Thank you so much for posting this article.
As a longtime Spoonful fan, I really appreciated the tone of the whole thing. I liked the end where Sebastian says about the 60's Village music scene,
"It's all gone. But so are the crooners. Everybody has their turn."I recommend two very good books on the Spoonful: Do You Believe In Magic? by Simon Wordsworth and his follow-up, a collection of vintage articles and memorabilia:
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Reading those, you get a better sense of how important Zally was to the group, both as a guitar player (Clapton was a fan) and public personality.
John's younger brother Mark, who was the inspiration and credited co-writer of "Summer In the City" was at a taping of a TV special that I attended in 1985 for a program called Deja View. It featured John and Felix Cavalierie with NRBQ performing excellent versions of Spoonful and Rascals hits. During a break, John introduced his brother to the audience, and the spontaneous, enthusiastic ovation that Mark received that night in appreciation for his contribution to that classic song was truly heartwarming.