Pendragon

Band Members

Bruce Marelich, Lead Singer, Lead Guitar

Mark Lightcap, Guitar, Singer, background vocals.

Martin Espinosa, Background singer, Bass Guitar

Mike Beers, Drummer, Singer

Phil Holmboe, Lead Singer, Guitar Jan1967- Nov 1968

George Miller, Drummer, Background Singer May 1967-1969

Derek French, Drummer, 1965-1967, 1970

Gary Mora,Drummer,1971

Doug Williams, Organ, Background Singer 19641968

Mike Beers, Drummer, Singer, 1972-1979

When I first moved to the San Francisco, bay area, it was into a flat across the street for the building site of the "New" Science building, on the corner of seventh street. Along with looking for a job to pay the bills, I was her to find my way into the bergining rock music business and the much talked about "San Francisco Sound".te

Along with the Vejtables, there was "The Turtles", The Beau Brummels", "The We Five", And a new group whos albums I had seen at the college book store "The Grateful Dead." There were others but these are the one's I was aware of at the time. I had worked with the Vejtables, who's Guitarist Bob Bailey had told me in a gig I had Hired them for at Allan Hancock JC in Santa Maria, "San Francisco is the place to be if you are interested in the music business."

The first Job I got Was in San Carlos Calif, at Lytton Industries, make radar and Micro wave tubes. Working in the machne shop there was a very tall, (taller than I am at 6 foot 5 inches) Guy who was playing with a group Called "Timne". They practiced at a shooting range several blocks from the place we worked and the practiced from midnight to around 6 or 7 AM. Knowing I was Interested Bruce Marelich invited me to attend.

The Practice lasted all night, and the next day we got to know each other, I got along well with Bruce, from work, and the next day, I found I got along well with Martin Espinosa as well. that evening, the three of us and I think Mark as well went to the old San Carlos Theater where we saw the recently released, Clint Eastwood film The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, and a Film Called Beach Red.

Bruce had Paula Espinosa for a girlfreind and she was his girlfriend until April 1979, after the band broke up. They were the long term couple of the band, the only one that lasted the entire history of the band, eleven years.

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That was the beginning of m association with this group that will eventuall become known as Pendragon. The name "Timne" didn't last even a few months from that day, not because of not liking the name, a group from Oakland had put out an incredible album which was all over the charts. The chart hit for the Chambers Brothers was called "Time", but several people had asked us if that was us and we knew that we had to change it. We changed it to "Kodiak" Which lasted only slightly over a year., then we played under "Justus" for a short time.

Bruce and I got an apartment in Belmont that was quite small, and would never have worked out as a band house and we only lived there few months. Around the time we were getting ready to move again, The news cae over the television that Bobby Kennedy had been shot and killed in Los Angeles. I remember that Mary the hooker had come down from San Francisco to see e and the Sky was the strangest Blood red color that evening, to the east , not the west, and we had both mentioned it before we heard the news.

We changed it again, to "Hodological Mandala" When we All moved to the 1905 Hillman, Belmont, Band House which we moved out of just before I went into the Army destined for Vietnam.

Bruce and I, Martin Espinosa, Mark Lightcap and George Miller moved into this house. Doug Williams quit the band around the time we moved from the Laural Ave. Apartments, which was the next best thing to a band house that we had at the time. Phil Holmboe quit the band about the time we moved into the Hillman House as well. this made us a four piece band but we wern't missing anything key. George Miller left the group right after I went into the army, I found out about it in a letter.

Mary the Hooker who had been a regular band girl from the time I met her on the bus up El Camino Real from San Jose, saw us at the Airport on an adventure, and told me she was going to Japan.

But the new house atttracted a new group of girls, , including Annika "Nicki" Nothman, from Sweden, who just moved in next door with her older half sister Tina

and her husband, Ardean, Peggy and Christeen from the Burlingame area, and Judy, who was the girl fiend of Al Malmo who worked for Martin's new landscaping business. They all became regular band girls. Nicki was interested in Mark at this time, and Ardean was obsessed with some of the darker artwork and Black Magic that I was studing at the time. Also one of the bands entourage at the time was Chuck Ferron who played guitar, and helped as a roadie but was never a member of the band itself. He was one of the family though. There was also Bob "Bogous" Foster who's mother had him living with Bruce and I when we were on Laural Ave, Belmont , when he was only thirteen, We were both ninteeen at the time. Bob was the youngest of six kids and the only boy although his mother soon had two younger brothers after him. He didn't take kindly to his father treating him like one of the girls and was raising hell in the house, punching holes though the walls, doors etc.