The Chocolate Watchband-Sweet Young Thing

[TwinTwangSD]

Uhhh I'm pretty sure at 2:29 he says, "You wanna FUCK AROUND..... I'm gonna SPLIT!!!" Anyway love CWB, love Riot On.

[chrisg848]

would have been better without the uploader's holidays snaps in the video

[mikekadas]

Sweet Young Thing - The Chocolate Watchband [San Jose, California] - 1966 - "AMG pick. One of their BEST. ORIGINAL LINEUP as of July 13, 1966. Mick Jagger-esque vocals." - Melts In Your Brain...Not On Your Wrist! (disc 1)-2005. NOTE: Jagger-esque. This San Jose band formed in the Summer of 1965 at Foothills College in Los Altos and were discovered late the following year by Ed Cobb.

[snubbs741]

sick song.. these guys were from the neighborhood just about a mile down the street from my house.. crazy shit!

[lusikeroin]

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[granniemir]

they should have gone further. i know they had a gig at the golden sheaf. but they should have played fillmore etc.

[gwugluud]

Great song! This video?  Embarriskin'...

[flakbac]

excellant band too bad all the american radio stations in the 60s wanted to play british rock

[Mrpoketo]

awsome steve

[ScottAnderson1948]

Linda Lambkin, where are you?

[MrSuedehead72]

ultime!!!!! démentiellement génial!!!! clément the dreamer.....

[TheAnimelover39]

Cobb was a jack ass

[pl225]

great songs, im just discovering them.

[jsalomonsky]

ass cock bullshit. strawberry alarm clock and the chocolate watchband had nothing to do with each other. strawberry alarm clock got there name from the song strawberry field forever by the beatles.sam

[rrstrychnine]

@jsalomonsky and an alarm clock went off at the end of the song? Good story but no, they just don't want to admit that they named themselves after the Watchband. Flavors and time pieces.

[SAMDEJAEGER1]

@rrstrychnine actually Strawberry alarm clock did get there name from the beatles. every band wanted to be like the beatles. too bad sgt peppers lonely hearts club band was meant to make fun of the american bands at the time. but british rock can suck my hairy nuts cause garage rock is the shit. bubble puppy and the beacon street union are the best.

[headwall07]

I saw them a few times at Cocoanut Grove in Santa Cruz....a fine band that should have gone much further, but those times were chaotic, and that was a very good thing

[dearyogini]

Mick Jagger was in another band while in the Rolling Stones? Who knew? Like far out, man...

[tinglywoowoo]

Love 'em. Thanks a lot for posting this.

[RRaquello]

I really like this group. I wonder if one of the reasons they didn't make it bigger is the name of the group. How can you taker a group named "Chocolate Watch Band" seriously? Count me as another who likes them better than the Rolling Stones,

[PhilMcCavity1000]

It was a take off of another band called 'The Strawberry Alarm Clock'.

[hankamania]

Other way around. Strawberry Alarm Clock named themselves after the CWB.

[cheapholiday]

Congratulations.

[coololdbart]

they sound like crap...

[pierreerichexum]

my friend Alex reckon they're even better than the stones

[garageband66]

I have always thought the Stones to be over-rated. Sorry to disappoint you.

[pierreerichexum]

you don't, I think the Chocolate Watchband are a lot more interesting than the Stones!

[cheapholiday]

hey you, get off of my cloud

[cheapholiday]

sounds like Alex never reckoned with The Troggs.

[ultimatebozo]

after it's all said and done, they were freaking far out, fantastic, and groovy!

[waylo4526]

punk personified baby!

[clemdane]

i agree they sound more like the stones than the stones did!

[garageband66]

Yes! My opinions are vindicated!

[ultimatebozo]

These guys were much more than mere stones copyists. All three of their albums, and their handful of singles, are all worth checking out. They were a very tight, talented band capable of playing raw r and b, psychedelia, or love songs. Yes, they should have been bigger.

[vampyros1]

Their third LP. was a quite a departure from the acid punk of their first two releases, which were both great...one of my favorite bands ever...

