How Mark Volman and The Turtles shaped the music industry

How Mark Volman and The Turtles shaped the music industry

I was speaking with Mark Volman, one half of The Turtles pop group, on the phone about a year ago when I asked him a common — but in this case not innocuous — opening question: How are you? “Oh, I’m dealing with it,” Volman said. “It was a little frightful at the beginning, but I’m doing fine.” He was talking about Lewy Body Dementia, which he’d been diagnosed with in 2020. It was the same debilitating disease Robin Williams had, and Bruce Willi…