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| past_members = Paul HoustonHuston : [[Guitar]]<br />Jack May : Guitar<br />Jim Phillips : [[Saxophone]], [[singing|vocals]]<br />

Tom Fabian : [[Drum kit|Drums]]<br />Frank Galindo Loscutoff : Vocals<br />Tony Powell : Guitar and vocals<br />Allen M. Purdy : [[Bass guitar]]<br />Laramy Smith : Guitar and vocals

''The mid-1960s California [[garage rock]] band "'The Fugitives''', released on Big Beat Ace Records, waswere a [[Sacramento, California]] group whose first big success was at the 1964 Surfer's Convention at the State Fairgrounds, when they set the attendance record for Sacramento rock and roll shows.{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}} The Fugitives opened for many famous acts, including [[The Rolling Stones]], [[The Byrds]], [[The Kinks]], [[The Beau Brummels]] and [[Paul Revere and the Raiders]].

The band later returned to Los Angeles to appear on the nation-widenationwide television show, ''[[Hollywood A Go-Go]]''. They returned to Northern California, where the band was a wildly popular center of the Davis-Sacramento music scene and known throughout Northern California for their playing of originals and [[cover versions]] of The Beatles and other top rock groups. Their success continued until the band finally broke up in late 1966, but not before the remarkable energy they expressed was captured. An early 2-track recording of The Fugitives' high-energy "Blowin' My Mind", written by the group's Laramy Smith and AlanAllen M. Purdy, recorded in Sacramento at Bill Rase/Ikon Studios and engineered by Eirik Wangberg, was selected for inclusion on the CD ''The Sound of Young Sacramento'', a compilation released in the UK in 2000 that was put together by [[Alec PaleoPalao]] for the London, England -based company, Ace Records, a subsidiary of [[Big Beat Records (Ace subsidiary)|Big Beat Records]].

After the band split up, Laramy Smith released a record on ATCO produced by David Briggs, Neil Young's producer. In 1968 LaramySmith produced a number of recordings with his group [[Phoenix (1960s band)|Phoenix]] including "Los Angeles" co-produced with Laramy's long time pal [[Eirik Wangberg]], [[Paul McCartney]]'s producer, recorded at [[Sound Recorders]] in Hollywood, with ex-Byrd Gene Clark, featured on M 1998 album title 'Flying High". Gene Clark moved on to [[Dillard & Clark]] and in 1972 Laramy Smith created yet another band, [[Arizona (US band)|Arizona]] with [[Sneaky Pete Kleinow]], pedal steel king of [[The Flying Burrito Brothers]]. In 1974 LaramySmith moved on to Europe where for 26 years he toured 16 countries and released recordings on Columbia and EMI records. Laramy Smith is still active in the music industry,. asAllen is Wayne BrunsM. Alan Purdy is now a successful real estate mogilmogul in northern California. Frank Gallindo Loscutoff, who retained The Fugitives band name, is a musician in Sacramento.

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