The Dinosaurs
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'''The Dinosaurs''', formed in 1982, was a [[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]] [[supergroup (music)|supergroup]] to emerge from the [[psychedelic music]] era of [[San Francisco]]. The group consisted of Peter Albin of [[Big Brother and the Holding Company]], [[John Cipollina]] of [[Quicksilver Messenger Service]], [[Papa John Creach]] of [[Hot Tuna]], [[Spencer Dryden]] of [[Jefferson Airplane]], [[Robert Hunter (lyricist)|Robert Hunter]] of the [[Grateful Dead]], [[Barry Melton]] of [[Country Joe and The Fish]] and keyboardist [[Merl Saunders]] from the Saunders-Garcia Band. In the 1990s [[David LaFlamme]] of [[It's A Beautiful Day]] and [[Jerry Miller]] of [[Moby Grape]] also toured with this group.
In 1988, the band released its only studio album, ''Dinosaurs''. In 2005 the band released a retrospective album on the Evangeline label, entitled ''Friends of Extinction''.
They were the band that forced [[Dinosaur Jr]] to add on the "Jr." in 1987, shortly after that band released [[You're Living All Over Me]].
==Discography==
* ''Dinosaurs'' · 1988
* ''Friends of Extinction'' · 2005
== External links ==
* [http://www.cjfishlegacy.com/dinosaurshomepage.html The Dinosaurs Official Website]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?&sql=11:0pftxqt5ldke The Dinosaurs on All Music Guide]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/Dinosaurs Live Music Archive] - The Dinosaur's section of archive.org's free live concert recordings.
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[[Category:Psychedelic musical groups]]
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