The Millennium

Band members: Curt Boettcher (Vocals, guitar, producer) Lee Mallory (Vocals, guitar) Sandy Salisbury (Vocals, guitar) Joey Stec (Vocals, guitar) Michael Fennelly (Vocals, guitar) Doug Rhodes (Bass, harpsichord, piano) and Ron Edgar (Drums, percussion)
by  Richie UnterbergerInfluenced by psychedelia and California rock, pop/rock producer Curt Boettcher (the Association) decided to assemble a studio supergroup who would explore progressive sounds in 1968. Millenniums resultant album would find no commercial success and only half-baked artistic success, but nonetheless retains some period charm. Influenced in roughly equal measures by the Association, the Mamas and the Papas, the Smile-era Beach Boys, Nilsson, the Left Banke, and the Fifth Dimension, Boettcher and his friends came up with a hybrid that was at once too unabashedly commercial for underground FM radio and too weird for the AM dial. It would have fit in better on the AM airwaves, though; the almost too-cheerful sunshine harmonies and catchy melodies dominate the suite-like, diverse set of elaborately produced 60s pop/rock tunes.