 Before NRBQ he played in several bands, including The Seven of Us, which in 1967 while in Miami, Florida, met another band, The Mersey-Beats USA.The bands merged to form NRBQ.On the group's first two albums, "NRBQ" (Columbia, 1969) and "Boppin' the Blues" (With Carl Perkins, Columbia, 1970) Spampinato is credited as "Jody St.