mark landon, who for a while played guitar with the music machine, is now an emmy award-winning tv and film make-up artist. in 1967, marty tryon joined a group called the lamp of childhood, who had a contract with abc dunhill records. bob corff toured in popular rock musicals such as hair (musical), jesus christ superstar, and grease (movie) and became involved in a much-publicized affair with actress june lockhart and now teachers acting and voice. alan wisdom now owns a telephone installation company. harry garfield, now using the name harry ascher, is vice president of universal studios' music department. in the 1970 marty tryon worked as a tv session bassist for tv shows such as the rockford files and hill street blues would later go on to play with the smothers brothers' house band in the late 1970s and he eventually in addition to lighting and midi electronic musical programming, became their production manager. the purple gang's recordings have appeared on compilations including "just for kicks volume 1," issued by misty lane records, which includes their entire recorded output, as well as "the lost generation, vol. 3."