The Grass Roots

The Grass Roots are an American rock band that charted frequently between 1965 and 1975. The band was originally the creation of Lou Adler and songwriting duo P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri. In their career, they achieved two gold albums and two gold singles, and charted singles on the Billboard Hot 100 a total of 21 times. Among their charting singles, they achieved Top 10 three times, Top 20 six times and Top 40 14 times. They have sold over 20 million records worldwide.
Until his death in 2011, early member Rob Grill and a newer lineup of the Grass Roots continued to play many live performances each year. After his death, the group featured no original band members, with a lineup personally chosen by Grill carrying on the legacy of the group with nationwide live performances.

The founding years

The name "Grass Roots" originated in mid-1965 as the name of a band project by Los Angeles songwriter and producer duo P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri. Sloan and Barri had written several songs in an attempt by their record company, Dunhill Records, to cash in on the budding folk rock movement. One of these songs was "Where Were You When I Needed You", which was recorded by Sloan and Barri. Sloan provided the lead vocals and played guitar, Larry Knechtel played keyboards, Joe Osborn played the bass and Bones Howe was on drums. The song was released under "The Grass Roots" name and sent, as a demo, to several radio stations of the San Francisco Bay area.
When moderate interest in this new band arose, Sloan and Barri went to look for a group that could incorporate the Grass Roots name. They found one in The Bedouins, a San Francisco band that won a Battle of the Bands at a Teenage Fair in San Mateo, California. A new version of "Where Were You When I Needed You" with that band's lead vocalist, Willie Fulton, was recorded.
In late 1965, the Grass Roots got their first official airplay on Southern California radio stations, such as KGB in San Diego and KHJ in Los Angeles, with a version of the Bob Dylan song "Mr. Jones (Ballad of a Thin Man)". Dylan granted Sloan permission to cover "Ballad of a Thin Man".
For some months, the group appeared as the first "real" Grass Roots. They were used by Dunhill to back up The Mamas & the Papas and Barry McGuire and became a house band at The Trip nightclub in Hollywood. The partnership with Sloan and Barri broke up when the band demanded more space for their own more blues rock-oriented material. Willie Fulton, Denny Ellis and David Stensen went back to San Francisco, with drummer Joel Larson being the only one who remained in Los Angeles. Fulton, Ellis and Stensen continued to appear as the Grass Roots, with original Bedouins drummer Bill Shoppe, until Dunhill ordered them to cease, because the label decided to start all over again with another group, whom they would groom to be the Grass Roots. In the meantime, the second version of "Where Were You When I Needed You" peaked in the Top 40 in mid-1966, while an album of the same name sold poorly.
Still looking for a group to record their material and promote it with live dates, Sloan and Barri in 1966 offered Wisconsin-based band The Robbs a chance to assume the identity of the Grass Roots, but the group declined.

