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Below is a Link from around 2000 with Richard Anderson on The Cleveland Music Connection Radio Program With Denny Carleton, discussing his legendary band Sanctuary.
Richard Anderson Radio Interview telling the tale of his band Sanctuary.
There is a bit of an audio problem here and there but doesn't interfere with what's being said
The Interview is about a half an hour and the songs of Sanctuary are long.
So if you want to hear the songs click on the right , and if you want a complete history read the history in the middle column.
The Legend of Sanctuary
Sanctuary was a creative and unique Los Angeles – based group, although all of its members were from the Eastern United States. In 1970 drummer/vocalist Richard Tepp recruited bassist/songwriter Richard Anderson from Northeast Ohio to California in order to restructure the band T.I.M.E. Guitarist Larry Byrom and bassist George Biondo had left T.I.M.E. to join Steppenwolf.
After a few rehearsals Tepp, a New Jersey native, and Anderson became disenchanted and decided to start a new band. Anderson contacted vocalist/drummer Jon Hyde and organist Andy Chapin from Massachusetts, whom he had met and jammed with at D. Poo’s nightclub in the Cleveland flats. He also contacted keyboardist/vocalist Ken Margolis, who was moving to Santa Barbara after the break-up of the Choir, a popular Cleveland band. Margolis agreed to join the new group.
Sanctuary began rehearsing at Cherokee Studio in Hollywood and wrote most of the musical arrangements there, having the luxury of being able to record the material. Tepp and Anderson would take the recorded instrumental material to their home in Topanga Canyon and compose lyrics and melodies for the vocals.
This approach resulted in keyboard – dominated songs that were unique at a time when heavy guitar – led music such as was played by Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and the like was all the rage.
Sanctuary stayed true to its style, but was dealt a blow when Andy Chapin suddenly and unexpectedly left the band. Chapin later joined Steppenwolf and then played with Rick Nelson before being killed in plane crash while touring.
Sanctuary pressed on, adding guitarist Rick Caon, also a former member of The Choir from Cleveland. Margolis then doubled up on piano and organ. The band performed at showcases, most significantly at the Whiskey A-Go-Go, The Troubador and The Bitter End West. During the Whiskey gig drummer Mitch Mitchell surprisingly came up on the stage and played on one of Sanctuary’s songs.
The band seemingly got a huge break when Rick Gunnell from the Robert Stigwood organization and Polydor records heard them at a rehearsal and offered them an opportunity to record an album. However, the former managers of Sanctuary complicated matters and the deal was never completed.
The group continued until Margolis left to complete a law degree at U.C. Santa Barbara. He then moved back East and taught law at Case Western Reserve University. Upon retirement he returned to live and perform in California.
Tepp moved to New York and eventually passed away while living peacefully in the Catskill Mountains. Caon died of an illness while living on an Indian reservation in Eastern Oregon.
Hyde eventually joined and recorded with the groups Detective and Hokus Pokus. At last check he still lives in California. Anderson moved to the Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon and wrote and played in the Northwest coastal area for four years. He then returned to Ohio and attended and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Lake Erie College. He was most recently the front man for Richie Rich and the Rotaters after retiring from a successful fast-pitch coaching career.
The members of Sanctuary went their separate ways, but the music lives on.
Incidentally, the name “Sanctuary” was inspired by a scene from the movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Quasimoto shouted the word out from the bell tower of the iconic cathedral in his attempt to protect himself from an angry mob.
The Legend of Sanctuary
Sanctuary was a creative and unique Los Angeles – based group, although all of its members were from the Eastern United States. In 1970 drummer/vocalist Richard Tepp recruited bassist/songwriter Richard Anderson from Northeast Ohio to California in order to restructure the band T.I.M.E. Guitarist Larry Byrom and bassist George Biondo had left T.I.M.E. to join Steppenwolf.
After a few rehearsals Tepp, a New Jersey native, and Anderson became disenchanted and decided to start a new band. Anderson contacted vocalist/drummer Jon Hyde and organist Andy Chapin from Massachusetts, whom he had met and jammed with at D. Poo’s nightclub in the Cleveland flats. He also contacted keyboardist/vocalist Ken Margolis, who was moving to Santa Barbara after the break-up of the Choir, a popular Cleveland band. Margolis agreed to join the new group.
Sanctuary began rehearsing at Cherokee Studio in Hollywood and wrote most of the musical arrangements there, having the luxury of being able to record the material. Tepp and Anderson would take the recorded instrumental material to their home in Topanga Canyon and compose lyrics and melodies for the vocals.
This approach resulted in keyboard – dominated songs that were unique at a time when heavy guitar – led music such as was played by Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and the like was all the rage.
Sanctuary stayed true to its style, but was dealt a blow when Andy Chapin suddenly and unexpectedly left the band. Chapin later joined Steppenwolf and then played with Rick Nelson before being killed in plane crash while touring.
Sanctuary pressed on, adding guitarist Rick Caon, also a former member of The Choir from Cleveland. Margolis then doubled up on piano and organ. The band performed at showcases, most significantly at the Whiskey A-Go-Go, The Troubador and The Bitter End West. During the Whiskey gig drummer Mitch Mitchell surprisingly came up on the stage and played on one of Sanctuary’s songs.
The band seemingly got a huge break when Rick Gunnell from the Robert Stigwood organization and Polydor records heard them at a rehearsal and offered them an opportunity to record an album. However, the former managers of Sanctuary complicated matters and the deal was never completed.
The group continued until Margolis left to complete a law degree at U.C. Santa Barbara. He then moved back East and taught law at Case Western Reserve University. Upon retirement he returned to live and perform in California.
Tepp moved to New York and eventually passed away while living peacefully in the Catskill Mountains. Caon died of an illness while living on an Indian reservation in Eastern Oregon.
Hyde eventually joined and recorded with the groups Detective and Hokus Pokus. At last check he still lives in California. Anderson moved to the Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon and wrote and played in the Northwest coastal area for four years. He then returned to Ohio and attended and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Lake Erie College. He was most recently the front man for Richie Rich and the Rotaters after retiring from a successful fast-pitch coaching career.
The members of Sanctuary went their separate ways, but the music lives on.
Incidentally, the name “Sanctuary” was inspired by a scene from the movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Quasimoto shouted the word out from the bell tower of the iconic cathedral in his attempt to protect himself from an angry mob.