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When Kerry, Rand and Prouty graduated in 1962, the band added five new members: David Allen and Julian McKee on guitar, Bart Baldwin on bass and Don Roach and Brink Thorne on saxophone. When the last of these members graduated the following year, the band was officially dissolved. In total, there were thirteen different Electras over the band’s three-year lifetime...
...band added pianist Jack Radcliffe and maracas player Andy Gagarin to fill out their sound. They also recorded an album that year to sell to schoolmates, family members and friends. The supremely primitive recording session lasted only two hours, and the band relied on only one microphone dangling overhead as a one-track Ampex tape recorder captured thirteen songs from the Electras’ repertoire. They took the recording to the custom manufacturing division of RCA Records and pressed 500 vinyl copies of the self-titled release...
Rand studied government at Harvard University, where he played with the rock band the Dielectrics. He currently teaches constitutional law and history at Kent School in Connecticut. He continues to play his guitar...
...Rand, Kerry’s dedication and passion were key to the success of the Electras. “He was the essential ingredient,” he says. “We, as a band, had tremendous fun together and that would not have been possible if we hadn’t worked together. John was a very resolute, dedicated musician...
...adds, “We were with him for four years in school and two years in a band. We hope our observations about him will help people appreciate this human, warm, fun side of Kerry, and also some of his more serious attributes of character in making their decision to change leadership in this country, which we desperately need...