The Sloths

others were dropouts. They rehearsed in their garages playing the music of the British bands that inspired them; The Rolling Stones, DON SILVERMAN, and The Galaxy. They shared the bill with The Doors, The Hullabaloo, The ROXY and HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM, Most were students at Beverly Hills High School, stepped on stage of the famed PANDORA’S BOX on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip. THE SLOTHS were born., The Who, the PONDEROSA STOMP in New Orleans, punk, Love, Sea Witch, Muddy Waters, Iron Butterfly, the ECHO ECHO-PLEX in Hollywood, and TOMMY McLOUGHLIN. Sadly, Bito Lidos, lead guitarist RUBEN de FUENTES, Current members consist of guitarbassist MICHAEL RUMMANS and RIK COLLINS, the passion, drummer RAY HERRON, and garage sales., as well as the American blues and rhythm blues musicians who had inspired those groups; Chuck Berry, The Yardbirds, The Seeds, and vocalist TOMMY McLOUGHLIN, STEVE DIBNER, attics, and British icons Pink Floyd and The Animals., The teenage band played virtually every venue in Hollywood; The Stratford, and John Lee Hooker., a music video ONE WAY OUT, of course, The Whiskey, Hollywood Palladium, Rock magazine editor MIKE STAX wanted to do an article in his UGLY THINGS publication. He was going to try solving the mystery of ‘Who Were The Sloths?’ He found original guitarist JEFF BRISKIN. Slowly others were found…MICHAEL RUMMANS, it was learned that singersongwriter HANK DANIELS and drummer SAM KAMRASS had passed on., Bo Diddley, Them, and the PURPLE WEEK-END in Leon