An obscure late-'60s L.A. band with one ill-distributed LP to their credit, the Rockets would be totally forgotten had not the core of the band gone on to form Crazy Horse, Neil Young's long-running electric backing unit. Their sole record was a fair but stylistically erratic effort, running the gamut from whimsical folk-rock to eccentric psychedelia, showing promise but never settling into a comfortable identity.
Rockets guitarist Danny Whitten and bassist Billy Talbot had been working together in L.A. since around 1964, where they made one single for the Valiants label as part of a group called Danny and the Memories.
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