As a youth, whenever one gets a "visionary" idea, the first rule is to drag as many of your friends into it as possible. Assembling the group was not as easy a task as I had hoped. In fact, it became a revolving door of sorts, out of which came the three members (myself included) who became the nucleus of the recording effort.
At one time or another during 1964, The Nautiloids included the following individuals: Myself, Rick Fulton (lead guitarist); Glenn Schaffer (rhythm guitarist); Greg "Mac" Bell (drummer); Bill Olmstead (rhythm guitarist); Bob McDermott (guitarist); and an organ player/lead singer whose name I cannot recall. For some reason, I associate someone by the name of "Fred Pearson", as having been included somehow within our group, but I don't recall what instrument he may have played, or if he had simply been a friend or associate of ours at the time our band was together. I must apologize for this lapse of memory on my part. It's been 40 years. I barely remember what I looked like with a full head of hair.
The largest audience to whom The Nautiloids ever performed at any given moment in time was during a vast "Battle of the Bands" event in early 1964 in Lanham, Maryland. This was, in fact, our first public appearance, and took place shortly prior to our commencing with the recording of our songs. There were, amazingly, five of us performing together at this event, a band-member 'attendance' record we would never again accomplish.
I should point out here that one web site previously had our band members ("The Nautiloids") listed/displayed as having been from Ocean City, Maryland.
However, none of our group's members were from outside of Montgomery County, Maryland, with the vast majority having actually been from Rockville, Maryland, and one or two other members having been from nearby towns. I would suspect that perhaps our group had been 'assumed' to have been 'residents' of Ocean City, Maryland, purely by our having been a "surf rock" band.
