The Electric Flag was an
American blues rock soul group, led by
guitarist Mike Bloomfield, keyboardist
Barry Goldberg and drummer
Buddy Miles, and featuring other musicians such as vocalist
Nick Gravenites and bassist
Harvey Brooks. Bloomfield formed the Electric Flag in 1967, following his stint with the
Butterfield Blues Band. The band reached its peak with the 1968 release,
A Long Time Comin', a fusion of rock,
jazz, and
R&B styles that charted well in the
Billboard Pop Albums chart. Their initial recording was a soundtrack for
The Trip, a movie about an
LSD experience by
Peter Fonda, written by
Jack Nicholson and directed by
Roger Corman.