The Grass Roots

The Grass Roots achieved much of their success between 1967 and 1972, with one platinum album, two gold albums and a slew of charting singles to their name. Although they disbanded in 1975, a version of the band, Rob Grill and the Grass Roots was created in 1982 and performs to the present day.

The original Grass Roots was a moniker adopted in 1965 by P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri in order to release folk-rock music, including “Where Were You When I Needed You”. The single took off but without a band to promote it, they subsumed another group, The Bedouins. But The Bedouins were not keen to continue in the folk-rock genre and all but the drummer abandoned Sloan and Barri. The album of the same name foundered without a band to promote it. Another group, The 13th Floor, was brought in and adopted the Grass Roots name. “Let’s Live for Today” was the first single from the newly assembled band. They had several hits during the years that followed but the line-up of the band changed several times and as they moved into the 70s, the hits fell away. By 1975 it was all over.