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Ethos formed in Fort Wayne in 1973, assembled from the local bands The Senturies, The Herd and Atlantis, with Wil Sharpe (guitar, mandolin, vocals), Brad Stephenson (bass), Michael Ponczek (keyboards), Mark Richards (drums) and L. Duncan Hammond (keyboards and Mellotron). Playing progressive rock in the vein of Yes, Genesis and Gentle Giant, the band signed with Capitol Records and released two albums — Ardour (March 1976) and Open Up (1977) — and opened arena dates on the road, including a KISS show at Utica, New York, on April 13, 1976. Capitol dropped the band and Ethos disbanded in 1978. Its early material surfaced decades later as Relics (2000), and Ardour has been reissued on CD in Japanese and German pressings — a Fort Wayne band that became a minor but durable entry in the international progressive-rock catalogue.
Sources: It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine, March 2020; band discographies (Discogs and Prog Archives-derived listings).