Personnel: Craig Smith (Hangnail Phillips) - Vocals, Lead Guitar Dave Bennett (Frito Benito) - Vocals, Keyboards, Bass, Guitar John Beswick (Thunder) - Bass Steve Lambert - Drums Bill Dube (DooBee) - Drums Larry Williams (Mobis) - Drums Mike MacGuiness (Stomach Pump) - Congas, artwork, inspiration Mike Mackay (Tarzan Fish) - Tambourine Mike Pratt - Trumpet Don Fangman - Trombone Keith Whaley - Tenor Sax Jack Adams - Alto Sax
Influences: Mothers Of Invention, Captain Beefheart, Electric Flag, The Fugs
Setlist Sample: Mostly original but there's stuff like "What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body", Groovin' Is Easy", "I'm A Man"
Equipment: Rickenback 360 twelve-string, Gibson 330, Fender Telecaster Bass, Vox Jaguar Organ, Fender Tremolux, Univox Bass Amp, the rest was mostly homemade gear.
Rehearsal Space: Hangnail's Basement/Dave's Bedroom
Band Vehicles: "The Tank" 1959 Chevy Biscayne with the back seat removed. We also got to use a Hearse from time to time.
Fashion Statement: Everyone in this room is wearing a uniform and don't kid yourself.
Best Gig: Battle Of The Bands at Newark High School 1970. We filled the stage with people playing instruments. It was hard to tell who was actually playing and who wasn't. There were people playing chess, dancing and knitting. No, we didn't win, but we sounded great. Sam The Fink and The Garbage Disposal won.
Gig from Hell!: The worst gig of my life was an earlier battle of the bands at Ogeltown Jr. High School. Bill Dube and John Besswick had just joined the band and had never played in front of people before. It was an auditorium full of people. Bill and John just froze in the middle of one of the more complicated tunes. Dave and Craig kept on playing without them. They finally found their back to the music and started playing but after that screw up it was all down hill. The stage became a twisted surrealistic swirl with faces learing at them. We packed up and got out as soon as we could. Most of our gigs were fiascos because no one understood us. We were always driving people out of the places we played because we didn't play soul music or top 40. It was too trippy for the squares of Delaware. People would say, "You've got three drummers! Where's the beat?!"
Last Gig: The Newark High Battle of the Bands was just about it. We mostly graduated and went separate ways. Dave joined "Snakegrinder And The Shredded Field Mice" and Hangnail formed "Rudy Baker And The Vegetables" with Bill Dube, one of the drummers, and Bill Blough, a member of the entourage who Hangnail taught to play bass.

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Dave and Craig formed Delaware's first New Wave band "The Voltags" in 1979 with a successful area single "Electric Jungle/Son Of Sam" . Pump released a not so successful single, "Kinda Like/Pappy's Rug", in 1970. Bill Blough left The Vegetables and joined George Thorogood & The Destroyers in 1973 and has been his bass player ever since.