If it seemed that the Cult arrived as a fully-finished entity from hard rock hell the truth is far more complicated. Drummer Albert Bouchard recalls the early days. “I met Allen Lanier in 1967,” he tells me in December 2018. John put the group together before Sandy Pearlman arrived.” “He was in a group with Andrew Winters, John Wiesenthal, David Roter, Joe Dick and Donald.
