The Chocolate Watchband still ticking 50 years later
The Chocolate Watchband — the proto-psychedelic outfit from San Jose that recorded the enduring garage-rock classic “Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)” — is still ticking.
Some 50 years after first coming together, several of the band’s original members, who since reuniting in 1997 to record new material have regularly played retro festivals, return to the Bay Area in support of “I’m Not Like Everybody Else,” an album featuring new recordings of their classic songs.
— Aidin Vaziri
The Chocolate Watchband: 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19. $20. The Chapel, 777 Valencia St., S.F. (415) 551-5157. www.thechapelsf.com.