[2] The core members of Clear Light were: [3][4] The original line-up was featured in the 1967 motion picture The President's Analyst,[4] with Barry McGuire cast as their leader and vocalist.
[citation needed] However, during the recording process, often described as "brutal", Paul Rothchild was not happy with Robison's guitar skills and pressured the group to remove him.
In what has been called the band's finest hour, drunken customers in a Park Avenue club heckled them so brutally that Ralph Schuckett, the usually gentle organist, hurled a few choice words back at them.
[6] A notable track from the Clear Light album was "Mr. Blue," a psychedelic version of a folk song written by Tom Paxton and a popular request on underground radio at the time.
[8] Seal was replaced by ex-Fug Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar; Cliff De Young was soon to follow, and after having started work on a second album the group disbanded in 1968.
Two tracks from the sessions for the second album surfaced in 2006, "Darkness of Day" and "What a Difference Love Makes"; the latter showed the group moving into more commercial territory due to Kortchmar's influence.
[11] Doug Lubahn played bass on several of The Doors' albums, including Strange Days, Waiting for the Sun, and The Soft Parade.