THE STARSHIP TROOPERS
The Not Quite were one of the early psychedelic revival bands of the early 1980’s and got some good press, with one outlet calling them a “major band”. Originally they were called the Starship Troopers (named after a famous and controversial novel, Starship Troopers by science fiction legend Robert Heinlein that was later made into a really entertaining movie, Starship Troopers).
(May 2010)
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I couldn’t find anything by The Not Quite on YouTube, but all is not lost: There is a website on the band that has several songs available for (free) downloading – including some unreleased songs, and one called “This Song Has a Clever Title” (no, that really is the name of the song) from a predecessor band, the Starship Troopers. Rather than point you directly to the song, I probably should put in the link for the website as a whole, and then you can navigate your way, on the History of the Band page, to the song: americanentropy.com/music/not_quite/ . When I went there just now, the website was all tangled up with one of those “webrings” on unknown psychedelic music, so it might take you a while to get to the web page itself.
(May 2012)
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Here is a photo of the Starship Troopers, the direct precursor to The Not Quite playing in concert around 1979 at a high school:
(May 2013)
