Russ Giguere

Russ Giguere had planned on a career as a folksinger, when fate intervened and placed him in one of the most popular pop/rock groups of the mid-1960's. Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1943, he gravitated toward music as a profession, and at age 21 he was in California, playing guitar and singing in a solo spot at the Troubadour in Los Angeles when he was spotted by Terry Kirkman and Jules Alexander, the two co-founders of the group that became the Association. He joined their big-band folk-rock outfit, singing and playing rhythm guitar, and for the next six years played a...