Gregory Paul Wallace

Formed in 1966, the Sopwith Camel was the second San Francisco band to be signed by a major record company - Buddha/Kama Sutra - right after Jefferson Airplane and before the Grateful Dead. The Camel was the first San Francisco pyschedelic group in the '60s to have a "wildly commercial" hit on a national level called "Hello-Hello." It made the Billboard Top 10 in 1967. The group was originally produced by Erik Jacobsen. One of the earliest bands in San Francisco they first appeared in public on February 12, 1966. The Sopwith Camel played the Fillmore, the Avalon, the Matrix, Long Shoremans Hall, and are billed on a dozen or more of the collectible psychedelic posters of 1966 thru 1967. The Camel toured the country, appearing with the Rolling Stones, the Rascals, the Doors, the Turtles, the Who, the Velvet Undergroud, the Beach Boys and, of course, the Lovin' Spoonful, who were produced by Jacobsen as well. In San Francisco, they played with Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother, The Dead, Quicksilver, The Great Society, and many others.

The group reformed in 1971, signing with Mo Ostin of Warner Bros and recorded one more album to great reviews called "The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon," and it became a CD in 2001. It was called, "The Millennium Edition."

In 2006 producer Erik Jacobsen, discovered a box of reels from San Francisco's Wally Heider Studios in his Ah, the Master! We could not resist and so here it is again. Some would say this version is more faithful to the original vinyl recording of 1971. Now the 2nd CD release of the Miraculous Hump is called "Remastered 2006."