Can you name the original members of "The Lost Gonzo Band"?!
Question: And if you can, Tell me how they got their name?
Answers: And if you can, Tell me how they got their name?
Bob Livingston, Michael McGeary, Herb Steiner Craig Hillis & Gary P. Nunn in 1972.
They were also playing with both Jerry Jeff & Michael Murphey - sometimes at the same time. Gary and Bob had played on Murphey's album, Geronimo's Cadillac and on Jerry Jeff's first MCA album, Jerry Jeff.
Gary, Hillis, Herb, McGeary and Livingston had also played on Murphey's Cosmic Cowboy Souvenir in Nashville. When they played gigs with Murphey, they were called the 'Cosmic Cowboy Orchestra'. But with Jerry Jeff, they were a "band without a name". So they had to come up with a different name every night.
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One night , while trying to think up a new name, Bob Livingston stated:
"... I was consumed with reading a book called Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. It was gonzo this & gonzo that with a lot of talk about "Dr. Gonzo" and gonzo states of being. As we were pulling up to Castle Creek someone asked, "Who are we gonna be tonight?" I had just read a passage about 'getting gonzo last night" so I offered, "What about the gonzo band?...the lost gonzo band?"
Everyone said OK and the "gonzo" name stuck. ..."