Attendees at the 149th Annual, Lehigh vs. LaFayette game, Bethlehem, PA 2013

Crafting Original Music, Spanning Three Decades.

Founding Members of The Progressive Shamanists on break in the Poconos.

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Who Took The Viles



The Shrooms, including Jim Jordan, Keith Swanson, Bob Jones, Scott Keller and Greg Pichler, rehearsed at the basement of the Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity Annex at 216 Warren Square, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in advance of a scheduled performance at the fraternity house at 227 Warren Square on Saturday, November 21, 1981. The Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity House was at the time an off campus, fraternal association. The group rehearsed ten songs over the course of the week, starting November 16, 1981. The group recorded the rehearsal onto cassette tape.

Pichler was the only member of the group who had introduced an original song in advance of the rehearsal, including the title track, The Calamity, a.k.a., Who Took The Viles.

The video includes still photo images of all the members of the group over the course of the subsequent performance on Saturday, November 21, 1981.


Greg Pichler standing next to a wall mural at 216 Warren Square, which he and Eric Lynn painted over the course of the Spring semester of 1982. By the Spring semester of 1982, the group had already dissolved. The photo was taken in May, 1984 by Kathy Turner, a.k.a., Kathy Smith Renaud, a.k.a., Kathy Smith.

Music Contributions

The following contributions were applied to the music video:

  • Jim Jordan: percussion
  • Keith Swanson: bass guitar, vocals
  • Bob Jones: keyboards
  • Greg Pichler: guitar, vocals
  • Scott Keller: vocals

List of Tracks

The list of tracks from the albumthat resulted from the work over the weekend includes:

  1. 00:00:02 (Track 1) Peace Frog, Blue Sunday (Jim Morrison; Robbie Kreiger)
  2. 00:04:38 (Track 2) Behind Blue Eyes (Pete Townsend)
  3. 00:08:19 (Track 3) For Your Love (Graham Gouldman)
  4. 00:11:19 (Track 4) Light Up Or Leave Me Alone (Jim Capaldi)
  5. 00:16:00 (Track 5) Suffragette City (David Bowie)
  6. 00:19:24 (Track 6) The Calamity, Who Took The Viles (GE Pichler)
  7. 00:27:57 (Track 7) Blue Sunday (Jim Morrison; Robbie Kreiger)
  8. 00:30:09 (Track 8) Cities (David Byrne)
  9. 00:33:31 (Track 9) Different For Girls (Joe Jackson)
  10. 00:37:12 (Track 10) Dear Prudence (Lennon / McCartney)
  11. 00:41:22 (Track 11) Head Over Heals

Keith Swanson, who later founded the Irish folk band, Barley Juice, along with Kyf Brewer in 1998.

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