 Throughout the latter part of 1968, Transfusion opened for Blood, Sweat & Tears (September 20), Country Joe & The Fish (September 29), Procol Harum (October 5), the Jeff Beck Group (October 27) and Iron Butterfly (November 9) among others.Caine left the band before the year was out and maintained a low profile musically.Peter Shields formed a new version of Simon Caine (dropping The Catch) in October 1969 with original members Bill Palmer, John Savage and Dennis Pendrith, who had spent the interim playing with Olivus, 3's a Crowd and Ugly Ducklings spin-off group, GNU.