Rock band started out as backing band for vocalist Nate ‘Junebug’ Gales (ex-Little Nate & Deltones). Band members included Louis Norbeck (guitar, keyboards ex-Gent Set, Coming Generation), Chuck Gullivan (guitar), Wally Bosman (bass ex-Shades of Blue), Hollis Ambrose (drums), Bruce Davis (trombone ex-Coming Generation), Grant Streigel (trombone). Don Quigley (sax) joined group after leaving the Coming Generation. Gales was later replaced with Larry Chenoweth (vocals ex-Status Quo). Norbeck quit the group in 1971 and was replaced with Chuck Ansell (vocals, keyboards ex-Coming Generation).
Back: Ambrose, Bosman, Quigley, Ansell, Chenoweth (standing up top).
Courtesy of Don Quigley
Ansell eventually left to form Appaloosa and was replaced with Bill Differ (guitar, keys). The band performed with Buddy Miles in November 1969 at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland VA. Played double bills with the Admirals at the Carousel in Ocean City in summers on 1970-71. Also seen at the Stowaway Lounge in Ocean City, Act III, The Attic in New Jersey and The Attic in D.C. Flying Circus was the first band ever to play the brand-new Ocean City Convention Center in spring 1970, opening for the Canadian rock band Crow.
L-R: Differ, Gullivan, Streigel, Chenoweth (front), Ambrose, Davis, Quigley, Bosman.
Courtesy of Don Quigley
A pared down version of the group was house band at the Dungeon in Ocean City for the summer of 1972. Flying Circus continued performing locally through the mid-‘70s. Seen at the Baltimore City Fair September 21, 1975…
Gales later led the group June Bug… Chenoweth went on to join Ivory Lizard… Bosman and Ambrose were both later with Paragon…
