![]() ![]() In 1972, James Preston replaced Bill Vitt on drums, and the band once again went by the name Sons of Champlin.Īfter recording their 1973 Columbia album, Welcome to the Dance, as a five piece, The Sons once again added a horn section, which included Mark Isham, now a film scorer and composer, on trumpet and synthesizer. Briefly, the group went by the name Yogi Phlegm, as which they played one of the last concerts at Bill Graham’s Fillmore West on July 3, 1971. When the group reformed again in the summer it featured a new rhythm section, with drummer Bill Vitt and bassist David Schallock (from Big Brother and the Holding Company) replacing Bowen and Strong, respectively. However, The Sons broke up once more following the album's release in April, 1971. The Sons reformed in late 1970 as a five-piece band without Cain to record Follow Your Heart, their final Capitol LP. Bill Champlin moved to Santa Cruz, where he joined Moby Grape guitarist Jerry Miller in a short-lived project called The Rhythm Dukes. However, this tour strained relations between the members and in February 1970, The Sons broke up. To promote this album The Sons set out on a two-month national tour, culminating with an engagement at the Fillmore East. The group followed up with The Sons released that fall. In 1968, the Sons of Champlin signed with Capitol Records, releasing their double-album debut Loosen Up Naturally in April 1969. They were also the opening act at The Band's first concert, along with Doug Kershaw and The Ace of Cups. They shared billing with, among many others, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe and the Fish, and The Youngbloods. In February 1999, this collection was released on a British CD under the title Fat City.ĭuring the late 1960s, The Sons of Champlin performed regularly at the San Francisco venues, the Avalon Ballroom, Winterland, the Fillmore West and the Chateau Liberté, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The album was not released and the Sons left Trident Records. The plan was to follow this release with another song from the album, a Barry Mann/ Cynthia Weil composition called " Shades of Grey", but The Monkees released their version before this could happen. They released a single, "Sing Me a Rainbow", (B-side "Fat City") which got airplay in the Bay Area but did not crack the national charts. The Sons recorded their first album, Fat City in 1966-67 for Trident Records, owned by The Kingston Trio manager Frank Werber. By late 1967 the line-up had changed to include keyboardist/saxman Geoff Palmer, trumpeter Jim Beem, bassist Al Strong, and drummer Bill Bowen, creating a Hammond B3-and-horns sound that was distinctive from the rest of the Bay Area's psychedelic guitar bands. In 1965 the draft claimed the drummer and bass player of the Opposite Six, and Champlin joined forces with guitarist Terry Haggerty, sax player Tim Cain, bassist John Prosser and drummer Jim Meyers in the band that became the Sons of Champlin. One of his teachers encouraged Champlin to drop out of school and pursue music full-time. ![]() Early years Ĭhamplin started his musical career in high school (Tamalpais in Mill Valley) as a member of a local band, The Opposite Six. They are one of the enduring 1960s San Francisco bands, along with Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead and Moby Grape. They brought to the late ‘60s music scene in the Bay Area a soulful sound built around a horn section, sophisticated arrangements, philosophical themes, Bill Champlin's songwriting and blue-eyed soul singing, and Terry Haggerty's jazz-based guitar. They are fronted by vocalist-keyboardist-guitarist Bill Champlin, who later joined rock band Chicago, from 1981 to 2009, placing Sons of Champlin on hiatus from 1981 to 1996. The Sons of Champlin are an American rock band, from Marin County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, formed in 1965. ![]() Capitol, Columbia, Ariola, Arista, Goldmine Records, Trident Records, Sons of Champlin, Dig Music, Big Beat ![]()
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