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The album also included a reworked version of "Black Roses", released as a single, and some of guitarist Bob Seal's psychedelic folk-rock songs, namely "With All in Mind" and "They Who Have
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was soon to follow, and after having started work on a second album the group disbanded in 1968. Two tracks from the sessions for the second album surfaced in 2006, "Darkness of Day" and "What a
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hipster Bud Mathis. They recorded one single – "Black Roses", written by Wolfe Dios (a.k.a. Wolfgang Dios, now residing and recording in
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