Music Spectrum

Spectrum (aka The Indelible Murtceps) was a Melbourne-based band active 1969-73, featuring Mike Rudd on vocals and guitar.

There is a good and detailed profile of the band here.

The piece contains this anecdote about their contribution to the film:

Around this time (1972), Spectrum also contributed material for an obscure detective film called Dalmas by Bert Dehling, who later directed the feature Pure Shit. Snap Crackle And... from Warts was apparently the only track actually used in the film, but they also recorded at least one other instrumental piece Dalmas (Theme) which eventually surfaced on EMI's ROYGBIV compilation in 1984 (although this track does not appear on the Ghosts CD). Mike: "We never even saw the finished film. It had what you might call a 'limited pubic release'. We basically jammed to the images we saw at a preview screening and that was about it. I'm sure we didn't even get paid for it." Sadly, Warts Up Your Nose was to be Lee Nealeʼs swansong -- he suffered some form of breakdown shortly after the album was completed and left the band in September 1972. Regrettably, this fine player abandoned the music scene for good, dropping completely out of sight, and to this day not even Mike and Bill know anything about Leeʼs whereabouts, or what became of him after leaving Spectrum.

This sounds alarmingly similar to some of the freak-outs that happen in the film.

(Below: Spectrum's 1970 line-up, Lee Neale, keyboards, vocals, left, Bill Putt, bass, Mark Kennedy, drums, and Mike Rudd, right, vocals, guitar, recorder, harmonica) (Below: Spectrum in TV Week and Mike Rudd on the cover of Daily Planet) (Below: still active in 2012)

The relevant tracks appeared on:

LP (stereo) EMI EME 1100 1984 Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet "Dalmas (Theme) Spectrum as The Indelible Murtceps (Rudd) LP EMI HMV OCSD-7597 Warts Up Your Nose “Snap Crackle & ...” Spectrum as The Indelible Murtceps Produced by Howard Gable Engineers - Ern Rose, Roger Savage, John Sayers, John French Studios - Armstrong's, South Melbourne; TCS, Richmond Studios - Armstrong's, South Melbourne; TCS, Richmond

The title track "Dalmas (theme)" which doesn't appear over the opening or closing titles - the few that are on the film - has since turned up as a bonus on the two CD version of Spectrum's second album, Milesago:

Disc 2, track 9:

"Dalmas (theme)"