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THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND Back in the mid-'80s, the Chocolate Watchband were trapped in an odd paradox (which actually wasn't that bad  a place to be for a band that didn't exist anymore). They hadn't played a note together in almost 15 years,  but their original albums were changing hands for $100 apiece or more, and a series of vinyl reissues, first as bootlegs  from France and later legit ones from Australia, were selling around the world, and in numbers  that only increased as more people had a chance to hear them. What's more, the group's sound was starting  to be emulated in the work of then-current bands, playing obscure clubs in places like New York's Chelsea district  and other locales as far east as the District of Columbia, made up of teenagers who were too young ever  to have seen or heard the Watchband play, and living 3,500 miles east of where the Watchband played out  its existence, and most of its gigs, two decades before. The group had reached this paradoxical situation  -- nonexistence juxtaposed with a burgeoning cult of admirers around the world -- simply by being  the best garage band of the '60s, or, at least, the best one ever to have had a serious recording career
 "NO WAY OUT" <reissue, originally published 1967>      
LP        TOWER  RECORDS       STEREO  ST 5096 MADE IN EUROPE     LATE-80s UNOFFICIAL REPRESSING
SINGLE SLEEVE (THIN CARDBOARD COVER)
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none LABEL:  TOWER  - 'DULL ORANGE' LABEL w/BLACK LOGO at LEFT - BLACK TEXT Catalog on cover: ST 5096 Catalog on labels: ST-5096 (ST1-5096) / ST-5096 (ST2-5096)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): CHOCOLATE WATCH BAND-A1 Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): CHOCOLATE WATCH BAND-B1
On labels: No Way Out     Chocolate Watch Band STEREO A Product of Green Grass Productions Produced by Ed Cobb Mfd. in U.S.A.
On Back Sleeve: Chocolate Watch Band: No Way Out A Product Of Green Grass Productions Produced by: Ed Cobb DEDICATED TO:................... 10 (bottom right corner) Manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc., Hollywood and Vine Streets, Hollywood, Calif.............. Production & A&R Coordination: Ray Harris.....................Musician Consultants: "The Surrounding Sounds"
tracklisting Side 1: LET'S TALK ABOUT GIRLS - MIDNIGHT HOUR - COME ON DARK SIDE OF THE MUSHROOM - HOT DUSTY ROAD Side B: ARE YOU GONNA BE THERE (AT THE LOVE-IN) GONE AND PASSES BY - NO WAY OUT - EXPO 2000 - GOSSAMER WINGS    grading RECORD EX but (please, read above description) SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
The Chocolate Watchband's debut album, No Way Out was also their most heavily  Rolling Stones-influenced album, but appreciating the album and what's on it (and what's not)  requires some explanation. Released in September of 1967, No Way Out came at the end  of the band's first 15 months of existence, a period that encompassed the recording and release  of four singles of generally extraordinary quality, and as good as anything heard from any  garage band anywhere during that period. Just two of those single tracks,  "Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)" and "No Way Out," ended up on the original  ten-track LP, but even they could (and should) have been the core  of an immensely powerful LP...(AllMusic)