[garageband66]

I have heard everything that was released. The thing that makes this so iffy is the turmoil in the band and Ed Cobb's constant plugging in musicians to fill out studio albums. For the producers it's all about the money and that kind of ball and chain went against everything the 60's were all about that is why the band could never hold a line-up together for very long. I think the 1st two efforts are the best; the rest is just patchwork from Cobb. IMO

[vampyros1]

Sure, but look at the stuff Cobb contributed...can you imagine those first two LP's w/o that music? Brilliant contributions. That's the unique thing about 60's music; if at times it was about money, the styles of music were so inherently great that producers often came up with genius stuff...loads of great 60's psychpunk bands had svengali types spearheading the operation, ie: Litter, Exotics, etc., but in the 'garage' genre, the bands usually played...

[garageband66]

I know the leader of the E-types another band that Cobb managed and honestly he (Cobb) had three groups worthy of bigger things and for whatever reason they did not make it. They deserved better than they got. Usually these bands suffered from a lack of management just read any bio and they all say pretty much the same thing. Cobb maybe should have been a musical consultant instead of a manager. IMO

[12345JJBB]

Has anyone heard of the Jet cover of this song? It pays this respect.

*Jet being the only Rock band worth listening to these days, too bad they're in the wrong era.

[richardhaxell]

They were the best and I wish I was down that misty lane again.Peace Rich

[boneypart]

yeah they copy the early stones sound really well. they stink in a cool way!

[shutdownthefed]

I wish I was drunk right now blasting this song,...Im trying to form a band just like this, and throw in a little bit of the outsiders (the netherlands band not the U.S one)

[geeyouknit345]

well where do you live cause im an organist,guitar player, harmonica and any thing elese you want but i live in the us atl. georgia

[makemebleede]

i feel nostalgic even though i wasn't even born when this was released.

[garageband66]

Hey, I was only 5 so what does that tell you?

[AlbertMondback]

Raw power.

[garageband66]

Extremely raw!

[molinagrosz]

el sonido perfecto de los 60,buena musica

[garageband66]

muchas gracias!

[bounderm50]

Sounds like the Yardbirds with Mick Jagger on vocal and just wilder than both .

[garageband66]

CWB was better than both! Honestly! Had they been marketed and promoted like they should've been, there's no telling how much they'd accomplished.

[bounderm50]

Mmmmm would not say better, just because no Band is better than the Yardbirds ; I would say there were the Crown Jewel of all the sixties Garage Bands .

[garageband66]

Not going to debate with you, the Yardbirds were great. I have several cousins from California that saw CWB in their heyday and raved about the wild shows they put on. Dave the lead vocalist had a stage presence unlike any other since.

[jamesdurnford2]

i knew mark. he told me some outragous stories about the parties he went to in the 60s. drinking wine on a roof with zappa etc. good time to play music.

[renault2536]

Thanks for posting this great song.

[garageband66]

Glad to do it! It's one of my very favorites!

[dolphinio55]

Nice one man.. Do you have nuggets, by any chance?

[garageband66]

I have most of the entire nugget collection and many LP's, cassette's, and old 45's converted to mp3 files.

[AKBorn8325]

great song. nice video too.

[garageband66]

Thanks for the feedback!I really wish a live performance or even a lip-synched version of this song by CWB was in existance somewhere.

[guitargreats1]

Great post. I have this 45. The Uptown label 1966

[garageband66]

Yeah! I had it on my radio show. It's probably in the storage building somewhere, climate controlled of course.

[guitargreats1]

I paid a high price for one copy and i got one for a low ball price to compare. Both are authentic.

[garageband66]

That's great. I converted most of my record collection to mp3's. I need to get a new turntable at some point.

[mpriest1966]

I love this song!! I've been looking for it for months now. Great thanks for getting it on here.

[garageband66]

Glad to do it!

[45spindle]

i blow everybody's mind when i play anything Chocolate Watchband. everyone agrees, it's simply the best.

[noctolucentcloud]

I love this video! It's crazy to see ypur songs come to life..DA/CWB

[garageband66]

My pleasure! You guys deserved a lot more recognition and commercial success than you got. When I ran my college radio show in SC called "Out of the Garage" the CWB was among my most frequent requests and I would have numerous arguments over whether or not it was really you guys or the Stones. I would always reply, "The Stones wish they were EVER this good". Keep rockin'