Origin: Newcastle, England
Skip Bifferty never even came close to making it big in the 60s but is now considered by many to have been one of the more underrated bands to come out of the U.K. psychedelic scene. They had a fantastic, well-oiled sound that was mainly due to the fact that most of the band members had already been playing together for many years as the Chosen Few, an R&B act similar to the Animals . No one in the Newcastle area group was actually named "Skip Bifferty", which was in fact a fictional comic strip character of their own concoction. The band came to be in late 1966 when Chosen Few frontman Alan H…