Also known as: Purple Fox, The
Origin: United States
As legend has it, according to the liner notes of the 1971 LP Tribute To Jimi Hendrix , the Purple Fox was made up of Alex "Purple Fox" Boggs (guitar, vocals), a young man from St. Louis with "hair down to his knees" (as the man said), along with New Orleans natives Bob Gray (bass) and Raff Witkin (drums). They joined together in the wake of Jimi Hendrix's untimely death in the noble effort of keeping his spirit alive. In actuality, this band was a studio concoction conceived by former Essex Records and then Somerset Records founder and head Dave L. Miller. Under Somerset, Miller was responsib…