Chocolate Watchband - Misty Lane (1967)

[ShapelyDice]

that photo is TIMELESS

[d13flat5]

Credit photo: Frank Zinn 1946 - 2011

[mickeymousebiker1]

Early Rolling Stones (Paint It Black and Lady Jane) meet THE Pink Floyd (Arnold Layne). The Chocolate Watchband does a fantastic version of Wilson Pickett's The Midnight Hour. Dig!

[TheSunbau]

It´s the first time I listen to this Stones inspired band. Fantastic!

I moved directly to the 60s. It is true garage rock!!

Thanks to Youtube that we can discover a new world of old-forgotten rock bands.

Listen also to THE ZETTLERS and their versions of "Skinnie Minnie" and "Beautiful Delilah" from 1965. The same division as The Chocolatewatch.

[migueldeltoro61]

sik sik sik..

[DerGlaetze]

The exact same drum intro as Paint It Black.

L.O.L.

[nospam004]

cool!

[mrbag60]

The beginning of the drums sound like the beginning drum part of the Stones "Paint It Black" but nonetheless the CWB bring on another gr8 tune.

[DerGlaetze]

@mrbag60

Very true.

[mikekadas]

Thanks for posting this 5 star song:

Misty Lane - The Chocolate Watchband [San Jose, California] - 1967 - "The DREAMY, almost ecstatic descriptions of summery love in the verse is offset by the almost bitter nostalgia of the pounding chorus." - Melts In Your Brain...Not On Your Wrist! (disc 1)-2005.

This is the only 2 CD compilation you'll need if you like this band as much as I do, AND don't have anything by them. :-)

[steinhood]

No better way to spend an afternoon, couple of joints and CWB songs make it worth living

[MagivangaMagazine23]

Great sound from a rare record :)

[Rolco64]

I love that '60's sound! Say, is that guitar player the same guy who played for The Easy Beats? They did a song called "Friday on my mind." I thought he looked familiar. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the great post!

[SuperMikecarp]

@Rolco64 The lead guitarist for The Easybeats, who were an Australian band, was Harry Vanda. According to Wikapedia, The Chocolate Watchband's guitarist was Mark Loomis. He did look a bit like Harry in that photo, mainly due to the blond hair.

[wonderlin1]

@Rolco64 Heard this group today on WKDU in philly - had to look them up toniite & was taken back to when I was a kid - garage bands were the thing - was shocked that there is so much on this group that did not seem to make it to the top 40 hits at the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pearljamania]

Awesome *-*

[partyor4]

if i could eat this song i would trip my fucking eyeballs out

[irishelk1]

Holy god Epic tune !

[jon2xu]

I checked out this band because they were mentioned in a Damned interview

[6211949]

I grew up a couple of blocks from this band and whenever they practiced there were 150 kids outside. They were a sign of the times.

[Freyja1133]

Could someone tell me how to find the sheet music for these songs from this period1966-1968?

[lespaul354]

A Really Cool Song

[yohanbudiyanto]

suede sounds like this band

[befuddledman]

Love this sound.

[wouldntyoulike2know]

this song is so awesome I love it!

[moxie96]

wasn't sweet young thing a monkees song or is that another version with the same title?

[RoyFive]

Same title, different song entirely. Sweet Young Thing was on the Monkees first LP. Michael Nesmith co-wrote it with Brill Building giants Gerry Goffin and Carole King.

[iskateveryday]

its cool how this kind of music never gets thumbs down on the vids.

[seventysevener]

Yeah... minus two.

[bitterchew]

they don't move much

[theshmorgz]

lol

[Findusam]

thumbs up to you!

[glaetze]

@bitterchew

Definitely. They look very stiff.

[lemonita]

@bitterchew Yeah, they are the steady type of guys.

[matt29ottobre]

@bitterchew hahahahahah

[ilsken]

@bitterchew No, the guy standing with his mouth open must be pretty damn high

[laketahoe96]

Saw this band many times in South bay when I was a kid at the "Continental roller bowl" The song "Sweet young thing" comes to mind and the reverse side "It's all over now Baby Blue" Dylan song. Yes they truly were great!

[EmeraldSapphire2425]

If it wasn't for YouTube I would never have known half these groups existed! So this is a THANK YOU note to YouTube!

[overthehillsfaraway1]

ditto

[w9x7cv3vg6]

@EmeraldSapphire2425 thats because you dont know about the binary newsgroups which we have a lot of garage rock and teh whole scene being posted

[marguitar1]

@EmeraldSapphire2425 Lol, I know what you mean! I like this type of music and didn't know of these groups either until youtube! The 60's had so much interesting stuff!

[luvumo2day]

great band buystock in them, rockonbonzo76,jenifer this songs for you rock over dobbs ferry

[wouldntyoulike2know]

I love this song, what a great band!

[striborg1972]

sorry just found out that the great Sean Tolby died instead, RIP.

[striborg1972]

As far as I know, to answer Bellaimages, Mr Loomis died years ago, sorry indeed.

[surfstrat59]

I do this song with my surf-punk band.....

[BookstoreCat]

Saw them at the Magic Mountain Music Festival on Mt. Tamalpais, must have been '68. Let's see, playing the same day, as far as I can remember: Doors, Kaleidoscope, Dionne Warwick, & Roy Head.

