The Vagrants

The Vagrants

The Vagrants

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The Vagrants

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Most famous for featuring Leslie West on guitar in his pre-Mountain days, the Vagrants were extremely popular in their home base of Long Island, New York in the mid-'60s, and recorded some decent singles without approaching a national breakout. Like fellow New Yorkers the Rascals, the Vagrants prominently featured a Hammond organ and often played soul-influenced rock. They were far more guitar-based than the Rascals, however, and projected a more garagey, less mature outlook; their later material lands somewhere between the Rascals and Vanilla Fudge. One of the few rock bands...
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