...In 1969 the Soft White Underbelly was just finishing up their first album. The New York City underground rock scene was new and hot, and the Underbelly were the hottest. They played the Electric Circus, the Cafe Au Go Go and other legendary, long gone clubs in the East and West Village. The musicians played intense east coast mystic power rock, while the singer wove stories out of the music, and the air.
They had just been signed by Elektra Records, the Door's label, and the tapes were strange, and strong............ and fated never to appear. Just as the last vocals were being recorded, the band broke up. Two years later the musicians would become the Blue Oyster Cult... and the singer....Les Braunstein..... just disappeared.
