page_title: Ed King
section_title: Strawberry Alarm Clock
hierarchical_section_title: Ed King / Strawberry Alarm Clock
caption_attribution_description: Strawberry Alarm Clock on April 29th, 2007 at the Virginia Theatre.
context_page_description: Edward Calhoun King was an American musician. He was a guitarist for the psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock and guitarist and bassist for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 to 1975 and again from 1987 to 1996.
context_section_description: King was born in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, California.  He was one of the founding members of the LA-based Strawberry Alarm Clock, a mid-1960s pop psychedelic rock band. The band's largest success was with the 1967 single "Incense and Peppermints", which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. While with the band he played both electric guitar and bass guitar. The band's popularity waned considerably in the early 1970s. Faced with the loss of their recording contract with Uni Records and with internal conflicts over musical direction, Strawberry Alarm Clock disbanded in early 1972. King opted to remain in the South, inspired by an up-and-coming band called Lynyrd Skynyrd.
caption: King (third from left) with a reunited Strawberry Alarm Clock in 2007
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