Effective period / Period of releases: 1969

Members: Bob Weston, Terry Sims, Steve Bailey (2), Ron Bending

Led by future Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Weston, Ashkan were together for only a matter of months before imploding. However, they did leave behind a small but perfectly-formed legacy in the shape of in from the Cold, a blistering, 52-minute slab of turn-of-the-decade British Psychedelic/Progressive Blues Rock. With Weston's frenzied, proto-Metal guitar heroics matched all the way by Steve Bailey's powerful, Spooky Tooth-style lead vocals, the album received encouraging reviews, only for the band to split on the eve of it's release.