Bands like "The Spiders", "Uzi & the Styles" & "The
Chocolate" played those clubs and me and a few of my mates would sneak off to
catch a band whenever we thought we could get away with it. Some of them
got busted one day when they "borrowed" the base ambulance to drive to town.
Luckily, I missed that one. Anyway. my memory is not that great anymore and
trying to research that scene proves difficult; I do not possess a Hebrew
keyboard and the English sites are missing a lot of the info I am looking for.
For instance, I loved "The Chocolate" band, but all I remember is that they did
a really great cover of "The Tremeloes - Suddenly You Love me" - I also remember that Tzvika Pick & Shuki Levy were in that band. Surprisingly I
haven't found any mention of that even though Tzvika Pick became a major pop star
in Israel & Europe (he wrote the Israeli Eurovision winner for Diva
International) & Shuki Levy became a major Hollywood composer and movie producer
(Power Rangers and many others.) The Lions were playing that scene way too
many times for my taste - they sounded like a watered-down version of the Beach
Boys (I was never a fan.) O.K. they're sound was really good for an Israeli band
of the time. I do however curse the day they broke up - it was a day of mourning
for Israeli music, because their bass player and vocalist Dany Shushan joined
the greatest of all bands "The Churchills" and somehow they were never
the same for me. I have to admit that their Jericho and Jericho
Jones albums were actually very good, but somehow they did not
live up to the first Churchill's incarnation.
The Churchills
were by far the greatest thing that ever happened to Israeli music!
By that I mean the '68-'69
Churchill's band:
- Robb Huxley - Guitar, Vocals
- Miki Gavrielov - Bass
- Haim Romano - Guitar
- Stan Solomon - Vocals
- Ami Traibetch - Drums
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