At a performance by his friends in another band, the Palace Guard (whose drummer was Emitt Rhodes), at the Hullabaloo club in Hollywood, he joined the group onstage to play harmonica and sing "I'm a Man".
Hortter recruited guitarists John Knox and Larry Tyre, bassist Herby Ratzloff, and drummer Terry Rae (formerly of the Driftones) to play the gig.
Other bands with whom the group shared a stage included Buffalo Springfield, the Doors, Pink Floyd, the Byrds, the Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane.
1, released by UNI in mid-1969, and issued several singles including one of their best remembered songs, "Vanilla on My Mind", and a remake of "I'm a Man" which narrowly failed to reach the Billboard Hot 100.
[2] The band made an appearance on an episode of the NBC TV series The Name of the Game entitled "Jenny Wilde is Drowning" on which they performed "Follow the Bouncing Ball," released as a single in 1970.
[3][4] The group were then hired to appear in a series of commercials for AT&T's Yellow Pages, which, according to writer Jason Ankeny at Allmusic, "effectively destroy[ed] their credibility and their momentum".
In 2019, Daniel Hortter, Danny Gorman and Dave Provost recruited guitarist George Keller, and the group continues to perform select shows with the likes of the Association and the Yardbirds.