Elliot Ingber (born August 24, 1941) is an American guitarist. In 1966, he joined Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention and was featured on their debut album Freak Out!. After being fired from the band by Frank Zappa, Ingber helped form Fraternity of Man, which released two albums. He subsequently joined Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band where he was given the stage name Winged Eel Fingerling by Beefheart. In 1995, Ingber reformed Fraternity of Man with original vocalist Lawrence “Stash” Wagner to record and release a third album released under the Malibu Records label. (More from Wikipedia)
“LSD-25” by the Gamblers is one of several surf instrumentals toward the end of the Pebbles, Volume 4 CD. This track dates from 1961; the allstar line-up includes Bruce Johnston, Larry Taylor (later in Canned Heat), Elliot Ingber (Fraternity of Man, Captain Beefheart, Little Feat, etc.), and famed drummer Sandy Nelson. According to the CD’s liner notes (by Nigel Strange): “Actually, surfers were the first subculture to embrace LSD, at a time when it was almost exclusively the plaything of the academics. With their footloose existence, and a sometimes mystical rapport with the ocean, the early surfers (we’re talking years before the craze, of course) were in many ways the true inheritors of the beatniks’ existential tradition, standing outside normal society and contemplating the void. In any event, this must surely be the first acid reference to appear on a record by several years.”
(December 2014)
