from the article at http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/mar/21/hall_pass/
"Mac attack
Relocating from Kansas to California is a link shared by many of the 2008 inductees.
For Garry Mac, leader and guitarist of Garry Mac and the Mac Truque, being based in the K.C. area didn’t prove to be an initial hindrance.
"When I first started (in the late 1950s), it was time when you could make a recording and get it on the radio. A lot of local groups did," Mac says.
His high-energy R&B band became popular enough to court the interest of Capitol Records, who released a single called "Along Came Love" in 1967. This led to marquee gigs opening for fellow Capitol act The Beach Boys.
The group began spending more of its professional time in Los Angeles, eventually recording an album live at the Ambassador Hotel within the same year Robert Kennedy was assassinated there. Mac’s full-length debut came out in 1969.
"The band was very successful. We traveled a lot. We had a lot of good times on the road," Mac says. "But we should have been writing more songs instead of just doing covers."
Ultimately, Capitol dropped the band in 1971.
"We were in Hawaii when we got the word they had released us. It was kind of bittersweet," he says.
Mac spent many years thereafter as a booking agent in Kansas City. And he continues to perform live with his latest act The Atlantic Express.
As for being honored by the hall, the 64-year-old bandleader admits, "It makes me feel old.""