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There is film footage of the big-band version of the Flock (the Dinosaur Swamps version of the group) playing the song "Big Bird (Fly)" on the 1971 Dutch documentary Stamping Ground. The band's live performances were never captured on tape and studio recording attempts fell by the wayside, due to personnel conflicts. Henry Webb (saxophone/vocals) and also friends Dennis Tiger (blues harp/vocals) and Jeff Gates (keyboards). They were occasionally joined onstage by Flock alumnus T.S. The rock-oriented fusion trio played a few local gigs opening for Cheap Trick and The Cryan' Shames. The new outfit played some older Flock compositions but emphasized new material co-written by Glickstein and Karpman, with some arrangements contributed by Blecka. In late 1976, Fred Glickstein and Ron Karpman recruited bassist/cellist Thom Blecka and formed a power trio called FLOCK 3. The Flock reunited briefly in 1975 for an album, Inside Out, and in 2004 a CD was released of a 1973 live concert called, Live in Europe, which features Michael Zydowsky on violin in place of Goodman and includes original members Fred Glickstein, Jerry Smith, and Ron Karpman. Glickstein's remembrance of the event was, according to the sleevenotes with The Flock compilation CD Truth, slightly more matter-of-fact: "In reality the band members started going in different musical directions. The band went back into the studio and recorded a second album entitled Dinosaur Swamps, (with Jon Gerber replacing Tom Webb) featuring the hit, "Big Bird." They began work on a third studio album, provisionally titled Flock Rock, but rumours at the time had Columbia Records' Clive Davis raiding The Flock and recruiting Goodman for the Mahavishnu Orchestra project. The first album was produced by John McClure, better known for his work with classical and jazz artists, with liner notes written from the audience at Whisky a Go Go by John Mayall, on July 9, 1969. The promising first album was further into jazz fusion than either Chicago or Blood Sweat & Tears, influenced by the Miles Davis' Bitches Brew album in which Webb participated, but whose performance was not recorded. Henry) Webb (saxophone) and Frank Posa (trumpet). The members at the time of their 1969 album recording were Fred Glickstein (guitar, lead vocals), Jerry Goodman (violin), Jerry Smith (bass), Ron Karpman (drums), Rick Canoff (saxophone), Tom (T.S. Performed mainly in the northeastern part of the country but. All four singles, "Can't You See", "Are You The Kind", "Take Me Back" and "What Would You Do If The Sun Died?" are available on CD. The act of ejaculating on a 100 dollar bill and slapping it on the face of a homeless person. Goodman, the violinist, was not in this line-up but worked as a roadie with the band. The Flock had three early singles on Destination Records and one on USA Records, local Chicago labels, recorded between 19.