Origin: San Francisco, CA, USA
The Tripsichord Music Box was one of the more obscure and enigmatic groups to come out of the Bay Area 60s psychedelic music scene. The band's genesis can be traced back to Lompoc, CA in 1963 when Tony McGuire (vocals, guitar), Oliver McKinney (keyboards, vocals), Frank Straight (bass) and Randy Guzman (drums, vocals) formed a group called the Ban, which ended up issuing one single ('Bye Bye' b/w 'Now That I'm Hoping') on the local Brent label in 1965. In 1966, McGuire was drafted into the military and replaced by David Zandonatti (vocals, bass), while Straight switched from bass to playing gu…