1969 Chocolate Watchband One Step Beyond garage-psych

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1969 Chocolate Watchband One Step Beyond garage-psych, Tower 5153!! Tower records label states "Manufactured In the U.S.A. By Capitol Records, Inc", with "ST 5153 ?" written in the trail off wax. Front cover banner art wraps around to the back with the Back Cover Banner art pasted over as most album covers of this time!  The back cover is missing the written Manufacturing by Capitol.... copyrights under the photos at the very bottom. Extremely RARE and Hard To Find!!! (Side 1) Uncle Morris, How Ya Been, Devil's Motorcycle, I Don't Need No Doctor. (Side 2) Flowers, Fireface, And She's Lovely! Very HARD TO FIND PRESSING!! Vintage COLLECTIBLE!! ENJOY!! HAPPY BIDDING ON THIS CLASSIC COLLECTIBLE - RARE AND BOOKS HIGH!! Gr0OoVy!!!

San Jose's Chocolate Watchband--bar none the best-named band of the entire garage-psych scene. The Chocolate Watchband, was a garage rock-band formed in San José, California in 1965. The band had finally broken-up indefinitely by 1970. The band's music was largely described as a blend of 1960's-style garage rock. The group's early music appeared to contain blues influences, and later it developed psychedelic elements through use of instrumental experimentation. Ed Cobb was well-known as their producer. The band also appeared in the 1967 film Riot on Sunset Strip.

All songs originally released in 1969 on LP on Tower Records (5153) except "Don't Need Your Lovin" and "Sitting There Standing", released on the soundtrack to "Riot On Sunset Strip", and "Blues Theme" and "Loose Lips Sync Ship" released as a single by The Hogs. 1969's ONE STEP BEYOND was the third and final album by San Jose's Chocolate Watchband, one of the most venerated of the original garage-punk bands. Few comparable bands of this era ever made it to a second album, let alone a third, but ONE STEP BEYOND more than equals the band's previous efforts. While there's nothing on a par with "Let's Talk About Girls" here, there's plenty of good stuff nonetheless. A chunkier, boogie-ing tone pervades some of the seven lengthy songs, but there are also plenty of good sloppy garage rockers and a few trippy touches. This remastered reissue also includes four bonus tracks, including the band's contribution to the soundtrack of RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP, and two tracks, "Blues Theme" and "Loose Lip Sync Ship," from a single recorded under the name The Hogs, produced by Frank Zappa.

CONDITION:

(Cover/Very Fine; VINYL/Very Fine/Near Mint; Tan Brown Tower Records LABEL)!! (Please see Scans!!)(WE HAVE NOT PLAYED IT)!!!

Generally these early 1980’s groundbreaking LP’s are in the same Excellent Condition as when they were first acquired at the store or in the small clubs and local venues the bands first appeared!  We are only here to pass them on so that their music and sentiment will live on!

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