Stained Glass (band)

This enabled them not only to sing accurate covers, but to create unique and melodic vocal arrangements on original material, setting them apart from most of their competition.

[citation needed] Hedge put the group together, invested personal funds for equipment and promotion, and was the leader and business manager for the first couple of years.

The songs were partially a mixture of rock, folk, blues, and Merseybeat, but had a distinctive original sound they planned to exploit for long careers.

In April 1967, the band scored a big hit record in San Jose with "We Got A Long Way To Go," written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.

An LP, Crazy Horse Roads, was released in 1968,[1] and had some controversial album art, in what appeared to be a photograph of the three of them all hanging by the neck from the branch of a tall tree.

Alec Palao, a passionate fan of Bay Area music of the 1960s and 1970s, spent a couple years doggedly obtaining early Trolls demos, unused album tracks from various companies holding the rights to their music, added some raw live tracks, and put together a CD of the unreleased material for Ace Records.