West Coast Consortium

West Coast Consortium (later just known as Consortium) was a British pop/rock group that evolved through several incarnations in the mid-'60s, before finally achieving some chart success at the tail end of the decade. The band initially coalesced under the name Group 66, with Robbie Fair on lead vocals, Geoff Simpson on lead guitar and backing vocals, Brian Bronson playing rhythm guitar, John Barker on the bass, and John Podbury playing drums. They were a fairly nondescript band, doing nothing but covers of current rock & roll hits -- by sheer luck, they were trying to do thei...