Career
He left the James Gang in late December 1967 when he moved to California. He later joined the Los Angeles based Blues band Pacific Gas & Electric and, in 1970, scored a national top 20 hit with the song "Are You Ready?". Tired of the rock and roll life, he left Procter and Gamble&East to join a pioneering Gospel rock group The All Saved Freak Band, which was the musical evangelistic arm of an Ohio religious group-turned-cult, the Church of the Risen Christ, headed by Larry Hill.
The book FORTNEY ROAD: Life, Death, and Deception in a Christian Cult (2015, Freethought House Publishers) examines the life of Glenn before, during and after he was in Review
Larry Hill"s cult. Schwartz recorded four albums with the Freak Band before leaving it in 1980. According to the book FORTNEY ROAD (2015, Freethought House Publishers), while in Los Angeles on tour with the James Gang in 1967, Schwartz strolled onto the infamous Sunset Strip and stopped next to a small group of people listening to street preacher Arthur Blessitt.
Following his conversion, his zealous, new-found faith was not accepted well by the band, his family or his friends. "We put some on Janis Joplin but she didn’t like it and took them official
I remember she got pretty upset.
They didn"t mind I talked about Jesus because they liked the music But Janis was pretty rude and nasty to them and I know they didn"t like Janis or her music”.
