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James Montgomery Almost Took The Wrong Trip

11/04/2013
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(The Blues) Blues harpist James Montgomery talks in a new interview about a moment in his early career when he nearly abandoned the blues as a result of taking LSD.

He was at school in the 1960s when he was inspired to start playing harmonica and joined the Milk River Jug Band � but they were older than him and the outfit split when his colleagues left for college.

"I started the Montgomery-Miller Band. We played Chicago and Detroit style blues and we were pretty successful," Montgomery tells MetroWest. "Then in my junior year of high school I took some LSD. The next morning I changed the name of the band to The Great Cosmic Expanding!" Fortunately the experimental direction proved to be just that.

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