The Chantays

The Chantays are an American surf rock band that in 1961 in the occupation Brian Carman (guitar), Bob Spickard (guitar), Bob Welch ( drums), Rob Marshall (piano), Jim Frias (saxophone) and Warren Waters ( bass), California has formed in Santa Ana. With their hit pipeline they reached # 4 on the Billboard charts in the U.S.. After the end of " Chantays ' 1966 there have been several revivals with different occupations.

  • 3.1 Current Members
  • 3.2 Original Cast
  • 3.3 Former Members
  • 4.1 Official Site
  • 4.2 Other Pages

Biography

In the summer of 1961 were Bob Spickard and Warren Waters students at the high school in Santa Ana, Orange County, California. Influenced by the band The Rhythm Rockers they decided to form their own band. Without musical experience began playing guitar Bob and Warren Bass. More school friends, Rob Marshall classical piano training and Brian Carman, whose brother was a saxophonist at the "Rhythm Rockers ", also moved on to the band. Having tried their luck with various drummers, including Gil Gonzales, was preserved Bob Welch of the band and borrowed the drums of Gil Gonzales. According to regular rehearsals they had their first gig in December 1961 at the Tustin Youth Center and played under the name " the Chantays ". Jim Frias was active at this time already on sax for " Chantays ." She quickly reached the popularity of the "Rhythm Rockers ". The repertoire of the band was at that time the very title of Liberty 's Whip aka 44 Magnum. After band members had seen the documentary Endless Summer by Bruce Brown on two Californian surfing, they named the piece in pipeline ( English " pipe "). The term refers to the phenomenon in surfing a perfect wave that breaks down so the surfer that creates a tube through which it can pass surfing, and in particular the Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii.

In July 1962, the disc jockey Jack Sands was aware of the band and took over the management from now on. The " Chantays " took a demo with the pieces pipeline and Move It in the studio " Pal " on in Cucamonga, California. Sands took the demo to Los Angeles in search of an interested record label. The label " Downey Records ", which had just taken The Rumblers with the single boss under contract, signed a contract with the " Chantays " and in December 1962 appeared the Move It single with the B-side pipeline.

Move It was played amongst others, the local radio station " KFXM " but got no response. A DJ had to play the happy idea of ​​the B- side of the single and now the first success began to emerge. As yet all the band members went to school, they could only afford limited sequence now the following requests for appearances on television and radio.

After appearances in the " Surf Battle of The Bands " in the " Deauville Castle Club " in Santa Monica, California and the " Lawrence Welk Show " reached pipeline in May 1963, # 4 on the Billboard charts in the U.S. and number 16 in the UK.

After the success of the single pipeline Monsoon / Scotch Highs and the second album Two Sides Of The Chantays appeared, but the " Chantays " at their last success could not go. Having Bob Welch left the band in the summer of 1964 for his studies, took over Steve Khan, a friend of the band, the vacant post. on the following 3-month Hawaii tour the " Chantays " had to falsify their identity cards to be able to play in various bars and clubs. After the tour, Warren Waters left the band and was replaced by Denny cellar.

The end of 1965 the " Chantays " for a three -week tour in Japan were requested. Since Waters, Carman and Khan had no time, the band toured in almost completely new cast. Spickard and John Longstreth, the founding bassist of the Rhythm Rockers, took over the guitar, Tommy Hanigan sat on drums, Rob Marshall on piano and Mark Howlett played bass. According short-term study of the necessary repertoire of the tour over the turn of the year 65/66 was a success.

In the following years, there have been revivals of the band and still play the " Chantays " still in occasional performances together.

Discography

Albums of the Chantays

Singles of the Chantays

Appearances on compilations

Members of the Chantays

The Chantays were established in 1961.

Current members

  • Brian Carman - Guitar
  • Ricky Lewis - Bass
  • Bob Spickard - Guitar
  • Brian Nussle - Saxophone
  • Bob Welch - drums

Original cast

  • Brian Carman - Guitar
  • Warren Waters - Bass
  • Bob Spickard - Guitar
  • Rob Marshall - Piano
  • Jim Frias - Saxophone
  • Bob Welch - drums

Former members

  • Gil Gonzales - Drums
  • Rob Marshall - Piano
  • Jim Frias - Saxophone
  • Warren Waters - Bass
  • Steve Khan - drums
  • Denny Keller - Bass
  • John Longstreth - Guitar
  • Tommy Hanigan - drums
  • Mark Howlett - bass
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