitious children's game in Aldous Huxley's
Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963....
 Brave New World
Brave New World

Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 in literature and published in 1932 in literature. Set in the London of AD 2540 , the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society....
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Bubble Puppy was a Texan
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
 psychedelic
Psychedelic music

Psychedelic music is a term that refers to a broad set of popular music styles, genres and scenes, that may include psychedelic rock, psych folk, psychedelic pop, psychedelic soul, Psybient, psychedelic trance, and others....
 rock band
Rock Band

Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV, and distributed by Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band....
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History


Origins

The group was formed in 1966 in San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio is the second-largest city in the state of Texas and the List of United States cities by population. Located in , the city is a cultural and geographical gateway into the ....
 by Rod Prince and Roy Cox. Looking to form a "top gun rock band" based on the concept of dual lead guitar
Lead guitar

Lead guitar refers to the use of a guitar to perform melody lines, fill , and guitar solos within a song structure.In rock music, heavy metal music, blues, jazz and fusion bands and some pop music contexts as well as others, the lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays rhythm guitar, which consists of accompan...
s, Prince and Cox recruited Todd Potter; a gymnast
Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility and coordination. Artistic Gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the F?d?ration Internationale de Gymnastique ....
, saxophone
Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
 player and guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
ist. With the addition of Danny Segovia, the original line up of Bubble Puppy was complete. The name "Bubble Puppy" was taken from "Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy", a fictitious children's game in Aldous Huxley's
Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963....
 Brave New World
Brave New World

Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 in literature and published in 1932 in literature. Set in the London of AD 2540 , the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society....
. Bubble Puppy's live debut was as the opening act for The Who
The Who

The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
 in San Antonio.

After several line-up changes, the final roster for Bubble Puppy settled at Rod Prince and Todd Potter on lead guitars, Roy Cox on bass guitar
Bass guitar

The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
 and David "Fuzzy" Fore on drum
Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion instrument group, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound....
s. In 1967, Bubble Puppy moved to Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Travis County, Texas. Situated in Central Texas and part of the Southwestern United States, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 16th-largest in the United States....
 and signed a recording contract
Recording contract

A recording contract is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist , where the artist makes a record for the label to sell and promote....
 with Houston-based International Artists
International Artists

International Artists was an independent record label based in Houston, Texas that existed from 1965 in music to 1970 in music.During its existence IA released 12 albums and 39 singles and was owned by a group of businessmen in Houston....
, home to the 13th Floor Elevators
13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators were an American rock band from Austin, Texas which existed 1965-1969. During their career, the band released four LPs and seven 45s for the International Artists record label....
 and the Red Krayola
Red Krayola

The Red Krayola was a psychedelic, avant-garde rock band from Houston, Texas, formed by art students at the University of St. Thomas in 1966. The band was led by singer/guitarist and visual artist Mayo Thompson, along with drummer Frederick Barthelme and Steve Cunningham....
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Hot Smoke and Sassafras

Bubble Puppy scored a Top-20 U.S. hit in 1969 with their single, "Hot Smoke & Sassafras". The name was a misheard line lifted from an episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies
The Beverly Hillbillies

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". The single peaked at number 14 on the Billboard 100
Billboard Hot 100

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. The song was also covered internationally, by The Mooche in the UK.

In 1969, Bubble Puppy released their only full-length album
Album

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, A Gathering of Promises. However, despite Bubble Puppy's early success with the "Hot Smoke & Sassafras" single, they experienced numerous conflicts with International Artists, and parted ways with the label in 1970.

Demian

Signing Nick St. Nicholas
Nick St. Nicholas

Nick St. Nicholas is a bass guitar, and is best known for his membership in Steppenwolf from 1968 to 1970, and then again from 1976 to 1980. After World War II, his family moved to Toronto and became Canadian citizens....
 of Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf (band)

Steppenwolf is a Canada/United States rock music band that helped establish heavy metal music in the late 1960s along with bands like Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly....
 as a manager, Bubble Puppy moved to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

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. Their name was changed to Demian (after Herman Hesse's 1919 novel, at the suggestion of their manager's wife); this was to avoid contractual difficulties with their previous record company but also because the former name appeared to link them with Bubblegum music.

The group signed to ABC-Dunhill Records
Dunhill Records

Dunhill Records was started by Lou Adler, Alvin Bennett, Pierre Cossette and Bobby Roberts in 1964 in music as Dunhill Productions, originally for the purpose of releasing Johnny Rivers recordings on Imperial Records....
 and released one self-titled album in 1971, but its failure to perform on the charts led to financial difficulties with the label and, in 1972, the group split up.

Later years


The members of Bubble Puppy continued to be active in the music industry after the band's demise. Potter and Prince played with Sirius through the late 1970s, and Fore drummed with the Texas punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
 band, D-Day, co-writing their cult hit, "Too Young to Date".

In 1984, the original Bubble Puppy lineup reunited for performances and recordings, released as the LP, Wheels Go Round.

Roy Cox founded The Blues Knights and issued a CD entitled "Before I Go" in 1999. He formed the NYC Outlaws in September 2007 in New York City, along with Tony Saracene on guitar, Dan Curley on guitar, Cody Willard on guitar, Evan Hammer on bass and Billy Brooks on drums.

Members

  • Rod Prince - Lead Guitar / Vocals
  • Roy Cox - Bass Guitar / Vocals
  • Todd Potter - Lead Guitar / Vocals
  • David Fore - Drummer / Vocals


Discography


Albums

  • A Gathering of Promises (1969)
  • Demian (1970)
  • Wheels Go Round (1987)
  • Hot Smoke (2000)

External links

  • Official Site
  • Website of Bubble Puppy Drummer David "Fuzzy" Fore
  • by the Paper Rad
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    Paper Rad is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania/Providence, Rhode Island American art collective that makes comics zines, video art, net art, MIDI files, paintings, installations, and are in a variety of bands....
     artist collective
  • YouTube video of David Fore playing his drums to the original recording