band members continued to come and go throughout 1963 and 1964 but by 1965 the band had settled to a stable lineup of stanshall (lead vocal/mime), slater (clarinet/saxophone), innes (piano/guitar/vocals), bowhay-nowell (basses/banjo), spoons (drums/percussion), spear (saxophone/devices), nicholls (banjo), williams (trumpet), parry (trombone) and raymond lewitt (tuba). the line-up changed again later that year with the departure of parry (who would later go on to be a founder member of the pasadena roof orchestra), and the final 'classic' bonzos band member, "legs" larry smith, joined to replace the outgoing lewitt. smith was a long-standing friend of stanshall's, the two having been students together at central college of art. stanshall had long had designs on somehow insinuating his erstwhile drinking companion—smith was a notorious "bon viveur"—into the band despite his lack of any apparent musical talent, with a view to exposing the world to larry's undoubted charisma. while smith's musical input at this point was, by his own admission, limited, he still brought a keen sense of showmanship to the bonzos; strongly influenced by the movie the rise and fall of legs diamond, larry adopted the name 'legs' and took up tap-dancing, a skill he developed to such an entertaining level that it would later earn him a solo 'tap-dance extravaganza' spot in the band's stage show.