prior to recording their first album, three band members - brett hill [larry's son], joe's brother randy and tom miller - all lost their lives in automobile accidents while traveling to concerts. singing backup and playing piano, tom "aquinas" miller was one of the "kent-25" and had been featured in life magazine as part of the protests on the kent state campus at the time of the kent state shootings. though the music on their first album, "my poor generation", was written between 1968 and 1972, it wasn't released until 1973 and was dedicated to the memories of randy markko and tom miller. "the totally essential jesus rock album featuring some baroque chamber folk with harpsichord, strings, piano and woodwinds, some otherworldly smoky dream psych and some stripped-down electric boogie blues. this was an odd congregation that collectively created an atmosphere representing the best in what was once jesus rock."