Origin: Boston, MA, USA
Considered by many to have been one of the top acts of the Bosstown Sound scene, this Beantown band started life in 1967 as the Underground Cinema, headlining at a local club called the Unicorn. It wasn't long before they were discovered by area production mogul Alan Lorber who got them signed to the MGM label and changed their name to the Ultimate Spinach, which is a creative play on words meaning the best sound to come out of a record ("ultimate spinnage"). The group was headed up by multi-instrumentalist Ian Bruce-Douglas (vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica, flute), who also wrote all of …