Peak years

The group's third – and by far most successful – incarnation was finally found in a Los Angeles band called The 13th Floor. This band consisted of Creed Bratton, Rick Coonce, Warren Entner and Kenny Fukumoto and had formed only a year earlier. Entner, who had been attending film school at UCLA alongside future The Doors members Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek, was drifting through Europe in the summer of 1965 singing and playing on street corners when he met fellow busker and American Creed Bratton in Israel, where an Israeli businessman expressed interest in managing and promoting them. The duo moved on individually, though, and ended up back in LA by 1966, where they formed the 13th Floor and submitted a demo tape to Dunhill Records. After Fukomoto was drafted into the army, the group went through two replacements before the label found singer Rob Grill, who had a voice that P.F. Sloan regarded as the perfect vehicle to convey his songs in a more commercially accessible manner than Sloan could with his own singing. Grill only played guitar, but had to quickly learn the rudiments of bass to fill that vacancy in the lineup. In 1967 the band was offered the choice to go with their own name or choose to adopt a name that had already been heard of nationwide.
In the beginning, they were one of many U.S. guitar pop/rock bands, but with the help of Barri and their other producers, they developed a unique sound for which they drew as heavily on British beat as on soul music, rhythm and blues, and folk rock. Many of their recordings featured a brass section, which was a novelty in those days among American rock bands, with groups like Chicago just developing.
The bulk of the band's material continued to be written by Dunhill Records staff and the LA studio musicians who were part of what became known as the Wrecking Crew (music)|Wrecking Crew] played the music on most, but not all, of their hits. The Grass Roots also recorded songs written by the group's musicians, which appeared on their albums and the B-sides of many hit singles.
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As the Grass Roots, they had their first top-10 hit in the summer of 1967 with "Let's Live for Today", an English-language cover version of "Piangi con me", a 1966 hit for the Anglo-Italian quartet The Rokes. "Let's Live for Today" sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. With Rob Grill as lead singer, they recorded a third version of "Where Were You When I Needed You". The band continued in a similar hit-making vein for the next five years.
The Grass Roots played at the Magic Mountain Music Festival">Six Flags Magic Mountain">Magic Mountain Music Festival on Sunday, June 11, 1967, in the Summer of Love as "Let's Live for Today" was at number 15 and climbing.
In late 1967, the band recorded the album Feelings, which featured much heavier input in the songwriting and playing by the group members themselves, but its failure to sell prompted Barri to take full hold of the reins again, as he moved the band in a more R&B, horn-punctuated direction. By this time, Sloan had phased out of his involvement with the band and relocated to New York City to pursue a solo career.
On Sunday October 27, 1968, the Grass Roots played at the San Francisco Pop Festival as their hit "Midnight Confessions" was peaking at number five. They then played at the Los Angeles Pop Festival and Miami Pop Festival in December 1968.
Creed Bratton became frustrated by Dunhill's refusal to allow the band to write its own songs and play the instruments on its records. After a disastrous appearance at the Fillmore West in April 1969, a "slightly inebriated" Bratton was asked to leave the band. He was replaced by Dennis Provisor on keyboards and vocals, and lead guitarist Terry Furlong was also brought in to form a quintet. This was the first of many line-up changes for this version of the band.
According to Rob Grill, the band turned down "Don't Pull Your Love" and "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)," reportedly because Grass Roots frontman Rob Grill balked at singing a love song that might be thought to refer to co-member Warren Entner's wife Rosemarie Frankland. Both songs became regulars they performed live and later included on their 2000 live album The Grass Roots – Live At Last.
The Grass Roots, with their new members, played at Newport Pop Festival 1969 at Devonshire Downs, which was a racetrack at the time but now is part of the North Campus for California State University, Northridge. The group played on Sunday June 22, 1969, a week before their hit "I'd Wait A Million Years" reached the Hot 100. In Canada they played at the Vancouver Pop Festival at the Paradise Valley Resort in British Columbia in August 1969.
By 1971, Furlong had stopped touring with the group to pursue a solo career, but continued to contribute on records during the rest of the band's time on Dunhill. His touring replacement was Brian Naughton, who left in 1972. Drummer Rick Coonce was gone as well, by the beginning of 1972, and new members Joe Pollard and another guitarist named Terry joined up. Terry was soon replaced by Reed Kailing. Drummer Pollard and keyboardist Dennis Provisor left soon after to go out as a duo and were replaced by a returning Rick Coonce and keyboard man Virgil Weber. But Coonce was back for only a short period before he was gone again, turning the drum slot over to original member Joel Larson. Singers Rob Grill and Warren Entner remained the point of focus during these years.
The group's songs during 1967–1972 include: "Let's Live for Today", a cover of an Italian hit by The Rokes, "Piangi con me" and "Things I Should Have Said" ; "Midnight Confessions" ; "Bella Linda" , "Lovin' Things" , "The River Is Wide", "I'd Wait a Million Years" and "Heaven Knows" ; "Walking Through the Country" and "Baby Hold On" ; "Temptation Eyes", "Sooner or Later" and "Two Divided by Love" ; "Glory Bound" and "The Runway" .
By early 1974, the Grass Roots had left Dunhill, and Kailing, Weber and longtime member Entner moved on, while former members Terry Furlong and Dennis Provisor returned. But Furlong left permanently by mid-1974 to be succeeded by Gene Barkin, then by Reggie Knighton. The resulting group was Grill, Larson, Provisor, and Knighton. Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, who had penned the group's 1971 hit "Two Divided by Love" and many others, invited the band to join their Haven label, where they released an eponymous album in 1975, The Grass Roots, containing the single "Mamacita", which charted at number 71 on the Billboard Hot 100. Follow-up singles failed to chart.

