Origin: London, England
The London based Toe Fat evolved out of the Gods when Ken Hensley (keyboards, guitar, vocals, percussion), John Glascock (bass, vocals) and Lee Kerslake (drums) joined forces with frontman Cliff Bennett (lead vocals, piano) to round out the foursome in June, 1969. The outfit's name was apparently concocted over a dinner when Bennett and his manager attempted to come up with the most disgusting moniker possible. The group played mostly straight forward, hard-driving blues-rock sprinkled with a hint of progressive psychedelia. In late '69, the band signed to the EMI label Parlophone and went str…