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| There must be something unique about a band that can maintain a
considerable following nearly 15 years after their demise, and without
any hit records to their credit. Such a band is San Franciscos
Chocolate Watch Band. Their 1966-1967 singles for the Uptown label
exchange hands for anywhere from ten to fifteen dollars on the record
collectors market, while their three long-deleted albums on the Tower
label command prices as high as $100 in mint condition. |
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dongxiang liao wrote in message ...
I wear a sports watch to keep my time while swimming. But I found the
plastic band getting stiff and growing cracks as time going, and last
time it brokes. Is it because of the clorine in the water? Does anybody
has a solution for the problem?
Our coach ask us to use the wall clock, but since I am nearsighted and an
Engineering graduate student;) I always like to keep my own time. It also
helps me to keep track of how many laps Ive swimmed, because I always
feel like blanked out if it is a tough set. |
| Like many of their contemporaries in the San Franciscan rock movement of
the time, the Chocolate Watch Band was given to experimentation. What
set them apart from most of those other bands was their respect for the
pioneering artists of rock and roll. Though their recorded repertoir
consisted largely of original songs, the band never hesitated to utilize
worthwhile material from extraneous sources. Fiathful covers of such
classics as Hank Ballards Lets Go, Lets Go, Lets Go, the Kinks
Im Not Like Everybody Else, Ray Charles I Dont Need No Doctor,
Chuck Berrys Come On, Wilson Picketts In the Midnight Hour and Bob
Dylans Baby Blue all made their way onto vinyl, fitting in comfortably
alongside such unlikely group compositions as Devils Motorcycle,
Fireface and Uncle Morris. |
| Because of the thickness of the beads, you have to make the length of
the band slightly longer than your flat watch band. I had to take
mine apart and add two extra beads for comfort. |
| The Chocolate Watch Band--one of my favorite sixties psych-garage
bands--hailed from San Jose/San Francisco in the mid-1960s. Following is
a complete transcript of the liner notes from A.V.I./Rhino Records 1983
Best of compilation, which I believe is still available. Alternately,
their complete three sixties (with lots of bonus tracks) are available on
CD from Sundazed records. Those LPs are 1. No Way Out (1967); 2. The
Inner Mystique (1967); and 3. One Step Beyond (1968). Although
subsequent stuff Ive read contradicts some of the things in Mike
McDowells band bio below (especially Ed Cobbs raves about the third
album--One Step Beyond--which didnt feature vocalist Dave Aguilar, and
which, IMHO, is by far the weakest of the three), the following is
nevertheless a pretty good who/what/where piece about a band that
definitely deserves to be remembered. |
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