Today, Vinegar Joe is best remembered for launching the careers of Robert Palmer and Elkie Brooks.  The band had risen from the ashes of a group called Dada intended by co-founder Pete Gage as “a combination of Mothers of Invention/Frank Zappa, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and The 5th Dimension.  Power vocalists plus brass and crazy arrangements.” But that heady brew was too much for Atlantic Records’ Ahmet Ertegun who urged Dada to strip away the fusion elements and concentrate on blues and rock.  The result was Vinegar Joe, and late in 2021,…