Also known as: Tiffany Shade, The
Origin: Cleveland, OH, USA
This Cleveland band formed in early 1966 after a chance meeting in a record store. Original members included Barrow Davidian (12-string guitar, autoharp, vocals), Bob Leonard (keyboards, vocals) and Mike Barnes (guitar, vocals). The threesome rehearsed feverishly in Davidian's basement to develop a polished sound and soon recruited Tom Schuster (drums) and Rick Hohn (bass) to make the group a quintet. According to Leonard, the group was named by Davidian while he was looking at a Tiffany lamp shade. Like many other acts of the time, they were heavily influenced by popular British Invasion band…