After Galen Niles joined the Outcasts as their new lead guitarist, the band recorded another classic called “1523 Blair”.
Galen Niles was later a member of the past UARB Ultra and a future UARB Homer.
(September 2013)
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Galen Niles, one of the bandmembers in this month’s Under-Appreciated Rock Band, Homer was previously in a legendary garage rock band called the Outcasts and was later in a previous UARB, Ultra. I wrote a Wikipedia article on the Outcasts several years ago and talked quite a bit about Homer already in the Ultra post.
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Past UARB Ultra was every bit as different from Homer as the Outcasts; this hard rock band grew out of the final line-up of Homer, with Galen Niles and Don Evans joining the new band. Chet Himes continued his career as a recording engineer, working with Ted Nugent, Carole King, Christopher Cross, and others. Van Wilks left to start a solo career.
(April 2014)