[caguerrerotorres]

you're the man!!!

[blisteringcold]

my dad didnt like em cuz they tried too hard to be like the stones...wow they really made good music anyhow

[silvertriton11]

engigmao77 you are right.

[mobyboy]

that i called psychedelic !

[hoftyho]

the one in the far right is my grandpa,to bad he died before i could meet him. :(

[enigma077]

So Sean, (Dave) is your grandpa....I guess that makes Sharon your grandma....and your dad is little Sean? I knew your grandpa, great guy.

[LastTree]

I love this band. They are right up in one of my very very favorites.

[AlbertMondback]

Awesome.

[noctolucentcloud]

Boys and girls - this song is 100% Watchband - NO studio musicians are part of it......this is just who they were and what they sounded like...

[Kahnnias]

Incredible song,

Love It.

[c2monke]

Down down down mystery lane i wish that we were there again *****

[c2monke]

oops misty lane wow i'm stupid hey don't comment on that... i know what ur thinkin' don't

[AmericanPunkGarage]

Great song and great "Zeen"

[onthinice766]

*****

[Avon53]

There's quite an article about how this album was made, and which parts of it producer Ed Cobb tore apart and overdubbed with different musicians, in the current issue (June 4 2008) of Crawdaddy online magazine at WolfgangsVaultDotCom. How he knows I'm not sure, but it certainly has vivid detail about the way the record producing game was played, and it accounts for why they broke up before the record was even released.

[presleyfannumber1]

Heaven

[bluezzzzzz]

Very nice tune! 5 stars!

Thanks for postin'!

[jimmythecreep]

all this shit was done by studio pros...and all done for one reason...to warp our fragile teenage egeshell minds...and thank our tripped out lord for that!!!

[snubbs741]

@jimmythecreep hahaha another acid casualty im guessing?

[craigschirato]

Never missed them in the South Bay. Saw them on the same bill as Big Brother and the Holding Company W/ Janis Joplin.

They covered Donovan's "Season of the Witch". Summer 1966.

[Oshinagaki]

jo kemling is my uncle and chuck kemling is mah dad

[PAULLONDEN]

NOW & THEN you got to check out

them Belfast Gypsies.

[szercuit26]

Most of Chocolate Watchbands best songs were written and performed by a gang of talented studio musicians.ala monkees

[bellaimages]

NOT TRUE!!!! I know for a fact that they played their own instruments and wrote their own music. I know one of the founding members of the band personally.

[enigma077]

did you know the members of Mourning Reign also?

[bellaimages]

Dave Aguilar mentioned in his blog that he was in a band Mourning Reign and that he met Mark Loomis at the Brass Rail in Sunnyvale. So Mark Loomis was credited with putting together the CWB line up with Dave in it. I met Mark in Santa Cruz around the mid 80's, well after the CWB had broken up. I've lost contact with him, and I'm concerned. He was nearly homeless when I last saw him. It seems an addiction had gotten the best of him? I don't want to get "personal" on public forums. Write me.

[laketahoe96]

Which songs were these?

[TheOdderOne]

The beginning is probably the most blatant copy of "Paint It, Black."

[revolution1940]

meh, not really, just the drums, but i wouldnt say a blatant copy.

[kaiserwilhelm]

Oh my lord, its not at all the same.

[psychedelicinvasion]

Yeah... I am gonna' have to say I agree with kaiserwilhelm- this song doesn't really sound anything like "Paint It Black"!

[SargeantFunshine]

I would say that this song's into, and 'Paint It Black' intros are very similar. But the rest of the song is different.

[1960jack]

if your fan of the CWB, you have to hear the tune called 'No Way Out'. It is a fuckin jam! Pickup their 'Melts in your brain not on your wrist' double CD.

[JakeANowhereMan]

HARDEST 60s BAND EVER!

[jsaw200]

Great song!!

[lolmfao]

these guys are one of the best

[wingist1966]

After hearing this song ,it makes me wonder if the ramones copied these guys.

[crass911]

the chesterfield kings did

[Lamvesp]

Anyone coverd this. Hope not,,they'ed fuck it up beyond all redemptiom.

[soepil]

My favourite CWB-song !

[Lamvesp]

And mine.

[maoswidow]

someone stole my copy of the chocolate watchbands "forty-four". whoever did it, you're a dink.

[perezoso23]

they did you a favor

[Jenscool]

Must be the Wax Museum!

[Alecverdini]

Great song of a great time!!! I called my band Misty Lane just in honour of it!!!

[Oshinagaki]

Lol you probably wont beleive me but i am the nephew of Jo Kemling. One of the people from the chocolate watchband

[Alecverdini]

Great!!! Here in Italy not many people know this band... I discovered them by "Nuggets", a copy of which has my father (on vynil, of course...)

[Oshinagaki]

not many people know this band in america either im not sure wich album says it (seeming as I was never very into it but nonetheless) but one album has chuck kemling and jo kemling on it, chucks my dad :P

[Lamvesp]

Love this. Good work

[beatbands1966]

nothing moves but..... the song

[BER1988]

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