Important session & live musicians Poobah are a rock band from Youngstown, Ohio, U.S., which was founded in 1972 by Jim Gustafson.
[9] His second single, "Look Inside Yourself / I'm A Woman" was produced in Memphis Tennessee by Billy Cox, the bassist with the recently deceased Jimi Hendrix.
Other members of the band were Scott Hunter, Gary Dipasquale, Shirliann Shank, later Steve Rohrbaugh and Frank Amedia.
After Gustafson left Biggy Rat, he formed the hard rock trio Poobah with bassist Phil Jones and drummer Glenn Wiseman.
The new line-up was working on the next album while they did tours and shows with Ted Nugent, Canned Heat, Alice Cooper, ZZ Top, Blue Öyster Cult, Spirit, Uriah Heep, Mitch Ryder, Glass Harp, The Godz, Foghat, Tim Curry, Judas Priest, Eddie Money, James Gang, Cheech & Chong, Brownsville Station, Mark Lindsay, Mark Chatfield, Sugarloaf and others.
New members were drummer Gene Procopio and keyboardist Ken Smetzer, who added Hammond organ to the sound of Poobah.
[12] Camelot Music Distribution, who had already sold their entire stock of Poobah records, pre-ordered 5,000 copies of the new album.
The drummer Mike Fortino, whose first album with Poobah is the CD Peace Farmers, remains a member of the band to this day.
[16] The Goldmine music collector magazine named the album "Reissue Pick Of The Year" and Poobah "One of the world's most collectable psych rock bands".
[20] In 2017 "Enjoy What You Have" from the LP Let Me In is used in the TV series Graves with Nick Nolte and introduced the band to a larger audience.
[citation needed] The cover art of the album Let Me In shows a character in the style of american underground comix of the late 1960s.
The illustrator Jack Joyce made the drawing after Jim Gustafson had told him about his love of comics.
[1][25] Larry Blake, known for his comics about the band KISS made for Marvel, created drawings for Poobah, an illustration for Steamroller and an alternative cover for the album U.S.