Miles Hurwitz first heard about the Matches from his eighth-grade son. The musicians were seniors at Oakland's Bishop O'Dowd High School and they called their band the Locals. "I went through the ...

I wish I could remember when the idea first struck me. What possessed me to invent Project Flame? It was January of 1966. I had just turned 18 and was a freshman in college, stranded in the middle of ...