24 on the Australian albums chart, and Nah, Tellus Wh't Kush Means Yer Great Sausage (1975), before disbanding later that year.
Kush were formed in 1971 in Melbourne as a jazz-rock fusion band by Ron Anderson on piano, flute and saxophone, Stephen Ball on keyboards, Colin Chapman on trumpet and flugelhorn, Geoff Dufff p.k.a.
[1][2] Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane described their performance style, "[they] mixed appealing Blood Sweat and Tears/Chicago-styled jazz-rock with outrageous and bizarre stage antics.
[3] Kush started recording their debut album, Presents Snow White... and the Eight Straights (September 1974) early in that year with the line-up of Duff, Ellis, Herzog and Matthews joined by Steve Ball, Bill Harrower (ex-Levi Smith's Clefs) on tenor saxophone and flute, Ian Hellings (ex-Nova Express) on trumpet, Nick Lister on drums, John Santos (a.k.a.
[1] Kush released a cover of "MacArthur Park" (1975), which McFarlane praised as "the best rendition ever recorded (check it out) even outstripping [Harris]' original 1968 hit.
"[6] An album track, "Walk on the Wild Side", which is a cover of Lou Reed's 1972 single, became Duff's signature song.