Origin: London, England
Electric Banana was a pseudonym for the Pretty Things . It was one of the longest running aliases in rock and roll, spanning from an initial LP release in 1967, all the way to a fifth LP issued in 1978. The Pretty Things were a fairly successful British R&B-mod band in the mid 60s, but as that era came to a close, they found their record sales and popularity begin to slowly wane. In order to generate an additional source of income, the Pretties came up with the brilliant idea of creating an alias band named Electric Banana that would primarily record period pop-psych songs to be used in low bu…