“I was amazed that my hard work might come back to help me”: Jim Gustafson and Poobah endured decades in the dark, but now their early albums are selling for $1,000 a copy

Jim Gustafson of Poobah.

After Ohio native Jim Gustafson had become consumed by guitar, pursuing music in the image of Hendrix, Page, Clapton, Beck, Fripp, Muddy Waters, and Johnny Winter, he thought he’d found his formula with the hard-rocking power trio Poobah.

“I was very confident at that time,” Gustafson says. “When I heard my song Mr. Destroyer playing back on the studio speakers, I thought, ‘That rocks!’ I was so excited to hear people saying how much they liked it.”