Peter's Faces

Quartet formed by Peter Nelson out of his previous group (Peter Nelson & the Travellers), the name Peter's Faces sounded cooler than the group's music evidently did -- one might've hoped for a good, hard mod sound, given their use of the slang term "face," but they were a lot less intense, than, say, the Small Faces or the Who. Nelson sang and played bass, while Tony Hall handled the rhythm guitar and saxophone, John McDonald played lead (succeeded for a time by Vic Briggs, who was billed at the time as Antion Meredith), and Peter Coleman played the drums. They were signed to ...