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You can find more info about them on
wikipedia and other sites so I am not going to
dwell on that. I just want to say that the first time I heard them cover "Set Me
Free" (I didn't at the time hear the "Vanilla Fudge" cover) I was hooked. I
probably went to more than 20 of their shows and I would never budge from the
speakers. Until today, I think that Stan Solomon was the greatest and most
soulful singer I have ever experienced in a live setting. In 1969 he decided for
personal reasons to leave the band and on a very very sad day the remaining
members replaced him with Dany Shushan. OK, I may be a little too harsh on the
guy, but seeing him for the first time with the Churchills at the first Israeli Rock Concert (I think it
was 1970) was quite a letdown. Additionally they covered songs like "Living, Loving" & "She's a
Woman" which didn't quite work for me. The rest of the boys proved over and again that they still had the
chops whether it was playing with Shalom Chanoch, Arik Einstein or any of their
other numerous projects. For an idea of how they sounded head to
Churchill's youtube and
listen to the only album featuring Stan Solomon. It's one the rarest psych LP's selling nowadays for
$6,000 if any are available at all. |
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On a more personal note, by 1969 my English was good enough for me to
start singing in that language, so I started my own band. "The Surprise"
- I was aided in that by a kid who brought a Beatle bass from Germany -
he wanted to be a drummer so he sold me the bass. The band was completed
by my upstairs neighbor Shlomo and later on another kid named Cobi. We
didn't have any equipment, so I used my Sony tape deck and an old radio for
amplification. The rehearsals took place in our bomb shelter (every one's got
one in Israel.) |
Our marketing skills were obviously non- existent a fact driven home by
the take from our first show 1.87 IL (Israeli Lira - it was probably about 50
cents in U.S. money.) The drummer left us and we eventually replaced him with
someone a bit older and with some |
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