VdGG Profile: Heebalob

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Heebalob I & II [Spring - September 1969]
Personnel
I+II I+II I+II I+II I II	Name Martin Pottinger: drums John Weir: bass Max Hutchinson: gtr, piano, sax Chris Judge Smith: voc Steve Robshaw: gtr David Jackson: sax, flute	ex Cousin Mary Cousin Mary VdGG III	to Peter Hammill II [played with Curtis Knight] Free Art Research Trio FART [VdGG VIa] Skywhale VdGG V

Discography
They only recorded a demo. One of the songs on the demo called A Cloud As Big As A Man's Hand includes a riff that later was used on VdGG's Killer (on H To He ...), which explains why messieurs Hammill, Banton and Smith are stated as the Killer creators.

History

Judge's old schoolmate Max had played with Martin Pottinger in Cousin Mary at Aberdeen College of Architecture (guested by Judge). With Heebalob they wanted to combine the best parts of rock and jazz (rock rhythm and tunes with jazz improvisations). They had a successful appearance at the National Jazz, Blues & Pop Festival at Plumpton (on August 9th) where they were spotted by Giorgio Gomelsky. They recorded a demo for him and were offered a contract by his Marmalade label which went bust the day they were going to sign. This really knocked them out.

Judge: "It was all hopelessly over-ambitious, seems to be the story of my life. We were trying to play very difficult stuff, and with the possible exeption of Dave, we weren't really up to it." (Singed Ground program 1994)