Euphoria

By 1965, the musical duo known collectively as Euphoria -- bassist William D. "bill" Lincoln and Hamilton Wesley Watt -- had already been in several bands in the L.A. area, including The War Babies (their song "Jeanie's Pub" appears on numerous compilations, including Teenage Shutdown: You Better Get A Move On!), and a band called the Word (reputedly a Christian garage folk group whose lone single had a juvenile delinquent theme). By 1967, the duo had relocated to the Houston area, where they often played with The 13th Floor Elevators. Lincoln and Watt were soon back in Hollywood, where they joined a folk-rock band called Euphoria. The other members of the band included Detroit-born guitarist Doug Delain and drummer Dave Potter, a veteran of the Texas band Endle St. Cloud and the L.A.-based East Side Kids. Delain later left the group to form the short-lived Motorcycle Abilene with then-unknown Warren Zevon (he also recorded songs with Ken Forssi and Alban Pfisterer of the Elektra band Love), while Potter formed Potter-st. Cloud with some of his former bandmates.

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