Also known as: Flower Pot, The
Origin: Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Flower Pot was a short-lived, L.A. studio concoction of successful session musician and producer Mike Deasy (guitar, sitar). Deasy was a member of the Wrecking Crew and already had an impressive history playing with several major music acts (Ricky Nelson, the Everly Brothers, Richie Valens, etc.) since the mid-late 1950s. A native of southern California, Deasy broke major ground in the mid-late 60s, playing his unique style of guitar on several pivotal L.A. area records, as a budding pop-psych sound began to take hold all around him. His resume includes landmark recordings with the Beach B…