 After having recorded two albums with Mars Bonfire and bassist Rushton Moreve along with producer/arranger Gabriel Mekler, St. Nicholas' Sparrow bandmates (vocalist/guitarist John Kay, drummer Jerry Edmonton and organist Goldy McJohn) came to see him perform with T.I.M.E.at the Whiskey A Go Go on the Sunset Strip and asked him to leave T.I.M.E.to rejoin them as Steppenwolf.