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Pall Rabbit, which enjoys a run as house band at Austin's popular Action Club in the early '70s, records with Sonobeat at the beginning of its career in 1969. Unfortunately, the Sonobeat archives contain no information about the band's personnel, the tracks recorded, or the session location, except to indicate that the recorded material is a monaural artist demo mix. Although Pall Rabbit's sessions are tracked on Sonobeat's half-inch 4-track Scully 280, there are no stereo mixes in the Sonobeat archives.

Although the Sonobeat archives contain no information about the band, fortunately, drummer Tommy Taylor – who currently plays with many Austin bands – and Bob Trenchard, Pall Rabbit's bass player, recall that Pall Rabbit consists of Trenchard, Ronnie Hudgins, Chuck Greenwood, Steve Grimmit, and Steve Simon. Bob recalls the band undergoes a substantial personnel change soon after recording with Sonobeat: Clay Hemphill replaces Simon, Joe Don Davidson replaces Greenwood, and Kukla Kaigler replaces Grimmit. Even Austin guitar legend Eric Johnson does a short stint in the band early in 1970. Greenwood plays in Georgetown Medical Band before he co-founds (and names) Pall Rabbit (which simply means "dead rabbit"), and Hudgins later leaves Pall Rabbit to join Georgetown Medical Band for its spring '69 sessions with Sonobeat. The band remains headquartered in Austin but plays gigs throughout Texas, taking second place in the 1971 KEYS Radio Battle of the Bands in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Trenchard also recalls that Paul Rabbit's Sonobeat demo consists of his song The Ship and bandmate Chuck Greenwood's Shores of Treachery, which are thematically linked. Trenchard also works with Sonobeat on its first Mariani recordings, in early '69, before Hudgins invites him to join Pall Rabbit.

Sonobeat co-founder Bill Josey Sr. orders a 10" acetate disc made from the Pall Rabbit monoaural mix, which he submits to Clive Davis, head of Columbia Records, but Columbia doesn't buy the master, and Pall Rabbit's Sonobeat recordings remain unreleased.