Later years

1976 to 1981

Their 1976 single "Out In The Open" proved to be their swan song on Haven. Knighton left in 1976 and Alan Deane took over, followed by guitarist Glen Shulfer in 1977. ABC Records issued a final greatest-hits package of the group titled ABC Collection in 1976, but in late 1977, Grill decided to take a break from performing and later recorded the 14 Greats album on Gusto Records featuring Provisor and himself. This album consisted of 1978 rerecordings of their hits.
The group, still managed and booked by Grill, in late 1977 continued touring with Larson, Mark Miller and Brian Carlyss, joined by Lonnie Price and Randy Ruff for touring dates and TV appearances until November 1978. Larson was then joined by new players Scott Hoyt, David Nagy and Gene Wall. Nagy and Larson left in 1979 and were replaced by a returning Carlyss and Reagan McKinley.
During this period, the group appeared on an HBO television special, '60s Rock Scrapbook, filmed at Magic Mountain amusement park in Valencia, California, in October 1979, with Grill and Dennis Provisor making special appearances.
Grill launched a solo career in 1979. Grill toured as a solo act in 1979–1980 opening for Fleetwood Mac's Tusk tour with a band led by guitarist Rick Alexander.
When interest in bands of the 1960s rose again in 1980, Grill took back the Grass Roots name and toured the United States and Japan. Guitarist Miller returned to fill in on guitar for Shulfer on some dates with the group in 1981 and Ron Pitt and Mike Daley replaced Berendt and Meurett respectively the same year.

1982 to 1993

In 1982 Grill went forward with a brand-new lineup consisting of seasoned session players. They were Terry Oubre, Charles Judge and Ralph Gilmore. Another keyboardist, Bob Luna, came in around mid-1982 to substitute for Judge on dates when he was not available. That same year, the new band released Powers of the Night on MCA. This was the last album of new material to be released by the Grass Roots to date.
Later in 1982, the Grass Roots performed an Independence Day concert on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., attracting a large crowd and setting a record for attendance, at that time, for an outdoor concert for a single musical act. In April 1983, James G. Watt, President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, banned Independence Day concerts on the mall by such groups. Watt said, "rock bands" that had performed on the Mall on Independence Day in 1981 and 1982 had encouraged drug use and alcoholism and had attracted "the wrong element", who would mug people and families attending any similar events in the future. During the ensuing uproar, Grill stated that he felt "highly insulted" by Watt's remarks, which he called "nothing but un-American".
After Powers of the Night failed to attract much attention, Grill and the group continued to tour into 1984. Dave Rodgers replaced Charles Judge and after Terry Oubre and Ralph Gilmore departed, Grill brought in two additional new players named George Spellman and Coy Fuller and toured Europe in mid 1984. According to Grill, a country single, "St. Somewhere", also was recorded in Nashville with this same lineup. The single had a very limited release, with the same song on the flip credited to Rob Grill and the Grass Roots. "St. Somewhere" was written by Kent Robbins and the track was produced by Mark Sherrill.
By late 1984, Grill had returned to the US and was touring with yet another new group of Grass Roots that included Dusty Hanvey, Larry Nelson, and David Page. This lineup's first show was in Okinawa.
From this point on, Grill and the group would concentrate on the "1960s nostalgia" circuit, starting with the Happy Together '85 Tour with fellow 1960s groups The Turtles, The Buckinghams, and Gary Lewis & the Playboys.
In 1986 another package had them appearing with The Monkees, Gary Puckett and Herman's Hermits. They were joined in this show by bassist Mark Clarke and a horn section and backed up The Monkees and Gary Puckett during their sets, as well.
Hanvey and Nelson continued backing The Monkees for their 1987 tour, while the Grass Roots joined Classic Superfest, which also featured Herman's Hermits, Mark Lindsay and Gene Clark's Byrds. For this tour, Mark Tomorsky handled guitar and Michael Lewis was on keyboards. Terry Danauer was also added on bass then, but by October 1987, Hanvey and Nelson were back with Grill, and Joe Dougherty replaced David Page on drums in 1989.
In 1991 Rhino Records released a double CD anthology of the group.
Mike Stec came in for Danauer on bass in 1992–1993 before Grill took over bass again. From here on the band's lineup was stable.

