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 | | Early versions of the band started in and around the University of Arizona in the late 1960s, then took root in San Francisco in 1972. |
 | | The core band membership remained largely intact for more than a decade: Fee Waybill (vocals), Re Styles (real name Marie MacLeod) (vocals), Bill "Sputnik" Spooner (guitar, vocals), Roger Steen (guitar), Prairie Prince (drums), Michael Cotten (synthesizer), Vince Welnick (piano), and Rick Anderson (bass). |
 | | Showbiz excess was a common theme of the band's early work, with Waybill assuming the onstage persona of "Quay Lewd", a drunk, drugged-out, barely coherent lead singer, decked out with flashing glasses and impossibly tall platform shoes (quite probably lampooning Elton John's "Captain Fantastic" character). |
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