Torney's departure coincided with that of frontman Danny Phay and organist Jo Kemling, who also left the Watchband in order to join The Topsiders.

Loomis decided to recreate The Chocolate Watchband with The Shandels ' bass player Bill ' Flo ' Flores, and former Watchband drummer Gary Andrijasevich.

Very different from the jam bands they were playing with ( Grateful Dead ), led by Dave Aguilar, the Watchband had a knack of instantly splicing different songs seamlessly on stage in real time.

In late Autumn of 1967, Abbott and Flinders had a disagreement with Tolby and manager Ron Roupe over financial matters, which ensured the indefinite break-up of the Watchband in December 1967.

The final blow to the band came as a result of other bands around the area, fond of the Watchband, successfully attempting to poach some of the group's members.

Some notable shows over the years have included Locals Only ( a current show featuring bands from South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia ), The Columbia Beet ( local bands played live in the studio ), the Red Bank Bar and Grill ( an alternative country program ), The Weekend Kicker ( on Friday afternoons ), Musical Mutiny ( Sunday afternoons 1977-8, a progenitor of experimental / mash-up / sampling /" difficult " sounds ; " Knox Abbott " was doing guerrilla radio about 30 years before it would become fashionable ) and Blast From the Past ( one of the earliest shows to focus on more esoteric music from the 1960s, first aired 1978, featuring groups such as the " Chocolate Watchband " and " Lothar and the Hand People "; a few years after the originator of the show had graduated and moved on, more recent listeners remember his apprentice, Freewheelin ' Frank assuming the role of host ).

The Chocolate Watchband was formed in the summer of 1965 by Ned Torney and Mark Loomis, who had previously played guitar together in a local band known as The Chaparrals the previous year, 1964.

The Chocolate Watchband, was a psychedelic rock and garage rock band formed in San Jose, California in 1965.

To the Watchband, the show was the sport.

During this period The Watchband also starred in two films: Riot on Sunset Strip and The Love-Ins.

The sound was different-the energy was different, to the fans, it wasn't The Chocolate Watchband.

Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.

The Browns used the device off and on into the regular season, and other teams began to experiment with their own radio helmets.

After the 1690 invention of the vacuum pump by Otto von Guericke, physicists began to experiment with passing high voltage electricity through rarefied air.

Because of this dissatisfaction with reliance on the Jewish calendar, some Christians began to experiment with independent computations.

In 1815, aware of the explosions often caused in mines by naked flames, Stephenson began to experiment with a safety lamp that would burn without causing an explosion.

Following the time Gardner spent on the Isle of Man, the coven began to experiment with circle dancing as an alternative.

In 1946, another of Zahir Shah's uncles, Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan, became Prime Minister and began an experiment allowing greater political freedom, but reversed the policy when it went further than he expected.

After WWII, Jeep began to experiment with new designs in the jeep including a model that could drive underwater.

Watt began to experiment with steam though he had never seen an operating steam engine.

Many others began to experiment with improving the process, which still had many shortcomings, not the least of which was the problem of transporting the liquid product.

During this period, they also began to experiment with cutting-edge comedy concepts such as the original ( unreleased ) Filet of Soul and Jan & Dean Meet Batman.

At this point Adams began to experiment with electronic music, and his experiences are reflected in the writing of Phrygian Gates ( 1977 – 78 ), in which the constant shifting between modules in Lydian mode and Phrygian mode refers to activating electronic gates rather than architectural ones.

Some test subjects paused at 135 volts and began to question the purpose of the experiment.

It was here that Schaeffer began to experiment with creative radiophonic techniques using the sound technologies of the time ( Palombini 1993, 14 ).

To achieve a broader, more progressive palette of sound, Alex Lifeson began to experiment with classical and twelve-string guitars, and Geddy Lee added bass-pedal synthesizers and Minimoog.

The railway post office | RPO section of the Pioneer ZephyrIn response to Armstrong's request to experiment with the concept, the first railway post office ( RPO ) began operating on the Chicago and North Western Railway between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa, on August 28, 1864.

Beginning around 1978, the government of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) began an experiment in economic reform.

While attempting to make a living, they began to experiment with tape machines, photography, and anything remotely to do with art that they could get their hands on.

He began to experiment with his own identity and allowed his driving license, social security ID, passport and other important documents to lapse so that he could become a fictional character.

In the 1940s psychiatrists began to experiment with curare, the muscle-paralysing South American poison, in order to modify the convulsions.

He began to experiment to see if intoxication was indeed the key to crossing the line.

This is how Thomas Young speaking on November 24, 1803, to the Royal Society of London, began his description of the historic experiment.

in 1653, Wren was elected a fellow of All Souls College in the same year and began an active period of research and experiment in Oxford.

The former site of ARGUS in DORIS is now the location of the OLYMPUS experiment, which began installation in 2010.

The BBC also began to experiment with digital audio in the 1960s.

Then Little Billy began shouting orders to round up the ponies and fill the water buckets and for the cooks to hurry up with the meal.

When his eyes began to focus, he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.

Mary Jane took the page from him and began reading it, moving her lips with the words.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

The drummer flogged the gourd with frantic intensity as the dancers began the calinda, a sensual gyration which had long been a favorite of voodoo practitioners and their disciples in the Louisiana slave compounds.

Through the Frankfurt Jewish Kulturbund he began to give sonata recitals in synagogues, with Cellist Emanuel Feuermann.

He began with masks to make the dancer identify himself with the creature he appeared to be.

After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

A series of conferences with friends and bankers began about this time ; ;

In the final issues of the Englishman, which ended just as the new session of Parliament began, he provided his enemies with still more ammunition.

Having done so, he began to experience all the frustrations of others who attempted to get along with Serenissimus and do a job at the same time.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

Charles Breasted remembers that, before unpacking his bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous order, and almost at once `` the familiar procession of people began milling through our living room at any hour between two P.M. and three A.M. ''.

He began the dialogue by having his wife announce that one does not invade people's homes without warning them that one is coming, and went on from that with the entire catalogue of his social gaucheries.

The process usually began with a tutor boasting about a boy, as Chappell had boasted about Lightfoot, to the higher officers of the college and university.

Woodrow Wilson, with whom he began his years in Washington, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, FDR, with whom he managed a social revolution.

After she had served the detectives coffee and toast ( they politely declined eggs, uncomfortable about their tenancy ), she settled down with a morning newspaper and began reading the stock market quotations.

Stranger, Uncle Randolph began riding home nights with a jug strapped to his saddle, drunkenly singing `` Old Dan Tucker '' at the top of his voice.

Martha picked up the hem of her gown and with eyes closed she slowly began to dance a stately minuet around the ballroom.

David began to shave with great sweeping strokes.

At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.

In one sense it can be said that one of the most important Brown & Sharpe products over the years has been the men who began work with the company and subsequently came to places of industrial eminence throughout the nation and even abroad.