1994 to 2011

On January 16, 1999, former Grass Roots members Joel Larson, Virgil Weber and Creed Bratton, along with Paul Downing on vocals and lead guitar, Justin Chats on vocals, keyboards and saxophone, Dan Schwartz on bass and David Olson on backing vocals, were part of a 35th Anniversary Celebration at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles. They shared the stage with Johnny Rivers, Nancy Sinatra, the Robby Krieger Band and Drake Levin and Phil Volk of Paul Revere and the Raiders.
In 2000 Grill released a Grass Roots live concert album titled Live at Last.
During the 2000s, the group regulars had available substitutes: former Outsiders (American band)|Outsiders] singer Sonny Geraci sat in for Grill during the first half of 2002, Scott Sechman filled in for Hanvey in 1998, Chris Merrell filled in for Hanvey on various dates 2000–2006, while Hal Ratliff came in for Nelson when he had other commitments from 2000 on.
In 2008 Grill released a second live concert album titled Live Gold and brought in Mark Dawson earlier that year to fill in when he was absent.
During the summers of 2010 and 2011, the Grass Roots had heavy touring schedules throughout the U.S., both on their own and as part of the Happy Together: 25th Anniversary Tour, along with Flo & Eddie of The Turtles, Mark Lindsay, The Buckinghams and The Monkees member Micky Dolenz.
Grill continued to lead the band into the current millennium as the Grass Roots sole owner and made appearances with the band until his death.
Rick Coonce died of heart failure on February 25, 2011, and Rob Grill died on July 11, 2011, from complications following a stroke.

2012 to present

In 2012 the group was again part of the Happy Together Tour and the current band of Dawson, Dougherty, Hanvey and Nelson continued to tour nationwide, oftentimes appearing with other classic rock groups such as John Kay and Steppenwolf, Tommy James and The Shondells, The Buckinghams and Herman's Hermits starring Peter Noone.
Creed Bratton referred to his time with the Grass Roots in an episode of The Office in the deleted scenes on DVD.
Again in 2015, they joined The Turtles, The Association, Mark Lindsay, The Buckinghams and The Cowsills for that year's Happy Together Tour.
In December 2015, the American Pop Music Hall of Fame released their 2016 inductees: Barbra Streisand, The Grass Roots, Barry Manilow, Neil Sedaka, The Association, Dion, The Lettermen, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Temptations and Three Dog Night.
In 2016, the Grass Roots were part of the Flower Power Cruise, joining Peter Asher, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Felix Cavaliere, Micky Dolenz, The Guess Who, Peter Noone, Jefferson Starship, Mark Lindsay, Gary Puckett, The Turtles and Christian Nesmith.

Band members

Current

Mark Dawson — lead vocals, bass guitar
Dusty Hanvey — lead guitar, backing vocals
Larry Nelson — keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals
Joe Dougherty — drums, percussion

Former

Original

Steve Barri – backing vocals, various instruments, songwriter, producer
P. F. Sloan – lead vocals, guitar, songwriter, producer
Joel Larson – drums

The Bedouins

Denny Ellis – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Willie Fulton – lead vocals, lead guitar
David Stensen – bass, backing vocals
Bill Shoppe - drums

13th Floor

Rob Grill – vocals, bass, songwriter
Warren Entner – vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, songwriter
Rick Coonce – drums, percussion, songwriter
Creed Bratton – lead guitar, vocals, songwriter

Other 1960s additions

Dennis Provisor – vocals, keyboards, songwriter
Terry Furlong – lead guitar

1970s additions

Brian Naughton – lead guitar
Virgil Weber – keyboards
Reed Kailing – lead guitar, vocals, songwriter
Joe Pollard – drums, percussion
Terry – lead guitar
Gene Barkin – guitar
Reggie Knighton – lead guitar, backing vocals
Alan Deane – lead guitar, backing vocals
Glen Shulfer – guitar, backing vocals
Brian Carlyss – bass, backing vocals
Mark Miller – lead guitar, lead vocals
Lonnie Price – keyboards, lead vocals
Randy Ruff – organ, backing vocals
Scott Hoyt – lead vocals, lead guitar
Gene Wall – keyboards, backing vocals
Dave Nagy – bass, lead vocals
Reagan McKinley – drums, percussion

1980s additions

Steve Berendt – bass, backing vocals
Luke Meurett – drums, percussion
Ron Pitt - bass, backing vocals
Mike Daley - drums, percussion
Terry Oubre – lead guitar, backing vocals
Ralph Gilmore – drums, percussion, backing vocals
Charles Judge – keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals
Bob Luna – keyboards, backing vocals
Coy Fuller – drums, percussion
George Spellman – guitar, backing vocals
Dave Rodgers – keyboards, backing vocals
David Page – drums, percussion
Terry Danauer – bass
Cary Lenard - keyboards, backing vocals
Richard Fanning – trumpet
Kevin Osborne – trombone
Robbie Barker – keyboards
Michael Lewis – keyboards
Mark Tomorsky – guitar, backing vocals

1990s additions

Michael Stec – bass, backing vocals
Scott Sechman – guitar, backing vocals

2000s fills

Chris Merrell – lead guitar, backing vocals
Hal Ratliff – keyboards, backing vocals
Sonny Geraci – lead vocals

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