SAFETY PATROL, The

Homebase: Bellingham
Stats: 1966-1968
Misc Notes: Harold Wright (guitar); Bill Tootell (flute / guitar); Bruce Kirkman (bass / 12-string); Jack Hansen (banjo / guitar); Rich Condon (drums); Kathi McDonald (vocals). Hansen and Kirkman went on to form FAT JACK. McDonald had come from THE UNUSUALS, and went on to a solo career.
ALSO SEE:

1.) UNUSUALS, The
2.) McDONALD, KATHI
3.) FAT JACK

"It was on May 26, 1967, that the Safety Patrol performed at what amounted to Bellingham’s first freak gathering – a concert with the Jefferson Airplane. Those wildass outside agitators, the Merry Pranksters (with Neal Cassidy et al) arrived from Haight Ashbury by the paisley/Flower Power busload. Allen “Howl” Ginsberg and Ken “Cuckoo’s Nest” Kesey both served as the show’s MC’s. Inside Carver Gymnasium, the seated audience finally responded to the Airplane’s exhortations to get up and dance, thereby breaking WWSC rules. This, the first sign of any emerging hip community, was too much for many townies, and the fallout was amazing. The event was the subject of weeks worth of outraged letters to newspaper editors and seemingly endless reactionary editorial page diatribes." [ READ MORE HERE ]