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Chayns - Live on the Moon '2017

Live on the Moon
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Album name Live on the Moon
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Date 2017
GenrePsychedelic Rock
Play time 25:23
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 145 MB
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Apeculiar number from a straight-laced quintet, “Live With The Moon”
filtered through the decidedly non-Edenic sprawl of San Antonio, Texas. They
began a the Monarchs in 1965 with Charlie Eddleman on guitar and vocals, Wayne
Gustafson on rhythm guitar, Dale Watson on bass, Bob Tunmer on drums, and
guitarist Myles Wells—a 14-year-old wunderkind who wrote most of their
original recorded material. When Tunmer walked into practice with suede boots
and one chain down his leg, the Monarchs transcended their garage band status,
with one slight alteration. “Myles is spelled with a y instead of an
i,” said Eddleman. “You know, like the Beatles—Chayns.”

As Chayns, they played the Teen Canteen once a month, won the Battles of the
Bands several times, and performed on bills with the Royal Jesters, the
Standells, the Music Machine, and the 13th Floor Elevators. To go with the new
name, they followed Tunmer’s lead and soon all wore Beatle boots draped
with chains, and played through glittery upholstered amps. They used their
earnings from gigs to fund a session at Alamo Audio in mid-1966, emerging with a
cover of the Strangeloves’s “Night Time” b/w “Live With
the Moon,” a haunting Myles original, issued on their own Chayn-Reaction
Productions. “The studio had eight tracks, but we couldn’t figure
out what to do with five of them,” Eddleman recalled. “Live With The
Moon” originally had vocals sung by Eddleman, though he preferred the
melody the way Myles played it on guitar. “You could sing it, but
you’d have to have a phenomenal voice,” he said. “I
didn’t have a phenomenal voice.”
The record was sold from the stage and consigned at local shops, but it
wasn’t until Eddleman and Watson started hanging around KTSA and
befriended the local DJs that Chayns began to break. The single went to #2
locally and was eventually picked up by International Artists out of Houston,
who promoted “Moon” to the A-side. “Theres Something Wrong in
This Place” b/w “See It Thru,” also distributed by IA, reached
#40 locally in 1968. “Run And Hide” b/w “Why Did You Hurt
Me?” followed in 1969, recorded at Texas Sound Studios and once again
released on Chayn-Reaction.

After four years of shredding around the Lone Star State, Wells left for Texas
A&M in 1969, forcing Eddleman to put together a short-lived second lineup of the
group, which never recorded. Upon his return in 1971 a third lineup coalesced
around he and Eddleman—featuring Jimmy Bruzel on organ, John Stevenson on
drums, and Larry Milligan on bass—and recorded one final Chayn-Reaction
single, “You” b/w “Let Yourself Go.” Eddleman married at
23 and by 1972, he said, the band was “growing up and apart.” After
that initial dislike, he’d become so attached to the Chayns name that
years later he resurrected it for a nonmusical business venture, Chayn Reaction
Video.

Tracklisting:
01. Chayns - You (2:48)
02. Chayns - Live with the Moon (3:07)
03. Chayns - Run & Hide (2:56)
04. Chayns - Why Do You Hurt Me (2:07)
05. Chayns - Night Time (2:58)
06. Chayns - Midnight Confession (2:57)
07. Chayns - Let Yourself Go (3:36)
08. Chayns - See It Through (2:24)
09. Chayns - Theres Something Wrong in This Place (2:31)

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