The Chocolate Watchband - Voyage of The Trieste [The Inner Mystique] 1968 Formed 1965, San Jose, CA, United States Disbanded 1968 // Members: Mark Loomis (guitar, keyboards), Gary Andrijasevich (drums), Sean Tolby (rhythm guitar), Bill 'Flo' Flores (bass), Dave Aguilar (lead vocals, harmonica), Pete Curry (drums), Jo Kemling (organ), Danny Phay (guitar, vocals), Ned Torney (guitar), Rich Young (bass), Tim Abbott (guitar), Chris Finders (vocals), Mark Whittaker (drums), Phil Scoma (guitar) . Inner Mystique seems to be the Chocolate Watchband album that fans and casual listeners know best, even though it was the one of their three records that was most disconnected from any active incarnation of the group. Slapped together in late 1967, in the wake of the virtual collapse of their lineup and rushed out in February of 1968, its original first side contained not a single note played or sung by the Watchband itself. Instead, engineer Richie Podolor assembled a group of studio musicians, playing a pair of languid psychedelic instrumentals -- "Voyage of the Trieste" and "Inner Mystique" -- in which the sitar flourishes and flute arabesques hung like jeweled ornaments, sandwiched around a new recording by singer Don Bennett (who'd already supplied some vocals without the group's knowledge or approval on their first album) of "In the Past," the latter a song originally written and recorded by the Florida-based psychedelic-punk band We the People. The second side was comprised of a <b>...</b>
The
Chocolate
Watchband
Voyage
of
Trieste
[The
Inner
Mystique]
1968
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