The Chocolate Watchband

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chocolate Watchband
General information
origin Los Altos , California , United States
Genre (s) Garage rock , psychedelic rock , rock
founding 1965
resolution 1970
Website www.thechocolatewatchband.com
Last occupation
David Aguilar
Bill Flores
Mark Loomis
Gary Andrijasevich

The Chocolate Watchband is an American garage rock band that was founded in Los Altos , California in 1965 . The group has gone through a number of changes in cast. The amalgamation of rough, unpolished garage rock and psychedelic rock sounds made the band a pioneer of punk .

history

Foundation (1965)

The watchband was founded by Ned Torney and Mark Loomis in Los Altos, California in the summer of 1965. The two played together in a band called "The Chaparrals" in 1964. The two were joined by Rick Young (bass), Pete Curry (drums), Jo Kemling (electric piano) and Danny Phay (vocals), and the Chocolate Watchband was born. The name was a joke at first. The group started out with rock and roll and blues standards as usual and got their first performance opportunities. Later she copied contemporary pieces from especially the Kinks , the Stones & The Who . She eventually recorded some of them, "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" by the Kinks or "Come On" by the Stones, among others. Curry was soon replaced by Gary Andrijasevich, a Cupertino High School jazz drummer. The combo grew in popularity when Torney and Phay accepted an offer from a contending band in their area, The Otherside . Kemling soon followed, so that the first occupation was soon completely dissolved.

From garage to psychedelic rock

When the first line-up of the group was broken, Mark Loomis joined the Shandels . He also resigned from this association a short time later and put together a new group with the Shandels bassist Bill “Flo” Flores and again Gary Andrijasevich under the now abandoned name “The Chocolate Watchband” . He next persuaded ex- Topsiders battleman Sean Tolby to join. Then David Aguilar , who was still studying biology at the San José State University , was hired as the lead singer.

As the (new) founder of the band, Loomis was also the given leader and opened up opportunities to perform in San Francisco's concert halls and nightclubs within the first week of the new line-up . The band stood out because they not only replayed the songs that were popular at the time at the top of the charts, but also completely unknown pieces, which in the United States were first associated with the watch band before the authors were known.

Discography

Single player
  • "Sweet Young Thing" B-side: " Baby Blue " (Uptown 740) (1966)
  • Misty Lane B-Side: She Weaves a Tender Trap (Uptown 749) (1967)
  • "Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)" B-side "No Way Out" (Tower 373) (1967)
Albums
  • No Way Out (Tower ST 5096) (1967)
  • The Inner Mystique (Tower ST 5106) (1968)
  • One Step Beyond: (Tower ST 5153) (1969) (as the Chocolate Watchband)
  • Get Away (Orchard 3716) (2000)
  • At the Love-In Live! (Roir 8272) (2001)
Collections
  • The Best of the Chocolate Watchband (1983)
  • Forty Four (1984)
  • Melts in Your Brain ... Not On Your Wrist! (2005)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-chocolate-watchband-mn0000774791/biography
  2. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/The-Chocolate-Watchband-Melts-In-Your-BrainNot-On-Your-Wrist/release/2134823
  3. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-chocolate-watchband-mn0000774791/biography
  4. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-chocolate-watchband-mn0000774791/biography