| Santa Barbara Machine Head | |
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| Genres | Electric blues |
| Years active | 1967 |
| Labels | Immediate Records |
| Associated acts | The Birds, The Creation, Deep Purple, The Faces, The Pretty Things, The Rolling Stones, Tomorrow |
| Past members | |
| John "Twink" Alder Kim Gardner Jon Lord Ronnie Wood |
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Santa Barbara Machine Head were a short-lived British electric blues combo that formed and disbanded in 1967. They recorded three instrumental songs together for Immediate Records; "Albert", "Porcupine Juice" and "Rubber Monkey", released in 1968 on the compilation album Blues Anytime Vol. 3. All four members later went on to achieve success and notoriety with other bands.[1][2]