Crushed Butler

The band arrived for its demo session in a Rolls Royce, but came home on the subway -- because they'd insisted on recording "Factory Grime," the song that excited them far more than EMI's preference, "Love Is All Around Me." Drummer Darryl Read's recollection of that misbegotten 1970 effort is an apt epitaph for Crushed Butler -- a charter member of "The Bands That Time Forgot" club. Long before the Sex Pistols put the boot into what remained of the hippie dream, Read, guitarist Jesse Hector, and bassist Alan Butler were living out those fantasies with a fury that gave other ...