This mystic combo from San Jose, California has come to be known as the definitive psychedelic punk outfit, a notoriety derived from the handful of rare singles and LPs that they made, balanced between the Watchband's own intense Anglophilic blues wailing, and the mysterioso studio trickery supplied by their producer, Ed Cobb. 2005.

The greatest west coast garage band's debut LP augmented with non-album 45s and their first demo. Another riot going on. The Chocolate Watchband's album No Way Out enhanced the band's reputation as the definitive psychedelic outfit and this CD appears with a 12-page booklet featuring many rare photographs and an extra 8 bonus cuts. The 8 additions collect together the group's non-LP Uptown and Tower singles sides plus 2 early demos and an alternate track that offer a fascinating look at the roots of one of the most enduring of '60s legends.

No Way Out, the thrilling debut album by the Chocolate Watch Band, immediately finds that cosmic sweet-spot of perfect garage-rock traction: where the rubber meets the road and the train keeps a-rollin.' Nobody ever did Mick Jagger any better (even Mick, himself) than the Watch Band's frighteningly superb frontman Dave Aguilar. "Are You Gonna Be There (At The Love-In)" and "Let's Talk About Girls" are on everyone's list of Top 20 garage rock anthems of all time. And that's just the tip of the vermillion iceberg for this essential longplayer. "Come On," an early Stones single, gets the perfect Watch Band overhaul, "Hot Dusty Roads" ventures down back alleys that Buffalo Springfield never dreamed about and "No Way Out" dances rings around the outskirts of your nearest Human Be-In.

A San Jose, Calif. band whose reputation has grown exponentially over the decades, the Chocolate Watch Band are now revered as one of the Seven Wonders of the World of garage rock. Spotlighting the classic lineup--the inflammatory vocals of Dave Aguilar and the roof-rattling guitars of Mark Loomis and Sean Tolby, fronting the rock-solid bass of Bill Flores and the letter-perfect drums of Gary Andrijasevich--the Watch Band's first two albums have it all. Stones swagger snake-hips its way through cosmic significance with just a dusting of eye-opening psychedelic legerdemain to make your neck snap backwards in pure joy.

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Sundazed is totally stoked to announce the reissue of the first two albums by the Chocolate Watch Band, high on everyone's list as one of the most exciting garage bands ever. Hailing from San Jose, California, the Watch Band--featuring the pouting, Mick Jagger-influenced lead vocals of Dave Aguilar, the thrilling guitars of ­Sean Tolby and Mark Loomis, the solid bass of Bill Flores and the thumping drums of Gary Andrijasevich--made all the right scenes in San Jose, including appearances with South Bay chart-toppers the Syndicate of Sound and Count Five.

The Inner Mystique, the Watch Band's follow-up LP, puts you in the middle of a hippie ballroom with legendary producer Ed Cobb's instrumental "Voyage of the Trieste" and "In the Past," which use enough psychedelic guitar, electric sitar and exotic shakers and rattles to grow your hair at least two inches overnight. Ray Davies' "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" sounds like it was written just for the Watch Band, and Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" is a jingle-jangle masterpiece.

The Inner Mystique, the hypnotic second album by the Chocolate Watch Band, takes up exactly where its sacred predecessor left you: looking for your perfect match at the local Love-In. When Watch Band lead singer par excellence Dave Aguilar grabs you by the lapels and tells you "I'm Not Everybody Else," you have no choice but to believe him. He's not. And when he cools down enough to extol the virtues of "Medication," who could doubt his sincerity? Especially when he stokes the fires to the boiling-point where medication may not really make much difference. But the real stunner here is the Watch Band's exhilarating cover of Bobby D's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." In typical CWB interpretive bliss, nobody has ever done this hallowed song any better. Not Bob Dylan, not Van Morrison. Nobody.

A San Jose, Calif. band whose reputation has grown exponentially over the decades, the Chocolate Watch Band are now revered as one of the Seven Wonders of the World of garage rock. Spotlighting the classic lineup--the inflammatory vocals of Dave Aguilar and the roof-rattling guitars of Mark Loomis and Sean Tolby, fronting the rock-solid bass of Bill Flores and the letter-perfect drums of Gary Andrijasevich--the Watch Band's first two albums have it all. Stones swagger snake-hips its way through cosmic significance with just a dusting of eye-opening psychedelic legerdemain to make your neck snap backwards in pure joy.

Sundazed is totally stoked to announce the reissue of the first two albums by the Chocolate Watch Band, high on everyone's list as one of the most exciting garage bands ever. Hailing from San Jose, California, the Watch Band--featuring the pouting, Mick Jagger-influenced lead vocals of Dave Aguilar, the thrilling guitars of ­Sean Tolby and Mark Loomis, the solid bass of Bill Flores and the thumping drums of Gary Andrijasevich--made all the right scenes in San Jose, including appearances with South Bay chart-toppers the Syndicate of Sound and Count Five.

No Way Out kicks things off with an eye-opening nugget, "Let's Talk About Girls." It's a song that perfectly blends a stomping Chuck Berry rhythm track with the happening "boss sound," the psychedelic guitar. "Come On," an early Stones single, is given the perfect Jagger paint job, while "Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)" captures the new tribal hippie culture in a nutshell.

Sundazed is totally stoked to announce the reissue of the first two albums by the Chocolate Watch Band, high on everyone's list as one of the most exciting garage bands ever. Hailing from San Jose, California, the Watch Band--featuring the pouting, Mick Jagger-influenced lead vocals of Dave Aguilar, the thrilling guitars of ­Sean Tolby and Mark Loomis, the solid bass of Bill Flores and the thumping drums of Gary Andrijasevich--made all the right scenes in San Jose, including appearances with South Bay chart-toppers the Syndicate of Sound and Count Five.

No Way Out kicks things off with an eye-opening nugget, "Let's Talk About Girls." It's a song that perfectly blends a stomping Chuck Berry rhythm track with the happening "boss sound," the psychedelic guitar. "Come On," an early Stones single, is given the perfect Jagger paint job, while "Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)" captures the new tribal hippie culture in a nutshell.