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Formed by Tony D'Iorio, two weeks after Woodstock, this band were thought to be from Florida, but this is not the case. They did in fact come from Pennsylvania or Philadelphia - depending on which articles you believe - but played in Florida quite a lot.
Some of this confusion is no doubt because there was a Florida act called the Bangles (also known as the Bangs) that by 1971 was calling itself Sun Country.
Bang released three full-length albums for Capitol in the early 70s and gained a fair bit of popularity, but eventually sank without trace, splitting in 1974.
One of the heaviest of America’s 'proto-metal' bands from the period, they got their first significant break, by gatecrashing a Small Faces show in Orlando in 1971.
The band attempted a comeback in 1999, recording an album entitled "Return To Zero", following this up in 2004 with "Maze".