Future founding mainstay members of Tarney/Spencer Band, Trevor Spencer and Alan Tarney, met in Adelaide as members of the Hurricanes. Later they were members of Johnny Broome and The Handels, an R&B group, then the Vectormen and, in 1967, James Taylor Move, a psychedelic pop and progressive rock band. For that group Spencer provided drums and Tarney was on organ; bandmates included Kevin Peek on guitar (also ex-the Hurricanes, Johnny Broome and the Handels). In 1968 Peek, Spencer and Tarney formed the Kevin Peek Trio as a jazz group and relocated to the United Kingdom in the following year.